Job description

The Cape Town-based Academy of Digital Arts is a growing private higher education institution offering full time, part time and corporate training courses in graphic, web, interactive, game design and concept art.We pride ourselves on bridging the gap between education and industry, and, as courses and training programmes expand, we are looking for a dynamic, knowledgeable and motivated Front-End-Development lecturer to join our team on a freelance basis. 

As a freelance lecturer, you would be periodically booked to teach blocks of our higher certificate classes, corporate and short courses. Teaching material and course outlines would be provided to you as needed, although you may be asked to develop new material from time to time.While our higher certificate classes would require you to complete some additional admin, such as marking of projects and setting up of briefs, the short courses are more technically focused.

Requirements

• Based in Cape Town
• Three to five years’ experience as a front-end developer
• Extensive experience with HTML/CSS
• Extensive experience with JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
• Aurelia/Angular/React (or other JS Frameworks)
• Git and GitHub (or similar)
• JSON
• Strong Responsive/Cross-Platform design and development

Beneficial

• Passion or interest in education
• Has managed or mentored people previously
• PHP, MySQL development skills
• You have an understanding of Scrum and Agile development
• Ideally, you’ll also have a decent aesthetic eye and be comfortable elaborating on design concepts, style tiles, and general branding

Personal skills

• Exceptional work ethic and commitment to the Academy’s culture
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, you enjoy sharing knowledge and inspiring young minds
• Professional in your approach to dealing with people
• Ability to work independently while maintaining effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisors and students
• Strong organisational and administration skills

Please send CVs to

ten.ngisedfosdneirf@sreerac

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Only successful candidates will be contacted.

Posted on 06 Jan 14:29