EFL Lecturers/Instructors, Jubail, Saudi Arabia

EFL Lecturers/Instructors
Location: Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Experience: 4 years

Details:
Jubail Industrial college, an English-medium, vocational training college requires, due to continuing expansion, EFL Lecturers and Instructors for its English Language Center. The chosen candidates will have a primary teaching allocation of 20 hours. Most will be teaching the Preparatory English course, which using materials prepared at KFUPM, is intended to prepare students to continue their technical or business training through the medium of English. There are also specialization courses in the later years, and a number of special needs classes for industrial trainees from companies in Jubail.

All students are male, normally in the age range 18-23, and come from all over Saudi Arabia. The ELC staff comes from a variety of countries, with a preponderance of UK and US teachers. Applications from other English speaking countries are particularly welcome. The College hires throughout the year and applications are welcome for an immediate start, and for mid-August 2004.

Qualifications:
Qualifications: Minimum Bachelor's degree in English or Foreign Languages; preferably one-year full-time postgraduate degree or an MS/MA/MAT in TEFL /TESL or related field from an accredited university. Candidates with a first degree in other subjects will need formal EFL qualifications.

Experience : At least two years full-time teaching of English as a foreign language for those candidates with an MA,and four years for those with a BA only; the experience should preferably be in the Middle East; experience in curriculum development and evaluation and test-writing is preferred.

Compensation:
Offer of Employment : The offer of employment for the teaching staff at JIC includes:

1. Basic Salary: The salary scale, inclusive of a SR600 transport allowance, is on a scale that goes from SR8,015 for candidates with an MA and two years accredited teaching experience or a BA and four years experience,up to SR12,817 for candidates with an MA and ten years accredited experience or a BA and twelve years experience.

2. Housing: Every employee, single or with family, will be provided with a furnished housing unit. He will, however, have to pay his utility bills (e.g. water, telephone, power, etc.).

3. Vacation: Holidays follow a national academic calendar for the whole country. This normally includes around two weeks for Ramadan and the same for Hajj, and eight weeks in the summer. During all these paid holidays, those who want to leave the country are granted visas. They can also visit the neighboring State of Bahrain at weekends.
4. Working Hours: The weekly working days are five (Sat. - Wed.). Lecturers and ELC instructors have to teach up to 20 contact hours a week, including labs; and attend 10 office hours a week. If lecturers or instructors are asked to teach more than the stated hours, they are paid compensation for the extra time.

5. Air Tickets: Around-trip air tickets will be provided once a year for the employee, his wife, and up to two children up to the age of 18.

6. Health Care: The employee and members of his family will be provided with free medical and dental care at the Royal Commission health care facilities.

7. Education of Children: Two of the employee's children, under the age of 15, will be provided free education in schools specified by the Royal Commission.

8. Settling-in (Start-of-service) Gratuity: After reporting to work the employee will be paid the following allowances.
a) Family-status employee shall receive the following:
Half a month's salary and the other half upon the arrival of his dependents.
A single-status employee shall receive half a month's salary.
b) A family-status employee shall be paid 1000 SR as follows: 450 SR upon arrival and 550 when authorized dependants arrive on site.
A single status employee shall be paid 450 SR.

9. Service Increment: The lecturer or instructor may get an annual increase in the monthly base salary of up to 600 SR based on his performance in the previous year of service.

10. End-of-service Gratuity: The employee will be paid half a month's salary for each of the first five years of employment, and one month's salary for each of the subsequent years.

The contract is initially signed for two years. It is then renewable for a year thereafter.
Lecturers and instructors on family status can bring their families only after the probation period of 90 days.
All the salary and benefits are tax-free at present.
The current exchange rate is 3.75 SR to one US Dollar.
Salaries are paid by the Hijri calendar.
Thus, teachers are paid about 13 extra days a year.

Employer:
Jubail Industrial College
Company Background: Jubail Industrial College, originally founded in 1979, is one of two English-medium vocational training colleges in Saudi Arabia and the most prestigious of its kind in the country. The English Language Center is responsible for teaching a university-based intensive course in English for academic purposes of 20 hours per week to 1200 male preparatory-year students, thus preparing them to take courses leading to technical and business diplomas. It also offers specialized courses at a higher level. There are currently over 40 members of staff of diverse nationalities, including American, Australian, British, Canadian, Irish, and New Zealand with a wide range of teaching experience.

Jubail Industrial College (JIC) is run by the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu. As an academic institution, JIC teaches on the semester system (Fall and Spring). Each semester extends over 16-18 weeks (15 of regular classes and the rest for final exams). Holidays are determined between semesters, following a national calendar for all schools in the country. At times there may be some courses offered in a summer semester of 8 weeks. Lecturers and instructors who wish to teach in the summer are paid for extra time and given up to 3 weeks vacation before the start of the next semester. For more information and course descriptions, please visit us at www.jic.edu.sa.

Environment : Jubail is an attractive place to live. It is located on the shore of the Gulf, with excellent beaches and opportunities for swimming, diving and fishing and also for trips into the desert. There is a well equipped sports-center very near the college as well as a range of shopping facilities. An hour's drive away is the town of Khobar which has an array of shops and restaurants of world-class standard, whilst excellent library facilities are available at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran. A visit to Bahrain, easily accessible by the King Fahd Causeway, also makes for a pleasant and refreshing weekend. Bahrain is, perhaps, most famous for its jewellery souq but also has good hotels, cinemas, interesting museums and important archaeological sites, relating to the ancient civilization of Dilmun.
Address:
PO Box 10099
Jubail Industrial City, Jubail
31961 - Saudi Arabia
Telephone: +9663-3402071
Fax: 009663-3402073
Contact person: Duleim Al-Qahtani