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Volunteer · Skills Academy

The job you already do is the course she cannot find.

Marketer, recruiter, accountant, lawyer, project manager, developer: whatever your field, somebody is learning toward it. Teach one hour of it, live, in the shape that fits your week.

Apply to teach an hour About five minutes with LinkedIn import · Read by a person

What you'd do

Teach live, from the work you did this week.

An hour at a time, on TEEI's own platform, to people retraining toward your field. No lesson plans, no grading: the format carries the structure.

Teaching your own product? Welcome, as one option. The session says so on its page, and teaches the skill, not the sale. Participants' details are never shared with your employer.

What you know

The campaign brief you wrote this week
Her first marketing plan, read by someone who writes them.
The CVs you screened last month
The other side of the hiring desk.
The budget you closed last quarter
The numbers a finance job expects on day one.
The way you run a project meeting
The working culture nobody writes down.

Someone needs exactly what you know.

No lesson plans · Your field, spoken out loud

Your field

Any field you work in.

Most volunteers teach their own subject, and that needs nothing but the application. These are the fields Skills Academy sessions are listed under.

Pick yours when you apply →

Marketing and Communications

Marketing strategy · Content strategy · Professional communication · Presentation skills · Social media marketing

HR and Recruitment

Recruitment · Talent acquisition · People management · Performance development · Workplace inclusion

Finance and Business

Financial literacy · Budgeting · Business planning · Entrepreneurship · Business analysis

Law and Compliance

Legal writing · Employment law · Contract literacy · Compliance · Regulatory risk

Leadership and Management

Leadership · Team leadership · Stakeholder management · Strategic planning · Change management

Project and Programme Management

Project management · Programme management · Agile delivery · Risk management · Process improvement

Product and Design

Product strategy · Roadmapping · User research · Service design · UX design

Career Development

Career planning · CV review · Interview preparation · Professional networking · Job search strategy

Education and Facilitation

Teaching · Workshop facilitation · Curriculum design · Assessment design · Learning design

Languages and Intercultural Communication

Language facilitation · Intercultural communication · Cross-cultural teamwork · Local labour market guidance · Professional writing

AI and Data

AI foundations · Prompt practice · Responsible AI · Data analysis · Data visualisation

Software and Cloud

Software engineering · Web development · Cloud infrastructure · Cybersecurity · Technical support

You do something else entirely

Then teach that. Your subject needs no shelf, only an hour.

Say what you do when you apply →

Or teach a course that’s already built: 60 ready-made courses, mostly technical

The curriculum, exercises, labs and assessments are done. You pick the one that matches your work and add the only thing a shelf cannot hold: someone who does this for a living, live in the room.

Every course in English · Free for every learner

You write code

The first script that runs, and the review that makes the second one better.

  • Python Essentials 1
  • Python Essentials 2
  • JavaScript Essentials 1
  • JavaScript Essentials 2
  • HTML Essentials
  • CSS Essentials
  • C Essentials 1
  • C Essentials 2
  • C Advanced
  • C++ Essentials 1
  • C++ Essentials 2
  • C++ Advanced

You work in security

What an attack looks like, from someone paid to catch one.

  • Introduction to Cybersecurity
  • The Cybersecurity Landscape
  • Cybersecurity Essentials
  • Understanding Threats and Attacks
  • Security Operations and the Defense Analyst
  • Data and Tools for Defense Analysts
  • SOC Essentials: Introduction to Threat Hunting
  • The Art of Investigation
  • Ethical Hacker
  • Industrial Cybersecurity Essentials

You work in IT support

The job that hires without a degree, taught by someone who holds it.

  • IT Essentials
  • IT Support Essentials
  • IT Customer Support Basics
  • Computer Hardware Basics
  • Hardware and Upgrade Support
  • Operating Systems Basics
  • Operating Systems Support
  • Security and Connectivity Support

You work with data or AI

The tools every job ad now assumes, shown by someone who uses them daily.

  • Introduction to Data Science
  • Data Analytics Essentials
  • Introduction to Modern AI
  • Prompt Like an Engineer
  • Apply AI: Analyze Customer Reviews
  • Apply AI: Update Your Resume

You teach English

Not textbook English. The English spoken on an engineering team, in the meeting she has to survive.

  • English for IT 1
  • English for IT 2
  • English for IT: Advice and Time
  • English for IT: People and Quantities
  • English for IT: Describing and Comparing
  • English for IT: Needs and Responsibilities

You have built or run a business

The plan she has been carrying in her head, written down and pressure-tested.

