[Hiring] Language Teacher @Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Role Description

The assignment will be carried out as a part of the Staff development planning, Language training.

• Language classes usually take place twice a week for a duration of 4 to 6 months.
• Two or three sessions per year to be delivered, depending on the duration of each session.
• All skills should be consolidated during the classes: listening, reading, speaking, and writing.

The incumbent will report to the Regional HR Officer.

High-quality delivery of language training, enhancing the personnel capacities to ensure that the Organization maintains the high level of multilingualism required to fulfil its mandate.

• Furtherly developing linguistic and cultural repertoire through language training to succeed in intercultural communication and cooperation throughout the organization and with external stakeholders.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Perform placement test determining level of knowledge of language taught.
• Deliver courses in the target language only – Modern Standard Arabic is essential.
• Deliver online group and individual language courses through different platforms as applicable (Zoom, MS Teams, etc.).
• Deliver language courses in the target language only and ensuring that listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills are being taught at the specific level.
• Keep each class folder updated with the syllabus, lesson plans, attendance, and activity logs.
• Provide student’s progress reports (next level, pass/fail, and comments) at the end of each group and/or individual class.
• Provide Syllabus of courses (as per Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, levels should be aligned; A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 etc. and UN Language Framework | HR Portal).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in relevant field of Education, Arabic Language and/or literature, Arabic Language Teaching, etc.
• Minimum 3 years of working experience in teaching adults in an international environment (providing reference), language training, evaluation of knowledge of target language, etc.
• Working knowledge (level C) of Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic is essential) and intermediate knowledge (level B) of English.

Requirements

• Extent of experience in delivering Modern Standard Arabic courses complying with Arabic Language Proficiency Test (ALPT) which is the global standard for measuring student proficiency levels in Arabic.
• Availability of maintaining schedules for group and individual online courses.
• Extent of knowledge to teach group and/or individual language courses.
• Demonstrated ability to update and present a course syllabus for each course taught during the contract (group and individual).
• Excellent communication skills.

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