Booksie

We are seeking an experienced professional for this opening. Booksie is a pan-African online children’s bookshop and literacy centre on a mission to make African children’s books easily accessible and to help children fall in love with books. Learn more at www.mybooksiebox.com Position Overview: Job Title: Curriculum Designer & Reading Tutor  About the role The Curriculum Designer and Reading Tutor will design curriculum, lesson plans and activities that teach children how to read using a combination of Jolly Phonics and Booksie’s own developed learning-to-read programme. The end goal is to get readers to fall in love with reading and books by improving their reading proficiency. Your work will be a fun cross between being a preschool literacy teacher and a librarian. Your role and responsibilities - Design a learning-to-read curriculum using a combination of Jolly Phonics and Booksie’s learning-to-read programme - Create lesson plans based on the curriculum. These will be delivered by you and other reading tutors - Design activities and games that teach reading - Design and create teaching-learning materials - Train tutors, interns and volunteers to understand and deliver the curriculum Required Qualifications: - At least 2 years of experience being a preschool teacher - Training and certification in teaching jolly phonics - Montessori training is a plus - Excellent writing and communication skills - Must be computer literate and know how to use Microsoft word, excel, and PowerPoint - Fantastic research skills - Must be a bookworm - A love for arts and crafts and DIY activities is a plus - Some knowledge of and experience with design software such as Canva, Easil, Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, etc - Must be motivated, disciplined, a self-starter and very organised - Good knowledge of Google suite (google docs, sheets, slides, etc) - Must be creative and brimming with ideas! Requested application materials - CV - Writing samples: lesson plans, blogs or articles (optional) - Assignment – to be sent to the applicant once the resume has been submitted and reviewed Application Process: Process: Email your CV and writing samples to [email protected]. Use the subject line Curriculum Designer and Reading Tutor Application