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About the Role
As a Subject Teacher at MVA, you will inspire and support students through engaging, impactful online lessons tailored to individual needs. You’ll combine subject expertise with creative use of technology to spark curiosity, drive progress, and ensure every learner thrives in our virtual classroom. Working in close collaboration with colleagues across the school, you will contribute to an ambitious, forward-thinking curriculum and be part of a community that champions innovation, inclusivity, and excellence. This is an opportunity to join a dynamic, mission-driven team at the forefront of online education—ideal for teachers who are passionate about their subject, confident in digital learning tools, and committed to helping every student achieve their full potential.
Responsibilities
- Ensure familiarity with VLP course content, uploading live lesson resources to modules in advance of lessons.
- Ensure familiarity with student baseline data and individual needs and circumstances.
- Plan, prepare and teach impactful live lessons, considering individual student needs.
- Deploy a range of tech tools appropriately in live lessons to stimulate student engagement.
- Undertake marking of student work and provide timely feedback.
- Assess, record and report on student development, progress, and attainment.
- Plan, prepare and assess internal examinations and formal assessments.
- Meet deadlines for feedback to parents.
- Contribute subject-specific feedback on students for assessments and references.
- Attend Parent-Teacher meetings for students taught.
- Participate in faculty meetings and training days for professional development.
- Carry out administrative tasks and duties.
- Enhance and develop the curriculum in consultation with the Subject/Faculty Leader.
- Assist Content Creation & Curation Champions in creating teacher videos for courses.
- Participate actively and reflectively in staff appraisal, development, and training processes.
- Maintain efficient and timely communication with students, colleagues, and parents via email, Canvas Inbox, and Google Chat.
- Ensure familiarity with and use of school systems (iSAMS, CPOMS, VLP) in line with procedures.
- Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance and school policies.
- Promote the safeguarding of all students, sharing concerns and reporting incidents via CPOMS.
Requirements
- Qualified teacher status.
- Experience teaching the secondary age range.
- Experience teaching groups of students.
- Strong desire to ensure all students succeed.
- Understanding of strategies to support students with SEND and mental health difficulties in the virtual classroom.
- Knowledge and experience of a range of teaching approaches and techniques for the online environment.
- Strong diagnostic ability and passion for guiding student learning.
- Strong understanding of assessment requirements and principles of assessment for learning.
- Ability to engage students from varied backgrounds.
- Belief in the value of learning from home and flipped learning.
- Enthusiasm for and competence in using technology in education.
- Experience in collating and creating resources for online learning.
- Experience teaching English at GCSE and A level (highly desirable).
- Knowledge of Edexcel International GCSE specification and A-level CIE, or ability to transfer skills (highly desirable).
- Proven experience of innovative technology use for online teaching engagement and outcomes (highly desirable).
- Experience creating engaging learning content for online delivery (highly desirable).
- Experience in safeguarding and pastoral leadership (invited to refer to in cover letter).
- Suitable home-working set-up including a laptop/desktop computer and internet connection.
- Agreement to school policies, including cyber security software.
- Willingness to undergo child protection screening (past employer checks, DBS).
Skills
- Subject expertise
- Creative use of technology
- Digital learning tools
- Teaching approaches and techniques for online environment
- Diagnostic ability
- Assessment principles
- Engaging students
- Technology in education
- Collating and creating resources for online learning
- English teaching (GCSE and A level)
- Edexcel International GCSE specification
- A-level CIE
- Innovative technology use
- Creating engaging online learning content
- Safeguarding
- Pastoral leadership
- Cyber security
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Temporary with possibility of becoming permanent
Experience Level
- Experience teaching the secondary age range
- Experience teaching groups of students
Education Level
- Qualified teacher status
About the Company
- Minerva Virtual Academy (MVA) is the UK’s fastest-growing online school, providing flexible, high-quality education to students aged 11–18 across the UK and internationally.
- Recognised by OFSTED and trusted by families, schools, and local authorities, MVA is leading the way in innovative, personalised online learning.
- MVA is an affordable, accessible online independent school that delivers world-class education with a true sense of community.
- MVA combines smart technology and engaging online resources with one-to-one support, active group learning, and exciting multi-disciplinary projects.
- MVA offers students the flexibility to learn from home and anywhere in the world while ensuring they develop social skills for future success.
- MVA champions self-sufficiency, collaboration, problem-solving, creative and critical thinking, leadership, and mindfulness.
- MVA's motto is 'Together We Thrive', translated into daily experience through 'Ways of Being' devised by students for the whole community: Ambitious, Aware, Considerate, Kind, Mindful, Reflective, Responsible.
Equal Opportunity
- MVA values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.