Total 4 education training job vacancies in east melbourne victoria

If you’re a high school science teacher, the name Stile might ring a bell. 

With an ever-expanding community of Stile schools in Australia, we’re looking for an experienced leader with a passion for improving scientific literacy around Australia to join the team in Melbourne. This role involves leading the team responsible for both selling Stile to new schools and maintaining relationships with existing schools.  

About Stile

We have a vision for more interesting, rigorous and inclusive science education for Australian students. Imagine a world where mundane tasks like lesson planning are taken care of, and teachers are offered plenty of support to be full-time classroom superheroes! Stile is Australia’s only complete, end-to-end program for Years 7-10 science. It offers meticulously crafted lesson-by-lesson teaching plans, printable revision resources, videos, questions, simulations and practical activities. It’s what we wish we had when we were teaching. Built upon our world-class teaching and learning platform, Stile is updated weekly with the latest in science and technology.

At our foundation, we encourage kids to think critically about the world around them and make evidence-based decisions for themselves and their community. For more information, have a read of our ‘why’.

1 in 3 schools in Australia use Stile! We expect this number to continue to grow in the coming years. That's quite some reach, and it's a responsibility we take very seriously.

The Stile team is made up of 70 incredible teachers, scientists, artists and engineers who genuinely care about, and are working towards, improving scientific literacy amongst our young citizens.

That’s where you come in.

About the role

This leadership position will be responsible for growing our community of schools around Australia. Leading a team of five talented, experienced educators and sales team members, you will constantly look for ways to grow our impact in Australia, your success metrics will be sales and retention in Australia. 

This position is perfect for someone with a passion for education and leadership experience who is looking to expand their impact and enhance the education of tens of thousands of students. It combines working from Stile HQ with visiting schools and team members around the country. 

This is a sales leadership role, but it’s a sales leadership role like no other. It’s fun, light and centred around a genuine mission to better science education. 

How you’ll spend your time

• Leading our Schools team 

Our Schools team is the face of Stile and it will be your responsibility to lead them to achieve amazing results. This might be through finding efficiencies within existing processes, working with the marketing department to generate innovative sales campaigns, digging deep into data with the operations team to find solutions or working with our support team to understand how best to help Stile teachers. Overall, you’ll be driving the team to ensure we meet our sales and retention targets. 

• Developing plans so all diocese and school leadership around the country know who Stile are and how we can help them. 

With so many schools around the country already using Stile, you will be thinking of innovative ways to scale our impact. One of these ways will be through establishing and maintaining relationships at the diocese and school leadership levels. Deeply understanding the importance of High-Quality Instructional Materials will be critical to having these important conversations. 

• Working with the science education leadership team to build community around Australia 

We’re privileged to be the core science resource in many schools around Australia. We want to use our position to have a positive impact, and help build communities of science teachers and leaders around Australia. As Head of Schools you will be spearheading our efforts to bring teachers together to improve practice and create lasting connections. 

• Continuing to hone your own skills and knowledge  

We’re life-long learners at Stile, so we’re always looking to improve our practice. You’ll find yourself reading up on the latest negotiation strategies, or learning about the latest trends in education technology. You can also expect to spend time peer-reviewing work with your colleagues, ensuring we’re always delivering the best possible service.


A couple of Stile-ists having a cracking time on the road in the Stile Sylla-bus!

A bit more about you

• You’re a driver and self-starter who is both likeable and empathetic. You’re a strong communicator who can build positive relationships and really put yourself in someone else’s shoes, understand their problems and work to help fix them. 
• You're eager to learn. Super eager. You soak up feedback, incorporate it, and are constantly driven to be better. 
• You’re a proactive, strategic hard worker who gets stuff done. You’re motivated to work independently but love contributing in a team environment. 
• You have experience in leading teams to achieve amazing results. 
• You’re knowledgeable about science education and you’re across the latest trends in education technology and pedagogy. 
• You’re excellent with systems, data and processes and you’re super organised! 
• Sales experience, especially in the edu-industry, is a bonus but not essential, as is experience with Salesforce. 

At Stile, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with all of the points above, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or another role.

