Hourly Paid Teacher - Corporate courses

Role Purpose: To promote and ensure quality and effective teaching and learning of English to corporate customers, as well as to support the wider aims of British Council and its cultural relations mission. You will support the British Council’s global English strategy by:

•    delivering teaching to the highest standards of ELT 

•    teach a variety of courses – in-house and off-site

•    ensuring teaching meets learner needs and expectations

•    ensuring teaching meets Teaching Quality standards and organisational expectations

•    maintaining good relationships with customers and colleagues

•    supporting the teaching centre’s activities and British Council plans

•    enhancing British Council’s reputation as a world authority in ELT

•    continuing professional development and sharing of best practices

Role Context:

Hourly paid Teacher of English, Corporate Courses, will focus their work on delivering classes to corporate customers (on-site and off-site), as well as developing and tailoring ESP courses for corporate project work, as needed. Though your primary responsibility lies with corporate work, you may be offered other types of classes.

To foster professional development and to ensure teaching meets British Council Teaching Excellence standards, post holders will receive support from their line manager and regular training sessions.

We work as a cluster of countries called Black Sea and Wider Europe (BSWE). We currently deliver English courses in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania and Ukraine. Corporate courses are an area of significant growth in BSWE and your role will help us maintain this growth. You may work in the country you are resident in, or online for any country within the cluster.

Our existing teaching team consists of over 150 teachers across the cluster, supported by local 

coordinators, senior teachers and a cluster wide corporate courses senior teacher. 

The type of teaching activities for Hourly paid Teacher of English, Corporate Courses, includes: 

1. General English teaching, to groups or one-to-one

2. Business English teaching, to groups or one-to-one

3. Tailored courses (i.e EAP, ESP) designed to meet customer requests, to groups or one-to-one

4. Exam preparation courses (IELTS or Cambridge exams), to groups or one-to-one

Classes may take place face-to-face, usually at the client’s premises or online. 

Teachers may also be expected to complete project work, customization of materials and to assist with creating new training materials, tailored to the needs of our clients.

Main Accountabilities:

•    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

•    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 

•    Complete teaching-related administrative tasks to specified standards (registers, lessons records, mid-course and end-of-course reports, feedback forms, evaluations)

•    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 of lasting, mutually beneficial relationships by enhancing students’ understanding of contemporary UK

•    Support local marketing and promotional strategy and assist the teaching centre team in delivering excellent customer service 

•    Assist in covering classes for colleagues

•    Ensure safeguarding and guidelines are applied and upheld in line with standards and policy for the following areas:

•    Child protection 

•    Equal Opportunity and Diversity

•    Health and safety

To apply, follow the link - https://careers.britishcouncil.org/careers/job/563705878263464