British Council Tokyo, Senior Teacher Young Learners, Japan (onsite)

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 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.
 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.
 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 are understood and implemented by academic colleagues in their day-to-day work.
 Ensure other relevant colleagues are aware of frameworks to support teaching and learning.
 Ensure teachers communicate relevant policies to learners during the course and support and advise other teams with communications.
 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.

Knowledge and Experience:

Essential
 Knowledge and experience of management of YL course delivery.
 Knowledge and experience of line managing/ coordinating teaching teams.
 Knowledge and experience of teacher training.

Desirable
 Extensive experience in teaching relevant age groups:
 Primary aged 6 to 10 (800+ hours)
 Lower Secondary aged 11 to 14 (400+ hours).
 Upper Secondary aged 15 to 17 (400+ hours).
 Early Years aged 2 to 5 (400+hours)

Education:

Essential
 Undergraduate Degree.
 Cambridge CELTA/Trinity Certificate TESOL.
 Cambridge DELTA/Trinity Diploma TESOL or equivalent as recognised by the British Council.

Desirable
 Relevant Young Learner qualification (e.g. TYLEC, YL Extension to CELTA etc).
 TYLEC trainer qualification or equivalent.
 Relevant Early Years certificate / qualification.
 Relevant masters/post graduate qualification.