Teaching Coordinator (Adults)
Role Overview
Promote high-quality English language teaching and effective learning while supporting the British Council's wider objectives.
Guide, support, and develop teachers; contribute to teaching quality, academic programme content, and day-to-day operations.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role purpose
Promote high-quality English language teaching and effective learning while supporting the British Council's wider objectives.
Guide, support, and develop teachers; contribute to teaching quality, academic programme content, and day-to-day operations.
Role accountabilities
- Teach across course types in line with Global Teaching Standards, learner needs, and the global English strategy.
- Develop teaching and assessment materials and contribute to academic programme content.
- Train and develop teachers, including through lesson observations.
- Line-manage teachers and support recruitment and talent retention.
- Deputise for Senior Teachers when required.
- Contribute to teaching-centre operations, administration, continuous professional development, and sharing best practices.
- Promote high-quality English teaching and comply with safeguarding, EDI, and health and safety policies.
Qualifications
- Cambridge DELTA/DipTESOL or Trinity Cert TESOL.
- At least one further specialist qualification, such as a young learner extension to CELTA, IELTS examiner status, or an e-moderator certificate.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent.
Experience
- At least four years of experience after a CELTA/Trinity Cert TESOL or equivalent certificate.
- At least 800 hours teaching young learners and 1,500 hours teaching adults, including IELTS.
- At least two years training and mentoring teachers.
- Experience developing materials and at least two years managing quality against formal standards frameworks.
- Line-management experience, preferably academic or teacher line management.
- At least two years managing the classroom/customer-service interface for business objectives.
Teaching knowledge and skills
- Demonstrate subject knowledge, engage and motivate learners, and create an inclusive learning environment.
- Plan and deliver coherent lessons; use assessment and feedback; manage teaching and learning resources.
- Uphold professional responsibilities and values and provide evidence of high classroom performance.
- Ability or demonstrable interest in syllabus design, timetabling, scheduling, course planning, observations, training, line management, or teacher development.
Safeguarding and learner support
- Promote the safety and well-being of children and vulnerable adults and communicate effectively with them and their families.
- Understand child development and its impact on learning and behaviour.
- Have experience supporting learners in line with equality, diversity, and inclusion principles.
Desirable qualifications and experience
- Structured teacher development programme experience from initial training to advanced levels is desirable.
- IELTS examiner and training status is desirable.
- Online teaching qualification and experience, problem-based learning experience, and master's-level qualifications in applied linguistics, ELT, or management are desirable.
Work schedule
- Work five days per week, including weekends when required; maximum availability on Saturdays and Sundays is expected.
- Classes may be scheduled in the morning or evening; split shifts may occasionally be required.
Contract and pay band
- Higher Teacher pay band.
- Fixed-term contract for two years.
Location and recruitment
- The role is listed for Delhi, India; the description does not specify a workplace arrangement.
- Locally recruited role; relocation support is not provided.
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