Job Description

Instructors at Tombalek assists with daily classes in woodworking, metalworking and guidance of workshop usage. This includes learning woodworking and metalworking skills and general workshop maintenance skills.

Besides learning furniture making, you’d also be learning other auxiliary skills like wood turning, glassblowing and tool making to broaden your knowledge.

Responsibilities start from conducting basic single day classes to increasingly complex multi-day classes with demanding student management and curriculum development scope.

This position is open to entry-level jobseekers and also to those who bring with them woodworking, metalworking, administrative and logistic skills from previous jobs.

We offer apprenticeships for those who don’t have significant craft experience. So if you’re willing to learn on the job, you can join us at the lower end of the payscale.

Commitment

2-5 years. Due to the extensive training involved, this position is only for committed long term individuals.

Job Description

Manage and develop short experiences for beginners. You will be working mostly in the field of woodworking and potentially glass, metal and other mediums. You will be managing the existing programs for supply levels, onboarding of instructors for the specific program, maintenace of the area and equipment related to the classes. After managing the day-to-day operations of the short programs, you’d be required to collect feedback and make observations of areas for improvement. Development of the program can range from minor streamlining to full development of new programs depending on market conditions.

Commitment

2-5 years. This position is only for committed long term individuals.

Job Description

You will be working directly with the managing director to develop and execute a marketing strategy for the company. This involves both improving product-market fit for existing programs, and also studying new potential markets for increased consumer demand. After understanding our consumer market and company direction, you’d be required to present your theory of consumer behaviour. This will also involve your participation in our existing craft programs to fully understand the student-instructor relationship. 

A strategy will be built around this theory and used to guide sales and marketing. You will be required to communicate with program developers on the requirements of the market, and also design campaigns to bring these programs to market. As our team is very small, you will have to be familiar with the operations of digital marketing/advertising tools including web design, social media and search advertising.

Commitment

This position is only for committed long term individuals who are aligned with our company’s long term vision.