  • Discovering Entrepreneurship
  • Launching a Business Venture
  • Managing a Business Venture
  • Engaging Stakeholders for Success
  • Creating Compelling Reports

You run networks

How the internet actually holds together, from someone who runs a piece of it.

  • Networking Essentials
  • Networking Devices and Initial Configuration
  • Network Addressing and Basic Troubleshooting
  • Network Support and Security

You run Linux and servers

The terminal stops being a wall and starts being a tool.

  • Linux Unhatched
  • Linux Essentials
  • Linux 1
  • Linux 2

You are fluent with everyday tech

The confidence to apply for work that assumes a computer.

  • Digital Awareness
  • Digital Safety and Security Awareness
  • Using Computer and Mobile Devices
  • Create Digital Content, Communicate and Collaborate Online
  • Introduction to IoT and Digital Transformation

The shapes

Four shapes of the same hour.

Every live format on Skills Academy is one professional and the people learning her field. You choose the shape; the shape carries the structure.

01A webinarOne session · Live questions

One expert, one hour, live questions from people training toward your field. The smallest real commitment on this page.

02A classSame small group · Weekly

A small group, live on video, building your subject across a season. You watch the same people get visibly better.

03A one-off sessionSmall group or one person · Booked once

One knowledge session, once: a small group on a topic from your field, or one learner and the thing she cannot practise alone, her CV in your industry, the interview for the job she wants.

04MentorshipSame person · Months

The same professional, across months of her rebuild: the long version of handing a career over the fence. Big enough to be its own programme: TEEI Mentorship.

You pick the shape when you apply, and change it any time. There is no fixed number of hours here: the shape you choose is the commitment you make.

Apply to teach an hour →

Rather write than appear? Course material has a seat too: curriculum creators build what the hours teach.

The other side of the hour

She studies through the power cuts. Displaced professionals, most of them women, retraining into marketing, HR, finance, design, data and code: your field, from zero footing in a new country. What is missing is you.

The proof

260,158

learning units completed by TEEI learners on DataCamp. The studying is already happening, every night.

Figures: DataCamp partner dashboard, 21 September 2026

77,660Hours on the DataCamp platform, 12 October 2026
8,000+Language learners on the live platform
2,000+Registered mentees, TEEI Mentorship
400+Volunteer professionals across TEEI

Live figures: the shared TEEI platform that carries the language and mentoring programmes. DataCamp hours: the partner dashboard, dated in the row

The room

You teach the hour. We build the rest.

Skills Academy runs on the platform TEEI built for its language and mentoring programmes. You bring the field; everything around the hour is handled.

The matchWe fill your room. Learners find your session by field and level; you never recruit an audience.
The bookingScheduling is ours. You give windows; the calendar and time zones are handled.
The live roomTEEI's own video room, in the browser. Nothing to install, nothing to configure.
The first hourYou are not alone in it. A coordinator sets up your first session with you and stays reachable.

How it starts

Four steps, one of them ours.

01

Apply

About five minutes: import your profile from LinkedIn or type it in. Your field, your experience, the shapes that fit.

02

A person reads it

Not a filter. A real review, and we will be in touch.

03

Pick your shape

Webinar, class, session, or mentorship, and your first date. Change the shape whenever your life changes.

04

The room opens

Your field, live, to the people who need exactly it. A coordinator is in the wings for your first hour.

Before you ask

Questions professionals ask.

Do I need teaching experience?

No. You need a field and the willingness to speak it out loud. The formats carry the structure: a webinar has a host, a class has a rhythm, a session has one clear question. Nobody hands you a blank classroom.

What could I teach?

Marketing, HR and recruitment, finance, law and compliance, leadership, project management, product and design, career development, teaching, languages, data and AI, software and cloud, or the thing only you would think to offer. The application has a field for exactly that.

What platform does it run on?

TEEI's own. The same video rooms that carry our language and mentoring programmes carry Skills Academy sessions. For you it is a browser link; there is nothing to install and no account to buy.

Can my company send a team?

Yes. Companies place their specialists as teachers through skill volunteering: one page for that is here. If your organisation is a partner, your hours also count in its report.

What if I can only do it once?

Then teach one webinar. One hour, once, is a real contribution here, and nobody will chase you for a second one. Most volunteers decide the shape of their next hour after they have given the first.

Out of reasons?

Teach the hour only you can.

One hour of the job you already do, in the shape that fits your week.

Prefer one-to-one conversation? TEEI Language needs speakers →

Questions first? volunteers@theeducationalequalityinstitute.org