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Senior Teacher Adults, Portugal

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada British Council Full time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and skilled English language educator to join our team as a Senior Teacher Adults in Portugal. As a key member of our teaching centre, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality English language instruction to adults.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and enhance professional development and academic quality in the teaching centre through the management of in-house teacher development programmes and support.
  • Promote and ensure quality teaching and effective learning of English.
  • Provide learners with a rewarding and stimulating English language learning experience.
  • Support the wider aims of the British Council and its cultural relations mission.

Key Challenges and Opportunities

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-managed staff and provide an appropriate level of personal support.
  • Act as duty officer where appropriate to provide support for teachers, parents, and 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 Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme that aligns with the Regional Teaching Excellence Action Plan (TEAP).
  • Actively identify appropriate opportunities for staff learning and development.
  • 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.
  • Share thought leadership by routinely monitoring developments in ELT theory and practice and bringing these to the attention of your teaching team through presentations, practical sessions, and 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, Intellectual Property (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., Teaching Operations, Customer Services (CS), Temporary Assistants) 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, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (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.

Role-Specific Knowledge and Experience

Language Essential Requirements

  • Full Mastery of English across 4 skills, equivalent to CEFR C2 (IELTS Academic Paper Band 8/9 in each of the 4 sections).

Knowledge and Experience Essential Requirements

  • 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:
  • Early Years aged 2 to hours). Primary aged 6 to hours). Lower Secondary aged 11 to hours). Upper Secondary aged 15 to hours). University/Vocational students aged 18 to hours). Adults General English hours).

Education Requirements

Essential

  • Undergraduate Degree.
  • Cambridge CELTA/Trinity Certificate TESOL.
  • Cambridge DELTA/Trinity Diploma TESOL or equivalent as recognised by the British Council.
  • Relevant Young Learner qualification (for ST YL).

Desirable

  • Relevant masters/postgraduate qualification.