Location: Hybrid working from our office near Old Street, or at home
Role Type: Permanent, Full Time
Salary Bracket: £60,000 - £70,000
Reporting to: Makers Leaders Coach
Everyone deserves a job they love. At Makers, we retrain people as software developers and kickstart their careers by placing them in tech teams across the UK.
You deserve a job you love, and we’ve got one for you.
Makers’ purpose is to transform lives and organisations by bridging tech industry needs and under-discovered talent. We do this through training software engineers and placing them in organisations. Now, we’re expanding our focus to another big issue for UK tech businesses: a shortage of mission-ready technical leaders.
Organisations choose us because we focus harder than anyone else on training the skills that help people succeed in their jobs — whatever those skills might be.
As Makers Leaders Coach, your role is to support emerging technical leaders on their path towards a sustainable and enjoyable leadership career. You will work with established leaders to develop an innovative and impactful curriculum and deliver it to diverse groups of emerging leaders.
Case Method Teaching
The core of our approach to leadership training is the case method. The case method is a form of participatory learning often used on MBA programmes as a way of putting learners in the shoes of seasoned leaders. You will run case discussions together with reading groups, seminars and practical workshops to deliver the Makers Leaders curriculum.
Building Partnerships
You will build relationships with partners — understanding what their leadership challenges are and explaining how we can support their people to become exceptional software engineering leaders. As a technical leadership expert at Makers, you will speak with partners regularly to build interest, support the sales process and help them understand how their learners are progressing.
Curriculum Development and Innovation
We’re on the cutting edge of technical education and are always searching for new opportunities to help people learn. At Makers you can expect to gain the skills not just to teach but to design highly effective educational experiences — and potentially advance the field of technical leadership education as a whole. As an Engineering Leadership Coach you will spend time interviewing experienced leaders, writing cases and continuously evolving our leadership curriculum.
An Engineering Leadership Coach will play each of these roles:
Coach
As well as delivering the Makers Leaders curriculum, you’ll also help learners reflect on their learning, their goals, the problems they are facing and the solutions they may try.
Technical expert
You’ll use your technical knowledge to deliver expert practicals and workshops, provide legitimacy to your teaching, and help guide learners towards solving their leadership challenges.
Education expert
You will help pioneer our leadership training philosophy — working with Makers’ partners to customise programmes that meet the needs of their organisation and ensuring we deliver value over time.
Our training takes place both remote and onsite. From time to time we may ask you to work from our office in London or remotely as fits the needs of our partners and learners.
Makers is a coding bootcamp and apprenticeship provider. We’re on a mission to be the brand of choice for aspiring devs and employers with a vision of creating career joy in a representative tech industry.
Our purpose is to transform lives and organisations by bridging tech industry needs and under-discovered talent.
At Makers, we believe everyone deserves a job they love. We’re proud of our culture which is built on trust over fear with a core mission to transform lives. We value growing as people by learning transparency, vulnerability, the growth mindset, emotional intelligence, perhaps some hard truths about yourself, and how to give and receive feedback honestly and productively. We care about being surrounded by a diverse group of bright, motivated people, who all really care about doing the very best they can for our students, for our hiring partners, and for each other
At Makers, we want everyone in the team to:
For this role, we’re looking for:
At Makers, diversity and inclusion are core to our mission. Ensuring our people feel included and valued is critical for us to live the Makers' values: Nurture a growth mindset, Trust over fear, and Prioritise joy. We are actively working towards fostering a strong culture of belonging for both our students and our people and encourage applications from all backgrounds, abilities, communities, and industries. We see the value behind the new ideas you could bring to help us achieve our mission.
If reading this job description has given you any doubt about whether you’d feel welcome or included at Makers, first, we’re sorry. Second, we’d really like to hear from you about it so we don’t do it again.