Instructor English Language Training*

STS Systems Support, LLC (SSS) is seeking an English Language Training Instructor to provide English Language Training (ELT) program at a United States Government (USG) facility, Sheppard AFB, TX.

• Use Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC) courseware, methodology and processes.
• Comply with DLIELC test administration and security procedures.
• Provide students with a total immersion (face-to-face instruction in the classroom and associated facilities) in the American English language for six (6) hours a day, five (5) days  per week, using DLIELCs American Language Course (ALC) General ELT course materials. The remaining two (2) hours a day will be used to prepare for the face-to-face instruction and other DLIELC processes outlined in the DLIELC Instructions and SOP
• When traditional Podium Platform instruction is not available nor capable driven by evolving safety and security measures and/or travel restrictions preventing physical attendance of RSAF IMSs at Sheppard AFB, TX; the Contractor shall be prepared to replicate the equivalent instruction as described in the preceding paragraph through a distance learning forum. As such, established and approved DLIELC ALC distance learning processes and procedures shall be used in order to deliver the respective instruction.
• May augment ALC General ELT course material with general military, general aviation and general maintenance terminology to enhance the ability of RSAF students to understand follow-on operational and technical systems training/school house terminology. Any augmentation should be tempered with the RSAF ELT progression and the establishment of basic American English understanding.
• Shall endeavor to instill improved English language skills to students at a pace that meets or exceeds the DLIELC standards.
• Classes will be a maximum of six (6) students per classroom/instructor due to facilities. If in the future new facilities become available, the USG may allow maximum of eight (8) students per classroom/instructor.
• Develop and employ disciplinary processes that allow clear guidance to the RSAF students as it relates to the academic environment.
• Enforce standards outlined in current version of 82 Training Wing and RSAF F-5 Fleet Modernization Program Concept of Operations.
• Develop processes and procedures to define and document the following: Unauthorized Absence, Authorized Absence, Unauthorized Tardy, and Authorized Tardy and report in a timely manner to the IMSO for all UAs as identified in AFI 16-105, para 10-47.
• Work with the Sheppard AFB assigned TPM/COR, AFSAT TPM/COR, and the RSAF Country Liaison Officer to address and resolve discipline issues.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• A 4-year degree that included or was supplemented by a major study in English as a Second Language (ESL), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Linguistics, Foreign Languages, or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
• A combination of education and experience with courses equivalent to a major in English as a Second Language (ESL), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Linguistics, Foreign Languages, or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); plus appropriate experience or additional course work that provided knowledge comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of the 4-year course of study
• At least one (1) year of specialized experience in English language or foreign language instruction. Specialized experience includes: providing instruction to a diverse student body using the principles, practices and techniques of English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL); teaching ESL/EFL to adults from basic elementary to advanced English; planning, preparing and coordinating instructional activities for adult students; creating and managing student assessment techniques and objectives to include test and measurement principles; assisting in the development and improvement of curriculum design, training materials, instructional delivery, and student administration; preparing lesson plans by selecting and adapting instructor texts and guides, or developing a plan of instruction for class-specific exercises.
• Completed three (3) full academic years of progressively higher level graduate education or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in one of following disciplines: English as a Second Language (ESL), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Linguistics, Foreign Languages, or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
• Contractor-provided instructors shall go through a familiarization of how to use DLIELC material.

SSS offers a competitive benefits package to include: paid holidays, paid time off including sick and vacation leave, medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, short and long term disability, company paid life insurance, 401(k) with a company match and discretionary profit sharing and tuition reimbursement. 
 
SSS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to any protected category. Hiring preference will be given to BBNC shareholders, their spouses and descendants and Alaska Natives in accordance with Public Law 93-638.