Employment

Oxbridge Academic Programs leads programs in England, at Oxford and Cambridge, and in Paris, Barcelona, and New York City. We are looking for dynamic, highly motivated team players who can help create and run enjoyable programs for 8th through 12th grade students, 13-18 years old.

Working with Oxbridge Academic Programs is an excellent way to share your knowledge and enthusiasms with passionate students in one of five dynamic locations around Europe and the United States. Each year, we recruit new instructors to design and teach our courses and administrations to serve as Program Deans, Program Assistants, and Activities Directors.

ELIGIBILITY:

To work on our programs in England, France, and Spain:

• If you are a graduate student, academic, or creative professional, and based in the United Kingdom or Europe, you are eligible to apply as a Teacher or Study Group Leader on our Europe programs.
• If you are a Middle or High School educator outside of Europe, you are eligible to apply as a Program Dean.
• If you are an undergraduate or recent graduate and based in the United Kingdom or Europe, you are eligible to apply as a Program Assistant or Activities Director. Undergraduates and recent graduates based outside of Europe are not currently eligible to apply to work with our Europe programs.

To work on our programs in the United States:

• If you are an academic, researcher, or creative professional based in the New York area and, ideally, have knowledge of living in the city or are a local resident, you are eligible to apply as a Teacher. Teachers from elsewhere in the United States may be considered under special circumstances.
• If you are a Middle or High School educator anywhere in the world, you are eligible to apply as a Program Dean.
• If you are an undergraduate or recent graduate, and either based in or very familiar with New York City, you are eligible to apply as a Program Assistant or Activities Director.

Oxbridge Academic Programs does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To apply: qualified and interested candidates should send their CV/resume and cover letter to: michele@oxbridgeprograms.com

We are interested in teachers in a wide variety of subjects as listed on our Courses page. For more details about each course, see the individual course descriptions. Many courses are offered in more than one place. Please be aware that many English language courses are offered in France and Spain in addition to language courses offered in French or Spanish. All courses offered on programs in England and the United States are taught in English. Please indicate which course or courses you're applying to teach in your cover letter.

Pre-requisites:

Qualifications and Experience

We are looking for graduate students who are working towards an appropriate postgraduate qualification, such as an MA, MS, MPhil, or PhD, recent graduates with these degrees, or career academics in a variety of disciplines, as well as professionals in the creative and performing arts.

Eligibility:

To Teach in England

We principally hire teachers who are based in Oxford and Cambridge. However, applications are welcome from candidates resident throughout the UK or Europe.

To Teach in France and Spain

We principally hire teachers who are based in Paris or Barcelona for our programs in those locations. However, outstanding candidates based elsewhere will be considered for any course.

Applicants to teach language and immersion courses must be native speakers. All applicants must be conversationally fluent in French or Spanish.

To Teach in the United States

We hire teachers who are based in the greater New York area and, ideally, have knowledge of living in the city or are local residents. Teachers from elsewhere may be considered under special circumstances.

Job Description:

Classes

Each faculty member should be prepared to teach Major and Minor classes in a given subject. Major classes run from 9:00am until lunchtime each day, including Saturdays. Minor classes run for two hours on three afternoons a week. These are separate classes: the Major is an in-depth study of the subject while the Minor is a series of topic highlights that act as a 'taster'. This sounds like a considerable amount of class time, but bear in mind that the emphasis is on having fun and engaging the students, so classes include short breaks, activities and debates, time for independent study, short walking tours, and local trips to sites of curricular interest.

In all of our courses, the local environment is used as an educational tool to inspire, enthuse, and excite the students, along with imaginative project work and discussion. It's all about engaging students’ enjoyment of learning. Typically, a class is no more than 15 students, so the atmosphere is more like that of a seminar. Most teachers lead both a Major section and a Minor section of a course in the same session, however courses occasionally run with only a Major or a Minor section, not both.

Curriculum Design

We generally ask teachers to design their own course, teaching to their own enthusiasms and areas of expertise, with the aim of inspiring students in the subject. We want to inject enjoyment and passion into every subject we offer, and that means giving our teaching faculty a certain degree of freedom to design and teach their course.

We can make previous teachers' syllabi available to appointed teachers and we do ask faculty to make their course relevant to their subject's course description, which is published on this website and in our brochure.

