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Job Title: Freelance IT Facilitator

Location: London

Salary: £190 basic daily rate + a potential £10/£20 performance bonus per course

Job Type: Full time, Freelance

The Company provide end-user training to a range of individuals and organisations, covering popular topics such as MS Office (Excel in particular) and Google applications as well as bespoke packages

The Company has received the prestigious Gold Accreditation by the Learning and Performance Institute. They are the only learning provider in the UK to have achieved that standard for 20 straight years

Their approach is different to other training providers. For them, training isn't just about being knowledgeable or conveying complicated information, but about how much you can involve your learners

Job Role:

Experienced Freelance IT trainers, with knowledge of packages such as MS Office, in particular Excel and SharePoint, and G Suite. Experience in Software Rollouts (such as SAP, Salesforce, Siebel and Oracle) and Projects Lead Trainer experience is also highly desirable

All their IT trainers (staff and freelancers) are required to be TPMA accredited with the Learning and Performance Institute. If you are not accredited, but they believe you have the potential to be, The Company will offer training and accreditation as part of your induction

If you make delegates' involvement the focus of your training whilst also making the use of computers fun and are determined to provide the very best service to every learner, then please apply!

What you get:

* The Company training materials including manuals, timetables, exercises and demos provided by us for all your courses

* Learner-focused courses designed to allow plenty of practice time for the delegates

* Project work, rollouts as well as ad hoc single bookings available, depending on your availability

* Free TPMA training and assessment (if you are not already accredited)

* Free places on their IT courses

* Support from their friendly admin team and a dedicated Freelance Trainer Coordinator

* Daily rate*: up to £210 for MS Office courses / G Suite (£190 basic daily rate, plus a potential £10/ £20 performance bonus per course, providing you score sufficiently high on particular evaluation measures)

* Prompt payment of your invoices (2 weeks in arrears from the date of your course, providing your paperwork is submitted promptly)

* Paid travel expenses for courses outside London

The Candidate:

Experience as a freelance IT trainer

* Ability to fully involve learners and train to the standard of TPMA or an equivalent

* Infinite patience: never show annoyance or anger with learners or put them down, whatever you do

* Excellent communication skills: The ability to avoid unnecessary jargon and explain computers and software in language that a non-technical person can understand

* Good social skills: a relaxed and friendly attitude, to enable all learners to feel relaxed and at ease

* Performance skills: you should ensure that the learners have an entertaining and enjoyable day

* Commitment to the Company's training principles, based around a training style that fully involves all delegates and seeks to realise their learning potential

* Flexibility: you must be prepared to question their methods, test out new ideas and seek to continually improve your training ability

* Interest in the way people learn and in actively using coaching skills to improve training

* Curiosity and learning ability: trainers must be able to learn new packages at short notice

* Course preparation: you are expected to spend time ensuring you are completely at ease with their course manuals, timetables, demos and exercises as well as the package you are training

* Consideration and tidiness: you will commit to leaving training rooms / shared areas tidy for other trainers, taking pride in the Company's environment and showing consideration to users and learners

General Characteristics

* Energy and enthusiasm: positive thinking is essential in all aspects of The Company's work

* Responsibility and initiative: all of Company's freelance trainers must be reliable, able to take responsibility, determine their own job and work on their own initiative

* Commitment to quality: you must see excellence as your goal and be totally dedicated to creating customer delight

* Excellent time keeping and general reliability: their courses start on time, not a minute late. They finish on time, not a minute earlier (where there is reasonable control)

* Company is a strictly drug free environment. Employees should not drink alcohol, take recreational drugs - or be under their influence - during working hours (including breaks). Trainers should never smell of cigarette smoke

Deadline for applications

They are holding two sets of interviews with two sets of deadlines

1st round: 2pm on 25/06/2018, with 1st interviews 05/07 at 2:30pm and 2nd interviews on 27/07 at 11am

2nd round: 11pm on Thursday 09/08/2018, with 1st interviews on 07/09 at 2:30pm and second interviews on 11am on 27/07 or 11am on 14/09

The interviews are group based and you will be able to specify your date preferences in your application form

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