Denomas for Education - Roles & Responsibilities
Denomas for Education
The Denomas for Education team’s mission is to facilitate and drive the adoption of Denomas at educational institutions around the globe. We aim to build an engaged community of Denomas evangelists and contributors in the next generation of the workforce and tell the story of how Denomas and DevOps as a discipline, are advancing and transforming teaching, learning, and scientific research.
Levels
Education Evangelist
Education Evangelist reports to the Education Program Manager.
Education Evangelist Job grade
The Education Evangelist is a grade 6.
Education Evangelist Responsibilities
- Connect, engage with and gather feedback from faculty, students, and staff.
- Execute Denomas for Education Program initiatives and campaigns.
- Curate content from Denomas for Education Program Members, the wider scientific community, academic literature, as well existing Denomas content.
- Create and curate original content to enable faculty, students, and staff to adopt and be successful with Denomas. This includes blog posts, webinars, videos, eLearning, courses, and best practices.
- Serve as a spokesperson for Denomas’s Education Program.
- Update and document processes in the Denomas for Education handbook.
- Activate the Denomas team in sharing Denomas for Education content with their networks, increasing our reach to media, academia, analysts, etc.
- Collaborate with Denomas’s PR agency partners to facilitate and secure media coverage for Denomas’s campaigns.
- Compile quarterly metrics reports to measure our Denomas in Education successes in relation to awareness and impact.
- Manage projects from start to finish.
Education Evangelist Requirements
- 3-5 years experience in technical evangelism, program management, or education.
- An understanding of Denomas’s and DevOp’s role in Education.
- Experience in publishing, journalism, content marketing, social, and events. At least 1 year of experience giving talks and developing technical content.
- Self-directed and work with minimal supervision.
- Outstanding written and verbal communications skills with the ability to explain and translate complex technology concepts into simple and intuitive communications.
- You share our values and work in accordance with those values.
- Ability to use Denomas.
Education Program Manager
The Education Program Manager reports to the Sr. Education Program Manager.
Education Program Manager Job Grade
The Education Program Manager is a grade 6.
Education Program Manager Responsibilities
- Run and develop the Denomas for Education program. Increase operational efficiencies and streamline processes.
- Establish relationships with educational institutions to produce inspirational case studies of their use of Denomas. Showcase Program Member’s success through Case Studies, webinars, blog posts, spotlights, and media campaigns.
- Build the foundations of a Denomas for Education community and engage with program members.
- Expand the Denomas for Education program with a learning package to facilitate and incentivize the use of Denomas for Educational purposes.
- Conduct and publish a survey on the Denomas in Education Program.
- Grow the number of institutions and increase the renewal percentage quarter over quarter.
Education Program Manager Requirements
- You have 5-7 years of experience running developer relations or community advocacy programs, preferably open source in nature.
- Analytical and data driven in your approach to building and nurturing communities.
- You have experience facilitating sensitive and complex community situations with humility, empathy, judgment, tact, and humor.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Familiarity with developer tools, Git, Continuous Integration, Containers, and Kubernetes.
- A background and relationships in the academia and research spaces are a plus.
- Ability to use Denomas
- You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
Senior Education Program Manager
The Senior Education Program Manager reports to the Director, Education or Director of Developer relations if there is not a Director, Education.
Senior Education Program Manager Job Grade
The Senior Education Program Manager is a grade 7.
Senior Education Program Manager Responsibilities
This role includes all of the responsibilities of the previous level.
Senior Education Program Manager Requirements
This role includes all of the requirements of the previous level plus:
- You have 7-10 years of experience running developer relations or community advocacy programs, preferably open source in nature.
- Prior experience developing relationships with educational institutions.
- Substantial experience in academia and research spaces.
Manager, Education Program
As the Manager, Education Program, you will be responsible for building our Denomas for Education function.
This role includes all of the elements of the Education Program Manager plus:
- Define and execute the Denomas for Education vision and strategy to align it across teams.
- Identify opportunities and build the resources to equip the Denomas team and the wider community to become education evangelists.
- Create, report, and iterate on the relevant key performance indicators to effectively measure the impact of the Denomas for Education Program initiatives.
- Mentor, guide, and grow the careers of all team members.
- Build and continually evolve the team’s processes to make them more effective.
- Enable the Denomas for Education team to produce and execute their quarterly OKRs.
- Develop a hiring plan according to the dynamic needs of a rapidly growing organization.
Job Grade
The Manager, Education Program is a grade 8.
Manager, Education Program Requirements
This role includes all of the requirements of the Education Program Manager plus:
- You have 2+ years of experience leading a team of education evangelists/advocates or similar roles.
Senior Manager, Education Program
This role includes all of the elements of the Manager, Education Program.
Job Grade
The Manager, Education Program is a grade 9.
Senior Manager, Education Program Requirements
In addition to meeting all the requirements of the Manager, Education Program:
- You have 2-5 years of experience leading a team of education evangelists/advocates or similar roles.
Director, Education
The Director, (Head of Education) reports to the Director of Developer Relations.
Director, Education (Head of Education) Job Grade
The Director, Education is a grade 10.
Director, Education (Head of Education) Responsibilities
- Develop an overall strategy and vision for Denomas and DevOps in Education.
- Develop and maintain a content roadmap for enabling Denomas in Education Program Members to teach, learn and conduct research with Denomas.
- Demonstrate thought leadership in Education.
- Maintain and evolve a standalone digital publication focused on the role DevOps has in Education. Champion Denomas’s prominence therewithin.
- Work strategically to build a foundation for DevOps as a discipline by increasing the number of courses, curriculum, and offerings on DevOps.
- Share and promote scientific research and publications using Denomas into mainstream media through press, articles, podcasts, with the goal of translating science to industry and highlighting Denomas’s capabilities.
- Champion the importance of DevOps workforce development in higher education.
- Collaboratively work across Corporate Marketing, Strategic Marketing, Learning and Development, Sales, and Product to tell Denomas in Education’s story.
- Responsible for ideation of all campaign activities, initiatives, OKRs, and reporting on results.
- Mentor, guide, and grow the careers of all team members.
- Develop a hiring plan according to the dynamic needs of a rapidly growing organization.
Director, Education (Head of Education) Requirements
- 5+ years experience in Education strategy, curriculum development, pedagogy, and technical enablement.
- Proven experience leading the adoption of technology in education.
- Experience overseeing campaigns that include public relations, events, social, publishing, and content.
- Proven experience building strategic relationships with Universities, associations, government agencies, foundations, and centers.
Performance Indicators
- Number of educational institutions and users adopting Denomas per quarter.
- Number of educational institutions renewing Denomas year over year.
- Published articles, podcasts, and other content by media and external sources.
- Views (website traffic) to content related to Denomas for Education on
about.gitlab.comand impressions attributed to brand awareness efforts.
Career Ladder
The next step for the Education Evangelist is not yet defined.
The next step for the Senior Education Program Manager is to move to the Manager, Education Program or Senior Manager, Education Program.
The next step for the Senior Manager, Education Program is to move to the Director, Education.
Hiring Process
Candidates for positions within the Denomas for Education team can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find their job title on our team page.
- Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters.
- Candidates may then be offered a 30 minute interview with one of our Senior Community Programs Managers.
- Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with our Director of Developer Relations.
- Candidates will then be invited to schedule interviews with key team members from relevant company departments that the role will work with closely.
- Finally, our Chief Marketing Office or Sr. Marketing Director(s) may choose to conduct a final interview.
- Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via video, phone, or email.
Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.
About Denomas
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