Xi’an Liangjiatan International School Jobs 2024

Job Description

Working at XLIS

XLIS offers a friendly, motivational, and, inspiring working environment for over 80 teaching staff and over 50 support, administrative, and maintenance staff.

XLIS staff members represent more than 20 nationalities, and about one-quarter have served at the school for more than five years. All teachers and administrators are professionally qualified to ensure all our students and staff received the support they need to provide excellent learning and service environment to our students and the wider school community.

Requirements

Minimum:

• Qualified with at least a Bachelor’s degree in education or PGCE, and a teaching certificate where applicable
• Over three years of successful full-time teaching experience
• Strong ability of English and Chinese Bilingual Teaching (For Chinese Applicants)
• A truly international perspective and cross-cultural competence
• Willing to work in collaboration with colleagues to establish a positive school culture
• Effective communication and engagement with children and their families

Desirable:

• Experience in respective IB program and respective subjects teaching
• Preferred subject Leader, IBE, workshop leader, site visit team member, examiner, moderator
• Experience teaching emergent bilingual learners
• Given the Coronavirus pandemic and the current border and visa restrictions, our preference is to find candidates who are currently working/living in Mainland China or hold a Chinese permanent residence permit.

Aligned with the recommendations of the International Task Force on Child Protection, XLIS hold ourselves to a high standard of effective recruiting practices with specific attention to child protection.

We request a clearance of criminal records and successful background check for all staff working with our students. Please be prepared to submit such documents from your country of origin and the country of your current residence, if different.

Salary and Benefits

XLIS provides a globally competitive package which includes numerous family benefits:

· Competitive salary is provided to teachers in accordance with high-level international schools.

· International teachers are guaranteed with overseas living allowance, housing allowance, visa allowance, flight allowance, shipping allowance and global insurance. Local Staff will receive Social Insurance and Housing Fund，Training Allowance ，Annual Physical Check-up. If the staff is willing to take an administrative role or other part-time roles, an additional stipend will be provided.

· Staff’s children enjoy priority admission and tuition fee waiver.

· Various on-campus IB professional trainings and curriculum instruction every year by IB experts and staff training allowance, overseas exchange and visit opportunities as well as on-campus mandarin classes are open to the staff.

· Customized relocation service to international teacher’s smooth settlement in Xi’an and
foreign teacher’s assistant’s 24-hour help with life matters in Xi’an.

· In school free breakfast and lunch, childcare service, staff shuttle bus and birthday welfare is provided during working days.

Professional Development

XLIS provides on-site, professional development opportunities three times a year and invites high quality, professional trainers to contribute to our staff members’ academic growth. We also provide a personal training budget for each staff member and provide a wide range of networking with other famous international schools all over the world. Some of these schools are the first IB school in the world-International School of Geneva, Exupery International school from Latvia, the Carey Baptist Grammar School from Australia, and SOTA from Singapore. We also work closely with WAB, SWIS, Qinghua High School and its international department, the Shanghai American School and many more!(XLIS International Exchange Program Officially Launched)

Staff Relocation

As one of the biggest organizations in the region, we have one of the most diversified background of foreign educators in Xi’an. XLIS understands the needs of foreigners living in China. The School provides safe and comfortable housing for our staff prior to their arrival through our own home evaluation system thus allowing us to have teachers’ homes ready according to their individual needs in advance. The school senior leadership team warmly welcomes new staff at the airport as they arrive in the city. We will also arrange several activities to support our staff when they are here, some of which include several shopping trips to IKEA and Metro Supermarket, tours to the Terracotta warriors, Bell Tower, Muslim Street and other cultural places in Xi’an. This aims to assist our staff to better understand Chinese culture, integrate into Xi’an’s life as soon as possible, and be familiar with the community and its environment.

Global Insurance

The global medical insurance plan is for foreign employees and their families. The XLIS insurance service aims to provide employees with high-end medical insurance from global public hospitals, private hospitals, and expensive hospitals. This service will meet the higher and more complex needs of foreign employees and their families for medical security, and help them enjoy a healthy and happy overseas working life.

24/7 Life Assistance

XLIS’ Foreign teacher Life Assistant aims to help our foreign faculty members to better adapt to the needs of daily life in Xi’an. For example, our life assistant will help our foreign staff with taxi software, WeChat, Alipay, daily house maintenance, banking business handling, daily life translation support, and more. No matter what happens to our staff or their families, our school will be always reachable at all times.

Chinese Culture Learning

XLIS’ Mandarin department designs a series of free Chinese lessons for our foreign teachers and their family members. The series of “Survival Chinese” themed courses, which contain 18 themes, covers a wide range of topics of strong practicality.

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