Summary:
SparkFun is a quickly growing company with a relaxed and fun work environment that's pet friendly and complete with arcade games. We are a diverse group of people with a wide variety of talents and a common interest. We value passion and eagerness to learn over experience, so this is a perfect opportunity to start developing your career.
The Educational Outreach Coordinator is mainly responsible for the development, coordination, planning, and instruction of SparkFun class & workshop materials and online tutorials, light product development and resources for new educational kits, coordinating and encouraging outsourced curriculum development for k-12 educational system, and other marketing promotional duties. This position answers directly to the Director of Marketing Communications and will work closely with the Engineering and Sales departments. Some travel will be required.
Responsibilities:
Plan, coordinate, set-up, and tear-down of in-office and traveling
classes & workshops
Ability to teach some, if not all, of the classes & workshops
(depending on level of engineering skills & knowledge)
Work with the SparkFun Engineering and Marketing Communication
departments to develop relevant tutorials and other educational
materials, resources, and kits for customers seeking entry-level
gear & resources
Give occasional tours of SFE to individual and group visitors
Help plan and coordinate on-site educational events and details
for visitors, including local hotel pricing & discounts, bus
schedules, local restaurants, and entertainment options
Work with the Sales department to represent SparkFun at
educational tradeshows
Qualifications:
Bachelor degree in Education a plus, with some experience teaching in a classroom setting and curriculum development
Strong passion for DIY electronics (bachelor's degree or
additional experience in electrical engineering or related field
a definite plus)
Knowledge of current K-12 educational standards a plus
Ability to multi-task, stay organized, and thrive in a
fast-paced and growing work environment
To Apply:
Email a PDF of your resume, references, and cover letter
Include a statement regarding why you would be good for this
position.
Osgeld, since you are apparently a professional troll, I'm done here.
Sorry if I thought the Arduino Forum was a good place to find people interested in getting paid to teach others about Arduino and electronics. I must be the @ssh0le.
to come up totally random on some forum and post a craigslist posting out of the blue, while the company that is suposedly hiring has NOTHING on their website about it sounds fishy
and your response was to tell me since my work does not provide pet day care and video games my life must be worthless or something, a rational comeback was given now you have resorted to calling me names
If you are affiliated with sparkfun then you just lost yet another point from me because of your totally unprofessional attitude, and your recruiting tactics
are you done? then good maybe now this part of the forum can go back to people actually doing workshops and not be thrown off by your advertisement
actually if you look at Allusion's profile 7 out of 8 post the user has made is either a promotion or defense of sparkfun, and otherwise totally disconnected with what is going on here, and only shows up to promote sparkfun events
I fail to see the difference tween Allusion and your standard issue spambot, other than this one talks back (and from previous experiences from a script)
maybe if sparkfun decided to participate in the community when it did not benefit or promote themselves every once in a while I would be less brash
until then do we need spambot like tactics every time they fart out a post-it-note idea? Do we need name calling at all?
I fail to see the difference tween Allusion and your standard issue spambot, other than this one talks back (and from previous experiences from a script)
There is a difference. Let's try to move from this way to see the all thing.
Allusion wasn't offering credit cards or cheap viagra pills. :-/
He was offering a job.
Probably, a true job (by the way, anybody applied?).
The way of promoting this position sounds spammy to Osgeld; the end of the story is:
Allusion, promote Sparkfun experiences in a different way.
Osgeld, be less Spam-sensitive. ;D ;D
I didn't answer because I'm not fond of being attacked for trying to help someone get a job in a field they love.
I was simply re-posting the job description that someone else wrote because I figured it was relevant to the users of this forum.
Unfortunately, most of what I got from this forum is, go away, don't post Arduino related job openings and if you don't post here regularly you must not be participating in the DIY electronics community.
