Primary Teacher - English

Vacancy Announcement

Position: Primary Teacher - English

Location : Surkhet, Karnali Province

"A world where every child is educated, safe and loved"

KVS is a nonprofit school managed by the Kopila Valley Sewa Samaj, an NGO registered in Surkhet, Nepal, and funded by BlinkNow Foundation USA to provide world-class education to the neediest children who deserve the best education.  Our mission is to change the world by empowering Nepal’s children. We provide our students with a free education, educational materials, health treatment and medicine, counseling, and a place to live. With our innovative future program, we strive to provide our children with career guidance, and scholarships for further studies. 

The Blink Now Foundation is a 501(c)(3) based in New Jersey which, through its country office in Nepal, oversees these programs in rural Nepal. Every day we strive to create a sustainable organization working to educate all of Kopila’s children until they are ready to enter the world as happy, skilled, confident, self-sufficient adults. We believe we can serve as a model for quality education in Nepal. We will strive to provide our children with scholarships (should they choose to pursue higher education), the skills required to enter the world as global citizens, and ambassadors for change.

Required Qualification:

Education: Intermediate in any discipline.

Experience: Preferably 2 years of teaching experience in Primary School

Experience teaching the Nepalese national curriculum is highly desirable. 

Major Duties & Responsibilities

In the classroom:

• Establish and enforce rules for behavior, policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
• Teach basic academic skills, personal hygiene, and social skills.
• Demonstrate appropriate social and interpersonal behavior.
• Assimilate arriving children into the school environment by greeting them and selecting activities as per the lesson’s needs and of interest to students.
• Instruct students individually and in groups, adapting teaching methods to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social-emotional development.
• Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, experiment and investigate.
• Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to children.
• Use computers, audiovisual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
• Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical and emotional health.
• Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems, and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
• Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
• Guide and counsel students with adjustment and/or academic problems, or special academic interests.
• Monitor and supervise students in a variety of educational environments (e.g., classroom, playground, field trips, etc.) for the purpose of providing a safe and positive learning environment.
• Prepare a variety of written materials (e.g., bi-weekly journals, parent-teacher conference reports, anecdotal records, class tests, quizzes, students' independence and group work, etc.) for the purpose of documenting student progress and participation in school-related activities.
• Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Organize and label materials and display children's work in a manner appropriate for their sizes and perceptual skills.
• Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials, to prevent injuries and damage.

In the community:

• Meet with parents and guardians (hostel caregivers in case of home children) to discuss their children's progress, and to determine their priorities for their children and their resource needs and reinforce classroom goals in the home environment.
• Involve parent volunteers and older students in children's activities wherever possible.

Other Duties

• Report for duty 5 days before the new academic session and 2 days before classes start after term breaks. These days will be utilized for training and preparation. Check in and check out the attendance system on your arrival and departure.
• Teach 5 periods a day (of 55 minutes), and one period as a proxy class for absent teachers if there is a need. Follow the school calendar and the school/ class routine.
• Supervise the children’s lunch and safety in the playground, corridors, classrooms and other areas once a week.
• Check home assignments and give constructive feedback in your marking, so that children know how to improve. Use your assessment to plan further teaching.
• Teach the children good manners and personal hygiene; teach them to maintain cleanliness in the whole school and correct their mistakes.
• All teachers are expected to participate in extracurricular activities as and when required.
• Be a part of the students’ clubs according to your subject of interest, guide & teach them one hour a week for knowledge & skills besides the classroom teaching, for which a special timetable will be made.
• All leisure periods are to be used for planning, corrections, marking, preparation of activities or teaching aids.
• Read the teachers/staff handbook and follow its guidelines.

Application Procedure

If you think this career opportunity will amplify your career growth, we encourage you to apply by clicking “Apply for this Job” and submit all required document before If your application is a good fit, we will follow up with you directly for the screening process. No telephone inquiries will be entertained.