Senior Phase Teacher

Role: Senior Phase Teacher. Location: Giyani, Limpopo. The team is hiring and seeks a candidate who can step in and deliver from week one.

What This Role Involves

This Senior Phase Teacher role has been briefed against a clear set of outcomes for Giyani. The successful candidate will work alongside an established team and will be expected to contribute meaningfully to the teaching jobs pipeline across Limpopo.

Day-to-day, the role balances focused delivery with the kind of collaboration that keeps things moving. The successful candidate is trusted to make sensible decisions inside the agreed scope, with line-management support whenever a sounding board is useful.

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 Giyani.

The role has been written to be sustainable, not just busy. Strong output is expected, and managers in Giyani also pay attention to recovery, learning and the kind of breathing room that keeps people doing good work over time.

Tools, systems and information are there to support the role rather than slow it down. The company continues to invest in the technology that backs its Giyani teams, and the new Senior Phase Teacher will feel that from the first week.

Why Join Us

You will join a team that values respectful collaboration, honest feedback and shared wins. The Giyani colleagues take pride in supporting one another and in doing the teaching jobs side of the business properly, day in and day out.

Equally, the package, working arrangements and any available support will be confirmed by the hiring organisation for this vacancy.

Career development may be available depending on the role, business needs and the hiring organisation’s policies.

Crucially, the role’s development opportunities, training and benefits, if offered, will be set out in the final vacancy details.

Day in the Life

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.

No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Giyani.

Importantly, the Giyani 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.

Importantly, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Limpopo operations throw up the unexpected.

Growing With Us

Crucially, this role can grow with you. Strong performers in the teaching jobs team in Giyani 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 Giyani have moved into roles in other branches, specialist functions and project teams across Limpopo.

Growth conversations happen at a regular cadence — not just at year-end — so the path forward stays current and realistic for every Giyani team member.

Diversity and Inclusion

Inclusive recruitment is part of the organisation’s employment practices. Applicants are assessed on relevant qualifications, skills and experience for this role in Giyani.

Practically speaking, inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Giyani.

Beyond that, the hiring organisation’s applicable employment-equity and inclusion practices will be explained in the final vacancy details for Limpopo.

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.

Your Workplace

Practically speaking, the environment is school-based, with structured timetables, a strong focus on learner well-being and a culture of professional collaboration across phases and subjects.

Notably, the working environment is set up to give the team the focus needed for deeper work, while keeping collaboration and quick problem-solving close at hand.

Health, safety and well-being are taken seriously. Current policies and procedures are maintained, and the Giyani site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.

On top of that, the role is intended to operate under the hiring organisation’s workplace conduct, health and safety policies in Limpopo.

About the Team

Beyond that, you will join a tight-knit, collaborative team that knows the teaching jobs side of the business inside out. The Giyani 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.

Importantly, the team structure and working relationships for this role in Giyani will be explained during the hiring process.

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.

Core Functions

• Plan, prepare and deliver lessons aligned to the CAPS curriculum
• Mentor student teachers and contribute to peer-learning initiatives
• Maintain accurate mark sheets, attendance and learner profile records
• Support whole-school improvement plans and quality assurance processes
• Maintain SACE registration and engage in continuous professional development
• Manage classroom resources, learner materials and digital platforms
• Participate in subject moderation and departmental planning meetings

What You’ll Need

• Ability to support learners with diverse learning needs
• Experience integrating technology into lessons is an advantage
• Strong collaboration with phase, subject and pastoral teams
• Commitment to safeguarding and learner well-being
• Working knowledge of the CAPS curriculum and assessment policies
• Strong classroom management and discipline strategies

Candidates who meet most of these criteria are welcome to be considered for the role.