■Job description:

We are looking for individuals (a part-time 20 hours) who are interested to be a part of our English team. The position, we called, is an English learning developer. Since this is the online English school, you will teach English. However, it is totally different from the standard online English school job. The first 3 months at least, you will study English grammar, pronunciation, reading for students with the team, and we discuss them and exchange our ideas through internet. In the team, we don’t speak Japanese at all, and even in the class students are not allowed to speak Japanese. If you have no Japanese skills, that will be totally fine. English is only the language that we required. We might take a video and make questions or even lesson supplements. We would like Japanese students to be interested in the Philippines, so we may ask you about culture, food, sports, music or lifestyle in the Philippines as an English materials. After 3 months, we are considering to produce your own lesson using your background experience. Therefore, the first 3 months, you might have a lesson but not teaching English. To be honest, the teaching part will be less than 25% on your job for the first 3 month, but it will increase your teaching position if you are passion to teach English for students.

A majority of our students will be Japanese University students, and we hope to gain working professionals in the future. There are 5 levels of this position. You will start as a trainee (three months into the job) and you will be able to work as a trainer in the near future (15 months into the job). There is a Japanese experienced trainer at SEKAEL who has experience of teaching English not only Japan but also US, and he will be the leader for the team. He graduated from University of Washington and he is now working at one of the Japanese game companies as a translator/interpreter. You will work with him and you will study English grammar, reading, pronunciation for developing your original materials and lessons for your future Japanese students in the English teaching team at SEKAEL. In the team, there is a female native speaker who is from Florida, US. besides the Japanese leader. Your experience and knowledge will be an asset to us. Our goal is not only to teach English to Japanese people, but also to make Japanese people like the Philippines more, and to deliver supplies to poor children in the Philippines. Now, we have a big project to deliver some Japanese supplies to them, and your job is to receive supplies from us in Japan and deliver them to kindergartens, elementary schools or junior high schools in the Philippines. If you empathize with this message, why don’t you work together at SEKAEL!