Primary English Coordinator

We seek a qualified and experienced Primary English Coordinator for Primary School. The post is suitable for an individual who is experienced in management roles within international schools, highly capable, and intensely self-motivated. 

This is an exciting, creative, and varied role, suited to a committed, enthusiastic teaching professional possessing the correct blend of moral purpose, teaching, and interpersonal and intercultural communication skills.

The role involves two key duties, of equal importance:

Excellent teaching: the successful applicant will be responsible for teaching Primary lessons of an exemplary standard, primarily in the core subjects.  The equivalent of around 10 hours per week teaching is envisaged.

Mentoring colleagues: a key dimension of the role will be building capacity in local colleagues; this will involve a blend of modeling excellent teaching and team teaching and a range of training and academic quality assurance activities (e.g. formally observing teachers, planning scrutiny, work scrutiny, etc.); mentees are fluent English speakers who are eager to learn and who have significant experience of Primary teacher in a Cambridge Curriculum / English-instruction environment.

Phase management (for ages 6-11, Grades 1-5): ensuring that the curriculum is suitably designed and resourced, as well as delivered in a manner appropriate to a mixed ability ESL environment; organization of high-quality events; academic quality assurance, supporting and challenging as needed; effective parent communication and liaison, in a bilingual school environment.

About MTK 

MTK school is located in Baku, Azerbaijan, and moved to a state-of-the-art campus in the heart of the country’s capital in August 2018.  A prestigious local private school educating the children of the country’s business elite, MTK is part way through a transition to becoming a bilingual, international-style school that offers a blended English and Azerbaijani instruction curriculum. 

The school is comprised of a bilingual Preschool for ages 2-6, a bilingual Primary School for ages 6-11 (Grades 1-5), and a three-stream Secondary school for ages 10-18 (Grades 6-12), which incorporates an international stream (offering Cambridge IGCSE and AS/A-Levels) and two local curriculum streams where the language of instruction is Azerbaijani and Russian respectively.  The pupil roll is around 750 in total.  

The Primary School 

The Primary School is situated in a state-of-the-art building with plenty of natural light, interactive whiteboards in every class, spacious corridors, a fully stocked library, and specialist teaching spaces for ICT, Art, and Music. 

The Primary curriculum is delivered primarily in two languages, determined by the student’s choice of educational stream.  Students learning in Stream A receive a spine of English-instruction international subjects (English, Mathematics, Science, STEAM, Topic Work, Art, PE, etc.) delivered in English, complimented by aspects of the host-country curriculum delivered in the Azerbaijani language.  Stream B classes receive the same but with their host-country curriculum content delivered in the Russian language. 

The transformation of the Primary School began in earnest in August 2018 and a great deal of positive progress has been made in terms of staff development, improved planning and assessment of teaching, improved resourcing, creating enabling learning environments, and adapting the parent body to more child-centered expectations. 

The successful applicant will work in close cooperation with a predominantly local staff team and three other fully certified expatriate Primary teachers. 

MTK employs an expatriate staff of eleven fully certified teachers across the Preschool, Primary School, and Secondary Schools who are nationals of different countries.

MTK closely follows safer recruitment practices and all applicants are subject to rigorous reference and background/police checks.

Contract start date :  Friday, 10th November; relocation to before that date, between 4th and 7th November is advisable