Teach English in Taiwan
9 September, 2025
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Job description
About Us
• HESS is one of the largest private English language education providers in Taiwan. We were founded over 40 years ago and employ over 3,000 Taiwanese staff and over 500 English teachers from around the world at 200 schools throughout Taiwan.
• Our students range in age from about three to 12 years old.
• Our curriculum encompasses all aspects of the English language, is highly structured, and empowers students to use English naturally.
• Our English teachers come from around the world to experience life in Taiwan. Some stay for one year, but the average tenure of our teachers is 3-5 years. Our longest-serving teachers have been with us for over 30 years!
About the English Teacher role
• Plan fun and engaging lessons using our proprietary curriculum
• Teach lessons to students across our age range as the lead teacher in class
• Maintain a safe, fun, and open classroom environment conducive to learning
• Complete administrative duties like grading homework and assessments, communicating progress to parents
• Collaborate with your fellow teachers to plan and execute special activities and events that supplement what students are learning in the classroom
About Taiwan
• Lay of the land: The majority of Taiwan’s 23 million people (and all HESS schools!) are located on Taiwan’s main island and live in highly-urbanized cities on the west coast, with mountain ranges separating the west from the small towns and beaches of the east coast. Taiwan is sub-tropical in the north and tropical in the south, with warm, humid, and sometimes rainy weather throughout the year. Excellent transportation links connect every corner of Taiwan and Taiwan’s outlying islands. Taiwan is also the perfect home base for vacationing across East and Southeast Asia.
• Famous for: Open society, friendly people, safety, delicious night market snacks, excellent hiking and biking, hot and cold springs, fascinating history, unique cultural offerings, and so much more
• Languages: Mandarin is the common language, and many of our teachers learn some Mandarin during their time in Taiwan. Taiwanese, Hakka, and indigenous languages are also spoken here.
• HESS is one of the largest private English language education providers in Taiwan. We were founded over 40 years ago and employ over 3,000 Taiwanese staff and over 500 English teachers from around the world at 200 schools throughout Taiwan.
• Our students range in age from about three to 12 years old.
• Our curriculum encompasses all aspects of the English language, is highly structured, and empowers students to use English naturally.
• Our English teachers come from around the world to experience life in Taiwan. Some stay for one year, but the average tenure of our teachers is 3-5 years. Our longest-serving teachers have been with us for over 30 years!
About the English Teacher role
• Plan fun and engaging lessons using our proprietary curriculum
• Teach lessons to students across our age range as the lead teacher in class
• Maintain a safe, fun, and open classroom environment conducive to learning
• Complete administrative duties like grading homework and assessments, communicating progress to parents
• Collaborate with your fellow teachers to plan and execute special activities and events that supplement what students are learning in the classroom
About Taiwan
• Lay of the land: The majority of Taiwan’s 23 million people (and all HESS schools!) are located on Taiwan’s main island and live in highly-urbanized cities on the west coast, with mountain ranges separating the west from the small towns and beaches of the east coast. Taiwan is sub-tropical in the north and tropical in the south, with warm, humid, and sometimes rainy weather throughout the year. Excellent transportation links connect every corner of Taiwan and Taiwan’s outlying islands. Taiwan is also the perfect home base for vacationing across East and Southeast Asia.
• Famous for: Open society, friendly people, safety, delicious night market snacks, excellent hiking and biking, hot and cold springs, fascinating history, unique cultural offerings, and so much more
• Languages: Mandarin is the common language, and many of our teachers learn some Mandarin during their time in Taiwan. Taiwanese, Hakka, and indigenous languages are also spoken here.
Salary and benefits
• Competitive Pay: Staring pay ranges from 680-730 NTD per teaching hour, plus an additional 3,000 NTD per month for completing administrative work.
• Secure Hours: You are guaranteed a minimum of 20 teaching hours per week. Our teachers average 25-26 teaching hours per week.
• Flexible time off: Receive seven days of sick leave and 14 days of flexible vacation time in your first year and an additional month of leave from your second year.
• Training and Curriculum Provided: Learn best practices for teaching English as a foreign language using our curriculum alongside new and experienced educators. Build transferrable skills that will enable your success in Taiwan and future ventures in and beyond education.
• Immigration Assistance: We sponsor and help you obtain all the documents needed to legally live and work in Taiwan.
• House-hunting Assistance: Staff at the school will help line up apartment viewings based on your criteria
• Advancement Opportunities: Receive annual raise evaluations and contract completion bonuses, become the head teacher of your school, or get involved with the curriculum development, recruitment, and training teams.
• Secure Hours: You are guaranteed a minimum of 20 teaching hours per week. Our teachers average 25-26 teaching hours per week.
• Flexible time off: Receive seven days of sick leave and 14 days of flexible vacation time in your first year and an additional month of leave from your second year.
• Training and Curriculum Provided: Learn best practices for teaching English as a foreign language using our curriculum alongside new and experienced educators. Build transferrable skills that will enable your success in Taiwan and future ventures in and beyond education.
• Immigration Assistance: We sponsor and help you obtain all the documents needed to legally live and work in Taiwan.
• House-hunting Assistance: Staff at the school will help line up apartment viewings based on your criteria
• Advancement Opportunities: Receive annual raise evaluations and contract completion bonuses, become the head teacher of your school, or get involved with the curriculum development, recruitment, and training teams.
Requirements
• A passport from a country where English is an official language
• A bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited university or college
• Must be able to pass a national-level criminal background check
• A bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited university or college
• Must be able to pass a national-level criminal background check
How to apply
Send your resume to Chason Dailey at [email protected] for more information or apply directly through our website at https://www.hesseducation.com/join-us. Let us know you heard about us through ESL Base.
We accept applications on a rolling basis and have multiple start time opportunities throughout 2025 and 2026.
We accept applications on a rolling basis and have multiple start time opportunities throughout 2025 and 2026.
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