Centre Director (Residential) Summer 2025

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Posted:

13.04.2025

Expiry Date:

28.05.2025

Job Description:

Leading our summer school as Centre Director will provide you with a fun, diverse and unforgettable experience!

Key information:

At Stafford House Study Holidays, we welcome over 6,000 students (ages 8-17) from overseas during the summer to help them improve their English. Students stay with us for 7-14 days at one of our fantastic school locations, taking part in a rich academic, activities and excursions programme while supporting their entire stay, including airport transfers, accommodation, and meals.

Locations: Bournemouth, Cambridge, Central London, Uxbridge, Northampton, and Oakham (famous for the Michael Owen Red Stars football school). We provide full-board accommodation.

Contracts: Your contract will run from 5-9 weeks and you must be available for the entirety of the contract. Dates will vary from 17th June to 25th August 2025, depending on the school. You must be residential for the duration of your contract and available to attend our training weekend in June 2025.

Hours: This is a fully immersive experience, working 60 hours per week over 6 days. It's a residential role, meaning that you can choose to spend summer in a new location if you wish.

What is the role?

As Centre Director, you’re the glue that binds the whole programme together and makes our students’ stay with us not only educational, but fun, safe, and memorable.

We look for candidates with proven working experience in effective management and leadership, ideally within a summer or year-round school. You’ll oversee the management centre with circa 300 students and around 30 staff, depending on centre. Therefore, you must be a great communicator and have experience of working with young people from different cultures. This varied role requires management of budgets, customer, and team satisfaction, as well as being the responsible safeguarding lead on site.

Here's some of what’s required:

1. Coordinating the academic and activities programme.
2. Managing and working alongside the Centre Management Team, you will be responsible for the high performance and delivery of the student’s experience.
3. Managing customer expectations.
4. Trouble-shooting any issues that may arise in a professional, calm, and satisfactory way.
5. Controlling budgets and expenditure.
6. Act as one of the Designated Safeguarding Leaders for the centre.
7. Ensuring the health, safety and well-being of all students and your team.
8. Participating in pastoral duties with our students, including night-duties on a rota basis.

We take safeguarding very seriously. If successful we will conduct full pre-employment checks including an Enhanced DBS check, in line with our safer recruitment policy and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024.

You must already have the right to work in the UK.

You must be available to attend our training weekend in June 2025.

You’ll ideally be educated to degree level with previous experience of summer school management.

What’s in it for you as a Centre Director?

• Working with an experienced and supportive team.
• Opportunity to expand your management experience with a full management training weekend and ongoing support throughout your contract.
• Full-board accommodation provided.
• Gain experience of working in a fast-paced, fun and multicultural educational environment.

Pay:

Band 1 Centre Director - £919.54 per week + holiday entitlement.

Band 2 Centre Director - £881.78 per week + holiday entitlement.

Emergency Phone Payments up to £40 per week (£20 per night payments for emergency phone cover anticipated twice per week).

Loyalty Payments - £20 - 43 per week.

*paid at the end of your contract.

More information:

WHO ARE WE? Stafford House has over 70 years’ experience in providing international students with great English language study experiences in the UK. Our mission is to educate, inspire and help our students enjoy our locations, empowering them with confidence to realise their personal potential. Stafford House comprises 2 brands, Stafford House International and Stafford House Study Holidays.

OUR COMMITMENT TO SAFEGUARDING: CATS Global Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expect everyone connected with the organisation to share this commitment. All positions are subject to the satisfactory completion of safer recruitment pre-employment checks in line with KCSIE guidelines.

OUR COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY: We are committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging.

AND FINALLY
What are you waiting for? We look forward to hearing from you. Good luck!