Working in Thailand Series: How to be a Consultant in Thailand

Tracy Dumais left teaching center management for EdTech and now project manages English-learning apps for children from Thailand. She covers the qualifications that got her hired and what she thinks the job pays.

The following post is a chapter from our book, Working in Thailand: How to Ditch the Desk, Board the Flight, and Land the Job, written by Patrick Taylor and Karsten Aichholz.

You can buy Working in Thailand on Amazon. Premium members can read the full Working in Thailand series here, with interviews covering seventeen professions in Thailand.

Each person shares how they landed a job here, what the role requires, and what to expect.

Key Takeaways

Education jobs in Thailand go well beyond the classroom, from curriculum development to international school administration and EdTech.
Tracy Dumais moved from teaching center management into mobile learning, where she project manages a small suite of English-learning apps for children.
Her minimum is a degree and a TESOL diploma, plus some experience in teaching, content development or training.
A master’s in e-learning or EdTech helps but isn’t essential.
If a master’s is out of budget, she suggests building your own digital content (a YouTube channel, podcast, blog or Facebook page) to get noticed.
When the book came out in 2018, she put a reasonable starting salary for a full-time project management post at THB90,000 to THB150,000 a month; freelancers start much lower.
Working with teams around the world means early-morning and late-evening calls.

The Consultant

Unless otherwise noted, all quotes by Tracy Dumais, consultant.

For those who’ve chosen the noble pursuit of education as their field of employment, it’s easy to assume that the only options for those wanting to teach in Thailand lie in good old-fashioned chalk-to-blackboard teaching.

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