Senior Teacher Young Learners

Employer
British Council
Location
Egypt (EG)
Salary
Gross Salary: Starting from ‎17,228 EGP monthly
Closing date
Nov ‎10, ‎2022

Job Role
Other
Focus Area
Young Learners
Job Type
Full-time
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Why join us?
The British Council teaching centre in Egypt has a long history of developing
teaching professionals for the wider organisation. This is also true with
respect to academic managers.
If you have a DELTA/Trinity Diploma TESOL (even if you've only recently
obtained the qualification), meet the essential criteria and are looking to
fast track your career, we encourage you to apply for these roles.
Egypt remains a stable country and Cairo and Alexandria are safe cities in
which to live and work.
Role Purpose -
* To promote and ensure quality teaching and effective learning of English.
* To provide learners with a rewarding and stimulating English language learning experience.
* To maintain and enhance professional development and academic quality in the teaching centre, through the management of in-house teacher development programmes and support.
* To support the wider aims of British Council and its cultural relations mission
Main Accountabilities:
Teacher Support -
* Provide effective line management and support for staff including observations as per performance management guidelines, policies and procedures.
* Ensure that all teaching is delivered to standards set out in teachers Role Profiles, the Global Statement of Approach and British Council Global Teaching Standards.
* Proactively monitor the well-being of all line managers and provide an appropriate level of personal support.
* Act as duty officer where appropriate to provide support for teachers, parents, students.
* Assist in the recruitment, induction and onboarding of new teachers.
* Provide or set up mentoring programmes for new teachers/teachers teaching new life stages etc where appropriate.
Teaching Excellence -
* Contribute to the design and implementation of an annual CPD programme which aligns with Regional Teaching Excellence Action Plan.
* Actively identify appropriate opportunities for staff learning and development.
* Act as a role model for good classroom practice by encouraging teachers to observe you or others teaching, doing demonstration lessons, leading teacher development sessions and conducting observations.
* Share thought leadership. Routinely monitor developments in ELT theory and practice and bring these to the attention of your teaching team through presentations, practical sessions, recommended reading.
* Represent the British Council at local ELT conferences, where appropriate
* Proactively look for opportunities to highlight examples of best practice within the centre and externally.

Product and service delivery and development -
* Ensure frameworks to support teaching and learning (Statements of Approach, IP, Teaching Standards Framework, Product guidelines, TEAP) are understood and implemented by academic colleagues in their day-to-day work.
* Ensure other relevant colleagues (e.g. TOps, CS, TAs) are aware of frameworks to support teaching and learning.
* Ensure teachers communicate relevant policies to learners (e.g. statement of approach, behaviour policy, product information, EDI etc) during the course and support and advise other teams with communications (e.g CS and Marketing).
* Work with the Teaching Operations and Customer Services teams to deal with academic enquiries or complaints ensuring teachers are fully briefed and consulted where appropriate.
* Contribute as appropriate to cluster / regional product team.
* Contribute to the regional monitoring and evaluation of global products and related services to meet students' needs.
* Organise the piloting of new courses and materials where relevant.
* Introduce new products to teaching staff and provide training and support for teachers.

Safeguarding, EDI and SEND -
* Embed Safeguarding culture in teaching and learning through contributing to country safeguarding risk assessment and plan and implementing assigned actions.
* Act as Deputy / Safeguarding Focal point as appropriate to size of country operation and risk profile.
* Embed EDI through delivery of regional EDI objectives and workplans through local teaching teams (e.g. through Teaching Excellence Action Plan - TEAP).
* Act as or support country SEND champion / Country SENCO and work with Teaching Operations, CS and other colleagues as appropriate to ensure teaching centre inclusion policy is effectively embedded in the centre.
About You (essential requirements for the role):
* Experience of line managing/ coordinating teaching teams.
* Experience in teaching relevant age groups as specified here:
* Early Years aged ‎2 to ‎5 (‎400+hours).
* Primary aged ‎6 to ‎10 (‎400+ hours).
* Lower Secondary aged ‎11 to ‎14 (‎800+ hours).
* Upper Secondary aged ‎15 to ‎17 (‎400+ hours).
* Full Mastery of English across ‎4 skills, equivalent to CEFR C2 (IELTS Academic Paper Band ‎8/‎9 in each of the ‎4 sections).
* Undergraduate Degree.
* Cambridge DELTA/Trinity Diploma TESOL or equivalent as recognised by the British Council.
* Relevant Young Learner qualification (for ST YL).
Further Information:
* Location: Cairo, Egypt
* Contract type: One or two years (according to preference)
* Other requirements: This role is open to Egyptian and UK nationals only
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