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Young Learner Coordinator
Date: 15 Aug 2023
Location: Prague, European Union, CZ
Company: British Council
We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.
We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.
Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.
We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.
Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.
Department: Teaching Centres
Contract type: Standard local teaching contract, definite for two years (initially)
Payband: Local Teacher salary scale
Starting gross monthly salary: from
42,746 (according to qualifications and experience), plus 5% of base salary.
Starting date
: as soon as possible
Role Purpose: Planning, preparing and delivering high quality English language teaching that meets the needs of different customer groups, taking into account individual learning styles. Monitoring progress and providing regular feedback to help manage students’ performance throughout courses. Maintain academic quality through supporting in-house teacher development programs. Support the wider aims of British Council and its cultural relations mission.
Main Accountabilities:
Teaching
- A maximum of 12 teaching hours per week.
- Complete teaching related administrative tasks to specified standards.
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 managees 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.
Teaching Excellence
- Contribute to the design and implementation of an annual CPD programme which aligns with Cluster Teaching Excellence Action Plan.
- Teach a class or classes in the teaching centre in which you are based, according to local needs.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements:
Knowledge and Experience:
Essential:
- 2 years post-diploma i.e. DELTA/Trinity Diploma TESOL experience.
- Extensive knowledge and experience of management and delivery of teacher training.
- Experience of line managing/ coordinating teaching teams.
- Experience in teaching relevant age groups
- Primary aged 6-10 (400+ hours).
- Lower Secondary aged 11 to 14 (800+ hours).
- Upper Secondary aged 15 to 17 (400+ hours).
- Adults General English 18+ (800+ hours).
Languages: Full Mastery of English across 4 skills, equivalent to CEFR C2 (IELTS Academic Paper Band 8/9 in each of the 4 sections).
Education:
Essential: Undergraduate Degree; Cambridge CELTA/Trinity Certificate TESOL; Cambridge DELTA/Trinity Diploma TESOL or equivalent as recognised by the British Council.
Desirable: Relevant masters/post graduate qualification.
Additional Requirements: The successful candidate must have a pre-existing right to live and work in the Czech Republic.
Closing Date: Sunday 17 September 2023
A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.
Equality , Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement
The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We want to address under representation and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, in particular, but not exclusively, on grounds of ethnicity and disability. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview and we have Disability Confident Employer Status. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.
The British Council is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults who we work with.
We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989.
Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed; these will include qualification checks, reference checks, identity & criminal record checks in line with legal requirements and with the British Council’s Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.
If you have any problems with your application please email askhr@britishcouncil.org
Please note: Applications to this role can only be considered when made through the Apply section of our careers website. Our ‘ASK HR’ email is only to be used in case of a technical issue encountered when applying through the careers website. Emails with supporting statements and CV/Resumes sent to this email address will not be reviewed and will be deleted.
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