Current Job Openings
Thank you for your interest in employment opportunities at HopeWorks. We’re excited to expand our team and provide support to people across Memphis and the Mid-South.
- Adult Basic Education: Part-Time Instructor
- Adult English as a Second Language: Part-Time Instructor
- Adult Basic Education: Instructional Site Lead
Instructor (Part-Time): Adult English as a Second Language
DEPARTMENT: AESL
REPORTS TO: Lead Instructor
JOB STATUS: Non-Exempt
Rate of Pay: $27.86 per hour
The Adult ESL Instructor works with the Adult ESL instructional team to prepare and execute instruction of students. The instructor can expect to prepare lessons, instruct students, collaborate with staff, manage sites, contact students regarding progress and record and verify accuracy of data. They should be an engaging instructor who uses performance data to inform instructional decisions, willing to work with a team to accomplish program goals, and conscientious about keeping and recording accurate records. The Adult ESL Instructor is responsible for helping students progress in their English skills (as evidenced by achieving measurable skills gains) and connect with students to track attendance and progress.
The successful Adult ESL Instructor should have an understanding of data-based instruction, strong understanding of the structure of the English language, ability to relate and build rapport with people of diverse backgrounds, and proficiency with computers and software, such as G Suite, Google Classroom, and Promethean Boards. They should be reliable, professional, and have excellent interpersonal skills. They should also be able to differentiate instruction based on student needs and integrate skills and content to deliver cohesive integrated lessons.
Depending upon the location, the instructor will either work M/W from 5:45pm-8:15pm or T/Th from 5:45-8:15pm. The part-time Instructor will be requested to work at one of the following locations:
Power Center Academy, 5390 Mendenhall Mall, Memphis, TN
HopeWorks, 3337 Summer Ave, Memphis, TN
Highland Church of Christ, 400 N Houston Levee Rd, Cordova, TN
Collegiate School of Memphis, 3353 Faxon Ave, Memphis, TN
The Adult ESL Instructor should model HopeWorks values and ethics central to the HopeWorks mission of “Hope in Christ”. To be effective in this position, one must be caring, empathetic, conscientious, confidential, culturally-sensitive, and client-centered. This individual should adhere to professional standards as outlined by rules and regulations governing their profession.
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Adult Basic Education: Instructional Site Lead
DEPARTMENT: ABE
REPORTS TO: Assistant Director
JOB STATUS: Exempt
Rate of Pay: $57,195.12 Annually
The Adult Basic Education (ABE) Site Lead works with the ABE instructional team to prepare and execute instruction of students. The site lead can expect to prepare lessons, instruct students, collaborate with staff, manage sites and their team’s teachers, contact students regarding progress, hold advising sessions for ABE students, record and verify accuracy of data.
The site lead should be an engaging instructor who uses performance data to inform instructional decisions, willing to work with a team to accomplish program goals, and conscientious about keeping and recording accurate records. They are responsible for helping students progress in their academic and career goals by earning a High School Equivalency (HSE) Diploma and/or growing their basic skills in Math, Language, Science, Social Studies, and Reading, as demonstrated by progressing through the six Educational Functioning Levels defined by the National Reporting System (NRS) (as evidenced by achieving measurable skills gains).
The successful Adult Basic Education Site Lead should have an understanding of data-based instruction and the ability to relate and build rapport with people of diverse backgrounds. Instructional duties include, but are not limited to direct teaching, analyzing data, placing students according to their data, managing a team of instructors, administering assessments, counseling students, and other instructional activities involving working directly with the students and teachers as assigned
The Lead Instructor should model Christian values and ethics central to the HopeWorks mission of Hope in Jesus Christ. To be effective in this position, one must be caring, empathetic, conscientious, confidential, culturally-sensitive, and client-centered. This individual should adhere to professional standards as outlined by rules and regulations governing their profession.
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Part-Time Instructor: Adult Basic Education
DEPARTMENT: ABE
REPORTS TO: Lead Instructor
JOB STATUS: Non Exempt
Rate of Pay: $27.86 per hour
The part-time Adult Basic Education Instructor works with the HopeWorks Adult Basic Education instructional team to coordinate instructional services. Instructors can expect to prepare lessons, instruct students, collaborate with staff, contact students regarding progress, and record data. The instructor should be engaging, using performance data to inform instructional decisions, willing to work with a team to accomplish program goals, and conscientious about keeping and recording accurate records.
The instructor is responsible for ensuring an educational atmosphere where adult students residing in Correctional facilities have the opportunity to fulfill their academic and career goals by earning a High School Equivalency (HISET) Diploma and/or growing their basic skills in Math, Language, Science, Social Studies, and Reading, as demonstrated by progressing through the six Educational Functioning Levels defined by the National Reporting System (NRS).
The successful ABE Instructor should have an understanding of data-based instruction, strong understanding of Basic Adult Education, ability to relate and build rapport with people of diverse backgrounds, and proficiency with computers and software, such as G-Suite, Google Classroom, and Promethean Boards. He or she should be reliable, professional, and have excellent interpersonal skills. They should also be able to differentiate instruction based on student data and needs, and integrate skills and content to deliver a cohesive integrated lesson.
The instructor should model Christian values and ethics central to the HopeWorks mission of Hope in Jesus Christ. To be effective in this position, one must be caring, empathetic, conscientious, confidential, culturally-sensitive, and client-centered. This individual should adhere to professional standards as outlined by rules and regulations governing their profession.
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HopeWorks is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly oppose discrimination in the workplace. HopeWorks is built upon teamwork and equal opportunity. We are committed to developing and implementing a program of nondiscrimination. We will subscribe to the principles of an equal opportunity employer and will recruit, interview, hire, classify, train, promote, demote, discipline, transfer, terminate, and set rates of pay or other compensation on the basis of merit and qualification without regard to race, creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disabled or veteran status, or physical or mental disability.