Language and Skills Tutor (ELT)

Role Description

We require a Language and Skills Tutor with an English language teaching background to deliver our year-round short courses and summer schools.

Department

The Global Opportunities team is part of the International Recruitment, Partnerships and Mobility team in the Global Recruitment, Marketing and Admissions Directorate. It manages the University’s portfolio of international student mobility partners and programmes, including closed short courses for students and staff from partner institutions worldwide, and open summer schools for international students. These programmes aim to build and strengthen international partnerships with key University partners across the globe, support University strategy, and provide participants with valuable opportunities for academic, cultural, and professional development.

Role

You will teach on short courses for closed groups and, where required, on open summer school programmes. Course content may include English language and skills development, culture, academic skills, intercultural training, employability skills and business English. Our cohorts of students are usually aged 18+ at undergraduate or postgraduate level, coming from a range of nationalities and backgrounds, with levels ranging from B1 to C2 (CEFR). Your responsibilities will include teaching classes (some of which will integrate language with content-based learning), leading seminars and conducting tutorials.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

You will hold a relevant ELT qualification (minimum Cambridge ESOL CELTA, Trinity Certificate TESOL). You will be an experienced English language teacher who has worked for educational organisations in the UK and internationally. You will be able to develop your own teaching materials, adapt existing materials appropriately, and teach across a range of areas, including ELT, EAP and 21st-century skills. The role also requires the ability to plan teaching, assess student learning, provide constructive feedback to students, and evaluate your teaching practice. You should have a high level of literacy skills and be a proficient user of office IT software packages, especially the Google Workspace.

Further Information

In order to qualify for this role, you must be able to work and be based in the UK.

For informal enquiries: Please contact Nick Milner at global-shortcourses@york.ac.uk

Condition of employment

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. Consequently, all applicants will be asked to declare both unspent and spent convictions on their application form.

Appointment of the successful candidate will be conditional on a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

The University strives to be diverse and inclusive  – a place where we can ALL be ourselves.

We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the University. 

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