ESL Teacher (Fall ’24, Hangzhou)

Job Description

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University is located in Hangzhou. ZSTU is a provincial key university focusing on engineering, with distinct characteristics and advantages as well as the coordinated development of the various disciplines of sciences, engineering, arts, economics, management, law, fine art, education, etc.

Job Summary

1. Starting Date: Sept. to June
2. Students’ age: in twenties
3. Class size: about 25-45 students
4. Workload: 16 periods per week from Monday to Friday (45 minutes per period)
5. Job Content: English Language Teaching

Job Requirements:

1. Nationality: English as mother tongue
2. Age: 23 ~ 60 in good health
3. Education: bachelor or above (Education majors with teaching experiences are preferred).
4. Contract Duration: one academic year, from Sept. 1 to June 30 the following year.
5. Courses: English Listening & Speaking, Oral English, English Writing, Literature (Most are conversation based).

Salary and Benefits:

Monthly Salary with 16 periods per week: from 10,000 RMB/month. An increase of ￥100 (RMB) per period of Listening & Speaking, Oral English, etc., and ￥120 (RMB) per period of English Writing and other substantial courses will be added to a foreign teacher’s salary for any approved overtime working periods.￥1,100 will be given as traveling bonus every semester.

Airfare Reimbursement:

• No more than RMB ￥4,000 for one-academic-year contract.

Lodging:
Apartments are served mainly on the “first come, first served” basis while priority shall be given to teachers with family members and/or senior teachers. All are about 10-15minutes’ walk away from the campus and are equipped with basic furniture, telephone, 1 air-conditioner/heater, 1 refrigerator, 1 microwave, 1 induction cooker, 1 washing machine, 1 TV, 1 DVD, 1 water heater, 1 purified water unit, ADSL (computers are in the process of application), etc.

*We have a spacious apartment available 70-90 square meters, 2 bedrooms (one can be used as a study), 1 living room, 1 storeroom, 1 kitchen, 1 bathroom, and 1 balcony. Teachers will need to pay CNY 2000/month for the apartment, it is still much cheaper to rent the same apartment if you choose to live off campus.

Food: Cafeteria food on campus
Water and Local Phone Call Bill: Covered by the university.
Electricity Bill: 300 kilowatt-hours per month covered by the university, extra amount covered by foreign teachers themselves.
Insurance: Bills for Comprehensive Protection Scheme (a kind of insurance in China as a supplement to foreign teachers’ own protection scheme) shall be covered by the university. Before the service at ZSTU, foreign teachers are expected to buy insurance regarding life and health protection in their own countries for any insurance liability.