About This Role
This full-time instructor position involves teaching small and middle school students in group classes, covering multiple subjects in either the humanities or sciences. The role also offers the opportunity to engage in塾経営 (juku keiei -塾 management), allowing instructors to develop a business-oriented mindset early in their careers.
Responsibilities
- Conduct group classes for approximately 15 students
- Teach multiple subjects in either humanities (English, Japanese, Social Studies) or sciences (Mathematics, Science)
- Provide academic and career guidance to students
- Engage in塾経営 (juku keiei -塾 management) activities
- Serve as an instructor even when stepping up to roles like classroom manager or block manager
Requirements
- Must be 35 years old or younger (exception reason 3-i)
- Junior college graduate or higher (university dropouts accepted)
- Previous instructor experience (including part-time) exempts from the first selection round
- Recent graduates, second-year new graduates, those from different industries, and U-turn/I-turn candidates are welcome
Nice to have:
- Welcome to those with no experience
- Welcome to science-oriented individuals
- Welcome to homemakers/housewives
- Welcome to freelancers
- Welcome to those living nearby
- Welcome to those with junior high school entrance exam experience
- Welcome to those with high school entrance exam experience
- Welcome to second-year new graduates
- 20s to 30s are actively working
- Job seekers who graduated in March 2027 / 2023-2026 are also welcome
- Graduates in March 2028 are also welcome; new graduate recruitment for September graduates is also underway
- Multiple subject instruction welcome
Benefits
- Housing allowance (from April 2025)
- Living support allowance
- Family allowance
- Management allowance
- Academic director allowance
- Commuting transportation expenses paid
- Various social insurance fully equipped
- Seasonal course incentive
- Various preferential treatment and discount systems
- Various incentive systems (over 50 million yen annually returned to employees)
- Long-service award
- Relocation assistance for those moving for their assignment (housing arrangement, partial assistance with moving expenses, other subsidy systems available)
- Various education and training systems (a specialized department called the Human Resources Development Center is established)
- Health check-ups
- Social gatherings
- Short and long-term loans
- Workplace vaccinations
- Pay raises available
- Comprehensive training system
- Experienced individuals preferred
- Social insurance fully equipped
- Up to 450,000 yen in congratulatory money for joining (100,000 yen base + 150,000-350,000 yen if relocation is involved)
Important Details
- Schedule: Weekdays 13:00-22:00, Saturdays 13:00-22:00
- Contract: Permanent, long-term employment welcome
- Probation period: 2 months (no change in salary or benefits during this period)
- Working days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
- Days off: 2 days a week (Sundays, public holidays + shift system / 6-8 days off per month)
- Annual holidays: 115 days
- Leave: Summer holidays, New Year holidays, Golden Week holidays, paid leave, congratulatory/condolence leave, maternity leave, childcare leave
- Team: Start as an instructor and step up to classroom manager, block manager, and area manager. Classroom managers are like branch managers or sales office managers, leading staff guidance and塾 management (average 3 years to promotion, shortest 6 months). Block managers oversee about 5 classrooms in the same block (average 6 years to promotion, shortest 1 year 6 months). Area managers oversee 15-20 classrooms in a wider area (average 10 years to promotion, shortest 3 years 6 months). Other career paths include planner (creating teaching materials and curricula) or headquarters staff (public relations, human resources).
- Dress code: Suits required, brown hair not allowed
- Target students: Elementary school students (supplementary, junior high school entrance exam prep), junior high school students (supplementary, high school entrance exam prep)
- Target subjects: Elementary school (Japanese, arithmetic, science, social studies), junior high school (Japanese, mathematics, science, social studies, English)
Application Process
- Submit WEB resume for document screening
- Individual interview and first selection round (WEB first selection is also possible)
- Second selection round (mock lesson training to learn about Rinkai's classes)
- Final selection round
- Offer of employment
- Immediate selection is possible
- WEB first selection is possible for those in remote locations
- For immediate start, consult during the information session and selection
- The entire selection period is expected to be 1-2 weeks
About the Company
Rinkai Seminar operates 'Rinkai Seminar' and 'Individual Instruction Rinkai Select', aiming to support children's growth through education and enrich their lives. Since its founding, the company has opened over 20 schools annually, growing into a cram school with approximately 500 schools nationwide and over 60,000 students. Recently, it has also been providing online tutoring to overseas students. The company's policy is "limitless progress," striving to be a cram school that can extend and nurture possibilities for the future, both for students and instructors. It is headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.
