ALBA is a relatively small private international school operating 3 centers in Yangon, Myanmar: A Pre-school, Primary school, and Secondary school.

The Primary school has been in operation for 10 years, while the Secondary school and Pre-school began this past year (2014-2015).

The focus of our Secondary school (grades 7-10) is IGCSE preparation, using Cambridge Checkpoint & Pearson textbooks to anchor the curriculum.

Grades 9-10 are Edexcel certified in preparation for the exam.

We hire teachers not just on the basis of their credentials or certification. Rather, we are primarily interested in teachers who are experienced and still passionate about their subject matter enough to add color, background, and creativity to lessons. Patience, kindness, flexibility, being well-organized, a positive attitude -- these things are very important to us as well.

We ask that you have at least a B.A. in your subject field, an ongoing interest in it, and solid experience teaching. Teaching experience abroad, Secondary school experience in particular, and teaching certifications are all a plus.

Currently we are looking for a (mainly) upper level Secondary English teacher (grades 9-10), a Geography/History teacher for grades 7-9 and a Science teacher for grades 7 and 8.

Classes are small (under 20) and reflect the unique ethnic mix of Yangon.

For the most part, students' English speaking level is very high.

Almost all classes at ALBA Secondary are taught in English, though staff is split between foreign teachers (5) and (semi-retired) part-time Myanmar university teachers.

The primary school is also hiring teachers for next school year. At the moment we are looking for a Year 2 class teacher and Year 7 Language Arts. Please see below for contact details.

Teaching loads are between 20-24 (45-minute) periods per week, from 8:00 AM to 3:15 PM Mon-Fri. Salary details will be discussed as we proceed--- but we can certainly do better than you'll currently find in most of SE Asia. The school year is broken into (3) 14-week semesters.

ALBA offers a yearly 5-10% salary increase on re-signing, as well as a bonus for completing the full year, i.e. completing half the 8-week summer session.

Paid holidays are reasonable and no weekend or after-hours work is required. Formal meetings are minimal and morning assemblies are rare and short.

Myanmar business visas at first are single-entry and valid for only 70 days; then, it is possible to receive a 1-year multiple entry business visa by getting a formal request from our school and a certification from your own national embassy in Yangon; however, this visa takes 1-2 months from the date of application to be processed and is given first as a 6-month version before it can then be turned into a 1-year visa.

Other than for your initial trip into the country, ALBA pays for your subsequent transport ($200) out of the country and gives you a paid personal day off each time you have to leave before your 70 days are up . . . in order to then re-enter with a new (70-day) visa on arrival. Many of us take this legal necessity as a chance to have a 3-day weekend in Bangkok.
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If interested in any of the secondary positions, please send your latest CV and a reasonably current jpg photo to:
adminsecondaryedu2015@gmail.com

The contact email for primary positions is admin@albaedu.com

Feel free to apply for either position by sending cv and photo to both of the above emails.

Please make sure to indicate when your current contract ends, what your current location is, and when you'd be available to start at ALBA.

We run a summer session starting second week of March, so if you need to begin earlier than the 2nd week of June when our new year term begins, this might well be arranged.