Summer School Positions – Activity Leaders

Job Description

General duties

• Welcoming new students to the centre.
• Setting up / packing up the centre and displaying / removing signs.
• Supervising during breaks and lunchtimes and quiet time.
• Preparing afternoon activities and workshops.
• Assisting with fire drills.
• Providing welfare for students who come without a Group Leader (’individual’ students) and reporting potentially harmful situations.

Administration

• Assisting the Centre Manager, Academic Manager and Activity Managers with general administrative tasks.
• Designing and displaying posters and programme information.
• Preparing Welcome Packs, Excursion Packs and student ID badges.
• Photocopying and general office administration.
• Checking students are in their classes.
• Preparing activity plans for each activity, and being familiar with all the risk assessments.
• Ensuring all areas are clean and tidy so Health and Safety criteria is met.

Activities

• Preparing activity plans for each activity to ensure all students are safe and participating fully in order to benefit from the experience.
• Organising teams/groups and actively participating in activities and events.
• Ensuring sports, audio and other equipment is maintained, returned and stored correctly as well as purchasing resources.
• Encouraging fair play and ensuring all students have a turn.
• Monitoring the students at all times.

Excursions

• Be early to meet your assigned group
• Counting students on and off coaches and throughout excursions.
• Brief the students and Group Leaders about the itinerary for the excursion including reading the script, introducing the excursion task and checking the answers on the way home.
• Leading and monitoring the walking tour (notes and maps provided) of towns/cities visited.
• Monitoring and being responsible for a group of around 15 students throughout the excursion.
• Ensuring you know the safety procedures and potential risks involved on each excursion (for example how to deal with lost or sick students)

Duties at Residential Centres

• Assisting on arrival and departure days.
• Waking the students up in the mornings and assisting with lights out in the evenings.
• Assisting students with laundry.
• Encouraging students to keep their rooms and common areas tidy and ensuring emergency exits are kept free from obstruction.
• Ensuring students are prepared for departures and all luggage is collected (some unsociable hours)
• Distributing packed lunches for excursions.
• Ensuring students are safe and monitored at all times.

Maintaining Standards

• You will perform your duties in a professional manner and dress appropriately for your position.
• You will behave appropriately as an example to younger people.
• You will familiarise yourself with, understand, and adhere to Concorde International’s Safeguarding Policy. These will be made available to you once employment has been confirmed.
• Flexibility and common sense are fundamental attributes for this position.

Equal Opportunities

Concorde International is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, marital status, disability, age, part-time or fixed term contract status, sexual orientation or religion in the allocation of duties between employees employed at any level with comparable job descriptions.

If you are applying from outside of the UK, please note that Concorde International is unable to assist in any way with work permits or visas.