Homestay Recruitment Manager

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Description

Position at EF Language Abroad

Homestay Recruitment Manager

Oxford

Full Time

Start date: March 2025

Do you thrive on the challenge of sales, meeting targets, and delivering quality? Are you proud of Oxford and eager to showcase it to international students? If you're organized, enthusiastic, and looking for a management role, you could be perfect for recruiting the best Host Families in Oxford!

Careers at EF Open the world with us

EF's mission is opening the world through education.

A career with EF combines the support and opportunity of a large international organisation, with the spirit and energy of a small business. We look for thinkers and doers - creative, collaborative, and motivated people who are excited by education, communication, and travel.

When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries. In the UK and Ireland, our core presence is felt at our international language campuses and summer schools, where we welcome students from around the world to participate in language learning and cultural exchange. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about-we welcome you and encourage you to open the world through education.

Your Role

EF Oxford is seeking a strategic and driven Homestay Manager to lead our homestay program and ensure its continued success. In this management role, you'll play a pivotal part in connecting international students with local families in Oxford, creating unforgettable cultural experiences while driving the growth and quality of our program.

Working closely with a collaborative, international team, you'll inspire families to open their homes and embrace a life-changing experience for students and hosts alike. Your leadership will shape recruitment strategies, guide marketing efforts, and ensure our targets are met, all while building lasting relationships with host families and fostering a sense of community.

Responsibilities

• Ensures the recruitment of homestay providers and host families are met
• Be the driving force behind our marketing campaigns, with a focus on offline events
• Collaborate with our accommodation team to inspire families to embark on a life-changing experience by hosting international students
• Seize the opportunity to implement new offline marketing strategies, leverage diverse channels, and contribute to our mission of opening the world through education
• Manages recruitment, re-registration & monitoring of suitable homestay & private home accommodation
• Organise promotional events
• Ensures all enquiries from prospective hosts are promptly followed up and are enough leads to reach the targets
• Researching and developing marketing opportunities and plans, understanding hosts requirements, identifying market trends, and suggesting system improvements to achieve the host family's targets
• Participate in EF events around Oxford and the surrounding area to recruit homestay providers, including leafleting and street promotions / actions
• Responsibilities not limited to those mentioned above, role will vary depending on targets leading up to summer peaks
• Shares emergency duty on a rota basis
• Occasional weekend work may be required during major fairs/events

Requirements

• Excellent communication & people skills
• Sensitive to needs of international students living away from home
• Enjoys working in busy & varied environment
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to liaise with suppliers & remain calm & positive under pressure
• Sales orientated and target driven
• Ownership mindset and ability to take initiative and work independently
• Highly motivated, energetic, and positive with a sociable and outgoing personality
• A flexible approach to work and hours of work undertaken is essential
• Highly organised and thorough, able to use initiative and work unsupervised
• All offers are subject to a clear enhanced DBS check and two references
• Legally able to work in the UK at commencement of employment

EF Education First - Our History and Values

Career Progression at EF

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.

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