Job Posting – Literacy and Numeracy Facilitator

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Graeme Smith

Occasionally, I post or repost jobs relating to the adult literacy and numeracy education sector. Here’s a good one.

My friends at The Learning Wave are looking for LN Facilitators. They’re a great bunch to work for. I know as I’ve worked with them on the professional development side of things for just a little under 10 years.

If you’re a graduate of the NCALNE (Voc) or NZCALNE (Voc) and you’re looking for interesting work that combines adult literacy and numeracy with business outcomes then you should apply.

The Learning Wave have a very open mind about the location of facilitators and ways of engaging with them… What they’re after is trainers with the “X” factor. I know that applies to many of our graduates.

Because of the growth that they have forecasted, they may also be interested in people working as associates in other major facets such as leadership, health and safety leadership or learning design.

There’s a generic email address for enquiries here: roles@thelearningwave.com if you want to send a CV or bio and areas of interest.

The full job ad is here on Seek. And I’ve pasted it in below as well.

The Learning Wave are seeking people who have:

the empathy and patience required to work with diverse groups of learners within a team committed to the delivery of high-quality personal and business learning outcomes
relevant and engaging front-line, adult learning delivery skills and experience
the ability to support learners on a journey that is linked to business outcomes
a qualification such as the National Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy or its equivalent.

You will be working as an associate of The Learning Wave to deliver integrated workplace literacy and numeracy programmes to a number of our business clients.

You will deliver learning programmes on-site to small groups (typically 6-9 learners). The programmes are tailored to meet the specific business requirements of our clients and their employees. You will have varied hours and work locations that will be throughout New Zealand, depending on the client’s programme and worksites.

You need to have a good understanding and experience of facilitating adult literacy and numeracy programmes in workplaces. You must be eligible to work in NZ to apply for this role. If you’re the right person, we can discuss whether this is a contractor or full-time role.

About The Learning Wave:

The Learning Wave is one of the largest government-funded workplace literacy and numeracy providers in New Zealand. Operating since 2005, we have worked with many organisations throughout New Zealand to integrate workplace literacy and numeracy skills into organisational change programmes. We have some exciting opportunities to grow our business in 2018 and need to make sure we have the right team of facilitators who can deliver to our clients.

Please send your covering letter and CV by Monday 16th October 2017.

Experienced Workplace Literacy Contract Tutors required: Napier-Hastings

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Graeme Smith

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From time to time, people ask me to post job ads. I’m always happy to do so. Here’s the latest one as of Feb 2017. All contact to the organisation please. Cheers, Graeme.

Training For You Ltd is an award-winning tertiary education provider that believes that education is the key to making a difference in the lives of learners. A commitment to a partnership approach is what makes our programmes successful for learners (employees) and the businesses they work within.

We are seeking experienced literacy tutors who can effectively and efficiently design, develop and deliver quality contextualised teaching and learning activities that engage, challenge and stimulate learning, and improve literacy and numeracy skills, while also meeting the operational goals of the business which the programme is designed for.

These tutor positions are on a contract basis and are likely to be part-time delivering a Workplace Literacy programme within a national business with a site in Napier The role reports to the Education Manager (off campus).

To be effective in this role you must be able to

Understand the impact of the literacy and numeracy demands and needs of the workplace on employees (learners) with low levels of literacy and numeracy
Design and deliver customised and contextualised training packages for the business based on agreed outcomes
Profile the literacy and numeracy abilities of the learners, and understand how to modify teaching to meet the needs of the individual learners
Implement specialised literacy assistance one-on-one for learners with very high needs
Undertake accurate and timely programme administration and reporting
Reflect on teaching practice and continuously improve quality of delivery

Successful applicants will have the following:

NCALNE or a specialist literacy qualification
Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
A professional approach to working with businesses and learners
Current or recent experience in the delivery of Literacy and Numeracy programmes
Full, clean Driver licence
Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of people from diverse cultural backgrounds, in both group and one-to-one settings
Proven strategies for working with students with learning difficulties
Competent use of Microsoft Office programmes
Advanced organisational and time management skills

Applicants who do not currently hold a NZ working visa or permanent NZ residency or citizenship need not apply.

If you have the qualifications, we’d love to hear from you immediately.

For a confidential conversation, phone Rachel on 06 349 1258 or 027 348 2439.

