Careers

• Instruction: Teach the basics of iOS app development and Swift programming to incarcerated students through a remote learning platform.

• Curriculum Delivery: Use an established curriculum to deliver lessons, assignments, and projects that are tailored to beginner and intermediate learners.

• Mentorship: Provide guidance, encouragement, and constructive feedback to help students succeed.

• Classroom Management: Foster a positive, respectful learning environment where all students feel supported.

• Progress Monitoring: Track and report student progress, identifying areas where additional support is needed.

• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Swift and iOS development, with experience developing apps or working professionally in the field.

• Teaching Experience: Previous experience teaching or mentoring in coding, preferably in remote or unconventional settings.

• Familiarity with remote teaching tools and the ability to troubleshoot basic technical issues.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to adapt teaching methods to diverse learning needs.

• Commitment: Passionate about education and social impact, with a desire to work with justice impacted communities.

• Preferred Qualification: Formerly incarcerated or experience working with justice-impacted individuals or in prison education programs.

• Preferred Qualification: Familiarity with secure educational technologies and remote learning platforms.

About Us:

Unlocked Labs is a non-profit organization that partners with correctional educators and state corrections departments to design technology infrastructure to better deploy programs and track outcomes, in order to understand efficacy and inform best practices in the justice system.

Our team, which includes justice-impacted software developers, technology industry experts, and education and corrections professionals, works to:

• Build the open-source, public infrastructure is needed to support correctional program outcomes.
• Train, employ, and empower justice-impacted individuals to obtain upwardly-mobile careers upon release.
• Serve as thought-leaders in the correctional education and workforce development space to promote human-centered outcomes and enable smart decarceration.

What we offer:

Unlocked Labs' theory of change is that, by empowering individuals to take charge of their own futures, we can both unlock their upward mobility and create a fairer justice system. This applies to our employees, too: it's important to us that our team members can pursue the skills and projects they want to build their long-term future. Not only are we a mission-aligned organization, but individual growth and satisfaction is paramount to our organization's success. Have an idea that you want to roll out? Want to change up one of our processes or implement new software? Looking to learn a new skill and apply it? Come up with a plan and pitch it; we'll give feedback around implementing it.

We also provide a wide range of benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Group Health Insurance
• Group Dental and Vision Insurance
• Team outings to local businesses of St. Louis
• Free drinks and snacks at our coworking space
• ~25 paid days off, not including holidays: 15 days of PTO, to be used at your discretion; a team-wide “Wellness Week,” where the entire team is off; and the week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.