English Teacher
ARK Group, Jordan

ABOUT ARK:

ARK is a social enterprise, empowering local communities through the provision of agile and sustainable interventions to create greater stability, opportunity, and hope for the future.

We believe that resilient communities are the foundation of local, national, regional and international development and stability and ultimately a safer, peaceful and more prosperous world. At ARK, we have delivered research and programmatic interventions validating this approach in over twenty countries since 2008. As a social enterprise we work in partnership with communities, our donors, and other implementers to build local capacities, generate opportunity and bring about sustainable change.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

ARK is seeking to recruit suitably qualified and experienced English Language teachers for a short-term engagement of 6 months, supporting our capacity building project based in our Amman office. The successful candidates will be required to work off-site at the beneficiary training locations around Amman. Candidates must have previously delivered English Language training to adults.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deliver English Language courses to adults, training to adults from Basic user (A1) Proficient user (C2) using established Cutting Edge English Language series.
• Develop and deliver a Training of Trainers (ToT) to host organisations teachers. This package will cover developing teaching skills, mentoring, and coaching, and include:
  • Roles and responsibilities of a teacher
  • Learning needs and styles of students
  • Key influences on performance
  • Classroom layout and the training environment
  • Key variables in Learning
  • Facilitation
  • Effective communications
  • Use of visual aids and lesson plans
  • Designing a training event
  • Evaluation of training
  • Improving knowledge and understanding of the English language
  • Developed their own reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills
  • Develop their ability to use English in the classroom and for other professional contexts
  • Become more fluent and confident in their use of English
  • Learn the professional language they need to communicate effectively in English, both inside and outside the classroom

• Plan and create well-structured, clearly presented lessons appropriate to the abilities of the students and the syllabus being taught
• Help students develop learning skills that will support them using English on their daily jobs.
• Create and grade student tests and essays
• Encourage high standards in all aspects of teaching English language for other teachers
• Maintain materials and resources as needed
• Prepare progress reports for Project Manager.

Requirements

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• BA in English Language or English Literature
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Arabic
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience teaching (must include teaching adults)
• Comfortable with working with students of different levels

• Exceptional organizational and communication skills
• A patient and resilient personality
• Dedication to student learning and education.

MORE ABOUT OUR COMPANY:

What Makes Us Different

We pride ourselves on being the first people able to access and operate in challenging fragile and conflict-affected environments. We are expeditionary by design and our systems and structures enable flexible and agile responses while ensuring safe, effective and compliant delivery.

Working with and through teams drawn from the communities in which we operate enables us to deliver impactful interventions built on intimate local understanding. In collaboration with our global network of international and local experts, we integrate nuanced understanding of the challenges we aim to solve with best practice and field-leading innovation to deliver programming that meets short-term stabilisation objectives and builds the evidence base and knowledge needed to lay the groundwork for long-term peacebuilding and development programming.

What We Do

We enjoy sectoral experience in civil society development, good governance, protection and human rights, refugees and migration, stabilisation, gender, security and justice, as well as cross-cutting experience in programme design and learning, organisational development and management, research and analysis, needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation, communications and capacity building.

Our People

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