Primary School English Teacher
About The School
OTIA, a private school, offering education opportunities at primary, middle and high school levels. Learn more about this schoolJob Description
Started in September 2017, Olive Tree International Academy, BFSU (OTIA) is an academically rigorous private international school that offers educational opportunities at Grade 1 to 12. Currently, the school has over 900 students and more than 100 teachers. The school is located in the north-east part of Hangzhou with convenient traffic: It’s 30 minutes’ drive to downtown area. If go by train, it’s near the Yuhang Railway Station. Metro line 1 stop is also 3 minutes’ walk away. It’s also 30 minutes’ drive to Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. There are also three big shopping malls nearby within 5 minutes’ walk and several high-end neighborhoods within walking distance.
OTIA High School offers both AP and the IGCSE & A-Level curricula. As teaching quality is highly emphasized and valued in high school, teachers' main responsibility is to maintain a high level of teaching quality and to be professional inside and outside classroom. Through rigorous study across a variety of subject areas and course offerings, OTIA wish to endow students with a wider variety of post-secondary educational opportunities worldwide.
With the expansion of the school, we are going to offer 8 new classes for Senior Grade One and recruit more foreign teachers in Primary School next year.
Requirements
Job Requirement for Primary School English Teacher(starting Sept. 2020):
Related Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s Degree.
Preferably 3-5 years of teaching experience with Teaching Certification.
Must be able to teach English as Second Language (ESL) at primary school level. We strongly
recommend that you have experience in teaching these subjects.
ESL or ESOL teacher training and/or experience is preferred.
Teachers who are very comfortable with technology are preferred.
Teachers with abundant performance and rich experience in chorus and school band are
strongly recommended.
Candidates must be able to successfully clear a criminal background check and provide
official college degree.
The candidate should agree on a three-month probation period.
Benefits
Here we offer our foreign teachers a very attractive compensation package and treat our teachers with great respect.
- Our compensation varies based on related teaching experience and our evaluation based on your interviews.
- The rough range is about 270,000 RMB to 320,000 RMB annually. If a teacher deserves higher pay than this range, the school has no problem about offering a higher salary.
- A tuition waiver of 100% for one child for each foreign hire teacher, each child thereafter will be 50%. A single teacher will receive free tuition for one child, a couple will receive free tuition for two children.
- Provide a well-furnished apartment or housing reimbursement of 3,500 RMB per month (which can usually cover the rent).
- 12,000 RMB annual airfare allowance. If the aggregate amount is less than 12,000 RMB, the residual amount of allowance will be paid together with salary. Teachers who have worked in our school continuously for more than two years will receive 20,000 RMB annual airfare allowance. The residual amount of allowance will be paid together with salary if the aggregate amount is less than 24,000 RMB.
- About 3-month paid holidays, including winter/summer vacations and all Chinese public holidays.
- Comprehensive Insurance annually from large-scale insurance company.
- Professional induction training.
- 800 RMB allowance per month for meal, communication and travelling.
- 1 physical examination organized by the school every year.
We have three rounds of interviews here in our school, the first round is conducted by HR manager through Skype/WeChat. The second round is to conduct a detailed interview with our high school foreign principal. The third round is conducted by our high school Chinese principal. If you’re already in China, we’d like to invite you to come to our school and see the school in person if convenient. The school is willing to reimburse all the travel related expenses.