Tutor Coordinator

Teach for Romania este o organizație non-guvernamentală, parte din rețeaua globală Teach for All, care caută și pregătește oameni valoroși, cu sau fără experiență anterioară de predare, pentru a deveni profesori în învățământul de stat, pentru copiii din medii vulnerabile.

Căutăm oameni cu potențial dovedit de leadership și care sunt puternic motivați să producă schimbări pozitive și să contribuie la educația publică din România. Acei oameni dornici să devină pentru cel puțin doi ani un educator/învățător/profesor care inspiră și un agent de schimbare în educație pe termen lung. Dacă îți dorești să te implici în educație, te așteptăm alături de noi.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS - Required

• Be able to demonstrate all the characteristics of a successfull teacher and leader.
• Graduate / Post graduate.
• 2 years experience or more of working experience with learning processes. Training, coaching, mentoring expertize will be considered a plus.
• Previous management experience preferred, though not required.; strategic thinking
• Classroom management and instructional experience.
• Experience working closely with low-income communities.
• Exceptional people management skills. ; (mentoring&coaching skills exceptional communication skills)
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Willingness to learn.
• Strong on ‘Sense of Possibility and Empathy’.
• Strong on „Self-Reflection” and „Critical thinking”
• Fit with Teach for Romania’s vision, mission, values.
• Team work and cooperation.
• Experience with budget management.
• Driving licence caetgory B
• English Proficency minimum level B
• PC skills: MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
• Training skills – T-o-T certificate preferred

TRAINING AND SUPPORT TEAM – Summary

The Training & Support team focuses on a few key areas in the organization: the Leadership Summer Academy, ongoing training and development and student achievement impact / results. The Training team at the Leadership Summer Academy works to equip teachers with the knowledge, skills and beliefs they need in order to lead their students to high achievements and an excellent education.
The knowledge, skills and beliefs align to our leadership framework called Teaching As Leadership. The training team also delivers ongoing teacher training over their two years. The Training & Support team works to create assessments and year-long plans, create performance management and tracker tools, collect and analyze student achievement data.
The Training & Support team works with external partners to create our organizational curriculum, and performance systems for our teachers and tutors/coordinators.

TUTOR COORDINATOR POSITION – Summary

You will manage, support and train groups of 12-16 teachers, and will be responsible for the development and growth of the young professionals as teachers, helping them to lead their classroom to great student achievement. You will break down the Teaching As Leadership model and explain teaching practices and methods in an effective way. You should be able to deal with conflicts and come up with proper resolutions, as well as develop resilience as a vital skill in teachers.
We are really looking for a person who will wear a few „hats” in this role:
• Leader - in inspiring people (having a vision, being able to manage different changes, being determined to pursue his/her vision despite any obstacle, keeping commitments, sharing best practices and experiences with the teachers, demonstrating learning authonomy, leading by example)
• Coach - developing people (loving and caring deeply for assigned teachers, building strong relationships, active listening, understanding each teacher’s uniqueness profile and the need to differentiate support, knowing how to give and receive effective feedback)
• Manager - producing results (setting clear expectations, goals and timelines, holding teachers accountable - believing in teachers’ potential, using performance management systems and evaluation tools, following up teachers’ performance consistenly)
• Teacher - having a clear vision of what excellence in education looks like, identifing key levers needed to improve a classroom, knowing where to access content and other instructional knowledge
• Mentor – sharing experience ( guiding teachers to better understand their role and to maintain their focus on childrens’ needs, helping participants to reflect on the meaning of this experience for themselves and their long-term leadership)

As tutor coordinator you will grow both personally and professionally and take part in various training / coaching sessions, conferences and events (with Teach for Romania and within the global Teach for All network) and you will be provided with best possible support to generate expected impact. You have to demonstrate leadership and achievement results. We expect you to embrace the opportunity to work in a fast-paced and dynamic start-up environment.