Summer 2024 Activity Leader

Role:  Activity Leader 

Location: Thornwood, NY 

Salary: $19-$24 / hour (Room & Board Eligible) 

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! 

About the role

In this role, you will organize and produce a full activity and excursion timetable while ensuring a high level of customer service and student satisfaction. 

Your key tasks will consist of, but not be limited to: 

• Assisting with student arrivals and departures.
• Delivering an initial welcome briefing to students.
• Promoting, attending, and running all activities for your group.
• Monitoring daily attendance and keeping up-to-date records and paperwork.
• Attending all leader meetings.
• Ensuring the EF behavior code is followed by students at all times and informing management immediately if there are any issues or problems.
• Handle problems and emergency situations should they arise in a professional manner.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Enthusiastic, organized, and a natural leader.
• Ability to keep students engaged, in a safe and meaningful environment.
• Highly responsible, approachable, and friendly.
• Have the ability to create a positive learning environment.
• Have the right to live and work in the United States.
• Complete fluency in English.
• Attend training before your contract commences.

About EF Education First  

At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities. 

When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique. 

Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://www.ef.com.