What’s in it for you

• Colleagues worth working with. You’ll join an amazing 70-strong team of teachers, scientists, artists, and engineers. We hold ourselves and each other to a high standard and love what we do.
• Working on something that really matters. In partnership with teachers, we’re coaching students to become problem solvers and critical thinkers. We believe that with a strong command of science, tomorrow’s citizens and leaders are set up to sort the misinformation from the facts.
• Support always. Stile is its people, and it’s important we are creating an environment where you’re supported, happy and able to do your best work. We have strong management and feedback frameworks and a great benefits program. Check it out here.
• Flexibility. We expect you to work hard, but you’ll have flexible hours and be the master of your own schedule. There’s no rigid timetable to adhere to.
• Your own professional development. We’re lifelong learners here at Stile. In addition to teaching you everything you need to know to succeed in this role, we provide a generous PD allowance.

Hours and location

This is a full-time, permanent role based in our Melbourne office. When you’re not on the road, you will work from Stile HQ.

Work hours are flexible but generally follow a 9-5 schedule. Usually, school visits and PD sessions run before or after school or anywhere in between.

You’ll regularly be driving to schools, so you’ll need your own car (don’t worry, we cover your expenses). Semi-regular travel will be required around Australia to visit your team.

Sound interesting?

Great! We want to know more about you, so read the details below then click apply and ensure you provide that cover letter to show you’re great at following the details. 

• A cover letter addressed to Clare Feeney (no more than a page) explaining why you're going to smash this role out of the park. Include a paragraph on which Behaviours of an Effective Stile-ist most resonate with you or which you disagree with and why.
• Your resume
  
  

Do you have questions about our hiring process? You can find the answers here, or feel free to email us. We can't wait to hear from you!

No recruiters please.

We're a small, high-performing, diverse, tight-knit team with a mission to radically improve mainstream science education at schools. By creating the best science lessons in the world, coupled with intuitive tools that allow teachers to take advantage of the latest pedagogies, we’ve already helped millions of students in Australia get excited about science.

Young people all over the world deserve a world-class science education. Stile is on a mission to ensure that students are able to critically evaluate what they see in their social media feeds, and feel confident using science and technology to solve the big issues of tomorrow. Every week over 250,000 students and their teachers use Stile’s web platform to explore and analyse the science behind the big issues facing us globally, a number we expect will more than double in the next couple of years as we expand internationally.

Stile is used in 1 in 3 Australian secondary schools, with around 45% of year 7-10 students subscribed. That’s quite some reach, and it’s a responsibility we take extremely seriously. When you join our small team, you have a unique opportunity to have a massive impact on the future of science education.

Solve Important Problems

We need your help! We’re looking for exceptional engineers who want to solve interesting problems alongside brilliant people.

The Platform Team is responsible for reliability, security, delivery costs and performance, as well as for the sophisticated suite of CI development tooling that empowers all Stile engineers to rapidly test and safely deploy new features many times each day. Stile's infrastructure is all managed through Terraform, run in Docker containers, deployed automatically through CD pipelines, and auto-scaled minute-by-minute to match our traffic patterns - running Stile is a hands-free experience.

As a Platform Team member you will first and foremost be a great software engineer. You'll be charged with architecting and delivering robust software to automate and scale solutions for many different problems across the team's various responsibilities.

As the team's new Cost Efficiency Lead, your focus will be on optimising delivery costs, in particular AWS expenses. You will be expected to innovate and execute on a cost-savings roadmap, build investigation and monitoring tools to track down anomalies, dive into our hourly billing data to hunt for patterns, and provide consultation to other engineers on how to optimise their designs. Your work will touch many areas of the application and infrastructure, giving you an excellent grounding in the overall tech stack used at Stile.

Overall, you will be responsible to one key metric - bringing the bill within budget and keeping it there. You will be supported in achieving that goal, but ultimately have a great deal of autonomy in how you get there provided the number is heading in the right direction.

If you're an AWS expert who likes clearly defined responsibilities and autonomy, then this is the job for you!

Oncall

All platform team members participate in a 24-7 oncall roster. Shifts are two weeks long, and typically occur about twice per quarter (once as primary, and once as backup). Incidents outside of business hours are rare, and team members on-call outside of hours receive an extra week of annual leave per year as compensation for being available. Additionally, team members are expected to take time-in-lieu within the week if significant work is needed outside of business hours.

