PRIVATE TUTOR — INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR

Lawson Tutoring

Metro Vancouver, BC

In-Person & Online Opportunities

Starting Rate: $25 CAD per completed instructional hour

ABOUT LAWSON TUTORING

Lawson Tutoring is a personalized tutoring company serving students and families throughout Metro Vancouver.

We believe that a great tutor is not necessarily the right tutor for every student. That is why we do things differently.

Instead of asking families to browse through a marketplace of tutor profiles, Lawson takes the time to understand each student’s academic needs, learning style, personality, goals, location, and schedule. We then carefully match each student with a tutor who we believe will be a strong fit.

The student comes first. The match comes second.

As Lawson grows, we are building a team of knowledgeable, dependable, encouraging tutors who care about helping students develop both academic skills and confidence.

THE ROLE

Lawson Tutoring is hiring independent contractor tutors to work with students across Metro Vancouver.

Tutors may work with students:

- In students’ homes
- Online
- At approved community, school, or tutoring locations

Assignments are offered based on your subjects, authorized grade levels, location, availability, experience, and fit with the individual student. You may accept or decline assignments based on your availability. There are no guaranteed minimum hours, and this is not a salaried or traditional part-time employment position.

Families are clients of Lawson Tutoring. Lawson manages the matching process, family onboarding, payments, policies, and administrative systems so that tutors can focus on providing excellent instruction.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Lawson Tutor, you will provide personalized one-on-one academic support to students within your approved subjects and grade levels.

You will be expected to:

- Arrive on time and prepared for every session
- Adapt your teaching approach to the individual student
- Explain concepts clearly and patiently
- Identify areas of strength and areas requiring additional support
- Help students strengthen understanding rather than simply complete assignments
- Support homework, test preparation, projects, study skills, and curriculum mastery where appropriate
- Create or use appropriate practice activities and learning resources
- Assign appropriate homework or practice when beneficial
- Monitor student progress over time
- Maintain professional boundaries with students and families
- Follow Lawson’s safeguarding, privacy, communication, and professional-conduct standards

SESSION REPORTS After tutoring sessions, tutors are expected to maintain appropriate session documentation through Lawson’s systems.

Session reports may include

- Topics and concepts covered
- Student progress
- Areas of difficulty
- Tutor observations
- Skills demonstrated or requiring development
- Homework or practice assigned
- Resources used or recommended
- Assessments, quizzes, or tests where applicable
- Recommended next steps

These reports help Lawson, parents, students, and future tutors understand the student’s learning journey and maintain continuity between sessions.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for tutors who are academically capable and genuinely good at working with students.

Strong candidates are

- Knowledgeable in the subjects they teach
- Clear and confident communicators
- Patient and encouraging
- Dependable and punctual
- Organized and prepared
- Comfortable working independently
- Professional when communicating with families
- Able to adapt explanations when a student does not understand something the first time




- Comfortable working with children and/or teenagers
- Able to recognize that different students require different teaching approaches
- Committed to maintaining appropriate professional boundaries

Previous tutoring or teaching experience is an asset, but we are also interested in robust university students, graduates, educators, and subject specialists who demonstrate excellent academic knowledge and the ability to teach effectively. SUBJECTS WE ARE RECRUITING FOR

We are building our tutor roster across multiple academic areas, including:

Elementary / K–7

English/Mathematics /Reading /Writing /General Academic Support

Grades 8–10

English / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies / Study Skills

Grades 11–12

Pre-Calculus / Calculus / Chemistry / Biology / Physics /English and other senior academic subjects

Advanced Coursework

AP and other advanced secondary-school courses where the tutor has appropriate subject expertise.

Tutors are only assigned students within the subjects and grade ranges Lawson has authorized them to teach.

LOCATIONS

We are recruiting tutors throughout Metro Vancouver, with particular interest in tutors able to serve communities including:

North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Vancouver UBC / West Point Grey, Kitsilano, Burnaby Coquitlam, Langley

You will identify the locations you are willing to serve during onboarding.

For in-person assignments, tutors are responsible for ensuring they can reliably travel to the agreed tutoring location and arrive on time.

Online opportunities may also be available.

SCHEDULING

Most tutoring demand occurs after school, during evenings, and on weekends.

