The Role

We are currently recruiting for an Assistant Teaching Centre Manager, Teacher Training in Cairo, Egypt. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the British Council's flagship teaching centres which is a hub for teacher and teaching centre management development across the network.

As an Assistant Teaching Centre Manager you will provide leadership and management of the teacher training programme across Egypt, ensuring teaching delivery by the teaching team to agreed quality standards and developing the quality and range of external and internal training schemes. 

As an Assistant Teaching Centre Manager you will have the opportunity to maintain the range of internal and external teacher training courses provided meeting both the needs of a range of stakeholders and ensuring a consistently high quality of teaching delivery.

You will consolidate and enhance the British Councils reputation in Egypt as the leading provider of English language teacher training by ensuring that all training courses encompass best practice and methods in teaching and are delivered to the highest standards.

You will develop the provision of teacher training courses, in particular across new centres, ensuring that these encompass best practice and methods in teaching and are delivered to the highest standards. You will develop creative market led strategies tailored to specific groups to ensure that targets for external training course are achieved.

For more information please see the vacancy documents, British Council Behaviours and Core Skills by visiting our jobs portal.

If you are interested in this role, please apply before 23:59 UK time on the 21st of June, 2015.

Requirements

- University Qualifications: First Degree in any subject, from a recognised university
- Other certifications obtained: DELTA, Trinity Dip TESOL or equivalent ELT Diploma or Masters Degree
- Nature and length of previous experience: At least four years full-time and relevant experience of ELT teaching/training after initial training (CELTA or Trinity Cert.)
- At least two years proven experience and demonstrable success as a manager in a complex educational context
- Specialist knowledge: Demonstrates the ability to develop, implement and maintain teacher training programmes in accordance with quality assurance frameworks.
- Proven track record of managing or contributing to the development of external teacher training programmes (for example, Cambridge courses) and internal teacher training schemes.
- Experience of undertaking teaching observations, teacher training, line management, mentoring and professional development of teachers and support staff.
- Soft Skills and Personality traits: Managing people
- Communicating & influencing
- Nationality Preference: UK passport holder or Egyptian nationals
- Language Fluency: English C2 or equivalent