About SPARK Schools:
Watch our Vision Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOU0TYnNsZo
Take a tour of our Website: https://sparkschools.co.za/
SPARK Schools is a social impact disruptor and is leading change in the education space through its network of affordable private schools. The SPARK Schools network provides transformational education innovation through Africa’s first blended learning model, which elevates student achievement and provides the tools teachers need to serve their students effectively.
The blended learning model, which combines classroom teaching and online instruction, allows teachers to anticipate student needs and equips schools to provide personalized education at an affordable cost. SPARK Schools is pioneering this transformative education model to ensure the accessibility of university and careers for all.
SPARK Schools has a culture of collaboration, because getting South Africa to lead global education takes a team effort. We are innovators who strive for excellence through persistence and a sense of urgency to achieve SPARK Schools’ vision, mission and social transformational objectives. Our work environment is vibrant/cheerful, fast-paced/dynamic, engaging/stimulating, tech-enabled and data driven.
SPARK Schools is a high growth, mission and values-driven, entrepreneurial organisation, operating 21 primary schools and 5 high schools and serving over 15,500 families. We are looking for dynamic people to join our team.
Reports To: Professional Development Manager/ Centre of Excellence Manager
On-sire reporting: Principal
Purpose of Role:
SPARK Schools teachers drive scholar achievement by maintaining high expectations for classroom culture, behavior and academic growth for all scholars. A SPARK Schools Trainee is a versatile, mission-driven professional who is deployed across primary contexts to maintain instructional continuity during planned and unplanned staff absences. This role requires the ability to teach across multiple subjects and grade levels with confidence, adapt to different school cultures quickly and hold high expectations for scholar behaviour and achievement from the first moment of deployment.
The Trainee is not assigned to a single school. They are a network asset, allocated by the Support Office based on real-time need across the portfolio.
Deployment may be same-day, next-day, or advance-planned. The educator must be prepared to travel to any school in the network at short notice.
This role sits within the Centre of Excellence pipeline and may transition into a permanent school-based role upon mutual agreement.
This is not a passive cover role. The Locum Generalist Educator is expected to deliver prepared lesson plans, manage classrooms with authority and care and integrate into the existing school team as a functional, contributing member — even on short-term engagements.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
Instructional Delivery
Uphold behavioural expectations, routines and classroom culture from the first period of the first day, whether working inside or outside the classroom
Flex across any slot or block of the PLM model as needed, providing responsive support wherever scholars and staff require it
Assist with delivering engaging, rigorous instruction using available learning materials, platforms and resources across assigned subjects
Provide personalised learning facilitation support in experience labs or online instruction settings
Support co-teaching arrangements alongside permanent staff, operating with expectations similar to those of a teaching assistant role
Assist in the creation and innovation of school systems, routines and processes that improve the learning environment and scholar experience
Support the administration of formative and termly assessments and contribute to tracking and analysing scholar progress data to ensure all scholars meet required proficiency ratings
School Community & Operations
Attend morning huddles, team meetings and any other school-based…