Senior Teacher of English

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Role Description & Purpose

Join the British Council as a Senior Teacher and play a key role in maintaining and enhancing academic quality and professional development within our teaching centre. You will lead and manage in-house teacher development programmes, provide academic support to teaching teams, and help create a rewarding, stimulating English language learning experience for learners. This role is focused on promoting excellent teaching standards, ensuring effective learning outcomes, and supporting the wider aims of the British Council and its cultural relations mission.

As a Senior Teacher, you will contribute to the delivery of the British Council’s global English strategy by providing academic leadership and guidance, implementing plans for teaching, products and services, and ensuring high-quality delivery across the centre. You will work collaboratively with colleagues, customers and stakeholders, planning, coordinating and communicating effectively across teams. Through your expertise and leadership, you will champion best practice in English Language Teaching and strengthen the British Council’s reputation as a world-leading authority in ELT.

Role Accountabilities

We are looking for an experienced and inspirational education professional with a passion for teaching excellence, teacher development, and student success. The successful candidate will be a collaborative leader who can motivate and support teachers while maintaining the highest standards of academic delivery and customer experience.

In this role, you will provide line management and pastoral support to teachers, conduct observations, promote staff wellbeing, support recruitment and onboarding, and coordinate mentoring for new colleagues. You will contribute to the design and delivery of a regional CPD programme, identify professional development opportunities, model excellent classroom practice, lead teacher development activities, and share expertise in English Language Teaching.

Alongside teaching a regular English language class, you will ensure teaching standards, policies, and learning frameworks are embedded across the centre. You will work closely with Teaching Operations and Customer Services to manage academic enquiries, support product development, pilot new courses and materials, and help introduce new programmes and initiatives. You will also champion safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion, and SEND provision, while building strong relationships with students, parents, colleagues, and external stakeholders. Promoting intercultural understanding and awareness of the UK and its values will be an important part of the role.

The successful candidate will have a recognised ELT qualification, significant teaching experience, proven people management skills, excellent communication and coaching abilities, and a passion for educational quality, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• High proficiency in English across 4 skills, equivalent to CEFR C2 (IELTS Academic Paper Band 8+ in each of the 4 sections of the academic module).
• Undergraduate Degree.
• Cambridge CELTA/Trinity Certificate TESOL.
• Cambridge DELTA/Trinity Diploma TESOL or equivalent as recognised by the British Council.
• Specialism, where appropriate e.g., YL qualification eg TYLEC or equivalent.
• 2 years post-diploma i.e. DELTA/Trinity Diploma TESOL experience.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of management and delivery of teacher training.
• Experience of line managing/ coordinating teaching teams.
• Experience in teaching relevant age groups:
  • Primary aged 6 to 10 (400 + hours)
  • Lower Secondary aged 11 to 14 (800+ hours).
  • Upper Secondary aged 15 to 17 (400+ hours).
  • University/Vocational students aged 18 to 25 (400+hours).
  • Adults General English 18+ (800+ hours).

Desirable

• Relevant masters/post graduate qualification

Important Information

• Location: The position is based in our teaching center in Dubai, UAE
• Contract Type: This is a Full-Time, Two-Year-Fixed-Term Contract
• Salary: 11,000 - 12,500 AED monthly
• Benefits: Annual Leave up to 35 days + public holidays, Health insurance for staff and dependents, Accommodation allowance, Development possibilities within the structure, Relocation and visa assistance provided for the successful candidate from outside the UAE
• Right to Work: The candidates must have legal right to live and work in the UAE or be eligible for a work visa. We welcome applications from outside the UAE.
• Background Screening: all successful candidates are obliged to undergo comprehensive background screening
• Closing Date: 31st October 2026

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we welcome applications from all sections of the community as we believe that a diverse workforce gives added depth to our work. The British Council is a Disability Confident Employer. The Disability Confident scheme helps challenge attitudes, increase understanding of disability, and ensure staff are drawn from the widest possible pool of talent and we guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the minimum role requirements. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

Safeguarding Statement

The British Council is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults who we work with. We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989. Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed in line with legal requirements and with the British Council’s Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.
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