English Curriculum Coordinator

Employer: Action Tutoring 

Location: This role can be remote (UK based), with occasional travel required. Our London office address is: 8-10, Fivefields, Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH  

Temporary: 12-month fixed-term maternity cover contract 

Working hours: 0.6FTE (all year) or 0.8FTE (term time only). A full working week is 37.5 hours 

Salary: £17,509 per annum for 0.6 FTE (all year) or £20,651 per annum for 0.8 FTE (term time only), plus London Weighting of up to £2,409 per annum, pro rata where applicable  

Closing date: Sunday, 26th July

• Job description

  You will help drive the quality and impact of our key stage 2 (KS2), key stage 3 (KS3) and key stage 4 (KS4) English tutoring programmes through improving our English resources. You will create training materials and provide advice and support to our volunteers and our (mostly) non-teaching staff members who manage these volunteer tutors day to day. You will be engaged in our AI tutoring pilot including undertaking pedagogical reviews of potential English AI tutoring tools.
  
  Deadline: Sunday, 26th July
  Interviews: Monday, 3rd August 2026
  Start date: Ideally, Thursday, 1st October 2026
  Contract and hours: 0.6FTE (all year) or 0.8FTE (term time only), 12-month fixed-term maternity cover contract. A full working week is 37.5 hours.
  
  Duties and responsibilities
  

  • Following a defined brief, generate improvements to our KS4 English curriculum resources to enable pilot testing in AY26.27 Summer Term.

  • Maintain our KS2 - KS4 English curriculum resources to ensure volunteer tutors have high quality materials to use in sessions.

  • Support Action Tutoring’s Programme Department to provide and respond to requests for additional materials for tutoring sessions, particularly English sessions.

  • Design and deliver online English-focused training for volunteer tutors so that subject knowledge is secure within the tutor community.

  • Provide advice and support, including some direct tutor communications, on subject-specific matters for Action Tutoring staff who manage volunteer tutors.

  • Engage and support Action Tutoring’s AI research including by undertaking pedagogical reviews of AI tutoring tools and supporting with tool development. 

  Person specification
  
  Qualification criteria:
  
  We are looking for someone who is/has:
  

  • Qualified (QTS) secondary school teacher of English 

  • At least two year’s teaching experience in English state schools with an understanding of the barriers facing disadvantaged pupils

  
  We are looking for the following attributes, though you might be more experienced in some areas than others:
  

  • Experience designing and formatting curriculum resources to support learning, either for print or digital use

  • Understanding of the different pedagogical approaches required in small-group learning compared to classroom teaching, with a robust understanding of tutoring as a mechanism for supporting pupil personalised learning

  • Willingness to learn and become confident in the KS2 English curriculum

  • Able to communicate pedagogy in jargon free, accessible ways to non-specialists

  • Empathetic and skilled at providing feedback in a sensitive but constructive way

  • Organised with strong time-management skills, able to independently manage a varied range of tasks and responsibilities

  • Good attention to detail with administrative tasks, able to follow instructions well with a working understanding of the importance of data privacy

  • Adaptable and open to learning with a passion for self-improvement, proactively seeking opportunities to develop and upskill

  • Commitment to Action Tutoring’s Mission

  • Committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

  • Committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children

  You will likely be more successful in this role if you: 
  

  • Experience delivering training or CPD to adults with energy and confidence, able to engage attendees, facilitate discussion and manage time effectively

  • Experience as a private, school-based or volunteer tutor or experience of teaching exam resit classes

  • Evidence-based knowledge of how children and adults learn online compared to in person

  • Provided coaching or mentoring to trainee teachers

  • Experience as a GCSE English examiner

  Benefits

  Hybrid working
  We offer a flexible combination of office and home based working.
  Holiday
  25 days holiday a year (plus UK public holidays), increasing by a day for each complete year of service (up to five extra days). 3 additional days between Christmas and New Year.
  Flexitime and TOIL
  We have a flexible policy for working hours, and offer TOIL where staff have to work particularly early in the day or late in the evening, so that they can reclaim those hours at another time.
  Team away days
  The whole team across the UK gets together three times a year.
  Pensions
  We have a workplace pension scheme with a 4% employer contribution.
  Sabbatical leave
  We offer paid and unpaid sabbatical leaves to our long standing colleagues.
  Culture of celebrating
  Regular thanks and praise and monthly recognition of ’heroes’ to celebrate employees going above and beyond.
  Knowledge-sharing
  Lots of opportunities to learn from others in the organisation, including policy briefings, shadowing colleagues and peer-to-peer development.
  Socials
  Team socials around team days, regular bring-and-share team lunches and other activities.
  Proofreading Team
  As well as checking the accuracy of all content Action Tutoring shares with external audiences, our proofreading team supports individuals who would value an extra pair of eyes on their writing.
  Ad hoc projects
  Interested in other exciting topics relevant to our charity? Then join one of our working groups (including policy, diversity and inclusion, curriculum and training, socials, data and insights) and support with ongoing projects.

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