Explore Teaching Adviser

Start date :   November 2024

Location :   Home-based. Frequent travel required. Ideally, candidates would be able to travel to South and South West England – e.g. to Portsmouth, Plymouth & Bristol.

Salary :   Dependant on experience, circa £35,000

Hours :   Full-time 37.5 hours per week.

Training Duration :   Initial on-site 3 days training followed by longer term on-the-job training & mentoring.

Contract : Initially temporary until end of March 2027.

Overview

The Explore Teaching advisers are successful in encouraging undergraduates to consider teaching as a career, and support aspiring teachers to become more able to secure places on teacher training courses once eligible.

Our advisers mentor first and second year undergraduates to explore teaching as a career, to prepare to apply for a teacher training place, for up to two years prior to their application. They use experience from their own teaching career in schools to persuade candidates that this might be a suitable career for them. Much of the contact with assigned aspiring teachers has a focus on offering support remotely using a range of communication tools such as phone, email, WhatsApp and SMS. There is also a need for delivering face to face support for candidates at physical and online events or workshops.

In addition, the Explore Teaching advisers work to encourage university professionals to consider ways to help us to engage with their students, to encourage them to consider teaching as a career.

The ideal candidate will have :

• A successful teaching background, and must hold Qualified Teacher Status
• Expertise and enthusiasm for teaching young people in a school setting
• Outstanding influencing, networking and persuasion skills
• An ability to build relationships with stakeholders and undergraduates

The Role

Essential Criteria

Successful candidates must :

Desirable Criteria

Successful candidates may have :