EFL Coordinator, Kings London

The EFL Coordinator works closely with the EFL Director of Studies (line manager) and Senior Teacher to ensure the smooth daily running of departmental operational activities and EFL programmes.

The EFL Coordinator supports the teaching team, coordinates, and supervises any administrative cover. The work involves a good deal of student, teacher and agent/sponsor customer service and office management skills. The EFL Coordinator will supervise and monitor the administrative work of teachers and develop ideas to make existing processes more effective and efficient. This role requires judgement and imagination in dealing with individuals and solving problems, and is invested in the big picture and in explaining processes to teachers and other staff, and in developing and streamlining the efficiency of processes. As this is a job share role, the ability to communicate and work as a team player is paramount.

The EFL Coordinator also manages educational visits and teachers who act as visit leaders ensuring compliance.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Front desk duties including answering the phone, emails and dealing with student enquiries.
• Student intake, admin related to placement and classing
• Attendance tracking
• Teacher administration, for example, helping with and training teachers on routine duties such as reports, scanning work, registers, use of iSams and Class.
• Student Administration, such as processing student holiday requests, managing student bookings on Class, meeting agents, coordinating student surveys, etc.
• Educational Visits Coordination – preparing all paperwork and risk assessments, recording any incidents, evaluating visits, ensuring compliance
• Reporting
• Filing and other duties

Person Specification

Kings Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and young people and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Professional skills

• Front desk experience
• Customer service experience
• Administration experience with a high degree of competence in the use of standard IT resources (e.g. databases, Microsoft Office software)

Personal attributes

• Teamwork skills within the departments, with teachers, students and the other EFL Coordinator.
• Warm, positive attitude towards learners from other countries and the interpersonal skills necessary to work with them.
• Ability to demonstrate a proactive attitude and anticipate, and resolve, problems before they arise.
• Excellent (native-speaker level) written and spoken communication skills.

Strong candidates for this post are likely to be efficient administrators and imaginative problem-solvers with excellent attention to detail and the ability to work with a range of people calmly and with good humour.

Desirable

• CELTA/Trinity Cert TESOL qualification

It would be desirable, though not essential, to be able to cover teach in case of sickness, for which a CELTA/Trinity Cert TESOL would be required.

How to apply

To apply for this position, please send your CV to samantha.tring@kingseducation.com

Applications should be made: ASAP

Interviews will commence: As soon as application has been received and considered, therefore it is in your interest to apply as soon as possible

Successful appointment will be dependent upon:

• Enhanced DBS check
• Confirmation of right to work in the UK
• Satisfactory references (including confirmation of no child safeguarding concerns): two references required – comments on suitability to work with under 18s will be sought

Kings is an Equal Opportunities employer and we adhere to the principles of equal opportunity in all aspects of our recruitment process.

It is Kings Education's policy not to communicate further with applicants other than those who are shortlisted for a position.