The British Council creates international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and builds trust between them worldwide. The British Council, part of the South Asia regional structure, is well-established in Bangladesh having opened the first office in 1951 and is a Tier 1 country for the organisation. This is a large and high priority British Council operation. Our work is organised into the separate business areas of Arts, English and Education and Society.
The British Council, part of the South Asia regional structure, is well-established in Bangladesh having opened the first office in 1951 and is an important country for the organisation. This is a large and high priority British Council operation with an annual turnover of ±£20m p.a. from teaching, exams and grant/partnership funded projects and programmes. The operating environment and context is complex and challenging and we currently operate from 7 sites in 3 cities.
The Teaching Centre in Bangladesh has its main office in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, as well as four branches in Uttara, Gulshan, Fuller Road and Chittagong at the time of writing. It is in the process of expanding its footprint in Bangladesh to increase its reach and impact, as well as to make it easier for customers to access its services.
The UK’s centre of excellence for English language teaching in Bangladesh, the Teaching Centre also runs teacher training programmes in order to develop expertise in English language teaching in the country.
The academic manager may teach up to 12 hours a week, up to 5 days a week, and will have a two day weekend along with the majority of teachers.
The successful applicant will be expected to:
- ensure the readiness of teaching staff for start-of-term, mid-term and end-of-term processes
- coordinate the localisation (where relevant) of global teaching products according to customer needs/demands
- provide a prioritised wish-list of ELT resources, i.e. books, audio & stationery, to the Admin Co-ordinator on a regular basis as per customer and teacher needs
- manage the online customer survey according to business needs and plan primary research in the form of focus groups and extended interviews, with help from Marketing & communications, in order to evaluate service quality
- engage in all pedagogically-related aspects of the running of the teaching centre in Bangladesh, and provide input to English projects and other project work as required
- drive continual improvements to quality teaching via the annual academic quality plan, with input from all local stakeholders and using the results of primary research
And will have the following skills and experience:
- Full mastery of English across all 5 skills at level 2 or IELTS Band 9
- Have an experience of ELT management after TEFL-Q essential requirement
- Have a first degree/or equivalent – essential requirement (may be waived in case of otherwise highly qualified candidates)
- Have teacher training experience
- Have a Young Learner teaching qualification (CELT-YL extension or Trinity TYLEC) – desirable requirement
- Have the right to live and work in Bangladesh – essential requirement
Role Profile.pdf
BC Beahaviours.pdf
BC Core Skills.doc
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted and called for interview. We will only shortlist applications submitted on a British Council application form submitted electronically through jobs portal. No hard copies of the application will be accepted.
Submission deadline 28 March 2016