Facilitator / Leadership Trainer (part-time)

Facilitator / Leadership Trainer (Part-time) - BOSTON, MA AND SEATTLE, WA

Calling the world’s best trainers, speakers, and facilitators. Do you have a love of teaching and want the flexibility of a part-time role? We’re looking for part-time leadership trainers to help us transform the workplace into a practice lab for mastering life's most useful skills.

LifeLabs Learning is the go-to employee development resource for hundreds of the world’s most innovative companies (like The New York Times, Clif Bar, Reddit, Sony Music, and TED). We offer manager and people-skills training that blends science and practical tools.

Our team is a diverse, close-knit group of researchers, consultants, and experience designers. We get excited about brain science, encourage each other to improve, give frequent feedback, make each other laugh, and have one another’s backs. Learn more about us here!

What You’ll Do (aka accountabilities):

• You have a learning plan that will skill you up in preparing to facilitate six workshops focused on leadership, communication, inclusion, and productivity skills. You will have approximately two weeks to learn and become internally certified in the first two out of the six workshops.
• You will teach executives, managers, teams, and individual contributors.
• Depending on the designation you could be a Citymate with in-person responsibilities, or Globemate with only virtual designation.
• Workshops are scheduled Monday - Friday (workshops are 2 hours each, and you will teach no more than 3 per day).

Success Metrics:

• Meet 100% of deadlines and LifeLabs processes.
• A Self Assessment score of 4.5 or higher across all categories per workshop.
• An average participant feedback score of 4.5 out of 5 for the 3 month average in each workshop (with 5 responses). Some variability is outside of your control, so we track scores with a focus on learning rather than just performance.
• Passing score on internal observations.
• Passing score on mocks and certifications.

Click HERE to find out more about the role logistics and what onboarding/beyondboarding would look like!

What You’ll Bring (aka requirements):

• Passion for learning
• Adult teaching skills and strong facilitation skills
• Strong expertise of psychology
• Understanding of empirical research methods
• For virtual workshops: A strong internet connection, a quiet space, and a distraction-free background
• For in-person workshops: You will be required to teach in-person.
• Maintain availability:
• At least 4 workshop slots of availability per week (~8-10 hours per week), capped at 30 hours per week.
• At least 10 workshops per month, distributed evenly throughout the month.
• Available for at least one of our highest-demand time slots (currently: 10am-12pm ET or 1-3pm ET / 10am-12pm PT) on a recurring basis, or the time slots you were hired for.

Preferred but not mandatory:

• Management or leadership experience
• Graduate degree
• Experience in a client-facing role
• Experience working in or with start-ups

The deets:

• Start date: ASAP
• Location: Seattle, WA or Boston, MA
• You must live in the greater Seattle area or greater Boston area, as you will have both virtual and in-person responsibilities in your designated city.
• Employment Type: Part-time
• Compensation:
• $400 per virtual workshop (2.5 hours). This rate includes the workshop (2 hours) admin time (30 mins per workshop).
• $525 per in-person workshop. This rate is higher to include travel costs, extra prep time, arriving early, etc. [Citymates only]
• Hours:
• We ask for a minimum availability of 8 hours per week, capped at 30 hours per week
• This is a part-time role with no guarantee of regular hours (some months might be busy, some months might be very light or have no bookings)

Benefits: paid sick leave and 1-1 coaching and development

Want to know what to expect ahead?

Step 1: Complete the full application below (resume, application questions, and video submission). *Please note: we only review applications that have all 3 requirements.

Step 2: Join us for a Research & Application interview where we’ll ask you to describe some of your favorite theories and studies in areas important to our field. (60 minute interview over Zoom)

Step 3: Join us for a Live Demo to get a sense of the role and give us an opportunity to see your skills in action. (35 minute interview over Zoom)

Step 4: Join a behavioral interview related to the role and our company values. (45 minute interview over Zoom)

*Note: All live interviews will be recorded and erased after 3 years of the interview (so you can be automatically considered for future openings), or upon your request.

To start! If you're interested: please send us your (1) resume, (2) complete the application below, and (3) submit the following video (**submissions that do not include all three items will not be reviewed):

We’d love to get a sense of your delivery style and give you a glimpse at the role (please don't create a presentation/slide show). Please submit a video of yourself facilitating (not reading!) the mini Habit Skills workshop below. It should be no more than 2 minutes long and follow the structure outlined below. You do not have to use the script word for word, just be sure to hit all the key points. No need for a high-quality video - a cell phone or laptop camera works great.

LifeLabs' facilitation style is to deliver high-impact research that is immediately actionable and expertise in an engaging and playful way. Lastly, check out our About page to get a sense of what credibility and play look like and our blog, which illustrates what 'immediately actionable' means to us.

VIDEO SCRIPT

Hi! My name is ______.

I’m excited to talk to you today about habits / share some ideas about habits and share a tip called ‘micro-stepping.’

What is a habit?

• Neural pathway used often → leading to automated behavior
• No need to think about it

Why do habits matter?

• Most of our actions are automatic
• Learn to engineer habits → learn to engineer life / you are your habits!

How do you start a habit? Try micro-stepping!

• Think of a habit you want to have [example: workout everyday, or use your own example]
• Break it down into a micro-step: a portion of the full habit that takes a ridiculously small amount of time/energy
• Repeat the micro-step every day for a month [example: micro-step = do 1 push up every morning, or use your own example]

[Wrap up e.g., explain why this works, pick an ending statement]