Hourly Paid Teacher

Hourly Paid Teacher - Adults

**Date**:2 Nov 2023

**Location**: Riyadh, Middle East and North Africa, SA

**Company**:British Council

**Pay Band**:Hourly Paid Teacher

**Contract Type**: NPW

**Location**: Riyadh and Dammam

**Requirements**:Applicants must have the right to live and work in the Saudi Arabia.

**Role Purpose**:
To promote and ensure quality teaching and effective learning of English and to support the wider aims of the British Council and its cultural relations mission.

**Main opportunities and challenges for this role**:
The British Council Saudi Arabia is looking for enthusiastic and knowledgeable teachers to join us across our three centres; Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time as we open new teaching centres and deliver teaching to a growing market.

We deliver classes to both adults and young learners across General English, Exams prep, Business courses, Literacy and more

**Main accountabilities but not limited to the following**:

- Plan, prepare and deliver high quality English language teaching that meets the needs of different customer groups taking into account individual learning styles.
- Monitor progress and provide regular feedback to help manage students’ performance throughout the course, and actively promote learner autonomy.
- Complete teaching related administrative tasks to specified standards
- Actively engage in professional development and performance management to ensure quality and high standards in teaching and learning, and maintain British Council’s position at the forefront of best ELT practices.
- Contribute to the development, evaluation, and improvement of English language courses, materials and related services, in order to meet students’ needs by actively working as a member of the teaching team.
- Ensure safeguarding and guidelines are applied and upheld in line with standards and policy for the areas of Child Protection, Safeguarding, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Health and safety.

As per operational requirements, teachers may be required to deliver lessons online.

An hourly paid teacher will be given one or more classes in a term depending on their availability. They must be able to cover the full-term teaching schedule for this / these classes. For example, a class on Sun/Tues at 18:00-20:00 for the full term. There will also be stand-by and long-term cover work available.

**Role specific knowledge and experience**:
**Essential**: First Degree (or equivalent); Cambridge CELTA/Trinity Cert TESOL.

**Desirable**: CELTYL or TYLEC; DELTA or Dip TEFL/TESOL (Higher); MA TESOL (or equivalent)

**Skills**:
**Essential**: High proficiency in English i.e. CEFR level of C2/ IELTS Band 8+ in each of 4 sections of the academic module

**Desirable**: proficient in online delivery using Zoom or similar platforms

**Experience**:
**Essential**: Cambridge CELTA/Trinity Cert TESOL certificate; Experience in teaching different age groups and levels.

**Desirable**:2+ years of
** **experience of teaching Arabic speaking learners of English

Please be aware that 1 to 1 tuition will not be considered as relevant teaching experience.

“An hourly paid teacher will be given one or more classes in a term depending on their availability and operational need. The post holder must be able to cover the full-term teaching schedule for this / these classes. For example, a class on Sun/Mon/Wed at 18:00-20:00 for 4 to 8 weeks. There will also be stand-by and long-term cover work available as per operational need.