Employment

Account Manager – Sales and Marketing

Department: iChineseEdu@Nan Hai
Office Location: 3000 Lakeside Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054
Employment Type: Full Time
Opening: 1
Rate of Pay: TBD

iChineseReader is the best leveled Chinese reading platform tailored to meet varied reading needs of all K-12 Chinese programs. We offer more than 3000 fiction and nonfiction interactive e-books of different genres, topics, and content areas placed at 20 proficiency levels. Available on PC, Chromebook, iPad and Android Tablet, iChineseReader provides 24/7 availability anywhere and on any device.

The department of iChineseEdu at Nan Hai Company, Inc. USA has two openings of full-time Sales Associates. The selected candidates will join the iChineseEdu’s marketing & sales team to promote, sale and provide customer services for our fast growing digital leveled Chinese reading platform, iChineseReader. ChineseReader is the best leveled Chinese reading platform tailored to meet varied reading needs of all K-12 Chinese programs. It offers more than 3000 fiction and nonfiction interactive e-books of different genres, topics, and content areas placed at 20 proficiency levels. Much of this position’s job will involve off-site school visiting, attending conferences, conducting onsite or webinar presentations, meeting with administrators and teachers.

Main Responsibilities/Duties

• Work with other members in the team to ensure customer satisfaction and sales growth
• Identifies market opportunities and develop sales plans for existing and new products
• Using strategic multiple media marketing skills to reach target and potential customers
• Attend conferences to showcase products
• Sets appointments with prospective schools/schools districts, meeting with principals, school boards, other administrative officials, faculty & parents groups, making presentations
• Design and lead production workshop/webinar
• Serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters
• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting client relationships
• Negotiate contracts and close agreements to maximize profits
• Ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs and objectives
• Prepares periodic sales report showing forecast sales volume
• Monitors competitors’ sales and marketing activities
• Assistance to other programs and projects if needed

Qualifications

• Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling educational products, services, and solutions
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer services in the field of Chinese language education
• Self-starter that has the motivation and drive to work in a competitive sales environment
• Proven ability to maintain and grow current customer base
• Knowledge and skills of using social media to grow fans, reach out potential customers
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Management, Marketing & Sales, Communications, Education, Linguistics or related subjects is preferred or equivalent work experience, Master’s degree is a plus
• At least 2 years sales and/or marketing experience, previous educational product sales experience is a big plus
• Bi-lingual Mandarin Chinese and English
• Valid work permit in the United States

How to apply

All applications should include 1) a cover letter indicate your interest and qualifications; 2) your resume. Only finalists will be contacted for interview and/or reference letters. Email your application to CLERC@iChineseEdu.com with subject line “Account Manger – Sales and Marketing”. No phone calls please.

Program Associate (CLOSED)

Department: iChineseEdu@Nan Hai
Office Location: 3000 Lakeside Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054
Employment Type: Full Time
Rate of Pay: TBD

iChineseReader is the best leveled Chinese reading platform tailored to meet varied reading needs of all K-12 Chinese programs. We offer more than 3000 fiction and nonfiction interactive e-books of different genres, topics, and content areas placed at 20 proficiency levels. Available on PC, Chromebook, iPad and Android Tablet, iChineseReader provides 24/7 availability anywhere and on any device.

Our content team is looking for a motivated individual to develop educational content and materials for iChineseReader and other digital product/program.

Main Responsibilities/Duties

• Be responsible for program’s logistics, including program publicity, student recruitment; liaison with Peking University’s International College for Chinese Language Studies and Office of International Relations; pre-tour orientation; working with Peking University’s counterpart to determine class schedule
• Research, evaluate, and prepare recommendations on curricula, instructional methods, and materials for the education division
• Be responsible for conference logistics, working with conference chairs to initiate call for proposals and determine conference program; liaison with keynote speakers; keeping records with conference registration; editing conference workbook; coordinate CLERC onsite workshops; organize and present CLEF conferences; use both Chinese and English languages fluently to introduce the content, cultural background and top-related Chinese educational content to the audience
• Manage the program cooperation between the Petitioner and Ji Nan University in China, which includes program publicity, daily program management, and student recruitment. Students will be awarded a Master’s degree of Arts in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language by Ji Nan University
• Manage the cultural events organized by the Petitioner for the families with adopted children from China (“FCC”); organize root-seeking tours to China for FCC; host educational events including lectures, seminars, symposiums, and artist and curator talks, to facilitate academic discourse and raise public awareness for Chinese art artists
• Plan and organize seminars in which professors of Chinese language education from Stanford University, UC-Berkeley, CSU-Long Beach, Harvard University, Peking University, Ji Nan University and Beijing Language University in China give lectures to Chinese language teachers at the Petitioner’s Chinese Language Education and Research Center (CLERC)

Qualifications

• To perform as a Program Associate in a highly professional and competent manner, the incumbent must have minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Curriculum and Teaching Methodology, Education, Chinese Language and Literature or a foreign education equivalent, as well as cross-cultural communication skills.

How to apply

All applications should include 1) a cover letter indicate your interest and qualifications; 2) your resume. Only finalists will be contacted for interview and/or reference letters. Email your application to CLERC@iChineseEdu.com with subject line “Chinese Content Specialist application -YOUR NAME”. No phone calls please.

IT Engineer/Developer (CLOSED)

Department: iChineseEdu
Office Location: Santa Clara, CA
Professional Level: Entry or young professionals
Employment Type: 3 months contract, extendible (with an option of a full-time job)
Current openings: 1

iChineseReader is the best leveled Chinese reading platform tailored to meet varied reading needs of all K-12 Chinese programs. We offer more than 3000 fiction and nonfiction interactive e-books of different genres, topics, and content areas placed at 20 proficiency levels. Available on PC, Chromebook, iPad and Android Tablet, iChineseReader provides 24/7 availability anywhere and on any device.

Our IT team is looking for a motivated individual to join us as an IT Support Technician. Your main responsibilities are to provide technical support for the whole company, assist our digital production, and manage/update our existing websites.

Main Responsibilities

• Manage and set up office electronic equipment
• Manage AWS servers and develop/update WordPress websites when necessary
• Occasionally help production team to do publication layout

Qualifications

• Motivated, Self-starter
• Can meet deadlines for assigned jobs
• Major in computer science, information technology or computer information systems
• Understanding how to set up basic office equipment
• Fluent in HTML5 and CSS3
• Ability to read Simplified Chinese characters
• Fluent in both Mandarin and English
• Knowledge of one or more kind of programming languages (preferably PHP and/or JavaScript) a big plus
• Knowledge of one or more kind of JS framework/library a big plus
• Experience on managing *nix system from CLI will be a plus
• Knowledge of graphic design tools – Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. will be a plus
• Experience on WordPress will be a plus
• Must be willing to relocate to Bay area

How to apply

All applications should include 1) a cover letter indicate your interest, qualifications, and salary expectation; 2) your resume. Only finalists will be contacted for interview and/or reference letters. Email your application to CLERC@iChineseEdu.com with subject line “IT Engineer application -YOUR NAME”. No phone calls please.