Myanmar: Head Teacher

A rewarding opportunity for a highly skilled teaching professional | Lashio, Myanmar.

Looking for a rewarding career development opportunity that welcomes and shares your skills while adding tangible value to local communities?

This Head Teacher position is a full-time role (1.0) at the DevelopEd Education Centre in Lashio, Myanmar.

A bit about DevelopEd:

Our guiding vision is to promote community development via quality education. Working closely with local community members, we design and provide quality adult education courses, and facilitate student-led community projects. Our education centre is currently in Lashio, a small yet bustling town in Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Our passion is working side-by-side with rural communities to assist in promoting community development at the grass-roots level.

Specifically, our Lashio project provides (1) English language education, (2) Social Science education, and (3) practical community development projects with local Lashio and rural youth. All of our activities are designed to be context-relevant, sustainable and directed by the target communities.

Why do we do this? Because local community members here in Lashio have expressed a strong interest in learning the English language and Social Sciences. One of the virtues of such education is that by improving our skills we increase our opportunities, and DevelopEd is all about creating new opportunities for our students and their communities.

We are currently implementing plans for growth and expansion. To ensure this growth is a success for DevelopEd and all of our local stakeholders, we are seeking staff who are passionate about education, community, and development, and who aspire to be leading professionals in their field. DevelopEd is proud to provide training as appropriate.

About this role:

This is a supervisory role. This means that the Head Teacher will be responsible for the daily management of teachers, in addition to carrying out their own teaching tasks, and ensuring that teachers and students behave in a manner that is appropriate for DevelopEd.

Within the organisation, a career track from this role involves progress toward programme management, then to senior management and, subject to performance, a Director’s role within the organisation.

The Head Teacher reports to the Programme Manager.

Responsibilities:

Programme Review and Consultation

• Lead the delivery of programmes and their activities in accordance with the vision and goals of the organisation.
• Implement steps to successfully achieve the mission and objectives of the organisation’s programmes.
• Work with senior management to develop initiatives that facilitate the strategic direction of the organisation.

Staff Management

• Manage, motivate, and mentor teachers regarding their allocated classes and related responsibilities.
• Monitor and advise teachers regarding their classroom performance.
• Facilitate performance review processes for all teachers.
• Support teachers by ensuring that all required curricula and resources are available in a timely manner.

Classroom Management

• Create a classroom environment that reflects DevelopEd’s core values of integrity, collaboration, and excellence.
• Ensure programme curricula and material are available for teaching staff to use in class.
• Resolve disciplinary issues with students in collaboration with senior management.
• Write term reports regarding student progress and staff achievements.

Qualifications and Experience required:

• A university degree.
• 2-4 years of teaching experience.
• Proficiency in the use of the Microsoft Office suite, namely Word, Outlook, Excel (simple accounting, databases, and spreadsheets).
• English and Burmese language skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Coordination or supervisory experience within an educational context will be a significant advantage.

Suitably qualified and experienced Myanmar nationals are encouraged to apply for this position.

To apply for this position, please email a brief cover letter and your current CV to our DevelopEd team:

• Mark Brown (Programmes Director):mark@developed.org.au
• Chris Nguyen (Operations Director):chris@developed.org.au
• Subject: Application for Head Teacher| DevelopEd (Lashio).

Please note:
The DevelopEd team will not be available to respond to any queries until after Wednesday, 11th of November. However, rest assured, we will respond to all applicants after this date.

Thanks in advance for your interest in working with DevelopEd and for your patience.