Summer 2025 Teaching Assistant - remote

Mission Bit; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Part time

Job summary

Mission Bit is seeking a Teaching Assistant for their Intro to Game Design class. This remote role involves community building, classroom management, and student support, requiring 16 hours per week from June to August. Ideal candidates have experience working with youth and a passion for social justice.

Benefits

Accrued sick time-off

Qualifications

• Experience working with youth in an educational setting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Promote a welcoming and supportive class community.
• Track student progress and help students realize their potential.
• Manage classroom behavior to foster a productive learning environment.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Community Building

Tools

Game Design

Unity

C#

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About Mission Bit
Mission Bit is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that inspires youth of color to explore the world of STEM with project-based computer science education that embraces their identities. We offer a variety of hands-on STEM education programs, including semester-long introductory coding courses.

The role
As a Teaching Assistant for our Intro to Game Design class, you'll promote a welcoming and supportive class community, foster productive collaboration, track student progress, and help students realize their potential. We're proud to provide training to all instructional staff to prepare them to teach, along with ongoing support throughout the semester! If you have a passion for community, social justice, and coding, and if you want to uplift Bay Area youth and bridge the tech divide, then this might be the opportunity for you! Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply (especially those who speak Spanish).

This is a seasonal, semester-based, remote role based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It requires approximately 16 hours per week from June 5, 2025 to August 8, 2025.

Schedule

• Asynchronous training: June 5, 2025 - June 12, 2025
• Live training (for instructors of remote classes): June 11, 2025 from 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM via Zoom
• All staff are required to complete the self-paced training and attend the live training session(s)

Class Dates

• Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9:50 AM - 2:40 PM
• June 24, 2025 - July 31, 2025

Weekly Meetings

• 1-hour weekly meetings with the instructional team on Mondays, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM over Zoom

Additional dates:

• Demo Day: TBD
• End-of-semester meeting: 30 minutes between August 4, 2025 - August 8, 2025

Hours

• 16 +/- hours per week

Location

• Remote

What you'll be doing:

70% Community building, classroom management, and student support

• Create an inclusive and community-based classroom culture surrounding the Mission Bit core values of social justice, community, accountability, smart risks, and love
• Plan and lead community-building games and activities
• Foster individual and meaningful relationships with students
• Promote positive, productive collaboration between students
• Ensure students receive the support they need throughout the course to effectively and confidently showcase a capstone project at our Demo Day
• Effectively manage classroom behavior to foster a productive learning environment for all students
• Lead class in the event the lead instructor is out

20% Professional collaboration

• Attend weekly staff meetings (to be determined at the start of the semester)
• Communicate and collaborate with Lead Instructor and other instructional staff

10% Communication

• Communicate course progress to students and their families
• Communicate student progress and success throughout the course to the Program Staff so we can collectively support students' learning

Requirements

We'd love to hear from you if you...

• Have experience working with youth, especially in an educational setting
• Have values aligned with Mission Bit and a passion for supporting youth
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable and compelling in public speaking situations
• Have experience working with a diverse group of individuals
• Are self-starting with the ability to effectively work autonomously with little oversight

It's not required, but it's a nice bonus if you...

• Have experience in with Game Design/Unity/C# or in relevant coding languages and/or software (this may include college, bootcamps, internships, or workforce experience)
• Have experience in project-based learning, asset-based teaching, and/or culturally relevant teaching
• Are bilingual in Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Tagalog, or Samoan

Benefits

• Accrued sick time-off

Pay

$23.00 / hour

Mission Bit is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.