Volunteer English and Spanish teachers for Peace Boat December 2020 Global Voyages!

About the Job

Overview

Interested in Teaching, Traveling and International Development? Join Peace Boat for the adventure of a lifetime!

The GET Programme is Peace Boat’s language training programme on board its ships, the Ocean Dream and Zenith. Volunteers travel with our students on board, teaching them practical English and Spanish through GET’s task-based learning approach. Teachers themselves have the chance to learn from onboard guest educators, consisting of academics, peace-builders, sustainability campaigners, entertainers and more, all while circumventing the entire earth by sea!

Would you like to use your language teaching skills to help build a global culture of peace-while seeing the world at the same time?

Now’s your chance, Peace Boat's language training programme, GET, is now accepting applications for English and Spanish* language teachers for the 106th and Zenith 3rd Global voyages:

106th Global Voyage – Departs Yokohama on December 13, 2020** and returns March 30, 2021: http://peaceboat.org/english/voyage/106th-global-voyage

Zenith 3rd Global Voyage – Departs Osaka December 17, 2020** and returns April 1, 2021: http://peaceboat.org/english/voyage/zenith-3rd-global-voyage

Peace Boat and GET are keeping up-to-date with global COVID-19 developments. The safety of our passengers, volunteers, staff, and crew is paramount. For more information on how Peace Boat is addressing COVID-19, please see our voyage preventative measures and policies: https://pbcruise.com/documents/20200312_coronavirus.pdf

Application deadline - 18:00 JST August 25, 2020! All interviews will be conducted online and will take place between September 14 - 20, 2020****.

Conditions of employment:

This position is for enthusiastic, highly motivated, dynamic individuals with a minimum of 18 months of full-time teaching experience. Applicants should be highly advanced speakers of English or Spanish, although it is not necessary to be a 'native' or 'first language' speaker. Certification, graduate degrees and/or multi-language abilities are highly regarded, though not required. Please note: this is a volunteer position, but voyage expenses are covered (valued at approximately 1.7 million JPY or 15,300 USD).

Learn about why you should apply for the GET Programme directly from past teachers: https://vimeo.com/320435083

To apply:

Please download the application pack available on our website: http://peaceboat.org/english/volunteer/GET-volunteer

*For Spanish teachers: Please note that all teacher-related GET Programme administrative activities and correspondence are conducted in English. All application material, with the exception of actual Spanish-language lesson content, should be presented in English.

**All successful applicants must be able to attend the pre-voyage orientation to be held in Tokyo or Osaka roughly one week before the official departure date.

***Please find recent updates to the Teaching Demo portion of the Application pack due to COVID 19.

****All applicants will be considered for both voyages. While applicants may state a preference for one voyage over the other in their cover letters, final voyage assignments are at the discretion of programme coordinators.

Salary

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