Part-time Contextualized Content Co-Teacher (Sewing & Workforce Readiness) - 2025219
Carol Stream, IL
US Programs – Education /
Limited Term, Part-time /
On-site
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.
If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.
ORGANIZATION SUMMARY
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.
Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position is housed within World Relief Chicagoland’s Adult Education Department, as a part of their Job & Career Readiness team, helping equip students to enter the workforce with the necessary skills for success. The content co-teacher will demonstrate expertise in the industry specific course field and be able to provide instruction, modeling, and support to students in the assigned class(es). This role will also utilize multilingualism for recruitment and enrollment efforts for the course(s). The co-teacher will support learners and the ELA lead teacher with multilingual demonstrations. The co-teacher will also provide content area guidance during curriculum development.
This is a limited-term position funded through a grant agreement until June 30, 2026 and contingent upon funding extension.
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Enrollment
- Provide interpretation for live student registrations, enrollment, and attendance
- Provide interpretation for video and text recorded messages for student registrations
- Curriculum
- Provide guidance and inform development of industry specific unit outlines, lesson plans, and hands-on activities
- Ensure course meets level specific needs, industry specific needs, and learner specific needs Instruction
- Provide carefully crafted lessons and hands-on demonstrations for work skills being taught
- In collaboration with lead teacher, design lesson plans for each class period to support learner needs both with the language, the industry content, and US workforce practices
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Mature and personal Christian faith
- Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
- Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
- Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
- Multilingual (can fluently speak at least one other language)
- Skilled in industry specific course content (e.g. Sewing)
- Able to transport self to Lombard classroom site on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30AM-12:30PM
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Ability to work well within a team
- Self-paced and self-motivated for independent projects
- Able to defer decisions and leadership to appropriate channels and maintain professional student-teacher rapport
$22 - $24.50 an hour
World Relief offers a competitive benefits package and employee discount program for full-time and part-time employees.
World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.
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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
