Secondary English Teacher
English National Programme
France
- Expired
- Salary:
- From €4675 monthly dependent on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2019 or September 2019 Dependent on availability
- Apply by:
- 3 October 2018
Job overview
English National Programme (ENP) – part of the Lycée / Collège International de Ferney-Voltaire (in France, on the Swiss border near Geneva)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time English teacher to join our committed team within a diverse international community. This vacancy is due to the retirement of a long-serving member of staff.
Applications from well-qualified successful teachers are invited for the following full-time post:
- A teacher of secondary English to teach across the secondary age range (11-18) up to GCSE and ‘A’ level standard
Applicants should be inspirational and enthusiastic professionals with a record of strong practice in class and of good progress and attainment by their pupils. Recent experience within the English school system is advantageous.
The Programme
The English National Programme (ENP) is an English-speaking part of a French state international school, teaching several subjects in English as part of the French state international curriculum. It is financed by parental tuition fees and governed by a parents’ association, ALA-ELP. ENP subjects are taught as if within an English school to pupils who are mother-tongue English speakers or have good second language competence; the main part of their studies is taught in French and is not fee-paying. ENP has over 1000 primary and secondary students of over 40 nationalities, and a staff of over 20. Pupils have to make a rapid transfer between French and English as they move between lessons taught according to the methods of French and English school systems. For this reason, this education is termed ‘bicultural’ as well as bilingual.
Full time teacher within the secondary English Department
We wish to appoint a full time teacher of secondary English and English Literature across secondary age-groups, (11 – 18) up to OIB (A-Level equivalent). The English department teaches all ENP secondary pupils for 4 hours per week. It delivers a varied and exciting curriculum in English and English Literature leading all ENP students up to IGCSE and the International Option of the French Baccalaureat (OIB). The department aims to inspire pupils to enjoy all aspects of English, and to reach for excellence in their attainment. Attainment and progress measures are good, and the department is committed to collaborative and reflective working to maintain and develop these.
Post requirements:
We are looking for a well-qualified English teacher, with a good degree and genuine passion for the subject; successful experience and very good results across age and exam groups with higher attaining pupils; excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills; a mother-tongue English speaker with competence in French (or motivation to gain this rapidly); an adaptable team player who values others’ ideas, welcomes change and innovation and who works well with others to create the right conditions for success; a professional who is committed to high quality learning and teaching, manages well their own time and work and has strong ICT skills.
The person appointed:
S/he will be expert in using data to plan for and track student progress; confident in using ICT in class, committed to developing pupils’ independent reading and to the teaching of subject and other skills as well as content, and keen to give time and energy to enrichment and extra-curricular projects. S/he must be able and willing to travel between school sites as part of the working day.
We offer:
An attractive salary and a relocation package; the opportunity to work within a unique and successful educational structure; rewarding responsibility for the success in English of motivated secondary pupils from a variety of backgrounds.
Contract:
An open-ended full-time contract of 22 contact hours plus other duties will be offered to the successful applicant. This contract will include probationary periods totaling four months.
Applications:
If these details correspond to your profile and your aspirations we look forward to receiving your application. Please see instructions in the attachment ‘How to apply’. Reference to a web resource on applying via CV and application letter is included: this may be helpful. Please note: 1. we do not employ an application form. 2. No separate person specification is used. Consult the other web references on the ‘Useful websites’ attachment before applying.
Deadline:
Your complete application, including your application letter and CV, must reach the Acting Head of Programme, Laura Martin-Clark at applications@enpferney.org , by the end of the day on Thursday 4th October. After an initial Skype interview, shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend for Interview in Ferney-Voltaire during the week commencing 15th October.
Questions relating to the post should be sent to the ENP Office Manager, Lucy Howen, at secretary@enpferney.org .
Application deadline: Thursday 4th October 2018 at 18.00
Attached documents
About English National Programme
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The English National Programme is a ‘section internationale’ within the French state educational system, governed and financed by a parents’ association. It teaches several secondary subjects in English for part of the school week within the French Lycée/Collège International de Ferney-Voltaire and offers part time complementary primary education in English in years 2-6.
The employer and governing body of the Programme is the parents’ association, ALA-ELP, a well-established structure that has been employing teachers for many years. Parents pay an annual fee to the association for tuition by ENP staff and for resources used or provided by the Programme. The ALA-ELP school budget covers purchase of books and libraries, ICT equipment, staff CPD, inspection and so forth. Secondary classrooms are made available to ENP by the French school in which it works.
The Lycée/Collège International is a prestigious French state secondary school, with historical connections with CERN, the particle physics laboratory, and incorporating international sections in several languages. The Lycée/ Collège as a whole now welcomes well over 2,000 pupils and occupies a site with views of the Jura mountains and the Alps, on the edge of Ferney-Voltaire and near the open countryside of the French/Swiss border.
Places in the school and in the Programme are much sought after. They are awarded, after entrance test, by the ‘proviseur’ of the Lycée/Collège. Continued growth in numbers has led to a second Lycée site being built in St Genis-Pouilly, a short drive away. This site opened in September 2016. ENP teaches on both Lycée sites and applicants are asked to note that the post advertised will involve work on both and travel between them.
The English National Programme, with over 1000 pupils altogether in secondary and primary, is the largest international section in the Lycée and now among the largest in France. The school also has German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Swedish sections. All pupils in the school receive the major part of their education in French. The Programme teaches bilingual pupils in English for part of the school week: half a day for primary pupils and 6 or 8 hours per week for secondary pupils. Primary pupils study English only. Secondary pupils study English (for 4 hours) as well History-Geography for 2 hours and Mathematics in English, a subject which is taught as an option (in addition to the compulsory Mathematics course taught in French) for 2 or 3 hours per week. While secondary pupils are part of an international school, and while their ENP lessons form an integral part of the school week, primary pupils attend their local town or village French school and come to the Lycée site for one of three half days (according to age-group) each week for tuition in English.
In certain ways, the Programme acts as an autonomous educational unit within the school, with its own teaching departments and its own leadership structure. The Leadership Team works with the Head of Programme to lead and manage the Programme effectively. ENP’s main aim is to apply English educational principles and curricula, as well as teaching and assessment methods, to the teaching of subjects in English within a French state school context, enriching pupils’ bicultural education and development and aiming for high levels of achievement. ENP pupils are a mix of nationalities, with a sizeable minority of first language speakers and pupils with good second language mastery, many of them French. All pupils are taught in mixed groups. Care is taken to limit class size as much as possible, so that a strong emphasis can be laid on participation and oral work and on teachers’ knowing pupils well, maintaining strong positive relationships, and promoting rapid progress.
Exams results as well as summaries of the university places gained by pupils can be seen on the ENP website; recent Newsletters, published by ALA-ELP and available on the site, will give applicants a sense of the successes and achievements, academic and personal, of our pupils and of the range of activities of the Programme and the Association.
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