Role: Activity Manager-Summer 2025

Location: Thornwood, NY

Compensation: $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?

If so, this role could be the one for you.

The Role
The Student Experience Manager is responsible for ensuring a quality experience for our international students. Your day may include celebrating student birthdays, completing administrative tasks, answering students' questions, or helping to decorate for campus events! You will manage and hold weekly student evaluations and address student concerns via our EF production system. You will also maintain a record of check-ins and check-outs of students as they visit family outside of campus.

Responsibilities

• Welcome students to the EF school and ensuring a high level of customer service and student satisfaction.
• Answer student queries and helping with student welfare issues
• Manage student and sales office cases, addressing student and parent concerns
• Facilitate weekly student evaluations
• Manage relevant records for students, such as insurance or medical records
• Approve and record temporary student check-outs
• Administration support using the EF systems.
• Respond to any problems and emergency situations should they arise.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a customer-facing environment, ideally with young people.
• Approachable and friendly with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Capable of using your own initiative.
• Have authorization to work in the country of employment.
• Complete fluency in English.
• Solid organizational and communication skills
• Applicants must be age 21 or older

After a summer of working as a Student Experience Manager, you will leave having created truly amazing memories for our international students. You will expand your problem-solving skills by utilizing resources provided by EF and collaborating with staff from around the world. Your communication skills will be maximized to ensure a smooth experience for everyone.

Why you’ll love working here: Perks, Benefits, and more!
This is the most fun, high caliber place you’ll ever work. Ask any employee why they love EF (whether they’ve been here 10 minutes or 10 years) and they’ll probably tell you the same thing: it’s the people. When you work at EF, you join a purpose-driven, international and energetic community that thrives on continuous learning, fearless innovation and mutual support.

In addition, you can expect:

· Continuous professional development

· Work in a truly international environment

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

· The potential for future career opportunities with EF.

About EF Education First

Some companies are in the Business of Technology.
Others are in the Business of Finance…Sports…Or Soft Drinks.
At EF, we’re in a different kind of business.
One that’s a little less tangible, and a lot more important.
We’re in the Business of Understanding.

For over 60 years we’ve been the leader in international educational programs and culturally rich travel experiences with the power to change how people think, feel and act. The programs we deliver open the world to students and travelers in ways that challenge biases, overcome barriers, and pave the way for a more understanding world. You’ll find us working across more than 50 countries, with offices in some of the world’s greatest cities - each one filled with smart, driven people who push each other to be better every day. And yes, we have technology, we have finance, we even have sports with our own professional cycling team. But it’s what we do with it – building greater understanding, breaking down barriers, and creating a better world…that makes all the difference.