Do your best work

We make sure that our engineers time isn't wasted. We provide:

• A highly-motivated and talented team with experienced engineers, and passionate new starters.
• A genuine commitment to the professional development of each engineer through training, coaching, mentorship opportunities, regular feedback and increasing responsibility.
• Quality over quantity: we're pragmatists, but we already have an established business that's here for the long term, so maintenance matters more than up-front build time. We'd rather build it right than live with something broken.
• A near-continuous release cadence, involvement of engineers in the design process, and a willingness to take calculated risks.
• A large base of real customers, which is growing rapidly as we expand overseas. When you ship a feature 100,000 students will see it within the next day.
• Enormous respect for our employees’ work-life balance reflected in our parental leave policy, individual flexibility and sustainable project pace.
• A mission that drives our company, and a strong sense of ethics in everything we do.
• A modern tech stack. AWS. Terraform. Rust for tooling. CI on Buildkite. An API written in Ruby and Sorbet (not Rails), with a frontend in React and Typescript, glued together with Protobuf interfaces.
• Great documentation.
• A culture of asking ‘how should this work?’ rather than ‘what's easiest?’.
• Extremely thorough test coverage, extensive use of live configuration and feature switching, and a rigorous CI and merge queue process that delivers provably working code rapidly.
• High standards: we love solutions that Just Work, and are prepared to spend the effort to build them. However, we live by the Agile principle of valuing working software over comprehensive documentation.
• Our comprehensive suite of observability tools let's you see how your changes are performing, and gives you the detail you need to spot trends, anomalies, and patterns easily.
• You’ll be given the resources and guidance you need to grow your career. We’ll provide you with transparency around expectations, promotion and pay, and opportunities to lead. You’ll attend conferences, and internal and external professional development events. Your manager will be an experienced engineer, dedicated to helping you succeed.
• Stile is owned and led by engineers. Our CEO, CTO, and founder/majority-owner/chair — Alan Finkel — are all engineers, and understand what it takes to build something great. Great engineering gets noticed, and rewarded

About You

• You're a critical thinker who sees the system as a whole, and finds ways to cut to the core of the issue.
• You think about systems, not just details - you consider how data flows, how to handle API errors, and how to make the next iteration easier to develop than the previous. Furthermore, you consider the ways that other developers might interact with your code and anticipate gotchas. After shipping a product, you think about how to monitor its performance and improve it further based on feedback.
• You know that sometimes "more tech" isn't the answer. You love thinking about people, processes, and systems for continuous improvement, and use a balance of technology and people skills to have a huge impact.
• You naturally put yourself in others shoes and solve problems with their perspective at the top of your mind.
• You seek to understand your teammates rather than win today's argument. You win hearts and minds with carefully considered opinions, and know that success comes from having a whole team working together well. You raise up your peers' voices and enjoy nothing more than seeing your teammates succeed.
• You have a strong desire to improve things around you rather than just getting the job done. That said, you know that value exists only once it's shipped and are pragmatic about delivering results.
• There will never be enough time to do everything. You think about the value of competing projects and priorities, and enjoy finding the balance between things that are urgent today, and things that will set us up for success in the longer term.
• You're confident working independently with the tools you know, but appreciate opportunities to learn, know when to reach out for help, and love to help others.
• It doesn't matter if you're missing experience with our tech stack as long as you can show a track record of picking things up quickly.

Life at Stile

We’re here to build something real and enduring. A company that in years to come we look back on and are proud of what we achieved, and how we achieved it. So, what’s it like working with us?

• Colleagues worth working with.   
  You’ll join an amazing 70-strong team of teachers, scientists, artists, and engineers.  We hold ourselves, and each other, to a high standard, and love what we do.
• Work on something that really matters.  
  In partnership with teachers, we’re coaching students to become problem solvers and critical thinkers. We believe that with a strong command of science, tomorrow’s citizens and leaders are set up to sort the misinformation from the facts.
• Support always.  
  Stile is its people, and it’s important we are creating an environment where you’re supported, happy and able to do your best work. We have strong management and feedback frameworks, and a great benefits program check it out here Stile benefits
• A fantastic office environment.  
  When we can, we spend time in the office. It has a huge central kitchen, lots of places to put your feet up to work and even end of trip facilities if you ride in. 
• Flexibility.  
  We expect that you work hard, but you’ll have flexible hours and you’re the master of your own schedule. 
• Your own professional development.  
  We’re lifelong learners here at Stile. Alongside teaching you everything you need to know to succeed in this role, we provide a generous PD allowance.

Hours and location

Our head office is located in the ‘paris end’ of Melbourne CBD.  Overall we’re an “in-person” culture (we enjoy working together face to face), but we’re also flexible with a mix of working from home and the office, once you settle in.

Sound interesting?

Great!  We want to know more about you, so click apply, and provide the following to show you’re great at following the details.   