Applications close 8 March 2017

Apply to Rachel Smith

rachel@trainingforyou.co.nz

Literacy & Numeracy Job Vacancies: Kaiako / Tutor Positions With Te Wananga o Aotearoa and Corrections

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Graeme Smith

Here’s the first job vacancy announcement for the Job Board from my friends at Te Wananga O Aotearoa.

Seems fitting that it’s International Literacy Day. Perhaps you should celebrate by getting a new job.

Did I say that there are 14 positions available? This is exciting work moving forward in the most challenging teaching environment you can find anywhere.

We still have a handful of places available in our professional development course if you need to get the qualification mentioned below.

Feel free to comment. Pasted in below:

Kaiako/Tutor – Literacy & Numeracy Support Services (14 positions)

Fixed term (until 30 June 2018), full time
Ref: 15DIDG487 – Northern, Central and Lower Northern Regions

He karanga tēnei ki te hunga e kai ngākau nui ana ki te kaupapa o Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Mā te hoe kotahi ka haere kotahi atu

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is working with the Department of Corrections to provide literacy and numeracy support services (LNSS) throughout NZ correctional facilities within the Northern/Central and the Lower Northern Regions at this stage. We invite applications from passionate, professional and energetic individuals for the Kaiako / Tutor positions.

Reporting to the Regional Manager the primary function of the Kaiako role is to deliver Literacy & Numeracy Support Services (LNSS) within the Prison environment to support Tauira / Learner gain in literacy and numeracy life and vocational skills to enable tauira to pathway into further education.

Key responsibilities include:

Assessing tauira and interpreting their results using the Literacy and Numeracy for Adults’ Assessment tool (LNAAT);
Developing teaching materials such as handouts and study materials as required to support learning;
Developing, implementing, evaluating and reporting on learner progression using Tauira Individual Learning Plans (ILP’s);
Facilitating learning sessions to increase tauira knowledge, skills and competence;
Maintaining records of tauira assessment results, attendance registers, progress and feedback.

Qualifications and experience include:

Holding or working towards The National Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (NCALNE) (Voc) (Level 5) qualification as a minimum;
NZQA unit standard 4098;
2 years’ experience successfully delivering training to at risk or second chance learners is essential;
The ability to pass a stringent Police check to enable access to corrections facilities and delivering Literacy and Numeracy training in the prison context; and
The ability to understand and converse in te reo Māori at a basic level and an understanding of Māori values, culture and tikanga would be an advantage.

As the successful candidate you will be required to complete the Department of Corrections on site induction in addition to the Te Wānanga o Aotearoa induction process.

To apply for this position you must complete an application form which you will find on the previous web page along with the position description for this role. Send your application along with an updated CV and a cover letter to –

hrdept@twoa.ac.nz or HR Department, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, PO Box 151, Te Awamutu 3840 Enquiries to 0800 777 404

Closes 5:00pm, 21 September 2015

Literacy & Numeracy Jobs Wanted: Setting Up LN Job Board

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Graeme Smith

Are you looking for staff with literacy and numeracy expertise and credentials?

If you have a literacy and numeracy related job to advertise, I will post it here for free. The same thing applies if you are looking for a contractor or consulting expertise relating to adult literacy and numeracy.

At the moment, I am only interested in jobs offered, not jobs wanted.

This is an experiment… And I’m happy to give it some time and energy thanks to the responses I got the other day (check out the comment section if you’re interested).

For the present time, I’m happy to post any literacy and numeracy related positions, jobs or contract work. I will post positions for literacy and numeracy related work in New Zealand, Australia, for online or remote work, and internationally if I get them.

This includes work where the job is for someone who is a dual professional, e.g. a specialist in some content area other than numeracy and literacy, but who has the skills to embed literacy and numeracy into that content. NCALNE qualified trades trainers and vocational tutors fall into this category.

And of course, I’ll post jobs that are for literacy and numeracy specialists.

Terms and conditions are whatever I feel like at the time and I reserve the right not to publish your company’s job or position if I think it’s dodgy or breaches my sense of ethics or any other rules I make up at any later stage.

