2 Relationship Managers & 2 Educational Development Officers

We have lots of exciting things planned and we need our team to grow.

You can see our full programme of events here We know you are awesome and we’d love you to join our team.

Working With Us

Girl Geek Scotland has always relied on volunteers to help us create our world class events. We fit our work into coffee breaks and after hours effort. Many hands make light work, and for every event we have an “All hands on deck approach!”. This means that the Lead for one event will offer support to the Lead on another event. You may be coordinating Industry Leaders for one event and serving wine at the next! As we are expanding there is a need for clearer lines of communication, and we are now developing specific roles that meet the needs of our community, funders and partner organisations. We are getting more and more men attending our events. We have one or two men joining our team this year and would welcome more applications from the boys. Its great to have guys in tech onside! If you are prepared to roll up your sleeves, we can help you reach your ambitions!

Role Descriptions

Education Development Officers (2 Roles) Purpose: To provide consistent high quality, learning resource packs for our events. * We expect these resources to be distributed Scotland wide through our existing Partner organisations.

• Consulting with the Programme Manager, Event Leads and Speakers
• Create a pack of resources for online access
• Review of events to extract key learnings
• Consult with audience for feedback and guidance on future sessions
• Production of Project Briefs and other bespoke GGS materials as required
• Relationship building with partner organisations
• Sign-post members to other organisations that can help

Must have a strong interest in creativity, computing and enterprise. This will be a good fit with someone who has a qualification or experience in eduction or training. Mentoring Relationship Manager (2 roles) Purpose: to manage the relationships with partner organisations, to take part in matching mentors and mentees, to ensure participants have a good experience.

• Attend up to 4 Mentoring Events and support on the ground logistics
• Develop relationships with large organisations that can supply mentors for our community through Corporate & Social Responsibility and HR initiatives
• Attend meetings and participate in matching mentors and mentees
• Keeping everyone informed of progress (emails etc) & ensuring any safety info is adhered to
• Design questionnaires and surveys to analyse needs and develop future strategy and events planning
• Ensuring Next Steps are always clear to partners, mentors and mentees

Ideally our Relationship Managers will already have good relationships with a number of large organisations that can help provide mentors for our mentoring programme. An understanding of routes to career progression, is an advantage.

How to Apply

Please answer the following questions in an email to jayne@girlgeekscotland.com with the Subject Heading: VOLUNTEER

1. What role do you want to apply for?
2. What is *your* ambition for Girl Geek Scotland?
3. How do you see your efforts and skills being used to greatest effect?
4. How specifically will this role help you in your own career and life?

UX Coach for Coding Workshop & Hackathons

3-4 people needed for 3 half day events and adhoc online support over a period of 6 weeks.
Purpose: To support student groups to design and develop their front end skills as part of a Coding Workshop and Hackathon around Blockchain.

We can pay (reasonable) expenses for this role for anyone who is travelling from outside of Edinburgh.

• Support Workshop Lead with prep and on the ground logistics
• Identify useful resources to support learning HTML, CSS and associated languages
• Be able to work through some basic tutorials with students
• Support the conceptualisation and planning of development for a project brief
• Be able to help students fix and debug code
• Offer adhoc online support over a 6 week period in Feb & March 2017 (dates tbc)

Must have good communication skills and a strong interest in supporting under-represented people in technology. An ability to learn new coding languages, and to help others in their learning, is essential!

Strong experience HTML, CSS, Javascript and other front end languages for web and mobile apps. The focus will be on creating web or mobile apps with Blockchain, so experience working with Java/ Python/ C++ or other general purpose languages will be useful. Some previous knowledge of Blockchain, Chain Core or other languages are a bonus – but not required. (Chain is an API developed specifically for the Financial Industry – see https://chain.com/ for more info).
** Please let us know if you have a preferred suite.

Will be a good fit with people who hold a qualification in computer science, or who work as professional UX designers. We are particularly keen to get applications from people with experience teaching or coaching!

To find out how to apply visit our Volunteer page.

Developer Coach for Coding Workshop & Hackathons (Blockchain)

Up to 6 people needed for 3 half day events, and adhoc online support over a period of 6 weeks.
Purpose: To lead a “student” team of up to 3 beginner and intermediate developers, in learning some basic coding skills, and to support them to develop a short project as part of a Coding Workshop and Hackathon on Blockchain.

We can pay (reasonable) expenses for this role for anyone who is travelling from outside of Edinburgh.

About Blockchain
Blockchain and the Scottish Economy

• Support Workshop Lead with prep and on the ground logistics
• Identify useful resources to support learning Blockchain or Chain Core and associated languages
• Be able to work through some basic tutorials with students
• Support the conceptualisation and planning of development for a project brief
• Be able to help students fix and debug code
• Offer adhoc online support over a 6 week period in Feb & March 2017 (dates tbc)

Must have good communication skills and a strong interest in supporting under-represented people in technology. An ability to learn new coding languages, and to help others in their learning, is essential!

Strong experience in Java/ Python/ C++ or another general purpose language. The focus will be on creating web or mobile apps, so front end skills that fit with Blockchain or Chain such as java (android) or swift (apple), or (for web apps) javascript/html/css/php/json will be useful. Some previous knowledge of Blockchain, Chain Core or other languages are a bonus – but not required. (Chain is an API developed specifically for the Financial Industry – see https://chain.com/ for more info).
** Please let us know if you have a preferred suite.

Will be a good fit for people who hold a qualification in computer science, or who work as professional developers. We are particularly keen to get applications from people with experience teaching or coaching!

To find out how to apply visit our Volunteer page.

Education Development Officer, Mentoring

Purpose: To provide consistent high quality, learning resource packs for each Mentoring event.

• Consult with the Programme Manager, Event Lead and Speakers
• Create a pack of resources for online access
• Analyse and review of speaker videos and transcripts to extract key learnings
• Consult with audience for feedback and guidance on future sessions
• Produce Project Briefs and other bespoke GGS materials as required
• Develop a network of partner organisations to help distribute our resources
• Sign-post members to other organisations that can help

Must have a strong interest in creativity, computing and enterprise. This will be a good fit for someone who has a qualification or experience in education or training.

To find out how to apply visit our Volunteer page.

Event Curation, Themes for 2017: Enterprise & Access to Funding

Purpose: To coordinate speakers, detail content and manage on the ground logistics for each event.

• Select Industry Speakers & Chair and manages expectations
• Negotiate content and format for panel sessions with guests
• Manage team on the ground inc. budget, venue, delegate numbers, tech support, catering etc
• Liaise with Comms to develops all communications and marketing materials including information for sponsors and post event reports
• Liaise with Education to create Resource Packs

Must have an outgoing personality and a strong interest in access to funding for business, for under-represented groups. This is a good fit for someone with a qualification in education or business & enterprise.

To find out how to apply visit our Volunteer page.