| Job Title: |
Expat Residence Hall Teacher (YCIS-SH-2526-SEC007) |
| Posted Date: |
06/04/2026 |
Expiration Date: |
- |
| Location: |
YCIS - Shanghai(Lingang) |
# of Openings: |
1 |
| Effective From: |
Immediate |
| Job Description: |
Position Overview
The Residence Hall Teacher plays a key role in supporting students’ holistic development within the residential boarding environment. The successful candidate will help foster a safe, caring, structured, and engaging community that promotes student wellbeing, character development, intercultural understanding, and independent living skills.
This role requires a strong commitment to student care, relationship-building, and collaborative engagement with students, families, and school staff.
Key Responsibilities
• Supervise and support students within the residence hall environment.
• Build positive relationships with students and provide pastoral care and mentorship.
• Promote a strong residential culture focused on wellbeing, respect, responsibility, and community.
• Teach academic and life skills as a structured course (e.g., study methods, time management, teamwork) with planned lessons and observable student outputs.
• Organise and facilitate residential life activities, events, and enrichment programmes.
• Design and deliver a structured ESL/EAL curriculum, including weekly lessons and learning assessments to track student progress.
• Maintain appropriate standards of student behaviour and uphold safeguarding expectations.
• Conduct weekly learning check-ins focused on each student’s progress within the RH Learning Programme, produce termly learning reports and stakeholder communications.
• Support evening, weekend, and overnight duties as part of the residential roster.
• Work collaboratively with teachers, counsellors, administrators, parents, and campus leadership teams.
• Assist with arrival, departure, orientation, and transition programmes for boarding students.
• Ensure residence hall procedures, health and safety protocols, and emergency procedures are followed.
• Participate and contribute actively to school based and corporate-level activities. |
| Job Requirements: |
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field. Recognised teaching qualification and/or boarding qualification preferred.
• Experience working with children, adolescents, or within residential/boarding environments is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work in a multicultural and fast-paced environment.
• Mature, responsible, and student-centred approach.
• Willingness to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends.
• Commitment to safeguarding and student well-being.
• Experience in designing age-appropriate learning projects, activities, and residential hall curriculum.
Supporting Experiences/Qualifications
• Boarding certification or professional qualifications such as BSA certification or equivalent.
• First Aid and safeguarding training certifications.
• Experience in developing or supporting boarding ESL/EAL programmes for multilingual learners and tracking their progress and development over time.
• Experience in pastoral care, student leadership, or youth development programmes.
Qualities of Successful Candidates We Are Looking For
We are seeking educators who are student-centred and committed to holistic education and community building. The ideal candidate leads by example, demonstrating care and professionalism, and fosters a safe, supportive, and conducive residential community where students can learn, feel valued, and be inspired.
YCYW Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all the students in our care and expect all applicants to share this commitment. We align our recruitment practices to the recommendations of the International Task Force on Child Protection. Before any appointment is confirmed, we implement effective recruitment practices which include interview, identity check, criminal record check and character/professional references. All teachers and other adults working at YCYW schools are expected to read and comply with our Child Protection Policy and Procedures and our Adult Code of Conduct for Working with Students. |