Youth Robotics Instructor - Experienced Educator

You'll spend Friday afternoon each week in a Selma classroom, leading students through hands-on robotics: building, coding, and problem-solving. It's real teaching, with KSR's curriculum, equipment, and training behind you the whole way.

About KSR

Knuckle Sandwich Robotics, Inc. (KSR) is an Alabama nonprofit that runs robotics programs, camps, and after-school clubs across Alabama. KSR programs have reached 30 schools and 1,200 students this past year. KSR Discover is where it starts: students build, program, and discover all in one session, watching their own creation come to life, often using snap-together LEGO or VEX robotics products.

About the Role

This is a weekly, non-competitive robotics club: students build, code, and run challenges using KSR's curriculum and teaching-grade robotics kits, often LEGO or VEX snap-together builds. Success 10 weeks in looks like a room full of students who look forward to Fridays, and a teacher who has picked up real robotics-instruction skills alongside them.

What You'll Do

• Lead the weekly Friday session start to finish: setup, a short mini-lesson, guided build-and-code time, a challenge or showcase, and teardown
• Deliver KSR's curriculum as the foundation for each session, adjusting pace and activities on the fly to fit the group. Improvising to meet the classroom where it is, is expected and encouraged
• Keep a simple attendance and session log. Flag any equipment issues back to KSR, and report behavior issues to school personnel on site right away
• Work alongside the Selma Area Schools staff member present each session to keep things running smoothly and safely
• Care for KSR's equipment: kits, teaching robots, and challenge materials travel to and from the session and get checked against an inventory list
• Communicate proactively with KSR staff if support is needed
• Model good instructional practice for the co-present classroom teacher, since the district is treating this partnership as ongoing teacher professional development as well as a student program

What We're Looking For

Required:

• 2 years of experience teaching or instructing K-8 (or equivalent) students, in a classroom, camp, or after-school setting
• Comfortable leading a classroom independently after a brief KSR curriculum orientation
• Reliable transportation to the Selma campus on Friday afternoons
• Able to pass a background check before working with students

Compensation & Schedule

Pay is per the rate above, for the 2 paid hours of each Friday session. Paid onboarding and training hours are provided before your first solo session. This is a part-time, hourly, non-benefits-eligible position, staffed through KSR. The 10-week fall term is the immediate commitment; KSR is actively growing this kind of weekly community program, and there is a real path to more weeks, more hours, or a role on KSR's expanding regional team for the right person.

Pay: $25.00 - $30.00 per hour

Expected hours: 2.0 – 4.0 per week

Work Location: In person

Salary : $25 - $30