Job Description What's Up! Living English, a company that specializes in teaching English as a foreign language, is looking for a Head of Studies!

What's Up - Living English ¡Welcome to the English Revolution! Due to rapid growth, we are looking to hire for some of our new locations. At What's Up, our main focus is on teaching real English skills to adults and teens. Learn more about us at www.whatsup.es

The Head of Studies manages the didactic team, plans class scheduling, and sets the tone for fun and highly social environment our centres are known for. You should be a great teacher who is looking for the chance to grow, and manage a team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Manage, train, support and supervise the didactic team; to ensure the professional growth of teaching staff;

Schedule time-tables in response to the demand for classes in your centre;

Teach classes, depending on staff levels in your centre and substitute/find a substitution to cover classes when a teacher is ill/on sick leave;

Quality control through ongoing training, weekly staff meetings with the didactic team, class observations and staff appraisals;





Liaison with consultants and create good rapport with the students, as well as manage any customer service issues relating to your area of responsibility;

Coordinate teacher holidays/Saturday rotas/school bank holidays;

Coordination and weekly meetings with management on various aspects (Director/Centre Manager/Didactic Manager);

Promote the events that the school organises and ensure that the didactic staff is well prepared for the events and they are successful.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

Degree level or above

CELTA or Trinity Cert TESOL / PGCE TEFL, or equivalent experience

Ability to mentor and guide newly qualified teachers

Good communication skills

Demonstrable leadership skills

Excellent organisational skills

Ability to work effectively under pressure

Comfortable working with IT

C2 level English

B2 level Spanish

Residence in Spain with EU working papers AND Social Security number.

RECOMMENDED

Previous management experience

An outgoing personality

People skills

A can-do attitude

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📌 HEAD OF STUDIES - BARCELONA (Madrid)
🏢 What's Up Sagrada Familia
📍 Madrid