Associates An Associate is a registered school principal, deputy principal, teacher, or a former school principal, deputy principal or teacher who has maintained his/her registration with the Teaching Council, who is engaged to work in a part-time capacity with a support service. Any person who has successfully interviewed for the position or who has previously worked with the TES support services over the past 5 approximately is eligible to be appointed as an Associate. Associates may work for a maximum of 20 days or 40 interaction units (all programmes/regions combined) which are eligible for substitute cover. Any payment for hours worked up to 3.5 hours per day is considered as one unit. Local Facilitators A Local Facilitator is a registered school principal, deputy principal or teacher, or a former school principal, deputy principal or teacher, who has maintained his/her registration with the Teaching Council, who is engaged to facilitate, or to collaborate in the facilitation of a limited number of CPD events locally. Local Facilitators may work for a maximum of 6 or days 3 units for all programmes/regions combined. Any payment for hours worked up to 3.5 hours per day is considered as one unit. 2. Who commissions the work? All work for associates and local facilitators is allocated and managed by members of the full-time team of the PDST under the direction of PDST management. Blackrock Education Centre (BEC) manages and monitors all information and payments for Associates and Local Facilitators. This service is known as ALFA (Administration for Local Facilitators and Associates) and can be contacted directly by email at or phone at 01-2365026/23. Please note: For the purpose of any engagement with the PDST The. Education Centre is the employer and the role of Blackrock Education Centre is an agent for payment only. 3. What type of work is involved?
Associates An Associate is a registered school principal, deputy principal, teacher, or a former school principal, deputy principal or teacher who has maintained his/her registration with the Teaching Council, who is engaged to work in a part-time capacity with a support service. Any person who has successfully interviewed for the position or who has previously worked with the TES support services over the past 5 approximately is eligible to be appointed as an Associate. Associates may work for a maximum of 20 days or 40 interaction units (all programmes/regions combined) which are eligible for substitute cover. Any payment for hours worked up to 3.5 hours per day is considered as one unit. Local Facilitators A Local Facilitator is a registered school principal, deputy principal or teacher, or a former school principal, deputy principal or teacher, who has maintained his/her registration with the Teaching Council, who is engaged to facilitate, or to collaborate in the facilitation of a limited number of CPD events locally. Local Facilitators may work for a maximum of 6 days or 3 units for all programmes/regions combined. Any payment for hours worked up to 3.5 hours per day is considered as one unit. 2. Who commissions the work? All work for associates and local facilitators is allocated and managed by members of the full-time team of the PDST under the direction of PDST management. Blackrock Education Centre (BEC) manages and monitors all information and payments for Associates and Local Facilitators. This service is known as ALFA (Administration for Local Facilitators and Associates) and can be contacted directly by email at or phone at 01-2365026/23. Please note: For the purpose of any engagement with the PDST The. Education Centre is the employer and the role of Blackrock Education Centre is an agent for payment only. 3. What type of work is involved?
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