Casual Lecturer

**About The Role**:
**Working Hours**: Up to 37 hours per week (Classes daytime and evening)

**Working location**: This is a City Wide role, visit our website to view the locations of our teaching centres

**Contract Type**:4 positions x Casual Hours

**C**losing Date**: 07 May 2025

**Closing time**:11.59pm

**Interview Method**:Face to Face

**Qualification** - Teaching qualifications, Professional Development Qualification relevant to the role, Subject competency (English and/or maths)

**Manchester Adult Education** has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivating English and/or Maths Lecturer to join our team. The role will involve the planning, delivery and assessment of part-time adult courses. This is a casual (hourly paid) role teaching daytimes and some evening sessions (if applicable). Casual roles can be short term cover for sickness or training or longer term teaching a regular class.

**These courses include**:

- Functional Skills/Awards (Entry Level to Level 2)
- GCSE
- Context specific courses
- Booster /Support classes

**Key responsibilities**:
To teach online lessons (where appropriate) as well as teaching in our centres across the city as needed, this may involve the occasional evening class

You will be joining a committed and supportive team of teachers who are passionate industry specialists who work together to support the adult learners in the community to achieve their goals and secure employment or advance to higher education.

To deliver teaching and learning to at least a consistently good or outstanding standard

To assess learners and work accurately against appropriate awarding body criteria/key course targets to ensure learners achieve their qualifications/course goals.

To comply with safeguarding procedures.

To take course leadership responsibilities (where applicable)

To take part in team meetings and working groups.

To ensure close liaison and good communications with other staff in matters concerning learners.

To comply with the service quality assurance procedures.

To comply with the service policies and procedures including maintaining records on learners including attendance and achievement.

To positively represent the MAES both internally and externally at all times.
- You will be joining a committed and supportive team of teachers who are passionate about supporting adult learners in the community to improve their English and/or maths skills to secure employment, advance to higher education and achieve their full potential.

Have a track record of successfully delivering English and Maths courses to varying skills and knowledge levels including learners with additional needs.

**You should be able to**demonstrate**:

- Professional and academic competence/qualifications to teach on the courses.
- Experience of adopting a range of teaching and learning strategies both face to face and online.
- Use of e-learning platforms such as Google Classroom and others (e.g. BKSB) or the willingness to learn.
- Commitment to develop your professional development
- A flexible approach, coupled with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.
- The ability to engage and develop adult learners, and role model the attributes that we develop within our learners.
- Hold GCSE A* - C / 9 - 4 in English or equivalent (essential)
- Hold GCSE A* - C / 9 - 4 in Maths or equivalent (essential)

**About Us**:
We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.

To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ - the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

- We take time to listen and understand
- We work together and trust each other
- We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
- We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
- We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

**Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council**

**Guaranteed Interview Scheme**

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the