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Listing live now. Role: English Teacher. Location: Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. The team is hiring and seeks a candidate who can step in and deliver from week one.
The Role
This English Teacher role sits within the teaching jobs function in Uitenhage. It offers a defined scope, clear measures of success, and the support of an experienced team across Eastern Cape.
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 Uitenhage team.
Stakeholders for this position include line managers, peers across the teaching jobs team and trusted external partners. Building those relationships early makes the next twelve months in Uitenhage much easier.
Your Future Here
Equally, this role can grow with you. Strong performers in the teaching jobs team in Uitenhage 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 Uitenhage have moved into roles in other branches, specialist functions and project teams across Eastern Cape.
Where You’ll Work
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.
Beyond that, 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 Uitenhage site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.
Your Role
- Participate in subject moderation and departmental planning meetings
- Assess learner progress through formative and summative assessments
- Implement school disciplinary procedures fairly and consistently
- Maintain SACE registration and engage in continuous professional development
- Plan, prepare and deliver lessons aligned to the CAPS curriculum
- Provide individualised support to learners with diverse needs
What You’ll Need
- Commitment to continuous professional development
- Ability to support learners with diverse learning needs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills appropriate to the role
- Working knowledge of the CAPS curriculum and assessment policies
- Empathy, patience and a genuine love of teaching
- Strong collaboration with phase, subject and pastoral teams
- Willingness to participate in extra-mural activities
Potential is considered alongside experience, so candidates who tick most of these boxes should still be considered.