NEAR is hiring a
Web3 Instructor, Education

Compensation: $98k - $108k *

Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland

We are looking for Instructors to design and deliver educational programs to developers worldwide. Reporting directly to NEAR Foundation’s Head of Education, you’ll create and launch a holistic strategy to attract, teach and delight our community of developers, as well as advocate and represent their voice internally.

In this learning leadership role, you’ll use your skills and experience to create a compelling vision to guide your students to create big things together.. While we are currently delivering various certifications through the NEAR Certified family of course curriculum, your imagination is the limit when it comes to new course ideas and modes of learning to expand our reach to millions.

We’re passionate about living up to our NEAR ecosystem values by enabling community-driven innovation to benefit people worldwide. . This role is your unique chance to directly inspire developers to build massively impactful apps on a decentralized web.

You will:

  • Lead classes and events to build awareness, and increase the number of successful developers launching their apps on our sharded, proof-of-stake community-owned, public blockchain.
  • Define and implement a roadmap of exciting events, including education initiatives, workshops, meetups, and focus sessions, which may require delivering keynotes at industry and/or branded events aimed at helping developers evaluate our capabilities and learn how they can get involved in community-driven innovation.
  • Play a pivotal role in the long-term success of our developers by collaborating with experts in our developer community to provide quality feedback on student projects, and any products launched by the Educational team.
  • Establish yourself as a trusted, technical peer and community advocate.
  • Grow a team of junior instructors and teaching assistants to support your goals and initiatives while helping them to build their own identity and credibility.
  • Comfortable working in a startup environment

You are:

  • An experienced teacher and facilitator with at least 2 years professional teaching or coaching experience including some form of facilitated group learning experience.
  • A magnetic personality who understands how to build thriving developer communities.
  • Obsessed with making developers happy and engaging with communities in a constructive way.
  • Experienced with building and fostering developer relations, technical advocacy or community management functions in emerging or established global markets.
  • Able to encourage and support others to take on challenging speaking engagements, write high quality blog posts, create informative learning content, and more. .
  • Able to build plans out of chaos, handle multiple work streams, effectively manage expectations among stakeholders, and prioritize workflows from a long list.
  • Creative and passionate about generating grass-roots attention, support and adoption of developer-oriented products by influential users and technologists across multiple developer communities.

We value:

    1. ECOSYSTEM-FIRST: always put the health and success of the ecosystem above any individual's interest.
    2. OPENNESS: operate transparently and consistently share knowledge to build open communities.
    3. PRAGMATISM OVER PERFECTION: find the right solution not the ideal solution and beat dogmatism by openly considering all ideas.
    4. MAKE IT FEEL SIMPLE: strive to make the complex feel simple so the technology is accessible to all.
    5. GROW CONSTANTLY: learn, improve and fail productively so the project and community are always becoming more effective.

About the NEAR Foundation

The NEAR Foundation is a nonprofit, non-beneficiary foundation based in Switzerland which supports community-driven innovation and the Open Web with a specific focus on the NEAR platform. The Foundation distributes grant funding into the NEAR ecosystem, coordinates governance among participants, educates people about the protocol and ensures that relationships among the community members are as strong and sustainable as the apps they build. It seeks to combine the inclusive care of a community-driven NGO with the at-scale effectiveness of a Silicon Valley startup.

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Compensation: $98k - $108k *

Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland

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