"Japanese Language Lecturer"

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Location: Hangzhou, China

Posted: May 9, 2023

Deadline: December 31, 2025

Category: Lecturer

Type: Full Time

Job Summary

1. Starting Date: March or September (continued contract depends on your performance)
2. Students’ age: in twenties
3. Class size: about 25-45 students
4. Workload: 16 periods per week from Monday to Friday (45 minutes per period)
5. Job Content: Japanese Language Teaching

Job Requirements

1. Nationality: Japanese as mother tongue
2. Age: 23 ~ 60 in good health
3. Education: bachelor or above (Education majors with teaching experiences are preferred).
4. Contract Duration: one academic year, from Mar. 1 to Jan 31 the following year.
5. Courses: Japanese Listening & Speaking, Oral Japanese, Japanese Writing, Literature (Most are conversation based).
6. We accept teachers who are in China and overseas.

Salary and Benefits

Monthly Salary with 16 periods per week: from 10,000 RMB/month. An increase of ￥100 (RMB) per period of Listening & Speaking, Oral Japanese, etc., and ￥120 (RMB) per period of Japanese Writing and other substantial courses will be added to a foreign teacher’s salary for any approved overtime working periods. ￥1,100 will be given as traveling bonus every semester.

Airfare Reimbursement

No more than RMB ￥4,000 for one-academic-year contract.

Lodging

Apartments are served mainly on the “first come, first served” basis while priority shall be given to teachers with family members and/or senior teachers. All are about 10-15 minutes’ walk away from the campus and are equipped with basic furniture, telephone, 1 air-conditioner/heater, 1 refrigerator, 1 microwave, 1 induction cooker, 1 washing machine, 1 TV, 1 DVD, 1 water heater, 1 purified water unit, ADSL (computers are in the process of application), etc.

*We have a spacious apartment available 70-90 square meters, 2 bedrooms (one can be used as a study), 1 living room, 1 storeroom, 1 kitchen, 1 bathroom, and 1 balcony. Teachers will need to pay CNY 2000/month for the apartment, it is still much cheaper to rent the same apartment if you choose to live off campus.

Food

Cafeteria food on campus

Water and Local Phone Call Bill

Covered by the university.

Electricity Bill

300 kilowatt-hours per month covered by the university, extra amount covered by foreign teachers themselves.

Insurance

Bills for Comprehensive Protection Scheme (a kind of insurance in China as a supplement to foreign teachers’ own protection scheme) shall be covered by the university. Before the service at ZSTU, foreign teachers are expected to buy insurance regarding life and health protection in their own countries for any insurance liability.

Application

Submit the following documents through CUJ online application (Click ‘Apply for this job’)

1. Your CV
2. Copy of your diploma or Japanese teaching certificate

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