Associate English Language Instructor

ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that is fighting for change that lasts, right here in the U.S. and across the globe. We bring sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. The organization is approximately 75 years old and has worked in over 100 countries around the world since its founding.

In the United States, we come alongside local churches, community organizations and hundreds of individual volunteers to support newly arriving refugee and other immigrant families. Today, we are proud to partner with over 6,000 local churches, and 95,000 volunteers globally to bring hope, healing and transformation to the most vulnerable.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten?  Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

This position has the primary responsibility for providing English language instruction for adult refugees and immigrants from literacy to intermediate levels. This position helps students gain practical English language proficiency for survival, basic communication, further education, and employment/career success in the United States. Instructors facilitate students moving toward stability and healthy integration into the community. Instruction occurs in multiple modalities across the department: in-person, hybrid, and remote. Language courses offered by the department include emergent literacy, traditional English Language instruction (ESL/ELL), job readiness training, and career-based instruction. This position collaborates weekly with other instructors and gains pedagogical coaching to meet the unique needs of our clients through 1-1 meetings with our Instructional Manager and Curriculum Specialist.

The current role available in the department is a 24 hour/week position to teach an online morning class four days a week from 9AM-11AM followed by an online evening class two nights a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays) from 6:15PM-8:30PM.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provide level-specific, student-centered English language instruction for adult refugees and immigrants.
• Design scaffolded multi-level lesson plans and develop curriculum materials focused on English language skills using the communicative approach, informed by the World Relief Curriculum Guide and the Illinois ESL Content Standards.
• Develop lessons appropriate to method of delivery: in-person, remote, or hybrid.
• Integrate life skills, digital literacy, basic math concepts, and career pathways into rigorous English Language instruction and practice.
• Provide meaningful tasks for volunteers to engage with individuals or small groups to support student learning.
• Create a learning environment that is welcoming, accessible, engaging, and active.

• Conduct student assessments and attendance.
• Complete monthly reports (i.e., attendance and volunteer hours) as scheduled to ensure program compliance.
• Collect signed student work samples at regular intervals.
• Track professional development.

• Complete a minimum of fifteen hours of professional development each fiscal year.
• Share teaching skills, materials, information and ideas in department meetings.
• Attend staff meetings and other trainings as required.
• Participate in Education Department meetings or events.

• Knowledge of Second Language Acquisition Teaching Methodology for Adults
• Develop communicative and engaging lesson plans and implement them to assist students in English language acquisition
• Strong Communication Skills (oral and written)
• Able to take initiative
• Collaborative
• Learner (willing and eager to grow and learn)
• Flexible

• Mature and personal Christian faith
• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
• Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
• M.A. in TESOL/Approved TESOL Certificate with related MA or BA in Education with an approved TESOL Certificate
• Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural skills
• Digital literacy skills
• 1 year of Adult ESL teaching experience or teaching internship

World Relief offers a competitive benefits package for Part-time positions (less than 25 hours per week): 

-Offer 16 Paid Holidays (Regular Part Time) 

-Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 

-Additional Benefits available as required by State/Local law

World Relief - Retirement:    

-Eligibility: After 1000 hours in a year 

-Automatically enrolled at 4% 

-401K & Roth through Fidelity 

-WR matches up to 4%, then an additional quarter percent up to 10%  

World Relief Discounts (Immediately Eligible): 

-Verizon 

-Pet Insurance through Nationwide 

-Home and Auto insurance through Liberty Mutual 

-Working Advantage Discount Program

World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation, Silver Level for meeting or exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations, program execution, and whole person health.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

·         While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations

·         The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds.

·         Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information.

·         The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 

·         General office setting. World Relief also offers hybrid and remote schedules for limited positions.

·         Great lengths of time working on computer, reading from computer screen, entering information, standing at copier or fax machine, and some time on the phone or in virtual meetings may be required.

·         Year-end archiving activities involve repeated lifting and bending.

·         Physical, emotional and intellectual demands

·         Equipment used: Employee computer (desktop or laptop), printer, and copier.

·         All of the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Individuals may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This position description is not all-inclusive and is always under review.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.

For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Legal Background in the United States

World Relief is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. World Relief strictly prohibits and does not tolerate unlawful discrimination against employees on the basis of person’s race, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law, which does not conflict with the protections afforded World Relief as a faith-based employer.  

In addition, physical or mental limitations will not be a factor in the application of World Relief's employment policies or employee practices, except for those situations in which occupational requirement make consideration of such factors necessary.

Pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 702 (42 U.S.C. 2000e 1(a) World Relief has the right to, and does, hire only candidates who agree with World Relief’s Statement of Faith.

Salary : $44,500 - $56,300