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  • Posted: Aug 30, 2017
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    Hyperion was founded with an ambition to scale human-led education in programming. We believe that machines can't match humans, and learning to code is best achieved by having a coding educator review your code on a day-by-day basis. top code Hyperion has built an online course platform that allows human code review to be scaled, applying this methodo...
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    Program Manager

    Job description

    Job Purpose

    The Program Manager Ensures Student Success By

    The role of the Program Manager is to lead the educational delivery of Hyperion's online courses.

    • Ensuring the quality of support received by our students from our mentor team is of a high quality
    • Planning, co-ordinating, and running online tutorial sessions on a weekly basis
    • Measuring completion and retention rates on online courses
    • Designing and implementing strategies for raising completion and retention rates
    • Understanding and improving the academic positioning and outcomes of our online courses
    • Working with hiring partners to ensure students are able to access job opportunities following their graduation

    Responsibilities

    • Lead Hyperion's Training team to define and build the strategy for Hyperion's educational delivery.
    • Deliver industry-leading educational programmes to solve unique skills issues in Hyperion's target markets internationally.
    • Work closely with Hyperion's partners - including Google, Facebook, and the South African government - to define the overall organisational strategy as a member of Hyperion's management team.
    • Available as a full-time role only from our Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or London office

    Essential

    Requirements

    • Excellent written and oral communication skills
    • A problem-solving attitude
    • Willingness and desire to work in a fast-paced startup environment
    • Excellent leadership and teamwork skills
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills
    • Excellent communication and leadership skills.
    • 3 years+ Project/Programme/Training management.
    • 1 year+ experience leading a team of educators, mentors, or trainers.
    • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Education, or a related discipline .

    Desirable

    • Experience in a similar leadership role in the EdTech industry.
    • Experience delivering large training projects in Africa for cohorts of over 500 students.
    • 2 years + software development experience or knowledge with languages such as Python, Java, and Javascript
    • 2 years+ experience guiding the educational strategy for an online education/e-learning company.
    • 5 years+ experience as an educator, education researcher, or technical trainer or a related role

    Benefits

    You'll gain career-defining experience working directly with partners like Google, Facebook, and the South African government on projects and technologies that reach thousands. Work as part of an international team which spans South Africa and the UK to make a difference in the lives of our students. Working at Hyperion is an unparalleled opportunity to join a fresh and face-packed startup that is disrupting the way education is delivered in the developing and developed world.

    • Leadership role, hence compensation is negotiable on prior experience and may include stock options
    • Flexible working hours and locations
    • Work as a part of an award-winning and dynamic team of experienced developers, marketing and sales staff, product managers, and software engineers
    • Experience working in a fast-moving tech startup environment with a truly unique culture.
    • Be a part of executing Facebook and Google-supported projects at scale in Africa and Europe.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to HyperionDev on workable.com to apply

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