Part Two: Definitions

ACE is an abbreviation of Adult and Community Education.

An ACE Co-ordinator (Co-ordinator) is a person employed to co-ordinate a programme of community education courses run by a board or boards of trustees of a state or integrated school or schools.

A Teaching Co-ordinator is a co-ordinator, who is either employed concurrently as a teacher within the same school under the terms of the applicable teacher’s collective agreement or, is a co-ordinator who was previously employed as a teaching co-ordinator within that school and continues as a co-ordinator even though they no longer teach classes within the school.

A Non-teaching Co-ordinator is a co-ordinator who is neither a teaching nor grandparented co-ordinator, as defined, and is graded either One, Two or Three, defined as follows.

• Grade One: position where the primary role is to administer and co-ordinate the community education programme on a day to day basis.
• Grade Two: in addition to the grade one duties this position has a strategic focus including significant community liaison and marketing, and may include professional leadership.
• Grade Three: this is a full-time positions (i.e., 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year) which, in addition to the Grade Two duties and responsibilities, would involve:
• professional leadership in the development of ACE networks; and
• identifying and meeting wider community needs; and
• responsibility for the professional development of tutors and others within the ACE sector.

A Grandparented Co-ordinator is a co-ordinator whose position was identified under either schedule 1 or 2 of the Education (2003 Secondary School and Form 1 to 7 School Staffing) Order 2002 and/or have received notification of their status as below.  The parties hold a list of grandparented co-ordinators.  Each co-ordinator and their employer have been notified of their status and employment conditions. .

A Professional Supervisor is a person employed to assist the Co-ordinator and whose duties include the assessment of, coaching of, and providing guidance to, tutors.

A Liaison Assistant is a person employed to assist the Co-ordinator and whose duties do not include the assessment of, coaching of, and providing guidance to, tutors.

A Tutor is a person employed by the board of trustees of a state or integrated school to instruct a class or a course conducted as part of an ACE programme.