Job details

Position:

Academic Director

Work hours:

Full-time

Student type:

Non-applicable

Group size:

N/A

Contract term:

Seasonal

Contract type:

Work as employee

Institution type:

Language school

School authority:

Private

As an Academic Manager, you assume overall responsibility for the academic program at one of our EF summer schools. This role includes providing oversight, management and coaching to your team of EFL teachers, through regular in-classroom observations and feedback sessions. You are also responsible for leading trainings, for developing and implementing online inductions, and for assisting teachers with lesson planning, paperwork, and classroom management. This is a high-energy role that requires a strong leader and manager, someone who can provide tools, training and guidance such that their EFL Teachers can deliver fun, engaging and successful learning experiences.


Responsibilities:

Setting up the school and physically ensuring all classrooms meet EF specifications, and are maintained throughout the season
Allocating teachers and classrooms to groups of students, and playing a ‘hands on’ role in allocating students into classes on the first days in school
Managing academic stock including exam papers, certificates and equipment and making sure teaching team has the required stock
Managing all teaching staff at your Centre and working together with other Senior Staff to ensure full integration of teaching staff into team
Coordinating timetables for all academic groups and keeping up to date in EF’s production system
Collating and reviewing academic paperwork, and inputting data into the system
Welfare and discipline within the classroom
Dealing with problems and emergency situations should they arise
Delivering initial teacher briefing, daily and weekly meetings
Teacher observations, feedback and development

Torquay, United Kingdom

Who we are looking for

1. Language proficiency
   

   Proficient speakers

2. Experience
   

   Min. 1 year

   (Minimum six months’ teaching experience or one summer teaching for EF.)

3. Qualification
   

   BA in any subject + Any accredited 100+ hour English teaching certif.

   (Face-to-face TEFL (eg. CELTA, minimum 100 hours) or a State Teacher Credential (PGCE, B.Ed, MA) plus training in EFL/EAL. Qualifications due to be completed in the current academic year will also be considered.)

4. Have the right to live and work in the country of employment
5. Complete fluency in English
6. Enthusiastic, organised and a natural leader
7. Capable of using your own initiative
8. Is business-minded with a strong sense of customer service and high attention to detail
9. Attend a Senior Staff Training weekend prior to your contract commencing