Code Platoon is an award-winning non-profit organization whose training program prepares veterans and military spouses to become professional software developers.

We are looking for an energetic, organized, personable veteran, reservist, guardsman, or military spouse to help market our program to potential student applicants. This is a great way to give back to the veteran community by connecting vets and their spouses with a retraining opportunity.

The Community Outreach Manager will travel out to locations where veterans and spouses congregate (we will identify many, but hopefully you can identify some) and help distribute our materials, and talk with veterans and spouses about our program. Travel will be in the greater Chicago area, and will be compensated.

This person will also interact with other Veteran Serving Organizations (we have contacts at many) and help identify ways to promote Code Platoon with their audiences. This may include the use of social media and other marketing channels. No prior marketing experience is required, but you must have an interest and willingness to learn.

We will provide the training and materials you need to help interested veterans and spouses understand whether our life-changing program is for them. If interested, send your resume to Info@CodePlatoon.org.

Code Platoon is looking for a part-time career coach who can help our students find a job when they graduate from our program. The right person will also help find and manage companies who will commit to interview our students for paid internships.

Why You Want This Job

• You enjoy interpersonal work with a human touch
• As a part-time contractor, you will have the option for much of your work to be conducted remotely
• As a part-time contractor, you will play a large role in planning your own daily and weekly schedule
• This role will build your credentials both in sales and human resources
• Your work will directly benefit military veterans and their families

Qualifications We’d Like To See

• You are familiar with outreach, business development, and account management best practices. This might include pipeline management strategies, a mastery of objection handling, and a track record of building excellent client relationships with a variety of professionals across various industries.
• Contacting hundreds of potential leads a week is exciting to you.
• You are a careful listener and can translate the needs of hiring managers into opportunities to partner with Code Platoon.
• You can work as a one-on-one career coach with our graduates to keep their job search going and their professional identity on point.
• You have been in the tech space previously and can “speak” tech both to recruiters and hiring managers.
• You are organized and detail-oriented. You take CRM diligence seriously and keep timely records of all external activities.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for prospecting and recruiting companies with long-term technology hiring needs into our network, then growing, nurturing and maintaining these partner companies through close account management and ongoing engagement strategies.

You’ll also help our graduates who are still looking for employment by coaching them during their job search, whether it’s sending them opportunities or coordinating interviews with partner companies.

Many of the companies will be Chicago-based, but you will also work to identify remote-hire tech companies across the US. You will also coordinate opportunities for these employers to interact with our students, including hosting events and attending networking events.

This is a contractor position for 10 to 20 hours per week with room to expand into more billable time. The work is mostly remote, but when you are onsite, you’ll be at our Chicago campus.

Next Steps:

If you are interested, please send your resume to info@codeplatoon.org

About Code Platoon

Code Platoon is a non-profit coding bootcamp that prepares US military veterans and military spouses for careers in software development. Each training session is 14 weeks long, and we run 3 sessions a year.

We’ve had 10 cohorts graduate since 2016 with a strong 80%+ job placement rate due to our small class sizes, industry volunteers, and excellent instruction. After the classroom portion is complete, many of our students will be matched with a sponsor company, and will begin a 3 to 6 month paid internship.

Code Platoon’s community includes other instructors, volunteers, staff, and active board members who will be there to support you.

Code Platoon is looking for a Full-time Coding Instructor to help teach Python / Django and Javascript / React. 

Why You Want This Job

• Code Platoon offers competitive salary and benefits with more purpose and connection to your work than a typical corporate coding position
• You will have a large amount of influence over your daily activities and environment
• You will get to work with code and keep your own programming knowledge sharp
• You will get to network with industry contacts within our sponsor companies
• You will get to help advance both the veteran community and the tech community

Qualifications We’d Like To See

• Worked for at least a year as a professional software developer
• Either attended a coding bootcamp or have a computer science background
• Have deep comfort with Javascript/React.js or Python/Django
• Comfortable with test-driven development, SQL and git
• Have an interest, and ideally some background, in education or teaching

Responsibilities

As an instructor, your typical day will be divided between giving a lecture, helping students with projects, and grading student work. 

You will teach for some, but not all, of the business days during the 14 week program. Even though the students will often work 60 to 80 hours a week, your schedule will be normal business hours.

We are flexible about how much time you spend lecturing, how much time you spend leading a joint class exercise, and how much time you spend in a flipped classroom setting, where the students are working on projects and you are supervising and helping them get ‘unstuck.’ 

But in general, you can expect to spend some time teaching, some time overseeing students’ work (lots of debugging), and some time preparing curriculum. You’ll also make appearances for offsite events and graduations, which are always fun for the team.

In the gaps between cohorts (like semester breaks,) you’ll be helping prepare the classroom and select new applicants for acceptance into our program.

Next Steps

If you are interested in this position, please email Jonathan Young, Director of Education, at jon@codeplatoon.org.  Please include any relevant work experience, links to projects, a LinkedIn profile, or anything you think might help us know more about your background.

Lastly, if you know someone who would be a great fit for this position, we are offering a $2,000 referral bonus for a successful hire. Please connect your referrals to jon@codeplatoon.org so that we can track their progress.

About Code Platoon

Code Platoon is a non-profit coding bootcamp that prepares US military veterans and military spouses for careers in software development. Each training session is 14 weeks long, and we run 3 sessions a year.

We’ve had 10 cohorts graduate since 2016 with a strong 80%+ job placement rate due to our small class sizes, industry volunteers, and excellent instruction. After the classroom portion is complete, many of our students will be matched with a sponsor company, and will begin a 3 to 6 month paid internship.

Code Platoon’s community includes other instructors, volunteers, staff, and active board members who will be there to support you.