2025 Pathways Advisor

Salary Range: 32 to 32 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-hour-wage)

Responsibilities

• Advise and support one cohort of around 250 high school girls and non-binary students through completion of the Pathways Program by maintaining an exciting, engaging, and accessible virtual environment.
• Meet weekly with your Advisor Team to share notes/observations, plan/debrief events, and review student feedback.
• Meet weekly with your Instruction Manager to review feedback and check in on student progress or concerns. 
• Engage with and support students in Discord, both informally, and by posting community and discussion questions in our Girls Who Code Pathways Program Discord server. 
• Facilitate weekly Advisor Events with your Advisor Team. The materials for these events are created by Girls Who Code. Your role is to review and lightly adapt the materials to effectively facilitate your events.
• Facilitate Student Hours with other Advisors to troubleshoot students’ questions, review misconceptions, and provide debugging tips based on projects.
• Review student project submissions and provide them with supportive and constructive feedback so they can earn certificates. 
• Reply to student questions and inbound through email. This includes sending personal messages to students to encourage course completion during the program. 
• Support in the completion of administrative duties including tracking student progress, administering programmatic surveys to students, and completing weekly and end of program surveys in a timely fashion. 
• Communicate regularly and effectively with all Girls Who Code staff to support seamless delivery and execution of tasks and activities.
• Understand and follow all escalation procedures for any student issues that arise during the program.
• Always act with maturity and appropriate discretion when interacting with students, other Advisors, family members/guardians, and corporate partner contacts.
• Attend Roundtable presentations for continuous professional development throughout the program.
• Represent Girls Who Code externally in meetings and engagements with GWC partners.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in their final year, or have already received a BA or BS in computer science or a related field by the start of the program.
• Experience with at least one programming language, Python preferred. Our curriculum teaches HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python. While you will not be delivering all of the curriculum to students, you will be leading events and supporting students with their projects during Student Hours.
• Interest in and/or desire to learn more about Web Development, Cybersecurity, and Data Science + AI.
• Must be coachable and model a growth mindset. Advisors should be willing to provide, accept, and implement feedback about their or their Advisor Team’s facilitation or classroom management approach in order to better serve the needs of students in the program. 
• Effectiveness and patience in guiding Girls Who Code activities, keeping discussions on track, and thinking quickly/creatively in the face of unexpected questions or comments.
• Ability to adapt to various learning styles and honor individual differences of students in a virtual classroom.
• Must be able to collaborate with other team members and share responsibilities.
• Strong time management and organizational skills.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Timeliness and dependability in attendance throughout the program, including all training sessions prior to program start, weekly check-ins with your team, and post-program grading requirements.
• Commitment to Girls Who Code’s mission.
• Believe that all girls and non-binary students can code!

Ability to commit to the following date/hour requirements:

• Training (6/10-6/12): 20 hours 
• Candidates must be available for mandatory, multi-day Virtual Training sessions prior to the program’s start date. Advisors are paid for attending the training and completing all deliverables: Pathways Staff Training: June 10th - June 12th, 2025 from 12:00-3:00 PM ET. 
• Prep Week (6/23-6/27): 12 hours
• In Program (6/30-8/8): 30 hours per week
• Grading Week (8/11-8/15): 30 hours

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous teaching, tutoring or mentoring experience, especially in computer science is strongly preferred.
• Experience facilitating and discussing Web Development, Cybersecurity, and/or Data Science + AI topics and/or lesson plans. 
• Experience with facilitating virtual zoom meetings and navigating online learning platforms.
• Experience within academically and culturally diverse classroom communities.


• If you are selected for an interview, you will receive more information about how to prepare for your interview.