Japanese Teacher

Geelong Grammar School; Merrijig; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Geelong Grammar School seeks a passionate Japanese Teacher to inspire Year 9 students across a boarding campus at Timbertop, near Mt Buller in Victoria. The role focuses on language skills, cultural understanding, and a global perspective through engaging, student-centred teaching.

You will foster curiosity, confidence and a genuine appreciation of Japanese language and culture while supporting learners to meet their goals.

Qualifications

• Experience teaching Japanese, preferably at the middle and/or senior school level.
• Able to design engaging Japanese language curricula for diverse learners.
• Passionate about contemporary pedagogy and adolescent development.
• Strong planning and organisational skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent collaboration across faculties and with external partners.

Responsibilities

• Inspire Year 9 students to develop their Japanese language skills and cultural understanding.
• Deliver creative, interactive, student-centred lessons that bring language learning to life.
• Foster curiosity and confidence in language study and cultural appreciation.
• Support students to achieve their learning goals within the timetable and outdoor education context.

Skills

Japanese teaching

Curriculum design

Adolescent development

Team collaboration

Education

Teaching qualification in Japanese

Job description

Geelong Grammar School is one of the world’s leading co-educational boarding and day schools. Offering exceptional educational opportunities across four campuses from Early Learning to Year 12, Geelong Grammar School is committed to making a positive difference for students, staff, and the community. We believe in prioritising wellbeing, adventure, creativity, and academic rigour, and we value wisdom.

Timbertop (approximately 245 students) is a boarding campus for all Year 9 students, located near Mt Buller in Victoria's Alps. All teaching staff live on the campus and students spend the entire year at Timbertop taking part in hiking, recreational and community service activities.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a passionate and engaging Japanese Teacher to join our team and inspire students in Year 9 to develop their language skills, cultural understanding, and global perspective.

This is an exciting opportunity for an educator who can bring language learning to life through creative, interactive, and student-centred teaching practices. You will foster curiosity, confidence, and a genuine appreciation of Japanese language and culture while supporting students to achieve their learning goals.

Applicants reside on campus and must be able to participate fully in the School’s outdoor education journeys, running, pastoral and wellbeing programmes.

What we are looking for

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Experience teaching Japanese, preferably at the middle and/or senior school level
• An experienced educator with a strong teaching backgroundin middle and/or senior years
• Passionate about contemporary pedagogy and adolescent development
• Strong curriculum design and planning skills
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with students, parents,staffand externals stakeholders
• Excellent collaboration and teamwork skills, with the capacity to work across faculties and with external partners
• Strong organisational and planning skills, withexcellentattention to detail

Geelong Grammar School is committed to the safety of all students and has a zero tolerance of student abuse.

The School’s Student Safeguarding Framework, which includes the Student Safeguarding Strategy, Student Safeguarding Policy and Student Safeguarding Code of Conduct, is available on the GGS website, under ‘Student Safeguarding’. The School expects that all staff members (and School Community members) comply with the Student Safeguarding Framework policies and procedures and the Child Safe Standards, as applicable to their role. Any queries in respect of this Framework or the School’s expectations should be directed to ************@ggs.vic.edu.au.