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Role: Pre-Primary Teacher. Location: Cape Town, Western Cape. The team is hiring and seeks a candidate who can step in and deliver from week one.
About the Opportunity
The Pre-Primary Teacher vacancy forms part of how the Cape Town branch keeps performing. It pairs day-to-day delivery with longer-running priorities that keep the teaching jobs side of the business moving forward.
Expect a structured first ninety days, with onboarding milestones, regular check-ins, and an early focus on getting comfortable with the systems and processes that underpin the Cape Town team.
Reasonable working hours and respectful planning are part of how the role runs. The team values strong delivery, and load is balanced fairly across the teaching jobs group in Cape Town.
Quality is everyone’s job. Whether the Pre-Primary Teacher is processing a transaction, supporting a colleague or handling a customer query, the standard expected in Western Cape is consistently high and consistently fair.
Career Growth
This role can grow with you. Strong performers in the teaching jobs team in Cape Town have moved into senior, supervisory and specialist positions, and that journey is supported through coaching, training and exposure to bigger projects.
Training is a mix of formal courses, structured on-the-job learning and exposure to broader projects, all geared at building practical skills.
Internal mobility is encouraged. People who start in Cape Town have moved into roles in other branches, specialist functions and project teams across Western Cape.
Growth conversations happen at a regular cadence — not just at year-end — so the path forward stays current and realistic for every Cape Town team member.
What Your Day Looks Like
Your day begins before the bell, with last-minute lesson prep, learner check-ins and a moment to set the tone for the classroom. Lessons follow the rhythm of the timetable, but no two are quite the same — you adapt explanations, encourage quiet learners, and gently redirect those who need it. Breaks are spent marking, planning or supporting colleagues, and after-school hours might bring a meeting, an extra-mural or a parent conversation. By the time you head home, you have shaped young minds in small but lasting ways.
Practically speaking, the Cape Town office buzzes through peak hours and settles into focused, productive lulls in between, giving you time to plan and reset before the next stretch of work.
No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Cape Town.
On top of that, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Western Cape operations throw up the unexpected.
Our Commitment to Transformation
Importantly, the organisation supports a respectful workplace. Applications are welcome from suitably qualified candidates across Western Cape, and recruitment is intended to be fair and transparent.
Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Cape Town.
On top of that, the hiring organisation’s applicable employment-equity and inclusion practices will be explained in the final vacancy details for Western Cape.
B-BBEE compliance is more than a scorecard here. It informs how the business invests in skills development, supplier diversity and community engagement across the country.
About the Team
You will join a tight-knit, collaborative team that knows the teaching jobs side of the business inside out. The Cape Town group is a healthy mix of experienced operators and newer joiners, all of whom share a strong commitment to delivery and to one another.
Line management is hands-on without being heavy. Expect regular one-to-ones, honest feedback and the support needed to do good work consistently.
Collaboration is the default working mode. Whether picking up a quick query or working through a complex project, you will find colleagues willing to lean in and help.
Practically speaking, the team structure and working relationships for this role in Cape Town will be explained during the hiring process.
Daily Duties
- Plan, prepare and deliver lessons aligned to the CAPS curriculum
- Communicate regularly with parents and guardians on learner progress
- Mentor student teachers and contribute to peer-learning initiatives
- Maintain accurate mark sheets, attendance and learner profile records
- Integrate technology and active-learning strategies into lessons
Essential Criteria
- Experience integrating technology into lessons is an advantage
- Strong classroom management and discipline strategies
- Strong collaboration with phase, subject and pastoral teams
- Empathy, patience and a genuine love of teaching
- 2+ years’ classroom experience (less for early-career roles)
- Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) or PGCE in the relevant phase
- Willingness to participate in extra-mural activities
Each application is reviewed carefully, and strong matches against the criteria above will move forward in the process.