Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) Curriculum Coordinator

Key Responsibilities
As a Group Curriculum Coordinator, you will be responsible for overseeing the curriculum development and quality assurance processes across all campuses. This role requires strong leadership and teamwork skills to ensure effective communication, strategic planning, and continual improvement in teaching and learning. You will also play a key role in professional development, data analysis, and resource management, ensuring alignment with the company’s values and goals.

Curriculum & Quality Assurance
- Coordinate the planning, implementation, review, and production of the subject’s curriculum and schemes of work within the framework of the Cambridge curriculum.
- Produce assessments for all campuses that are appropriate to each course of study, ensuring that assessment is both regular and thorough, and that full records are kept in accordance with the school’s assessment policy.
- Analyze examination results and other key student data points, prepare stakeholder-specific/appropriate reports, and cascade information to those stakeholders through relevant and applicable channels.
- Identify strategic priorities for development within the curriculum and/or associated grades. Work with campuses to implement agreed company strategic goals in these areas.
- Produce and update curriculum policies and strategic plans related to the subject.
- Prepare and deliver effective professional development training that supports the development of individuals/groups or identified strategic priorities within the subject or phase.
- Actively participate in the regular monitoring and quality assurance of the curriculum across all campuses.
- Participate in annual budget planning and work with procurement to ensure the subject/phase is fully resourced within the parameters of the agreed budget.
- Through facilitating the sharing of resources and ‘best practice’, establish a culture of continual improvement in teaching and learning in the subject/phase.
- Ensure effective communication, and chair regular meetings relating to the subject/phase across all campuses.
- Keep abreast of new developments in content and teaching strategies, including the use of innovative technologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence [AI]) within the subject/ phase.
- Interview support for subject-specific teaching recruitment as requested by campus management and/or per company recruitment practice.
- Support other group subject coordinators in their roles as a member of the CAD.
- Actively participate in admissions and marketing events as required.
- Line management responsibility for Central Academic Department MFL teaching headcount.
- Recruitment and retention of Central Academic Department MFL teaching headcount.
- Support interviews of campus MFL headcount candidates as and when requested by campus leadership.
- Other duties, as directed by the Central Academic Director which support the development and integration of best practice in the subject/phase.

Teaching
This post includes a teaching load that may be a Fixed Schedule, Substitution, or a combination of both. The teaching load is up to 40% of the total working load.

Other Duties
- Participate in Parent/Teacher meetings, school events, graduation ceremonies, and other public events, marketing, and promotional activities/events as assigned by the Academic Leadership Team.
- Attending professional conferences, seminars, and workshops; deliver presentations on behalf of the Company as and when required.
- Other duties as assigned by your Line Manager and the Academic Leadership Team.

Your background and experience
This is a certified position that requires you to have a recognised teaching qualification. Please note that you must have the following qualifications to be considered:

- Bachelors or Masters in Education or
- Relevant degree (minimum 3-year Bachelor degree in an relevant subject) and a post-graduate qualification in education (PGCE, IPGCE, Teaching Now/Ready) and/or a teaching license from a national/state accreditation board.

This position is not open to candidates without the above qualifications.

Furthermore, we are looking for candidates who:
- Have proven success in teaching MFL in a UK Curriculum school with at least 5-years' general experience.
- Have previous leadership and management experience within a MFL department (preferred).
- Have knowledge and understanding of current developments in a MFL teaching and also of relevant wider educational issues.
- Have an ability to work hard under pressure and as a positive team member; ability to prioritise and meet deadlines; commitment to continuous improvement and development.
- Show a willingness to embrace our VAS core values.
- Have real enthusiasm for their subject and a commitment to teaching.
- Recognise the value of learning beyond the classroom in enhancing the understanding and experience of the world in which we live.
- Are a team player, with a ‘can do’ solution-focused attitude.
- Possess outstanding communication skills and personal integrity.
- Can commit to a 2-year contract.

Benefits
As a senior employee, our package will include a competitive base salary, monthly housing allowance, relocation allowance (for overseas hires), visa and work permit reimbursement, settling-in allowance (for overseas hires), tuition waiver for up to two children, medical insurance, numerous weeks of paid holidays, retention bonus, and more. In addition, you will have generous non-contact time for planning, preparation and professional growth.

Next steps
To apply for this role, please send your full application including your resume, cover letter, scans of all relevant documents/certifications, three references, and a copy of your passport.

Number of Contract Days

As a bilingual school that adheres to the Vietnamese school year calendar, we do not have half-term breaks. Our terms run typically from late-July to mid-December, and January to end of May. The January-May term has a 2-week break for Vietnamese New Year (Tet), the dates of which change yearly as it is a Lunar holiday.

Teachers get paid leave for Vietnamese Public Holidays and Christmas (typically Christmas is 2 weeks, subject to the Vietnamese School Calendar).

Accommodation

Monthly housing allowance provided in addition to salary and included in monthly pay

Flights/Transport

Cost of flights reimbursed if recruited from overseas, based on the provision of receipts up to a maximum value per any contract offer.

Moving Allowance

Relocation Allowance provided for teachers moving to Vietnam from overseas or relocating to Ho Chi Minh City from another location within Vietnam.

Relocation Allowance will be quoted in any contract offer.

Dependent Opportunities

Tuition discount or waiver for dependents (max 2)

Medical

International Health Insurance