VISITING ENGLISH TUTOR POSITION at LINGNAN UNIVERSITY
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2018
Lingnan University cordially invites fresh graduates from our partner institutions in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand to apply for a Visiting English Tutor position. Duties would begin in mid-August 2018.
Visiting English Tutors (VETs) work in the Centre for English and Additional Languages (CEAL). They work in CEAL’s English Language Support Service (ELSS) where they provide advice to undergraduate students and aid in the development of self-access materials.
- VETs also design and run workshops for students aimed to develop their writing, reading, speaking and listening skills, with topics covering a wide range of academic and cultural themes.
- Other duties include organizing cultural activities such as English Café’s, Movie Nights, Outings, TEDxLingnanUniversity, etc.
A major objective of the Visiting English Tutor scheme is to provide opportunities for Lingnan University’s local students to mix with people of a similar age group but from different cultural backgrounds.
All applicants for this post must:
- be about to graduate or recently graduated from one of Lingnan’s partner universities or members of the Global Liberal Arts Alliance
- be a native speaker of English
- be interested in spending a year or two living and working in Hong Kong
- be interested in interacting with students in Hong Kong
- be interested in gaining experience in the ESL field at tertiary level
- have an outgoing personality
- have a basic Certificate-level teaching qualification, with a minimum of 100 hours input, such as the following: www.oxfordseminars.com/index.php / http://www.icaltefl.com/tefl-vs-tesol-vs-tesl-vs-celta-vs
NOTE: Such a qualification can be gained once a provisional offer has been made.
Benefits are as follows:
- Position is tenable from mid-August to mid-June and with the possibility of a further extension.
- Monthly salary is fixed at $HK16,000 per month (approx. $2,100).
- Each tutor is provided with fully furnished and equipped apartments on campus.
- Medical and dental benefits provided by Lingnan University.
- Assistance will be given in obtaining a valid Hong Kong work visa from the Hong Kong Immigration Department.
Interested?
Please send your CV, along with a covering letter, to the ELSS Coordinator by email at elss@ln.edu.hk Applications close on February 28, 2018.
Best regards,
Joanne Lai, Director
Office of Global Education
Room AD-208/1, 2/F, Wong Administration Building,
Lingnan University,
Tuen Mun, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2616-8990
Fax: (852) 2465-9660
Email: oge@ln.edu.hk
Website: www.ln.edu.hk/oge/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lingnan.oge/