Job Announcement
English Teacher (Lao National)
Full Time position
This position is based in Vientiane Capital
Background
Digital Divide Data's mission is to create better futures for disadvantaged youth in developing countries through employment in our financially sustainable business.
As an internationally acclaimed social enterprise, we create jobs for talented youth who deliver high-quality content business process outsourcing services to clients globally. This business empowers our staff with the skills and experience they need to lift themselves out of poverty. When our business grows, so does our impact.
Founded in 2001, our proven model develops a strong workforce in countries with untapped talent. We identify and recruit motivated, disadvantaged youth who would not otherwise have access to good jobs or higher education. We then train and employ them at a fair wage, while offering them scholarships to attend university. DDD alumni go on to high-skilled positions in which they earn more than four times the average regional wage. This enables them to break the cycle of poverty that traps their families they are able to send family members to school and raise their household's standard of living. With our scalable approach to growth, we now employ more than 900 people across our offices in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya.
Main Responsibilities:
- Deliver high quality English language learning and teaching across a range of levels to each group of students (offline courses)
- Actively supervise Englishtown classes and provide students with troubleshooting on a timely manner.
- Meet students regularly to discuss academic progress and to provide feedbacks from online training and offline courses
- Maintain students’ learning performance records, behavioral aspect, overall training environment and report to direct supervisor on a weekly basis
- Coordinate with IT team to solve common computer problems for the online learners
- Coordinate with Englishtown coordinator for first startup of Englishtown online and offline courses.
- Assist in maintaining learning materials: headset, speakers, computers, etc. Be able to support students on time
- Be pro-active in Data Management Operators recruitment process-willing to go on social investigation on one’s own accord.
- Be willing to help with Data Management Operators administrative tasks as requested by direct supervisor
Qualifications:
- Bachelor or High diploma in English studies or related fields.
- Experience in learning English with a computer or online study will be a strong asset
- One-year English teaching experience or Fresh graduation
- Good / Solid English skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
- Experience in training and development people is preferred
- Strong initiatives and creativeness
- Caring, hard-working, and passionate
- Problem solving skills Displays effective multi-tasking and time management skills
- Operational knowledge of the Internet, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point
- Accepts responsibility and be patient, and highly self-motivated.
- Ability to plan course outlines, lessons and assessments.
Please send CV along with a letter of interest by 25 September. 2012 to email: jobsvte@digitaldividedata.org or directly send your application to Human Resource Department at Digital Divide Data, Unit 21 Dongpaleb Village, Chanthabouly District, Vientiane Capital Lao PDR. PO Box 315, Tel: 021-263561
Website: www.digitaldividedata.org only short-listed candidates will be invited for interview.
