Freelance Japanese Language Teacher SATURDAY

Please do not apply if you are not based in London!

  • Do you have a passion for Teaching Japanese to students from around the world?
  • Are you a great teacher and students just love you?
  • Are you happy to travel within London and meet new people?
  • Are you available on Saturdays?
If all of the above are a YES then being an teacher for Dear Asia is what you’re looking for!

About Dear Asia

Dear Asia is the premium school for Asian languages and cultures in London.

We offer language training and cultural workshops to professionals, companies, and culture enthusiasts. Our key languages are Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. As a professional event organizer, we also host food tasting, calligraphy, embroidery, origami workshops, and other exciting team building events for companies. Our aim is to promote positive representation of ESEA (East Asia & South East Asia) Cultures and build a community to celebrate our heritage - languages, food, crafts, and more.

Teachers are at the heart of everything we do, all Dear Asia team members are teachers ourselves. We want our school to be an open, fair, professional and friendly place to work for all teachers.

Responsibilities and Duties

Teaching responsibilities

  • Represent Dear Asia to teach group lessons over evening and/or weekends at our centre; private lessons in our centre or within London Zone 1-3; and corporate training lessons during normal office hours
  • Prepare well each lesson in your own time is essential
  • Report in to head office with timely feedbacks from students or clients
  • Help each and every student under your responsibility
Admin responsibilities
  • Manage a working calendar with updated availability and lessons bookings
  • Prepare your own monthly invoice
Qualifications and Skills
  • Fluent in Japanese & English
  • Full rights to work in the UK with a minimum of one year legal stay
  • Willingness to commit medium to long term as a freelancer teacher
  • Academic excellence in education or linguistic degree
  • Strong knowledge in language acquisition theory and practice
  • 1 years plus teaching experience in Teaching Japanese
Benefits
  • Competitive hourly rate + bonus
  • Head office support and teacher training
  • Team up with a group of other professional teachers
To apply: Please review the job details carefully, and apply here with a brief cover letter indicating your current working visa status and working availability. This position will remain open, we will only arrange interviews with ones that suit what we are looking for, to join our current team of 10+ teachers.

Job Types: Part-time, Freelance

Salary: £20.00-£30.00 per hour

Schedule

  • Saturdays availability
  • Weekday flexible time
Supplemental pay types:
  • Performance bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
  • Central London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
  • BA (preferred)
Experience:
  • teaching: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
  • One Year UK Working Visa (required)
Job Types: Part-time, Freelance Pay: £20.00-£30.00 per hour

Benefits

  • Casual dress
  • Company events
  • Flexitime
  • Work from home
Experience:
  • Teaching: 1 year (preferred)
Language:
  • Japanese (required)
Work Location: In person
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