IB and IGCSE tutor jobs worldwide

The reason international-curriculum tutoring travels is that the curriculum does not change with the country. A Maths AA Higher Level student in Dubai, Bengaluru, Kuala Lumpur and Surrey is working from the same syllabus towards the same papers in the same examination session. The syllabus you already know is the product, and geography is close to irrelevant to it.

What is scarce is depth. Any given international school might have one Physics HL teacher, one Economics HL teacher, and nobody at all who can supervise an Extended Essay in Psychology. When those students need help, the nearest qualified person is frequently in another country. That gap is what we match across.

For you the practical effect is that your addressable market stops being your city and becomes every time zone your free hours overlap. A tutor with a wide evening window can hold students on three continents in one week, which is not a theoretical possibility — it is how a good share of our tutors actually work.

• Same syllabus, same papers, same sessions — wherever the student is
• Subject depth is scarce in individual schools, which is the gap you fill
• Your market is defined by your free hours, not your location
• No joining fee, no subscription, no exclusivity

You set your fee and we publish it unchanged. Because this is online work, the terms are the simplest we have: a flat 70% to you and a 30% platform fee, every month, from your first class to your last. There is no reduced opening month the way there is with in-person home tuition.

That 30% covers more than matching when the work crosses borders. It covers invoicing families in their own currency, collecting across different payment systems, chasing late payment in another country and time zone, scheduling across offsets, and finding you a replacement student if one stops. Those are the parts that are genuinely difficult to do yourself as an individual tutor working internationally.

Rates differ substantially by market, and it is worth knowing where you sit. Gulf and UK families generally pay the most for equivalent work, Singapore and Hong Kong are strong, and Indian rates are lower but the volume is much larger. Many tutors deliberately build a mixed timetable for exactly that reason — a few higher-rate international students and a base of steady local ones.

• A flat 70% to you, every month, with no first-month reduction
• We invoice and collect in the family's own currency and payment system
• A mixed timetable — high-rate international plus steady local — is the common pattern
• Classes you cancel are not billed to the family, so they are not paid

The IB Diploma runs two examination sessions a year and they sit at opposite ends of the calendar. May is much the larger and covers most northern-hemisphere schools — India, the Gulf, the UK, Europe, North America. November serves the southern hemisphere, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and parts of South America, along with a number of schools across South and Southeast Asia.

For a tutor working internationally, that is a structural advantage that local tutors do not have. A tutor serving only May-session students peaks hard from January to April and then falls off a cliff in May. A tutor who also takes November-session students picks up a second peak from September to November, and the two together leave almost no dead months.

IGCSE adds a third rhythm. Cambridge runs May/June and October/November series, and several Edexcel subjects offer a January series, so an IGCSE tutor with students on more than one board has entry points spread across the year rather than one annual cliff edge.

If you want the steadiest possible international timetable, the combination that achieves it is: both IB sessions, both IGCSE boards, and at least two subjects. Tutors who do all three rarely report a quiet month.

We invoice the family in their own currency and through their own local payment method, collect the fee, and chase it if it is late. You are paid monthly on the 1st for the previous month's classes, with an itemised statement showing every student, class, fee and split. You never invoice a family abroad and you never pursue a cross-border payment, which is the part that makes independent international tutoring difficult.

What remains yours is your own compliance. IB Gram is a matching platform, not your employer, and we do not sponsor visas or grant work rights anywhere. Whether you may lawfully accept paid freelance work is governed by the country you are physically sitting in, not by where your student is. The same goes for tax: the income is yours and so is the obligation on it.

In practice this is straightforward for most people and genuinely worth checking for some. If you are on a visa that restricts work, or employed somewhere with an exclusivity clause, or resident somewhere that treats foreign-sourced freelance income distinctively, resolve it before you take a student rather than after your first payout. Your monthly statements give you a clean record whatever your position turns out to be.

• We invoice, collect and chase in the family's own currency and payment system
• Your own country's rules govern your right to work, not the student's
• Tax on your earnings is yours; statements give you the filing record
• Check visa restrictions and employer exclusivity clauses before your first student