http://ital.ucles-red.cam.ac.uk/; the Interactive Teaching and Learning Unit of UCLES. I worked for them, as a programmer, for a summer - it was a good place to work.
Their website lists no current vacancies in Cambridge, which is either not the case, or else it's still all internal or hush-hush, or else it's something else yet again... so huzzah!
Movements in mysterious ways. If the job is one you want then go get it.
They may have just been very efficient and already taken down the information about jobs whose closing date has passed...
Anyway, the job title is English Project Assistant, and as far as I can tell (from their very sketchy job descriptions) the job involves doing absolutely everything that you don't need to be a qualified teacher to do, for the team who write exam questions for English, so that the qualified teachers can get on with doing the complicated bits.
The only requirement they gave on the job advert was "English graduate", and I have that, in spades. I phoned to ask for a more detailed description and they said they wanted somebody with good communication skills, good writing skills, who can work as part of a team. Which I can do, though I can't necessarily convince people of it in an interview...
It'd only be a 4-6 month contract, but I'd be more than happy with that -- I don't know where I'm going to want to be in 6 months' time, the job sounds like the sort of thing I can do and would enjoy, and it's very well paid (starting at just over 21K). So here's hoping.
Now I just need to go and formulate answers to all the usual awful "Give an example of an occasion when you took the initiative and followed a task through from conception to completion" questions...
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Cor, doing what???@
Movements in mysterious ways. If the job is one you want then go get it.
Re: Cor, doing what???@
Anyway, the job title is English Project Assistant, and as far as I can tell (from their very sketchy job descriptions) the job involves doing absolutely everything that you don't need to be a qualified teacher to do, for the team who write exam questions for English, so that the qualified teachers can get on with doing the complicated bits.
The only requirement they gave on the job advert was "English graduate", and I have that, in spades. I phoned to ask for a more detailed description and they said they wanted somebody with good communication skills, good writing skills, who can work as part of a team. Which I can do, though I can't necessarily convince people of it in an interview...
It'd only be a 4-6 month contract, but I'd be more than happy with that -- I don't know where I'm going to want to be in 6 months' time, the job sounds like the sort of thing I can do and would enjoy, and it's very well paid (starting at just over 21K). So here's hoping.
Now I just need to go and formulate answers to all the usual awful "Give an example of an occasion when you took the initiative and followed a task through from conception to completion" questions...