Tutors provide Lawson with their current availability and service locations. Student assignments are then offered based on family needs and tutor fit.

Tutors are expected to keep their availability reasonably current and promptly notify Lawson if they are unable to attend a scheduled session.

Tutors should not privately arrange cancellations, discounts, refunds, payment changes, or other changes to Lawson’s service arrangements with families.

COMPENSATION

Starting compensation: $25 CAD per completed instructional hour, unless a different rate is agreed to in writing for a particular tutor or assignment.

Tutors work as independent contractors and are paid by Lawson Tutoring.

Families pay Lawson directly. Tutors do not collect tutoring fees or direct payments from Lawson families.

Tutors are responsible for their own applicable taxes, CPP obligations, insurance, licences, and other responsibilities associated with independent contractor status.

There are no guaranteed hours. Assignments depend on student demand, tutor availability, subject requirements, geography, and successful student-tutor matching.

SAFETY & SCREENING

Because Lawson tutors work with children and teenagers, student safety is a priority.

Successful applicants must complete Lawson’s onboarding and screening requirements before receiving applicable assignments, including:

- Identity and contact verification
- Satisfactory criminal record / vulnerable-sector or child-sector screening as required
- Subject and grade-level authorization
- Service-location confirmation
- Availability confirmation
- Contractor documentation
- Lawson policies and safeguarding requirements




- Privacy and confidentiality requirements

Tutors must immediately report safety concerns, allegations, serious incidents, or other safeguarding concerns through Lawson’s established procedures. PRIVACY & PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

Tutors may receive access to student and family information necessary to provide tutoring services.

Tutors are expected to

- Keep student and family information confidential
- Access information only when required for their tutoring responsibilities
- Use Lawson-approved communication channels and systems
- Protect student records and learning information
- Avoid inappropriate communication or relationships with minors
- Never photograph, record, or publish students without appropriate authorization
- Follow Lawson’s privacy, safeguarding, and data-handling requirements

WORKING WITH LAWSON FAMILIES Lawson invests time and resources into finding, onboarding, supporting, and matching families with tutors.

Tutors may not bypass Lawson by accepting direct payment or establishing private tutoring arrangements with families introduced to them through Lawson where prohibited by their Independent Contractor Agreement.

Our goal is to create long-term relationships that are fair to our students, families, tutors, and the company.

WHY TUTOR WITH LAWSON?

Lawson is designed to give tutors the independence of contract tutoring without requiring them to build an entire tutoring business themselves.

Lawson handles

Student inquiries and family onboarding

Student-tutor matching

Payments and billing

Administrative systems

Policies and documentation

Parent accounts

Session-report infrastructure

Learning resources and academic records

Ongoing family support

You focus on

Teaching well.

Building trust with your student.

Understanding how they learn.

Helping them make meaningful academic progress.

THE KIND OF TUTOR WE WANT

You don’t need to teach every subject.

You don’t need to be the right tutor for every student.

We want you to be excellent for the students you’re matched with.

At Lawson, qualifications matter—but so does fit.

How you explain something matters.

How you communicate matters.

How you respond when a student is struggling matters.

And whether a student feels comfortable enough to ask you, “Can you explain that one more time?” matters.

If that sounds like the kind of tutor you want to be, we’d like to hear from you.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Selected applicants will move through Lawson’s tutor onboarding process, which may include:

Application → Initial Review → Interview → Qualification & Subject Review → Screening / CRC Verification → Contractor Agreement → Lawson Onboarding → Account Setup → Eligible for Student Matching

Completing onboarding does not guarantee a minimum number of assignments. Student placements depend on demand and appropriate student-tutor fit.

APPLY TO JOIN LAWSON TUTORING

When applying, please be prepared to provide information about your:

- Education and academic background
- Tutoring, teaching, mentoring, or relevant experience
- Subjects you are qualified to teach
- Grade levels you are comfortable teaching
- Availability
- Service locations
- In-person and/or online availability

Lawson Tutoring Learn with confidence.

We don’t just find a tutor. We work to find the right tutor.

Pay: From $25.00 per hour

Benefits

- Flexible schedule

Ability to commute/relocate:
- Vancouver, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):
- Which subjects are you able to tutor?

Education:
- Secondary School (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Vancouver, BC

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