Host Family Recruitment Coordinator

EF Education First / HultBournemouth, EnglandOn-sitePart-timeMid level, 2–5 yearsListed 1 hour ago

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About this role

Your Role

EF Bournemouth International Language Campus is seeking a proactive and personable individual to join our homestay/host family recruitment team as a Homestay Recruitment Coordinator visiting and connecting international students with welcoming homestay providers.

In this role, you'll visit and assess providers, guide them through onboarding and ensure safeguarding compliance – all while helping to create a welcoming, ‘home away from home’ experience for our international students.

Position Details:

- Part time

- Flexible hours

- Hours available 7 days a week

If you are committed to delivering a high-quality student experience and thrive in a dynamic environment, we encourage you to apply.

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Responsibilities

- Visiting and assessing homestay providers and completing paperwork (a strong focus on compliance)

- Liaising with our existing homestay community and handling enquiries

- Matching international students with providers and assisting in placements

- Participating in EF events

- Following up with newly collected paperwork and entering information into a database

- Keeping homestay database up-to-date

Requirements

- Highly motivated, energetic and positive with a sociable and outgoing personality

- Friendly and approachable manner, not afraid to speak to strangers

- Highly organised and thorough, able to use initiative and work unsupervised

- Excellent communicator with external clients such as host families, students, and colleagues

- Excellent communication skills

- A flexible approach to work and hours of work undertaken is essential

- Complete fluency in English

- Access to a car essential

- All offers are subject to a clear enhanced background check and two references

- Legally able to work in the UK at commencement of employment

Why you will love working with EF

- Continuous professional development

- Work in a truly international environment

- Regular social events

- Ambition is nurtured and fast-tracked career enhancement opportunities are provided

- Staff are encouraged to innovate, take ownership of their ideas and bring them to fruition

- Employee Assistance Program

- Access to EF Hello language learning

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EF is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  References will be followed up and will ask specifically whether there is any reason that the applicant should not be engaged in situations where they have responsibility for, or substantial access to, persons under 18.  Upon interview all gaps in CVs must be explained satisfactorily and proof of identity and, where applicable, qualifications will be required.  Appropriate suitability checks will be required prior to confirmation of appointment.

EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, identity, parental status, experience, and everything else that makes you unique. #LI-PB1