IB tutor jobs: teach PYP, MYP and DP students with IB Gram

This is not a salaried teaching post and we do not ask you to work fixed shifts. You are an independent professional: you choose which students to take, how many hours a week you teach, whether you teach online or travel to a home, and what you charge. IB Gram finds the students, arranges the first demo class, collects the fees from the family and pays you monthly.

What makes IB work different from general tuition is that a parent is rarely looking for "a maths tutor". They are looking for someone who can teach Maths AA at Higher Level to a student sitting the May session, or who can get an MYP Year 4 student to write a decent reflection against Criterion D. Matching on that level is the whole point of the platform, and it is why we ask for your programme and level in detail rather than just a subject list.

Most tutors who join us are already teaching: current or former IB school teachers, examiners and moderators, postgraduates in their subject, and experienced private tutors moving off word-of-mouth referrals. You do not need to have taught in an IB school to be accepted, but you do need to show that you know the programme you are applying to teach, because the first demo class is where a parent decides.

• You choose your students, your hours, your mode and your fee
• No joining fee, no subscription and no charge to receive matches
• No exclusivity — you can tutor elsewhere at the same time
• Every match tells you the programme, subject, level and target session up front

You set your own hourly fee. We do not cap it and we do not undercut you — the family sees your fee before they book, so there is no haggling after the demo. IB subjects at Higher Level, and DP subjects close to an exam session, are where tutors charge the most, because the supply of people who can teach them properly is small.

Our cut depends only on the mode, never on the subject or the programme. For home tuition, the first month's fee is split 50-50 and from the second month onwards you keep 100% — we take nothing further for as long as you keep teaching that student. For online classes it is a flat 70/30 in your favour, every month.

The split that applies when a student starts is locked for that student. If we ever change these terms, the change is announced at least 30 days ahead and applies only to students who start after it.

• Worked example: a ₹16,000/month home student pays you ₹8,000 in month 1, then ₹16,000 every month after
• Over six months with that student you receive ₹88,000 of the ₹96,000 paid — about 92%
• Online at ₹1,200 a class × 12 classes = ₹14,400, of which ₹10,080 is yours
• Classes you cancel are not charged to the family, so they are not paid

Demand is not spread evenly across the IB subject groups. Group 4 sciences and Group 5 mathematics account for most of what comes in, followed by Economics and Business Management in Group 3, and English in Group 1 — usually Language A Language and Literature rather than Literature.

Within mathematics, the 2019 restructure into Analysis and Approaches and Applications and Interpretation created a real shortage. Many tutors can teach one route competently and assume the other is simply easier; AI HL in particular has statistics and modelling content that AA tutors have often never taught. If you can genuinely teach both routes at both levels, you will not be short of students.

In the sciences, the current syllabuses put weight on the internal assessment, and a lot of what parents want is not content teaching at all but help designing an investigation with a defensible research question and a sensible method. Tutors who can supervise an IA properly without crossing into writing it are rare and worth more.

Language B and the ab initio courses are a steady niche. So are the less-taught Group 3 options like Psychology and Global Politics, where a school may have only one teacher and a struggling student has nowhere else to turn.

• Mathematics: AA and AI, both HL and SL — the single largest source of requests
• Sciences: Physics, Chemistry and Biology, with heavy IA support demand
• Group 3: Economics, Business Management, Psychology, Global Politics
• Group 1 and 2: English Language and Literature, Language B, ab initio
• Core: Extended Essay supervision and Theory of Knowledge essay guidance

IB tutoring is seasonal and it helps to know the shape of the year before you commit. Demand climbs from August as the northern-hemisphere academic year starts and new DP students realise what Year 1 involves. It peaks between January and April, in the run-up to the May examination session, and that is when HL tutors can charge the most and fill every slot they have.

There is a second, smaller peak around October and November for schools sitting the November session, which is most of the southern hemisphere and a number of schools in South and Southeast Asia. May and June are the quietest months for DP work, which is when MYP and PYP students — who have no external session to revise for — keep a timetable ticking over.

We cannot promise a number of students. What we can tell you honestly is that tutors who list more than one programme, who teach at least two subjects, and who offer online as well as home, get matched several times more often than single-subject home-only tutors. Breadth is the thing that most reliably turns an accepted profile into steady work.