Teaching Fellows

Position: UWS Nepal Teaching Fellows

Duty station: Koshi Province and Lumbini Province

No. of Position(s): 20 (Twenty)

Reports to: Senior Program Manager (Fellowship)

Opening date: 1st September 2024

Closing date: 31st December 2024

Organisational Background

UWS Nepal is a charity dedicated to providing quality education to children in remote rural villages through modern teaching and learning methods. Since starting in late 2015, we have built 78 schools in Sankhuwasabha, Taplejung, Bhojpur and Gulmi, enrolling 14,867 children.

We ensure quality education by creating need-based curricula and using innovative, research-based teaching methods that connect classroom lessons to real life. Our focus on building essential infrastructure, like schools and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities, supports our commitment to empowering young women in marginalised communities and investing in girls’ education for better futures. Currently, we are working in 26 municipalities in Sankhuwasabha, Gulmi, Bhojpur and Taplejung, with plans to expand in the coming year.

Role Summary

The UWS Nepal Fellowship Program, started in 2017, is a two-year long initiative aimed at improving the quality of education and addressing educational inequality in hard-to-reach and under-resourced communities of Nepal. The fellowship program offers Nepali youths an opportunity to gain experience as educators and in community action to make a real impact on the lives of children in hard-to-reach regions of Nepal.

The program aims to tackle the issues of substandard education environments in hard to reach regions by placing a trained UWS Fellow in UWS Nepal-aided community schools whilst providing an opportunity for young Nepali graduates to go through a transformative leadership development journey. Furthermore, beyond our primary objective of improving the quality of education, the fellowship program promotes cross-cultural exchange as fellows immerse themselves in the local culture while on their journey enriching the educational experience for both the fellows and the children they teach.

Duties and responsibilities

• Create a teaching environment using locally available resources/materials.

• Produce daily, weekly and monthly plans.

• Excite your children to learn in an entertaining manner.

• Promote student learning by addressing individual learning differences (guide and provide extra help to the children who are slow in learning).

• Help existing teachers with improving their teaching skills (Remember: I am the best attitude will not help work with government teachers; only collaborative and demonstrative attitude will bring change).

• Make learning relevant by connecting student’s prior knowledge and experiences to the learning process (use your surrounding environment to teach lessons).

• Communicate clearly and regularly with students and check for understanding through reinforcing daily objectives, learning goals, and expectations throughout lessons.

• Ask UWS Education Officers for required teaching materials.

• Deal with parents' complaints with care and proper strategy (Don’t do it alone. Work it in coordination with the team).

• Call parents’ meeting once a month. Attendance must be monitored (mandatory).

• Be approachable to community members for school improvement.

• Be a listener.

• Work in collaboration with the School principal, to conduct a weekly teacher planning and leadership meeting on a regular basis.

• Create a monthly school report, monitoring and an evaluation report.

• Maintain classroom discipline and work on its improvement, if needed.

• Plan activities in the school in coordination with the principal and teachers (discuss the budget with the principal).

Requirements

• Valid Nepali Citizenship

• Minimum Educational Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree

• Willingness to commit 2 years to the Fellowship Program

• Excellent English and Nepali Speaking and writing skills

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Experience in teamwork

• Desire to learn and grow

Application Process

To apply for this position, follow this link.

UWS Nepal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are only able to accept applications from candidates that have the permanent right to employment in Nepal.

UWS Nepal is committed to the safeguarding of children and ensuring we recruit safely is central to this commitment. All applicants will be required to undertake a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check as a condition of employment