Job Description
He puawaitanga anamata.
Through nurturing learners, educators, leaders, and communities our future will flourish.
We have an exciting opportunity for aFacilitatorto work with our Future Learning Solutions – Centre for Languages. This full-time role will focus on supporting the Pacific portfolio within the languages team.
Our preferred candidate would be an experienced facilitator in the New Zealand education sector with a relevant teaching accreditation. As this position supports the Pacific languages position, we are seeking applicants that are fluent in a Pacific language, with a ‘trusted advisor’ status in the Pacific education community and/or academic environment. Knowledge about the theory and practice of second language pedagogy, andragogy and experience in the Learning Languages sector is a priority.
A little about us:
At Future Learning Solutions, we work to establish culturally-responsive learning solutions underpinned by evidence-based practice and evaluation that:
Learners seek for the development
Educators recommend to colleagues
Leaders select for their people
Partners choose for collaboration
Benefit the children and communities of Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific and Australia today and for generations to come.
Our aim is for every child to acquire the knowledge, skills and values to create their own future.
A little about the role:
This unique opportunity involves working as part of a supportive team of professional educators, employed by Auckland UniServices to deliver the Future Learning Solutions, Centre for Languages contracts and programmes.
The Future Learning Solutions, Centre for Languages delivers free professional learning and development workshops, events, programmes and immersion opportunities to support and guide schools to achieve sustainable language programmes in Chinese, Cook Island Maori, French, German, Japanese, Korean, New Zealand Sign Language, Niuean, Samoan, Spanish, Tokelauan and Tongan.
Key responsibilities of this role include:
Recruiting teachers and schools in collaboration with the Future Learning Solutions Centre for Languages team for participation in the programmes – getting schools and teachers into programmes, workshops, events and immersion
Facilitation and n-school support of a variety of professional development programmes supporting teachers of languages, specifically teachers of Pacific languages
Tracking progress of facilitated schools and teachers, reporting progress and suggestions for improvements to the Programme Manager
Supporting the Programme Manager in the delivery of specific delegated promotion, marketing and engagement activities
Feeding back into the marketing, promotion and engagement plan
Contributing evidence to programme reports to the Ministry of Education
For further information on this role, refer to the job description on our careers website: *****
How to Apply
To apply for this position, please go to our careers website at ***** and click 'apply' and sign in to register your details. You can then upload your CV and covering letter. Applications close at5 p.m.onMonday, 27 July 2020, but get in quick as we may be progressing applicants to interview stage during this advertising period.