• A cover letter addressed to Daniel Rodgers-Pryor (no more than a page) explaining why you would smash an engineering role at Stile out of the park. Include a paragraph on which Behaviours of an Effective Stile-ist most resonate with you or which you disagree with and why.
• Your resume

Got questions about our hiring process? You can find the answers here. We can't wait to hear from you!

At Stile, we have a key mission – to help teach scientific literacy skills. Currently, over 1,000 schools, 1,500,000 students and 52,000 teachers around the world use Stile.  From designing investigations to critically evaluating media statements, we want to equip our future citizens with the scientific literacy to confidently participate in public discourse around the ethics and social impacts of scientific issues. 

We create world-class resources for science teachers (whom we call superheroes because… they are). Our resources (videos, lesson plans, questions, simulations, activities, and more!) spark excitement and curiosity in every student. 

That's why we need your help! We’re looking for a creative, organised and determined person to support our content team in the crafting and publishing of our world-class science resources. As a Science Content Coordinator, you'll be working closely with the science content team, design team and engineering teams to assist in the creation, rollout, and maintenance of our suite of digital and print products. You'll oversee updates and reprints of our print product, co-ordinate regular releases of our digital products, and liaise with student testers and teachers, subject matter experts and career profilists to ensure our resources are bullet-proof before they get into the classroom. 

We're passionate about giving students the best science education ever and we hope you are too. Ultimately, we're looking for people who love science and want to be an important part of communicating it to everyone.

You'll be someone with an eye for detail who relishes spinning plates in a supportive and collaborative environment and takes pride in being part of an outstanding team of science nerds. Sound interesting?

If so, please read below to find out more about what's in it for you. You can also read about the role's responsibilities in further detail. 

If you'd like to apply, please send us your CV and a cover letter (no more than a page or two) explaining why you're going to smash this role out of the park. Include a paragraph on which Behaviours of an Effective Stile-ist most resonate with you or which you disagree with and why. Address your letter to Clare Feeney and submit both documents through the apply for this job link below.

Please note if your application does not include a cover letter it will not be considered.

More information on our hiring process is available here.

We can't wait to hear from you!

What's in it for you:

• You'll be working on something that really matters. We're coaching students to become problem solvers and critical thinkers in partnership with teachers. The internet democratised information. With a strong command of science, we believe that tomorrow’s citizens and leaders have a fighting chance of sorting the misinformation from the facts.
• You'll join a fantastic 70-strong team of teachers, scientists, artists and engineers who genuinely care about and work towards improving scientific literacy amongst our young citizens. We hold ourselves and each other to a high standard and love what we do.
• Your own professional development – we're lifelong learners here at Stile. Alongside teaching you everything you need to know to succeed in this role, you’ll have the opportunity to attend internal and external PD.
• A Mac laptop and whatever other bits and pieces you need to be productive.

How you'll spend your time

This role will vary from day to day. It will always be interesting but might include: 

• Working side-by-side with our ‘dream team’ of writers, teachers, simulation designers, illustrators, animators and editors to make the best science resource in the known universe.
• Rolling out new engineering delights in our libraries to ensure teachers and students always have access to our most up-to-date content and features. 
• Working closely with the Head of Curriculum and Pedagogy to assist in the writing and publishing of teacher resources.
• Supporting our amazing video production team in writing scripts, testing labs and coordinating filming on set. You may even be asked to step in front of the camera from time to time!
• Raving on about the latest and coolest science news with other “science nerds” in our communal kitchen at lunchtime.
• Coordinating and facilitating in-house and on-site student testing sessions for our work-in-progress resources and fostering a great sense of community with one of our main stakeholder groups.

A bit more about you

Don’t worry if you aren’t all these things! 

• You're incredibly organised and can manage several projects at a time. 
• You're smart and you love to get sh*t done. You can hit the ground running.
• You have a strong track record as an administrative "superstar" who is not content until you’ve triple-checked all your dotted i’s and crossed t’s.
• You're creative. You find inventive solutions to problems.  
• You're eager to learn. Super eager. You soak up feedback, incorporate it, and are constantly driven to be better. You can't help it.
• You love working in a fast-paced environment. We're dynamic; we move quickly.
• You're constantly thinking about how you could do your job better and accept feedback willingly. But you also aren't afraid to defend something when you think it's right.
• You're passionate about sharing your love of science with others. It doesn't matter your background; what's most important is that you want to share your passion for science with hundreds of thousands of students across Australia and beyond.

