Deadline: Ongoing
The TFHK Fellowship Program is designed for leaders like you – without prior education background or experience but are passionate about making a direct and lasting impact on education.
Be a part of Teach for Hong Kong’s vision to address education inequity in Hong Kong. As a Fellow, your duties go beyond subject teaching, you will also initiate classroom innovation and organize extracurricular activities to expand grassroots students’ exposure. Supported by TFHK’s unique program design, you will have more time to interact with students, where you can have a deeper understanding of their challenges and higher flexibility to leverage cross-sector resources to deliver impact.
By 12 months, you will be equipped with key leadership skills, including self-awareness, collective mobilization, and strategic thinking to help you lead yourself, others and changes. As such, you will be ready to take on new paths within and beyond frontline education, such as business, nonprofit, public sector, technology and other sectors.
Benefits
- Personal development coaching: Bi-monthly personal development coaching with the aim to develop leadership competencies
- Your dedicated Leadership Development Officer will facilitate you to navigating their challenge, to setting goal in how you want to grow in their Fellowship journey
- A diverse and supportive network: 170+ alumni from different sectors and staff, working together in pursuit of educational equity
- Exclusive access to their mentor network: You can accelerate your career development and personal growth through advice and network generously brought in by the mentors.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Teach Subject Classes:
- Design and conduct classes with 50% lower teaching load compared to regular teachers.
- Kindly note that 50% teaching load is not equivalent to half workload. It only means that you will teach fewer classes. Yet the time you spend on lesson preparation and other logistics may be longer as you have lesser experience in teaching.
- Lead Extracurriculars:
- Cultivate students’ potential based on observed needs and create solutions for existing challenges
- Activity themes: Arts & Culture, Financial Literacy, Global Vision & English Learning, Life & Career Exploration, Mental Health/Social & Emotional Learning, STEM, Sustainability
- At least 8 activity sessions organized, and co-organized at least 1 with TFHK partners during Program period
- Other Duties Assigned by the Partner School and TFHK:
- You may also talk to parents, other teachers and other stakeholders in order to understand the challenges students are facing beyond academic studies.
- E.g. participating in academic and non-academic meetings as a committee member, communicating with parents, and coordinating existing school activities.
Funding Information
- Full salary, vacation: These come from the school you serve and salaries range from HKD17 – 18K per month excluding the training period (half of Point 15 on the Master Pay Scale of Civil Service Bureau)
Eligibility Criteria
- Aged 35 or under as of 31 Dec 2025
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in any field
- Have graduated or will be graduating latest by 2025
- Have work authorization in Hong Kong (HKPR/IANG Visa) prior to the Program commencement.
For more information, visit Teach for Hong Kong.
