English Language Assistants Assessments & Interviews

Lot 1: English Language Assistant Application Assessments

The supplier, acting as an independent assessment body, is required to mark up to a maximum of 2,400 applications from prospective English Language Assistants (ELAs).

The supplier will be given access to the British Council’s online Grant Mobility Tool on which all applications are made. The tool can be accessed remotely; therefore negating the need to work on British Council premises. Using the electronic application form the supplier will allocate marks on the tool for each of the following areas:

Lot 2: To Conduct an Online Video Interview Assessment Process for English Language Assistant Applicants

Each year up to 700 people apply to be English Language Assistants in the more challenging countries of Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, China or Italy (applications for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland will be allocated in line with the assessment process detailed above in Lot 1). The British Council will assess these applications and produce a short-list of up to 600 for further assessment.

The supplier is required to design and/or run an online video interview assessment process to assess these short-listed candidates against the following criteria:

The interview questions will indicate what qualities we are looking for from the five skills or qualities listed above, and are to be agreed between the supplier and the British Council upon award of contract; we also anticipate that these pre-determined questions will NOT be supplied to the candidate in advance.

The supplier will be required to define a marking system, to be agreed with the British Council following award of contract, and mark candidates so that the British Council can assess the following:

Suppliers may bid for one or both lots.

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