Young Learner English Assistant - Classroom Support

Young Learner Assistant-NPW

Job Description

We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.

We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.

Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.

Contract type:
One year freelance hourly-paid contract

Openings: 2

Location:
Abu Dhabi, Dubai & Sharjah, UAE

Pay Band:
Hourly paid

Role Purpose

• To work in partnership with the class teacher, creating a positive English learning environment for young learners.
• To assist in the day-to-day management of Young Learners while they are in the centre.

Context and environment

The British Council UAE is recruiting Young Learner Assistants (YLAs) to work in our Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah Teaching Centres. These are vibrant teaching centres with learners of English from many different countries at a range of levels. We teach Young Learners aged 6-17 in each centre.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Assisting learners who require additional support or have specific needs.
• Ensuring that children are motivated and participating in classroom activities by modelling appropriate behaviour.
• Assisting in material preparation for each lesson and setting up the learning environment.
• Maintaining good relationships with teachers, customers and colleagues.
• Supporting the teaching centre’s activities and British Council plans.
• Continuing personal development and attending briefing sessions throughout the year.

Main Duties

• Supervise children before and after classes and during breaks.
• Support the teacher’s delivery of high-quality English language teaching by supervising, monitoring and motivating the children during lessons.
• Help the children by monitoring tasks, demonstrating activities and modelling language.
• Contribute to the development, evaluation, and improvement of English language courses, materials and related services, through participating in meetings/focus groups and providing feedback to the academic team.
• Contribute to customer services by supporting customer flow and customer questions when necessary, making sure feedback received from customers is always passed onto the Operations Team or customer services to be followed up.
• Help teachers who do not have an assistant, e.g. by taking a sick child to the Duty Manager
• Ensure students leave the premises in a quiet and orderly fashion and that i) all children below 11 years are accompanied in all cases by the designated person ii) all children aged 11 years or older who have not been given permission to leave the premises alone are accompanied by the designated person.
• If parents are late, help CS staff to phone the parents and monitor the children while they are waiting.
• Safeguarding:
  British Council is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
• Equal Opportunity and Diversity:
  We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in the way we deliver services to the community and in our employment arrangements. We expect all employees to understand and promote this policy in their work.
• Health and Safety:
  All employees have a responsibility for their own health and safety and that of others when carrying out their duties and must help us to apply our general statement of health and safety policy.

Essential requirements for the role:

• Good communication skills in English
• Commitment to customer care (children & parents)
• The ability to build good relationships with children, teachers, parents and carers.
• A basic understanding of how children develop and learn.
• Flexibility and creativity
• The ability to work as part of a team.
• Experience of working as part of a team
• Experience of working with Young Learners (6-17 years)

Desirable requirements for the role

• Arabic…