IT Support Satellite Teaching Fellow

Per Scholas is hiring an IT Support Satellite Teaching Fellow for its Plainfield, New Jersey satellite campus (on-site at the Plainfield Public Library). In this full-time role, you’ll support learners through hands-on technical training aligned with a lead instructor broadcasting from the main campus. You’ll play a key instructional and operational part in helping students build skills for entry to mid-level Information Technology jobs, supported by structured curriculum, in-house tools, and a team focused on continuous improvement.

What you’ll do

• Act as the on-site instructional leader in a satellite classroom, delivering direct support while a lead instructor broadcasts from another location.
• Support technical training using a structured and approved curriculum, partnering with the Technical Instructor to prepare students for entry to mid-level IT roles.
• Facilitate a supportive, hands-on, and professional learning environment, maintaining smooth technical operations and strong learner engagement throughout each class session.
• Lead interactive lab activities alongside the Technical Instructor and STF lead, with curriculum expectations of up to 1.5 hours of lecture within a 6-hour teaching day.
• Help with classroom facilitation in an interactive style by consulting with the Instructor before providing current students with review materials, videos, or other support.
• Collaborate with the lead instructor to plan instructional activities and ensure alignment between campuses.
• Form and lead study groups based on the instructor’s evaluations, with topics determined by the instructor and students.
• Consult with the instructor to plan activities for the present and upcoming days and help gather the tools needed for lectures and hands-on labs.
• Step in to conduct a lesson if the instructor is temporarily unavailable due to PTO, technical issues, or other circumstances.
• Ensure student loaned equipment is returned appropriately to the instructor, storage closet, or the correct borrower.
• Use PS Academy for assignments, tests, real-time performance monitoring, and for entering attendance, grades, and scorecards.
• Provide ongoing feedback, recognize challenges early, and work with the instructor, coaches, and students to address them.
• Coordinate with instructors and professional development coaches to enforce program rules and support student success.
• Implement individualized study plans for students who are struggling in class.
• Monitor and enforce student attendance, dress code, and other program policies.
• Provide input on labs, Learning Management Systems, and program policies.
• Participate in required student progress meetings and staff meetings.
• Complete real-time student data entry in PS Academy.

What you bring

• COMPTIA A+ (1200 series) certification
• Ability to teach in a highly interactive, hands-on style
• Passion for teaching others
• Flexibility to adapt to schedule changes
• Interest in a culture of continuous improvement
• Team-oriented approach with the ability to work independently
• Highly responsive communication skills, with strong verbal communication
• Thrives in a creative, inventive, fast-paced startup environment with a mission-driven team
• Proactive, dependable, and confident working independently in a classroom setting
• Data-driven, result-oriented, and motivated to support social change
• Collaborative and flexible work style; comfortable cross-functionally and independently
• Effective communicator with strong oral and written skills
• Tech-savvy with the ability to learn quickly
• Strong time management to balance multiple tasks

Benefits at a glance

• Over 40 days of paid time off each year (holidays, vacation, and sick/personal time)
• Holiday pay upon hire: 22 holidays annually, including a week off for Independence Day and a week before the New Year
• 80 Wellness Hours for sick, safe, or personal reasons (full-time benefits eligible employees)
• Vacation accruals: 8 hours at the beginning of every month (increasing with tenure)
• Comprehensive medical coverage through Cigna or Kaiser Permanente (where available), plus an HRA up to $4,000 (individual) or $8,000 (family)
• Dental and Vision insurance (two dental plan options and a vision plan); if you waive medical, you receive employer-paid dental and vision premiums
• 401(k) with a 100% employer match on contributions up to 6%; entry and full vesting after 90 days
• EAP: free, confidential, 24/7 access to counseling, legal support, and financial resources
• Up to 6 weeks of 100% paid parental leave
• Employer-paid life and AD&D insurance and employer-paid short-term disability coverage, plus options for additional life coverage and long-term disability
• Flexible Spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting
• Voluntary benefits: Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal Services, and Pet Insurance
• Healthcare concierge support, financial wellness tools, and employee discount programs

Technologies you’ll use: COMPTIA A+ (1200 series), PS Academy

Reports to: Managing Director