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[JRJohn]

I am an experienced ESL teacher from the U.K. with a TEFL certificate and a few years of full-time teaching experience to adults and kids in their late teens. I am interested in becoming an IELTS examiner here in China. (It doesn't have to be in China, but China is where I am, specifically Beijing). How do you become an IELTS examiner? What are the requirements and how much does it cost?

What career opportunities would I then have?

One of the reasons I am considering this route is that I remember teaching in Spain. The school used the Trinity system. I have to tell you that I gained a great deal of career satisfaction out of teaching adult Trinity exam groups at all levels at that school. And the students were equally enthusiastic about my teaching. But I was less keen on teaching the kids.

I know of IELTS events in China, but I would appreciate info from someone who knows more than I do.

[vikeologist]

Apply to the British Council.

All new examiners are full-time. You can't do it part-time.

They're not recruiting till the end of the year.

http://www.britishcouncil.cn/en/about/jobs

This is the old job advert, which hopefully still has links to the experience and quals you need to be an examiner.

https://jobs.britishcouncil.org/ViewVacancy.aspx?enc=mEgrBL4XQK0+ld8aNkwYmOkBgLRbs7Q45CdXPZMs/ARTkGboOuj05VDhhJq5sC2sAAXhBqqT7bYF4qjONjSz7rcsdJZMzzQt5Dsoom1SX1hXWoW5KY7Yyv8zq1BY3YwREpjgsowVQpLYUNCxHQZoHA==&eoq=1

I think the requirements are a proper ESL teaching cert and 3 years full time experience of teaching post-qualification.

[Markness]

Yeah, you can do what the above poster said or just move to some places where they do it and bang on some doors. They're desperate from what I hear, just the visa is sketchy.