External Recruitment Post – Lynch (Suzhou) Co., Ltd – Vacancies in China for professional Irish teachers
This is an external recruitment post, applications or contact should be made to Jennifer Jia email: jennyjia72@hotmail.com
Brief Company Description:
Establish in November 2007, Lynch (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. provides professional consultancy services to enterprises, organizations, entitles in Ireland who want to get connections with China. Lynch Suzhou has been striving to raise awareness levels in China of Ireland ever since, in its efforts Catholic University School in Dublin has successfully built a link with five schools in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China in 2012. CUS has created a successful precedent in Ireland to send its teenage students to China, a distant Asian County from 2013.
Currently Lynch Suzhou is on behalf of Suzhou Education Bureau and other two educational entities to recruit English language teacher; subject teacher; Library manager/ teacher for International Baccalaureate Diploma Program; Kindergarten teacher and a few vacancies for school principal / director / dean from native English speaker countries to China working for one year or two.
Suzhou is a thriving city in eastern China that is only a 25-minute train ride from central Shanghai. It is one of few developed cities that has retained much of its ancient traditional character and charm, with a thriving business district with all the modern amenities that one could ask for. It has always been a city with advanced education, glory culture, and a galaxy of talents and has become one of the most popular destinations for both Chinese and foreigners to work and live.
Suzhou Education Bureau is in charge of 1150 schools of all kinds at all levels with 1.3 million students and a faculty of 100 thousand including 8 thousand teachers. There are also 4 schools for foreign students in Suzhou, which is half the total number in Jiangsu province. Suzhou has 26 foreign-China cooperative education institutions, 145 schools that are granted with qualification to recruit foreign students. Currently more than 600 foreign teachers are employed here in Suzhou.
Vacancies:
Vacancies in private schools:
- Library manager for International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB) vacancy: 1
＊ Salary: 400,000–450,000 RMB per academic year
＊Requirement: Must have library manager education background and relevant experiences
- Teacher for IB vacancy: 3
＊ Salary: 300,000–350,000 RMB per academic year
＊ Requirement: Must have related background and IB certificate
- Subject teacher vacancy: many
＊ Salary: 16,000–20,000 RMB per month
＊ Requirement: Must have related background and teaching experience
- Kindergarten teacher vacancy: many
＊ Salary: 16,000–18,000 RMB per month
＊ Requirement: Must have related background and teaching experience
- English language teacher vacancy: many
＊ Salary: 13,000 RMB per month
＊ Requirement: Must have related background and teaching experience
- Principal, director, dean vacancy: few
＊ Salary: 300,000–500,000 RMB per academic year
＊ Requirement: Must have related experiences
Vacancies in private language schools:
English language teacher vacancy: many
＊ Salary: 10,000 RMB per month
＊ Requirement: Must have related background and teaching experience
＊ Advantage: Free One-on-one Chinese Mandarin courses if requires
Vacancies in public schools:
English language teacher vacancy: 10 (first year)
Candidates could be assigned to different school from primary to secondary school, in general, salary of working for public school is lower than private school.
Comments:
- Minimum one year or one academic year contract
- 5%-10% salary increase when renew one year contract
- Flight allowance when successfully fulfill contract
- Free accommodation or certain amount of allowance
- Help with tourist visa for non-B.Sc. in education graduates to enter China study for a 120 hour TEFL certificate, apply working visa afterwards via going to Hong Kong