EFL Teacher (Residential / live in role)

TESOL International Association; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 1,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading educational organization as a teacher for summer programs in 2025. You'll engage students in language learning while promoting life skills. Enjoy free accommodation and meals, and be part of a vibrant team dedicated to student success.

Benefits

Free Accommodation

Meals Provided

Qualifications

• Completed or studying a level 6 qualification or above.
• Completed a TEFL course (min 120 hours input).

Responsibilities

• Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of students.
• Delivering engaging lessons that encourage student participation.
• Providing feedback to develop communication skills.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Motivation

Education

Level 6 Qualification

TEFL Course (min 120 hours)

Job description

Join our winning team of global superstars in summer 2025

Embassy Summer, under its parent company EC English, offers award winning summer vacation programmes for young people across multiple locations in the UK, USA, Canada, Malta, UAE & South Africa. Students learn either English or French whilst immersing themselves in the local culture and surroundings. Our programmes are a combination of language classes, exciting excursions and fun-filled sporting, creative and social activities.

Teachers facilitate the development of the Life Skills and Academic Skills of the students’ by engaging the students in conversation and providing feedback that helps them develop their communicative skills.

Onsite Accommodation and meals are provided Free of Charge for all staff.

Key Responsibilities

• Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of students for whom you are responsible and with whom you come into contact.
• Teaching the Embassy Summer lesson.
• Delivering engaging lessons that encourage students to actively participate.
• Providing feedback that facilitates the development of communication skills.
• Maximising student satisfaction by ensuring their experience meets or exceeds their expectations.
• Playing an active role in the development of student’s life skills throughout their Embassy Summer experience.
  
  

Education Required

• To have completed or be studying a level 6 qualification or above (eg Degree level)
• To have completed a TEFL course (min 120 hours input)
• To complete a 4-hour summer teaching induction
  
  

Additional Qualifications Desired

• CELTA, Trinity ESOL
• Educated to Degree Level or equivalent (Level 6 Qualifications and Credit Framework)
  
  

Essential Criteria

• Desire to work in education / learning.
• Enthusiasm to learn and deliver lessons that motivate and engage teenage learners.
  
  

Desired Criteria

• Experience of working with people
• Experience of working in a residential environment
  
  

Personal Attributes

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Interested in developing teaching skills
• Ability to motivate, engage and inspire students
• Demonstrates the ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people
• Responds well to a challenge
  
  

Working Week

• 5 days
• 42 hours per week (30 contact teaching hours* plus preparation)
• *(15 contact teaching hours per week if on a half-day teaching schedule + activities)
  
  

Remuneration Based On 42 Hours Per Week

Basic salary up to : £609.00

Holiday Pay : £73.51

Gross Pay : £682.51

FULL BOARD ACCOMMODATION INCLUDED

Non-residential Option Available

Remuneration based on 34 hours per week:

£20.00 per hour

Disclosure And Barring Service

If you do not have an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring certificate and are not registered on the DBS update service, we will need to apply for a new Enhanced DBS for you. Please confirm this at the time of application.

Equality and Diversity: Equality and diversity are at the heart of everything we do. Our learning opportunities are open to everyone, regardless of their background and circumstances, and we apply the same standards to the staff we employ.