Head of English in Ningbo Athena Academy
Athena AcademyNingboUpdate time: March 26,2019
Job Description
Management (50%)
• Pro-actively oversee and implement Athena curricula, screener and placement processes.
• Pro-actively oversee and implement Athena standards for student monitoring, assessment, feedback and reporting.
• Pro-actively oversee teachers’ academic administration documents (i.e. lesson plans and course files).
• Share teaching resources with colleagues at other Athena centers.

• Organize teacher training workshops that respond to both individual teacher, center and company needs.
• Implement Athena standards for teacher appraisal, including scheduled lesson evaluations, check-in sessions and setting of individual objectives.
• Maintain updated and accurate records of individual teacher training, observations and evaluations.
• Mentor and coach individual teacher to help them achieve their development goals.

• Support ongoing curriculum development of courses by retaining and sharing teaching resources and occasionally developing new resources under direction of Academic Management.
• Organize and co-lead focused and action-oriented weekly meetings with center staff and teachers.
• Complete all academic reporting as assigned by Academic Management.
• Conduct interviews of new teachers for center, reporting feedback to HR.
• Support the Centre Manager with business development. Help with sales, referral and marketing events.

Teaching (50%)
• Set high expectations that inspire, motivate and challenge students.
• Plan and teach outstanding and engaging lessons that meet course syllabus goals and objectives while applying Athena teaching approaches.
• Effectively deploy a range of strategies to manage and develop the classroom environment to create a welcoming, open, effective and positive learning environment.
• Differentiate class instruction, activities and resources in order to maximise learning opportunities for all learners.
• Apply appropriate forms of assessment to monitor student progress.
• Provide timely and effective student feedback.
• Update, maintain and submit a record of attendance, assessment and lesson planning using Athena course files.
• Write student reports and participate in teacher-parent meetings as per Athena Guidelines.
• Conduct student screeners and placement as per Athena guidelines.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in either Arts or Sciences. Preference currently given to candidates with an English, Education or Science major.
• A teaching qualification such as CELTA, TESOL, ideally at postgraduate level.
• Minimum of five years of relevant teaching experience of reading, writing and/or general English courses. Conversation classes would not count towards this experience.

Package & Benefits
1.Competitive monthly salary
For Head teacher:21,000-23,000RMB/month.
2. Monthly housing allowance(2000-4000RMB)
3.Sonspered Z visa
4.Annual bonus: up to 1-month salary (based on performance)
5.10 days paid annual leave + statutory holidays
6.Top level global medical insurance: MSH
7.Annual flight allowance 6000RMB
8.Provide help for finding a suitable apartment
9.7 nights free accommodation upon first arrival
10. Other benefits.

Working Hours: Wed-Fri: 1pm-8pm Weekend: 9am-6pm
Location: Yinzhou district in Ningbo

About the company
Athena Academy is the subsidiary of Elite K-12 International Education Group. We adopt the US Common Core Standard and the teaching methodologies of Project-based Learning (PBL) in designing our programs. Our aim is to provide our students opportunities in not only learning Academic English, but also acquiring the soft-skills of critical thinking, collaboration, communication, problem solving and creativity, which will enable them to adapt and enhance their own capacity in this constantly changing 21st century.

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