Debate and Public Speaking Coach

LearningLeaders is a shanghai based, China’s foremost organization focused on the development of communication and leadership skills through immersive learning experiences.

Location: Shanghai 

The Director of Competitive Speech & Leadership is a competitive educator who strives to improve learning experiences for both our learners and team members.

If this sounds like you, your chief responsibilities will be to:

• Coach between 8 to 10 public speaking courses per week (16 to 20 hours of coaching).

• Develop competitive speech curricula. • Develop an extra-curricular I.E. training program to compete at the very highest levels of competitive public speaking internationally.

• Evaluate, revise, and implement curricula for LearningLeaders public speaking courses: Elite Speech (After Dinner Speaking, Humorous Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, and Impromptu), Extemporaneous Speaking, Original Oratory, and Dramatic Monologue.

• Identify appropriate speech competitions for students and train them to achieve success.

In addition to coaching responsibilities, you will develop your leadership, project management, and intercultural communication skills through initiating new ventures within LearningLeaders.

• Competitions: In 2018, Team China students working with LearningLeaders coaches won the World School’s Debating Championships. In 2017 and 2018 alone, multiple students working with LearningLeaders coaches have won both US and China national championships in multiple debate formats.

• Event Management: Hosting debate tournaments, community service events, public speaking training sessions and forums

• Partnership opportunities: Summer & winter camps, visiting coaches, teacher training, and corporate coaching.