Online School Sunday Contest Teaching Assistant

AoPS Online offers rigorous, high-quality math and other STEM classes for middle and high school students which expand and deepen their scientific thinking. For more information on our classes and to see a list of full offerings, check out our course catalog.

We seek staff with strong math content knowledge and writing skills who can provide mentoring feedback for our students who are preparing for contests like MATHCOUNTS, AMC, AIME, and USA(J)MO. We also offer regular subject math classes and classes in Python, physics, and chemistry.

Our teaching assistants supplement students’ learning experiences by answering questions, providing hints, and encouragement in real time during our live text-based classes (there is no video or audio). You can learn more about our innovative online classroom on our website. Classes run once per week from 7:20 - 9:00 pm ET. Applicants must be available on Sundays, but there may be opportunities on other days of the week.

Job Benefits

• Starting pay rate is $18 per hour.
• Positions are highly flexible and can be performed anywhere with a stable internet connection.
• Excellent opportunity to develop mentoring skills while working with amazing students!

Requirements: 

• Must be 18 or older.
• Strong command of math content required, physics, python, or chemistry a plus
• Good English writing and typing skills.
• Quick thinker in a fast-paced learning environment.
• Must be pursuing or have completed a degree in a STEM field. Completed degree preferred.
• Teaching or tutoring experience.
• Experience with math contests (e.g. MAA AMC 10/12, AIME, USA(J)MO) required, other contest experience a plus (e.g., F=ma, USAPhO, USACO, USNCO, etc).

AoPS Online hires worldwide. Your current location will influence whether we are able to offer you part-time or freelance work in this role. 

We currently are not able to hire anyone residing in one of the following countries: Balkans, Belarus, Burma, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chinese Military Companies, Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cuba, Congo, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe.

If you will be working from the US, you must be authorized to work in the US. Please note we do not offer sponsorship.

About AoPS:
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country’s top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.