Possible ideas for job postings could include any or all of these:

Vocational and trade-related training at levels 1 and 2 where literacy and numeracy are embedded.
Workplace Literacy (WPL) and numeracy education.
Intensive literacy and numeracy (ILN).
Adult literacy and numeracy education including professional development and related employment or contract work.
Any other foundation learning focused training where literacy and numeracy are required or desired.
Any management, support, coordination, or consulting positions where the focus is on supporting tutors or trainers in any of the roles above.

How do I do I get a job posted here?

For the present time, if you want to post a job here you can leave a message in the comment section of this blog post (or any post on my blog), and we’ll work out how to exchange the info.

I’ll probably ask you for the following:

An relevant image that I can upload, e.g. your company logo or branding.
The text for the job advertisement.
An expiry date for the post.
A commitment to answer any questions that people leave on the site regarding the job.
A commitment to come back and comment when or if the position is filled.

I’ll probably just post your text “as is” but I also reserve the right to edit it or make comments as well.

If you think this is useful to someone, particularly someone in management who might not regularly see my blog, please consider sharing this post with them via one of the sharing buttons below. Or just message them with the short link to this page: http://wp.me/p1JmwP-LP

If I get any traction with this I may revisit my idea for some kind of voluntary “opt in” register of LN credentialed professionals who are currently active. Thanks for the support so far.

Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (ALNE) Job Board: Anyone interested…?

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Graeme Smith

I’m thinking of adding a Job Board to my blog. Or alternatively, I might set up another site just to deal with this if it got a lot of traffic.

There aren’t that many jobs relating to literacy and numeracy and foundation learning, but then again the pool of talent is quite small as well.

Job postings could potentially include any of the following:

Vocational and trade-related training at levels 1 and 2 where literacy and numeracy are embedded.
Workplace Literacy (WPL) and numeracy education.
Intensive literacy and numeracy (ILN).
Adult literacy and numeracy education including professional development and related employment or contract work.
Any other foundation learning focused training where literacy and numeracy are required or desired.
Any management or coordination roles where the focus is on supporting tutors or trainers in any of the roles above.

Did I miss anything? Anyone interested if I set this up? Please comment and let me know. If I hear nothing, I’ll assume no interest.

How do you improve your elevator pitch if you work in an obscure education niche…?

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Graeme Smith

In my field, one of the things that we’re crap at is explaining to people in plain English what it is that we actually do. Not only is that ironic, but we tend to undermine our actual work with longwinded explanations that turn us into hypocrites.

Here’s my solution.

If you work in foundation education, or more specifically literacy and numeracy the job is to teach better, improve learning, and help people do stuff better.

How we actually do this gets a bit more technical. But helping people do stuff better… that’s what the job is.

In-depth Literacy and Numeracy Demands of Jobs: Workbase Resources

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Graeme Smith

This work was done before the Learning Progressions became the underpinning framework for assessing and teaching literacy and numeracy in New Zealand, but there are pages and pages of analysis on literacy and numeracy skills and tasks relating to different jobs. I’ve pasted in screenshots from the resource that looks at the job of a truck driver.

These job profiles mostly just give you lists of things that people have to do to do the work, but without any indication of the levels of difficulty attached to these kinds of actions. However, there is still some really great information here if you look at it with your Learning Progressions-tinted glasses on and realise that most of it probably happens around steps 4, 5, and 6.

If you needed to you could easily map the breakdown of skills and tasks to the learning progressions and work out what steps things are likely to happen at.

One of the really nice things is that this system includes information about the critical thinking skills required in the job – something that is missing from the Learning Progressions, at least in explicit terms.

You can get a detailed description of possible literacy and numeracy tasks and demands for the following long list of jobs and trades here:

Apprentice Chef
Automotive Electrician
Automotive Heavy Engineer
Automotive Light Vehicle Trades
Automotive Light Vehicle Specialist Technician
Automotive Refinisher
Beauty Therapist
Carpenter
Catering Assistant
Coal Miner
Collision Repair Technician
Electrical Appliance Service Trainee
Flooring Installer
General Worker/Operator
Glass Processor
Glazier
Hairdresser
Line Mechanic
Metal Fabricator/Welder
Pharmacy Assistant
Pharmacy Technician
Plumber
Quarry Manager
Quarry Operator
Ramp Operator
Retail Salesperson
Roofing Trainee
Site Security Officer
Sports Turf Management Trainee
Storekeeper
Textile Operator
Truckdriver
Tyre Technician
Youth Worker

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