Job Title: After School Club Coding/STEM Teacher (Contractor)
Reports to: Schools Director
Location: Various locations across London
Hours of work: Monday-Friday.
About the role: Cypher inspire children to learn the language of the future through creative and fun coding lessons. We take students between the ages of 4-14, through our STEM.org certified computing curriculum and prepare them for the digital future, teaching them core coding principles and how to apply these to real world settings.
Job Purpose: To deliver high-quality extra-curricular coding clubs to children aged 4-14 years across the Greater London area.
Key Responsibilities:
- Attend regular training sessions to ensure best practice
- To safeguard the children in your care
- Adequately prepare ahead of lessons, including ensuring familiarity with lesson content and loading any starter files to children’s accounts
- To represent the Cypher Coders brand in a positive and professional manner
Safeguarding
Cypher Coders is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Statutory checks including a satisfactory DBS certificate and references will be a requirement for this role.
Equal Opportunities
Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.
| | ESSENTIAL CRITERIA | DESIRABLE CRITERIA |
| Qualifications/ Professional | | Educated or working to university level or equivalent |
| Experience | - Working with children as a teacher, teaching assistant, tutor, camp or club leader
- Coding knowledge
| - Experience working with children with special educational needs or disability
- Experience working with Scratch, P5.js, Scratch Jr, Python, Micro:bit and robotics
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| Skills/knowledge | - Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to problem solve
- Demonstrate professionalism in a school setting
- Ability to follow a lesson plan
| - Awareness and understanding of safeguarding and welfare of children
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| Personal Attributes | - Able to use own initiative
- Excellent time management
- Exceptional attention to detail and an awareness of how to prepare to deliver high-quality lessons.
- Must be living in London
| - A willingness to be involved in the wider life of the company
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Benefits
