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Volunteer ESOL Tutor (Saturdays)

Nova New Opportunities

South Kensington, Greater London (On-site)

London, Greater London

Unpaid role, expenses paid

Voluntary

Education

Using Anonymous Recruitment

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Job description

Are you passionate about supporting people to improve their language and communication skills? If you’re knowledgeable in the field of ESOLand able to facilitate engaging, in-person sessions for adult learners, we’d love to hear from you!

Purpose of role
We are looking for a highly motivated,experienced and creative tutorwith excellent interpersonal, numeracy and digitalskills; excellent written English and efficient organisational skills to teach one of our outreach classes in South Kensington, London every Saturday from 17:00-19:00.

Start – 26/09/2029 (negotiable)

End – 19/12/2026 (negotiable)

The course is aimed at beginner level learners of English.

Skills/ experience

CELTA or similar qualification is desirable
Teaching experience is desirable

The aim is to support adult learnerswho need to improvetheir English language skills, working both individually and as part of the Adult Education team to plan and deliver an agreed number of ESOL courses.

You need to:

- Be passionate about helping people achieve their potential

- Be a qualified ESOL practitioner (CELTA, DELTA,DTTLS ESOL or Literacy)

- Be knowledgeable in your subject field

- Be able to carry out effective planning, monitoring and evaluation of courses

- Demonstrate a high level of computer literacy

- Be able to use your own initiative, and to organise and prioritise your workload

- Be able to meet deadlines and work under pressure

- Be able to identify and implement changes in existing systems

- Be able to maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues and students

- Demonstrate awareness of and commitment to the safeguarding and promotion of welfare of vulnerable adults, according to the charity’s ethos

- Be committed to the provision of a quality service and the implementation of quality improvements

- Demonstrate awareness of and commitment to valuing equal opportunities and diversity

- Be committed to taking a full and active role in the life of the charity and be committed to its aims and values

- Have a flexible approach to work and be able to work flexibly throughout the week/over the year by prior agreement

- All applicants must have the right to work in the UK

About Nova
Based in North Kensington since 1983 and serving its poorest wards andthose of surrounding London boroughs, Nova works with individuals from marginalised and disadvantaged communities who are looking to develop their potential and achieve a better future for themselves. Nova brings about real and lasting change in people’s lives by addressing every person as an individual and seeking out ways to best support that person to reach their goals. We endeavour to help every person that comes to us who is motivated and committed to improving his or her life.

Reaching 2,000+ people each year, we:
• Developknowledge, education and confidence
• Connectdiverse groups
• Provideopportunities

Our work, operates on 2 levels:

• Grassroots Community Support – including responsive actions (e.g. Grenfell, COVID-19), adult education, IAG, family programme and volunteering
• Wider Reaching Dialogue Events and Influencing – focussing on challenging stigma, prejudice and inequality – working with individuals, organisations, networks and decision makers to move through conversation to action

Application Instructions

Please submit your CV and cover letter outlining why you would like to work with us and how your knowledge and experience meets the person specification.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a panel interview.

Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

We will be doing rolling recruitment for this role, so we advise that you submit an application as soon as possible. We will close the recruitment once we have found a successful candidate.

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