Details of Position
Start date: Immediate Start Dates Available
We have 25 years of experience teaching English in Vietnam and currently operate more than 50 training centers nationwide.
At Apollo you can expect:
- A commitment to ongoing professional development and high-quality teaching standards
- A wide range of resources and modern facilities
- A variety of courses and learners
- Academic and personal support from a dedicated team
- Opportunities for career development
Responsibilities:
- Planning communicative, student-centred and participative lessons while following a designated syllabus
- Participating in professional development activities. These include training sessions, peer observations and developmental observations led by senior academic team members
- Teaching across our range of levels, ages, and courses
- Administering and marking course tests
- Writing student reports
- Conducting placement testing
- Teaching off-site classes, as required
- Average teaching hours: normally scheduled at 12-16 hours per week. Classes run from 7:30am to 10:00pm Monday through Friday; 7:45 am to 8:15pm on Saturday and Sunday. Split shifts are sometimes inevitable, though they are avoided where possible. Whenever possible, teachers are scheduled two consecutive days off.
Qualifications
Essential requirements for all teaching positions:
- CELTA / Trinity TESOL or equivalent
- Bachelors Degree or higher
- Full mastery of English
- A willingness to teach across our full range of classes
- Clean criminal record check (with validity within 6 months)
- Adaptability, flexibility, and cultural sensitivity
- 6 months validity on passport
- Experience of teaching young learners desirable
Salary and Benefits
- Competitive salary with a performance-based contract completion bonus
- Signing bonus
- Housing allowance
- Overtime payment
- Possible Incentive Bonus
- Relocation bonus, company health insurance scheme, visa and work permit costs covered by Apoll0
- Fully paid leave: 15 days of annual leave and up to 12 days of public holidays (applying to one-year contracts)
- Salary and benefits paid in Vietnamese Dong. Tax is payable on a progressive scale and averages around 11-12% for a typical full-time teacher
- Please visit our website for information about teaching at Apollo, teaching and living in Vietnam. Interested candidates are invited to apply. Your application should include a cover letter stating your desired working location, your updated CV in English and scanned copies of your degree(s) and Teaching Certificates. Candidates who have already obtained a current valid Police Check preferred. Submission of original documents will be required later for Work Permit application, photocopies will not be accepted.
*Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