Each course should culminate in a concluding project of some kind. For example, Drama courses stage a Shakespeare play; Fashion courses stage a fashion show; Architecture, Studio Art or Photojournalism work towards an exhibition; other classes produce presentations, portfolios, and group projects.

Faculty Roles

Faculty are involved in a small number of vital roles over the month that include helping to collect students from their airport of arrival, accompanying Major classes on field trips, engaging with students outside of class, and taking students to their airport upon departure.

Faculty attend one Faculty Meeting a week, during which academic, disciplinary and logistical matters are discussed. Other responsibilities include supervision of Study Hall after dinner one night. These duties are all part of the faculty's experience, which helps develop the staff camaraderie that encourages many faculty to return year after year.

Residential Life

We have limited rooms for faculty who can live-in residentially. These rooms are adjacent to students or on the same staircases. This accommodation does not affect salary but is provided on the understanding that residential faculty will be present in a supervisory capacity, if necessary. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are interested in or in need of such accommodation.

Program Details

There are minor differences in lesson duration between some of our programs. Details can be found elsewhere on our website in each program's Student Life section. Specific program dates are available on our homepage, but please bear in mind the amount of preparatory work needed before the start of the program. Teaching faculty arrive onsite three days before the students for orientation and leave the day after the students.

Salary

We offer competitive salaries commensurate with experience.

NOTE: Please review our Courses page to see which courses you might like to teach. We cannot accept suggestions for new courses other than those listed on the Courses page. 

To apply: qualified and interested candidates should send their CV/resume and cover letter to: michele@oxbridgeprograms.com

Study Group Leaders for Teacher Seminars

Our Teacher Seminars are week-long residential seminars held during summer and designed for teachers, librarians, school administrators, and other educational professionals.

Pre-requisites:

Qualifications and Experience

We are looking for Junior Research Fellows (JRFs), tenured Fellows, or other professional academics.

Eligibility

Applicants should be based locally to our individual Teacher Seminars locations. We do not provide accommodation or travel to or from a Seminar.

Job Description:

The role of a Study Group Leader is more of a discussion leader and facilitator than a teacher. The aim is to make participants engage with a familiar subject in new and innovative ways. In addition to the week-long commitment, appointed Study Group leaders submit short reading lists to our office in early May for optional preparatory reading for their Study Group participants. This helps build direction and excitement, and provides momentum for a week-long Seminar.

Study Groups

We offer a number of Study Groups in each location (see a list of prior group offerings below) and each group meets six times during the week-long Teacher Seminar. Each meeting runs from 9.00am to 11.30am, after which Study Group leaders take their group to a local site of interest or a suitable class on a student program that we run in the same city. Excursions conclude by 12.30pm. A Seminar Director is on-hand to provide support and advice if necessary and there are no afternoon or evening commitments.

Study Groups:

OXFORD	CAMBRIDGE
Literature and the Fantastic	English Literature
The Library and the Academy	Applying to University in the UK
Shakespeare in History	Why History Matters
Leadership Challenges in Contemporary Education	Thinking Mathematically
	Astronomy and Astrophysics

For details of any Study Group, as well as the Seminar dates in July, please consult the Teacher Seminar section of our website and peruse our downloadable brochure. The brochure includes a detailed description of each Study Group as well as an idea of the curriculum involved.

Salary

We offer competitive salaries commensurate with experience.

NOTE: Interested applicants are welcome to apply to teach on a student program and lead a Teacher Seminar Stud Group, but please indicate if you have a preference on your application.

To apply: qualified and interested candidates should send their CV/resume and cover letter to: michele@oxbridgeprograms.com

Pre-requisites:

Qualifications and Experience

We are looking for educators with at least several years of classroom experience at the secondary level. Applicants should have experience of school trips and/or working with students in a residential environment. Successful candidates need a good sense of humor, the enthusiasm to enjoy the month as much as the students, and the experience and personality to deal consistently and fairly with them.

Above all, Program Deans must convey to students the sense that they are being cared for by staff who love working with young people. Applicants who apply to work in France or Spain should be fluent in French or Spanish as well as English, with experience living in either France or Spain.

