2:30
Prepare
Your plan is drafted from last week’s work. You adjust it and add a question for Grace.
- The platform handles
- Draft plans and today’s agenda
- You bring
- The adjustments only you would notice
Careers
Teach the way you always meant to. Help us open the first centre.
Hikmah mentors spend their time with children, not paperwork. No roles are open yet: register your interest and we’ll write when hiring begins for our first centre in Ottawa.
Why mentor here
The job you trained for.
You guide a steady group of learners and come to know each one: how they think, where they shine, where they got stuck. You ask more than you lecture.
Know every child
The same learners over time, so you notice small changes and act early.
Fix the root
Trace a missed question to the skill behind it, reteach it and check again.
Teach what AI can’t
Lead projects, discussion and coaching that build judgement and character.
Your call, always
The platform drafts plans and marks routine work. You decide what each child needs next.
A mentor’s afternoon
One afternoon, six moments.
Choose a moment to see the work, and what the platform takes off your plate.
3:30
Welcome
Learners arrive from school: a warm-up on the board and a minute with each child.
- The platform handles
- A warm-up matched to each learner
- You bring
- The hello, and reading the room
3:45
Find the root
Jonah’s fraction misses trace back to equivalent fractions. You reteach them with paper strips; he tries a fresh check.
- The platform handles
- Tracing the miss to the skill behind it
- You bring
- The explanation that makes it click
4:15
Small group
Four learners share one gap. You teach them together, then each returns to their own practice.
- The platform handles
- Spotting a shared gap across learners
- You bring
- A lesson that lands for all four
4:45
Project studio
Zoe’s group is designing a safer school crossing. Your question sends them back to check their counts.
- The platform handles
- Tracking each project’s steps and drafts
- You bring
- The question that raises the standard
5:45
Note and update
Aiden’s progress update is drafted from his work. You rewrite the part only you could say.
- The platform handles
- Records, marking and a first draft
- You bring
- The sentence a parent remembers
Illustrative example. The times are not a timetable.
What mentors get
Built so good teachers can do their best work.
Time to teach
Planning, routine marking and records are handled; your hours go to children.
A group you know
The same learners over time, so you see growth others miss.
Trusted as a professional
Leaders clear the way, and every platform suggestion is yours to accept or ignore.
Keep learning
Training before your first learner, then regular coaching; we intend to support further study.
Work to live
Good teaching needs rested people: sustainable workloads and real time off.
Fair, with room to grow
Pay stated clearly in each posting. Founding mentors shape programs and train those who follow.
The founding team
Roles we expect to open.
The founding team shapes the method, the routines and the standards, and trains everyone who joins later.
No roles are open yet. Each posting will set out pay, benefits, dates and the full requirements. French is an asset in every role.
One of our first mentors: a steady group of learners you come to know well, and a platform that handles planning and marking.
What you’ll do
- Decide each child’s next step from their mastery map
- Trace mistakes to the root skill and reteach it
- Help build the math program and train new mentors
What you’ll bring
- A degree in math or education, or equivalent experience
- Experience teaching math to children or teens
- Warmth, patience and high standards
You’ll teach the skills under everything else, from decoding and fluency to close reading and argument.
What you’ll do
- Find where reading or writing first broke down
- Give feedback a child can use the next day
- Lead book talks, writing workshops and projects
What you’ll bring
- A degree in English, education or linguistics, or equivalent experience
- Experience teaching reading or writing to young people
- A working knowledge of phonics, fluency and comprehension
The heart of why Hikmah exists: logic, ethics, public speaking and real projects. You’ll design the program with the founder.
What you’ll do
- Lead seminars in logic, argument and ethics
- Coach projects with a real audience
- Teach children to question and improve what AI produces
What you’ll bring
- A background in teaching, philosophy or debate
- A gift for drawing out quieter voices
- A considered view of AI in childhood
You’ll turn a plan into a place: hire and lead the mentors, set the daily rhythm and make every family feel known.
What you’ll do
- Prepare the centre for its first families
- Hire, train and observe the mentor team
- Run schedules, staffing, safety and the space
What you’ll bring
- Experience leading a school or children’s program
- A record of hiring and developing people
- Sound judgement on child safety
You’ll welcome families from their first question onward, and make sure parents always know what’s next.
What you’ll do
- Answer families by phone, email and in person
- Book diagnostics and keep schedules on track
- Keep the centre welcoming, organized and safe
What you’ll bring
- Experience in a front-desk or family-facing role
- Warmth, and grace when things go wrong
- Excellent organization and attention to detail
Build the platform that lets one mentor know many children well, with children’s privacy designed in from the first line of code.
What you’ll do
- Build the learner, mentor and parent views
- Model skills and prerequisites to find a mistake’s root
- Integrate AI carefully, with review, testing and limits
What you’ll bring
- Years of building and shipping web applications
- TypeScript, a modern web framework, databases and APIs
- Care for accessibility, privacy and security
How hiring works
Six steps, explained up front.
Every mentor is chosen against the same standard. Each posting will confirm the details, and we’ll tell you where you stand at every step.
Apply
Register interest here. We screen every application against our mentor standard.
A first conversation
Your experience, what draws you to Hikmah, and your questions for us.
Teach us something
A demonstration built around a real learner’s mistake: find the root, then help.
A subject check
A short check of your own command of the subject you would teach.
References and a police check
References, and a police vulnerable sector check before you start.
Training and shadowing
The method, the platform, safeguarding and privacy, then time beside an experienced mentor, before your first learner.
Register interest
Tell us about yourself.
Choose a role, or general interest, and tell us a little about yourself. We’ll write when hiring begins.
How we use your information
Only to consider you for roles and contact you about them. Your details go to our client records system, whose database is in Canada. Ask us any time to see, correct or delete them.
Equal opportunity
We welcome people of every background and decide on the work, in keeping with the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Accommodations
Need an accommodation at any stage? Tell us and we’ll work with you, in keeping with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.