Gap Year Advisor

A passionate leader, driven by creating a fantastic customer experience and eager to mentor students who are on a journey of personal growth and career development. You are able to understand and empathize with students and their parents during an important transformational time in their life, cheering them on and coaching them through challenges while motivating them to create and achieve personal goals and celebrate their wins. 

EF Gap Year offers 18-22-year olds a life-changing year or semester abroad that combines travel, language study, service-learning, internship, and leadership training. We help students grow as people and provide hands-on experiences that better prepare them for college and the career world. We are the newest division in the EF Education First family of educational travel programs.

EF Gap Year is looking for an Advisor to join the Customer Experience Team to help ensure a successful experience for travelers during their EF Gap Year program. In this role, you will be focused on EF Gap Year's short-term programs, and be responsible for building trusting relationships with students and providing them with individual support. You will focus on the organization of these short-term programs and ensuring each student has an incredible experience. This includes helping students establish their personal goals and motivating them to achieve them. Beyond serving as a mentor to the short-term Gap participants, the Gap Year Advisor is passionate about creating a flawless customer journey and takes initiative in finding creative solutions when parent or student concerns arise. They are a highly organized, flexible team player, with a drive to enhance program quality and be a part of a new division of EF.

Any or all of these things! If this role sounds like a good fit, but you feel that you don’t tick every box, we would still like to hear from you as we understand great teams of people have different backgrounds and experiences. We appreciate that applying takes a lot of effort, and we really value the time you invest.

The Benefits & Perks: 

Knowing that the work you do each day changes students’ lives is inspiring, working with a group of remarkable teammates is motivating, and on top of that you’ll have the opportunity to:

EF Gap Year transforms young people into true global citizens. Participants travel the world, learn a new language, volunteer for a good cause, gain internship experience in future careers, and develop leadership experience. They build an impressive portfolio of global skills while away and return home more self-confident, self-reliant and mature— ready for success in college and professionally. As a proud part of EF Education First, EF Gap Year draws on over 50 years of EF expertise to add amazing travel and learning experiences to its growing tour portfolio. EF, the world leader in international education, has helped more than 15 million people learn a language, discover the world or earn an academic degree to date.

EF Gap Year is a division of EF Education First, the world leader in international education. Founded in 1965, EF’s mission is to break down barriers of language, culture, and geography. Today, we’re the world’s largest private education company— offering every imaginable way to learn a language, travel abroad, experience another culture, or even earn an academic degree. For more information, visit http://www.ef.com/careers