[Hiring] Maths Mentor @Axiom Maths

Role Description

This is an exciting chance to share your passion for maths, challenge young minds and nurture mathematical talent in pupils from up and down the country.

As an Axiom Maths Mentor, you will lead weekly hour-long online maths circles with small groups of carefully selected high-attaining pupils. These aren't ordinary lessons. Axiom Maths is a taught enrichment programme that takes pupils beyond the school curriculum. Pupils tackle challenging and rewarding problems together, lose themselves in mathematical thinking, and leave each session a little more confident in who they are as mathematicians.

You will be provided with training, introductory videos, and curriculum materials for every session, so you can focus on what matters: sparking curiosity and building the next generation of mathematicians.

The duties of this role include:

• Prepare for each session:
• Watch the introductory video, work through the problems yourself, read the guidance notes and think about how you'll draw the maths out of your pupils.
• Lead the Axiom Maths curriculum:
• Lead sessions that spark curiosity, stretch thinking, and challenge and inspire.
• Build a community of mathematicians:
• Help pupils see themselves as mathematicians and feel part of a larger network of like-minded peers supporting each other.
• Reporting and feedback:
• Report weekly on pupils' attendance and share feedback on curriculum resources so we can keep improving them together.
• Feed back annually on pupils' learning in the form of progress reports.
• Complete mentor surveys to help shape the programme.
• General:
• Safeguard and promote the welfare of pupils at all times.
• Adhere to data protection, confidentiality and IT policies.
• Attend initial and ongoing training and take an active part in our quality assurance process.
• Additional opportunities:
• Alongside your online maths circles, you can choose to opt in to additional paid opportunities if they arise. These may include leading in-person maths circles in local schools, supporting events, and delivering pilot programmes. Travel expenses are covered for in-person work.
• These opportunities are entirely optional. Online-only mentoring is equally valued.

Qualifications

• Believe in the value of our mission and align closely with our culture and values:
• We put our users first.
• We move with momentum towards excellence.
• We feel high ownership and act with high agency.
• We are one team.
• Are passionate about maths and have a strong conceptual understanding of it.
• Are pursuing or have completed a STEM degree, or have equivalent experience (for example, through work).
• Have experience working with young people.
• Are proactive, able to work flexibly online, and align with the Axiom Maths ethos.

Requirements

• Be aged 18 or over.
• Have the right to work in the UK.
• Undergo an enhanced DBS check.
• Be committed to equality of opportunity and to the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils.
• Undertake paid online training and development.

Benefits

• Flexible hours with a minimum of one hour and a maximum of ten hours of maths circles per week.
• Paid training in November/December.
• Optional in-person opportunities with covered travel expenses.

Company Description

Axiom Maths is a maths education charity on a mission to help every child with the heart and head for maths realise the potential of their power - especially those whose potential is too often held back by disadvantage.

Every year 30,000 children who were top performers at the end of primary school don't go on to get top GCSE grades in maths. We aim to change that by partnering with schools across England and Wales to run fully-funded in-school or online maths circles. Pupils tackle challenging and rewarding maths problems in a supportive social group where the subject is valued.