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Shape the future of education with Teach First as a Development Lead and make a real difference in achieving educational equality.
Overview
Salary £42237
Location East Midlands (Nottingham); East of England (Norwich); London; North East (Newcastle Upon Tyne); North West (Manchester); South Coast (Bournemouth); South East (Kent); South West (Bristol); West Midlands (Birmingham); Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds
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Teach First is on a mission to provide equitable education for all, striving to overcome educational inequality by nurturing future leaders. This dynamic organization is looking for passionate individuals to join their team and contribute to a meaningful cause.
Role Summary:
- Deliver high-quality training to teachers, primarily through online platforms.
- Utilize your expertise to enhance our learning design and support teacher development.
- Mentor and guide teachers in your subject area, focusing on both knowledge and pedagogy.
- Collaborate with various team members to foster growth and leadership among trainees.
Role Requirements:
- Proven experience in developing others within your subject specialism.
- Deep knowledge of subject pedagogy and relevant educational frameworks.
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent, with a background in school leadership.
- Minimum of two years mentoring and coaching less experienced teachers.
Teach First offers a robust benefits package, including 27 days of annual leave, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and private healthcare. Employees also enjoy flexible benefits like discounted gym memberships and the ability to purchase additional annual leave.
Teach First is committed to building a fair education for all. We are making progress every day, but we need your help to take on this big challenge. As a Development Lead - Subject, you will deliver training to our teachers, largely online, to support their progress. You will use your expertise as a teacher and a subject specialist to contribute to our learning design across programmes. You will work with a portfolio of trainees to develop their subject knowledge and subject-specific pedagogy. You will collaborate with other support roles, to see trainees grow into leaders, committed to making a difference to educational inequality.
We are looking for someone with experience of developing others within the context of your subject specialism. You should be a subject matter expert, with exemplary knowledge of the pedagogy underpinning your subject specialism. You should have QTS (or equivalent) and have been a school leader. Your knowledge of the Teachers’ Standards (2012), the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Core Content Framework and the Early Career Framework should be excellent. You should have developed, mentored and coached inexperienced teachers within a training route for at least two years.
Teach First’s core benefits include 27 days holiday per annum, participation in the pension scheme via Salary Exchange (with an employer contribution of up to 6%), life assurance, income protection and private healthcare. Through our flexible benefits platform access to subsidised dental membership, health screening, discounted gym membership, travel insurance, Give As You Earn and the option to buy annual leave.
We aim to update candidates if we’ll take their application forward within 10 working days of the closing date. We will not review any applications received after the closing date. All roles require that the successful applicant and Teach First make a joint application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a background check.
