Booksie is a pan-African online children’s bookshop and literacy centre on a mission to make African children’s books easily accessible and to help children fall in love with books. Learn more at www.mybooksiebox.com

About the role

The Curriculum Designer and Reading Tutor will design curriculum, lesson plans and activities that teach children how to read using a combination of Jolly Phonics and Booksie’s own developed learning to read programme. The end goal is to get readers to fall in love with reading and books by improving their reading proficiency.

Your work will be a fun cross between being a preschool literacy teacher and a librarian.

Your role and responsibilities

1. Design a learning-to-read curriculum using a combination of Jolly Phonics and Booksie’s learning-to-read programme
2. Create lesson plans based on the curriculum. These will be delivered by you and other reading tutors
3. Design activities and games that teach reading
4. Design and create teaching learning materials
5. Train tutors, interns and volunteers to understand and deliver the curriculum

Qualifications

1. At least 2 years of experience being a preschool teacher
2. Training and certification in teaching jolly phonics
3. Montessori training is a plus
4. Excellent writing and communication skills
5. Must be computer literate and know how to use microsoft word, excel, and powerpoint
6. Fantastic research skills
7. Must be a bookworm
8. A love for arts and crafts and DIY activities is a plus
9. Some knowledge of and experience with design software such as Canva, Easil, Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, etc
10. Must be motivated, disciplined, a self starter and very organised
11. Good knowledge of Google suite (google docs, sheets, slides, etc)
12. Must be creative and brimming with ideas!

Requested application materials

1. CV
2. Writing samples: lesson plans, blogs or articles (optional)
3. Assignment – to be sent to applicant once resume has been submitted and reviewed