Eligibility

Program Deans are typically teachers from the US or Canada, or have extensive experience with North American students, however we welcome applications from qualified applicants anywhere in the world.

On our programs in the United States, we have a larger number of international students, so some experience of international education is especially useful. A Masters degree or higher is preferred.

Job Description:

Deans are responsible for the student life of a program and assist with a program's administration. Administrative duties include running the Program Office with a team of Program Assistants (who are, generally, local undergraduates) and overseeing an area of administrative life to support the Program Director. Duties can include supervising the residence, meeting guest speakers, or helping to coordinate field trip organization.

Deans are responsible for maintaining program rules and policies, administering disciplinary procedures, and providing care and supervision to students. Deans work in shifts six days per week and are on-call throughout the day. The job is as varied as it is fun, and a bright, enthusiastic faculty ensures that the month involves good company for students and staff alike.

Work in the Program Office involves dealing with students, parents, fellow members of staff, and program guests, and ensuring that the program runs smoothly. Even when not on duty in the Office, Deans are a positive, engaged presence around the program – dining alongside students in the dining hall, available in case of emergency, involved with student activities, and contributing to the community of the program as a whole.

Program Details

Please review our program dates on the website and be aware that administrative staff arrive in residence one week prior to students arriving and remain for two days after they leave.

Salary

We offer competitive salaries commensurate with experience. Accommodation, breakfast and dinner each day, and travel to and from the programs are provided in addition to salary.

To apply: qualified and interested candidates should send their CV/resume and cover letter to: michele@oxbridgeprograms.com

Pre-requisites:

Qualifications and Experience

We are looking for undergraduates or young graduate students with extensive knowledge and experience of Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Barcelona, or New York as local university students or as program alumni.

All applicants should be in at least their second year of university studies. Successful applicants have positive attitudes and a strong sense of character, camaraderie, enthusiasm, and initiative to get things done. Applicants wishing to work in France or Spain must be fluent in French or Spanish, in addition to English.

Eligibility

Applicants should be local university students and deeply familiar with Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Barcelona, or New York. Please be aware that we do not fly Program Assistants or Activities Directors to the programs, and we are looking for applicants who are familiar with the location to which they’re applying.

If you are an alumnus of an Oxbridge Academic Program, you are eligible to apply for this position but please be aware that our location requirement generally requires that you are studying locally and plan to stay in the city during your vacation from school. If this applies to you, please explain in your cover letter.

Job Description:

Program Assistants

Working as a Program Assistant is as varied as it is rewarding. Program Assistants generally work 8 hour shifts six days a week over the course of the program, based in and around the Program Office. Work in the Program Office involves dealing with students, parents, fellow members of staff, and program guests, and ensuring that the program runs smoothly.

Program Assistants are generally ‘around’ most of the time, contributing to the atmosphere of the program as a whole, available in case of emergency, and – as residential staff members – they dine alongside the students and are a positive, engaged presence on the program. Program Assistants are also involved with the Activities program, working closely with Activities Directors.

Activities Directors

Activities Directors are responsible for designing, publicizing, implementing, and supervising an Activities program that is optional for program participants. These extracurricular activities are vital to the experience of an Oxbridge Academic Program. Activities can include everything from running sports tournaments and museum tours to organizing dances and arranging local guest speakers; the only real limitations are your imagination and budget.

Like Program Assistants, Activities Directors are generally ‘around’ for most of the day, either in the Program Office or supervising and leading Activities. Activities Directors generally spend mornings planning activities and afternoons and evenings leading and supervising them, with support from Program Assistants and other members of staff. In practice, the hours can be long but relatively flexible and the experience is extremely rewarding. As residential staff members, Activities Directors dine alongside the students and are a positive, engaged presence on the program. A successful Activities Program is vital to creating a happy student body.

Program Details

Please review our program dates on this website and be aware that administrative staff arrive in residence one week prior to students arriving and remain for two days after they leave.

Salary

We offer competitive salaries commensurate with experience. Accommodation, breakfast and dinner each day are provided in addition to the salary.

NOTE: Interested applicants are very welcome to apply to work as a Program Assistant and/or Activities Director, but please indicate a preference if you have one.

To apply: qualified and interested candidates should send their CV/resume and cover letter to: michele@oxbridgeprograms.com