Hours and location

This is a full-time, permanent role with some flexible work hours. We really value collaboration and about three days in the work week are in person in the office but we also really value focus time and this can be done at home or in the office, whatever works for you! To provide you with the best onboarding experience, the first 4-6 weeks of this role will be worked in-person in our Melbourne office. We're all about what you achieve, not the hours of the day that you achieve it. Our (awesome) office is located on Exhibition Street in Melbourne CBD.

At Stile, we have a key mission – to help teach scientific literacy skills. Currently, over 1,000 schools, 1,500,000 students and 52,000 teachers around the world use Stile.  From designing investigations to critically evaluating media statements, we want to equip our future citizens with the scientific literacy to confidently participate in public discourse around the ethics and social impacts of scientific issues. 

Here at Stile, we create world-class resources for science teachers (whom we call superheroes because… they are). Our resources (think videos, lesson plans, questions, simulations, activities, and more!) spark excitement and curiosity in every student. 

That's why we need your help! We're looking for creative science writers to join our team and help create kick-ass content! As a Science Curriculum Writer, you'll be responsible for distilling real-world scientific issues into accessible and engaging lessons for the classroom. We're passionate about giving students the best science education ever and we hope you are too. Ultimately, we're looking for people who love science and are awesome at communicating it to anyone.

You’ll be someone who lives and breathes science education. Sound interesting?

If so, please read below to find out more about what's in it for you. You can also read about the role's responsibilities in further detail. 

If you'd like to apply, please send us your CV and a cover letter (no more than a page or two) explaining why you're going to smash this role out of the park. Include a paragraph on which Behaviours of an Effective Stile-ist most resonate with you or which you disagree with and why. Address your letter to Clare Feeney and send both documents to [email protected].

Please note, if your application does not include a cover letter it will not be considered.

For more information on our hiring process, please refer to our hiring process.

We can't wait to hear from you!

What’s in it for you:

• You'll be working on something that really matters. We're coaching students to become problem solvers and critical thinkers in partnership with teachers. The internet democratised information. With a strong command of science, we believe that tomorrow’s citizens and leaders have a fighting chance of sorting the misinformation from the facts.
• You'll join a fantastic 70-strong team of teachers, scientists, artists and engineers who genuinely care about and work towards improving scientific literacy amongst our young citizens. We hold ourselves and each other to a high standard and love what we do.
• Your own professional development – we're lifelong learners here at Stile. Alongside teaching you everything you need to know to succeed in this role, you’ll have the opportunity to attend internal and external PD.
• A Mac laptop and whatever other bits and pieces you need to be productive remotely.

How you'll spend your time

This role will vary from day to day. It will always be interesting but might include: 

• Working side-by-side with our ‘dream team’ of other writers, teachers, simulation designers, illustrators, animators and editors to make the best science resource in the known universe.
• Finding novel ways to take the best aspects of the Australian and International science curricula and bring them together to create resource plans and unit plans that will excite teachers worldwide. 
• Collaborating with our engineering team on awesome new platform features or interactive simulations that support student understanding and leave room for teachers to shine.
• Raving on about the latest and coolest science news with other “science nerds” in our communal kitchen at lunchtime.
• Visiting schools with our amazing account managers to hear about teachers’ and students’ experiences at the coal-face and road-test new units and resources.

A bit more about you

• You're creative. You find inventive solutions to problems.  
• You're eager to learn. Super eager. You soak up feedback, incorporate it, and are constantly driven to be better. You can't help it.
• You love working in a fast-paced environment. We're dynamic; we move quickly.
• You're incredibly organised and can manage several projects at a time. 
• You're smart and you love to get shit done. You can hit the ground running.
• You're constantly thinking about how you could do your job better and accept feedback willingly. But you also aren't afraid to defend something when you think it's right.
• You are knowledgeable about the curricula, either the Australian Curriculum or the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). 
• You're passionate about sharing your love of science with others. It doesn't matter if you're a writer, communicator or educator; what's most important is that you want to share your passion for science with hundreds of thousands of students across Australia and beyond.
• You have a strong science background – this is essential for success in this role. Having a specialisation in chemistry, physics or maths is advantageous.
• You can communicate complex scientific ideas clearly to a younger audience.

Hours and location

This is a full-time, permanent role with some flexible work hours. We really value collaboration and about three days in the work week are in person in the office but we also really value focus time and this can be done at home or in the office, whatever works for you! During onboarding we want you to get the best experience so the first 4-6 weeks are in person in the office. We're all about what you achieve, not the hours of the day that you achieve it. Our (awesome) office is located on Exhibition Street in Melbourne CBD.