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Academic Manager
EF Education FirstThornwood, New York, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Dec 2024
About the role
Role: Academic Manager-Summer 2025 Location: Thornwood, NYCompensation: $1,238 / Week (exempt)*All applicants must be age 21 or older Who we are: EF is the world’s leading educational travel provider with over 55 years of experience. With our International Summer Schools, we offer young learners the opportunity to spend 2 – 4 weeks in North America, improving their English language skills in a robust program while participating in a full-activity program of sports, discos, parties, excursions, and lots more! Who You Are
- Are you passionate about travel and languages?
- Do you believe that students studying abroad have the opportunity of a lifetime?
- Are you dynamic, outgoing, and energetic?
- Setting up the school and physically ensuring all classrooms meet EF specifications and are maintained throughout the season.
- Coordinating timetables for all academic groups, completing intake schedules, and setting up classes using EF’s production system.
- 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, teaching supplies, and equipment.
- Managing all teaching staff at your campus and working with other Senior Staff to ensure full integration of teaching staff into the team.
- Delivering initial teacher briefing, daily and weekly meetings.
- Teacher observations, feedback, and development.
- Planning and implementation of graduations together with activities team.
- Responsible for the training and management of the academic team, including special programs, under direction of the Senior Academic Manager
- Collating/reviewing academic paperwork, and inputting data into EF’s production system.
- Welfare and discipline within the classroom.
- Responding to problems and emergency situations should they arise.
- University degree or equivalent, preferred.
- TEFL certificate or equivalent, preferred.
- Minimum six months of teaching experience or one summer teaching for EF.
- Have the right to live and work in the country of employment.
- Complete fluency in English.
- Attend an in-person training session before your contract commences.
- Management and administrative experience.
- Enthusiastic, organized, and a natural
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