Overview
Centre Manager Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at Embassy Summer
Position: Â Embassy Summer – 2025 UK – Centre Manager
Join our winning team of global superstars in summer 2025
Embassy Summer, under its parent company EC English, offers award-winning summer vacation programmes for young people across multiple locations in the UK, USA, Canada, Malta, UAE & South Africa. Students learn English whilst immersing themselves in the local culture and surroundings. Our programmes are a combination of language classes,excitingexcursions, and fun-filled sporting, creative, and social activities.
From its humble beginnings in Hastings over four decades ago, Embassy Summer has today evolved into a globally recognised and trusted brand. Our vision is to help our students succeed in a global community. We love bringing our young learners from around the world together through a common language and building global connections.
Position Summary:
The Centre Manager inspires, motivates, and leads an entire school of staff, leaders, and students.
Key Responsibilities:
Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of students for whom you are responsible and with whom you come into contact.
Manage, lead, and inspire a team of colleagues dedicated to students’ development and welfare.
Maximise student and group leader satisfaction by ensuring their experience meets or exceeds expectations.
Ensure the centre operates to the highest standards of relevant Health & Safety, safeguarding.
Ensure the programme runs within the pre-determined budgets in consultation with the supporting Programme Manager or Head Office teams.
Overseeing the submission of all centre administration.
Provide regular centre updates to the supporting Programme Manager.
Specific duties include:
Training and inspiring the centre teams.
Conducting assemblies and inductions for students and Group leaders.
Conducting staff and Group leader meetings.
Overseeing staff performance and behaviour and ensuring that staff demonstrate and adhere to safe and healthy working practices at all times.
Liaising with the Recruitment Team to ensure staffing is at maximum capacity and staffing issues are addressed in a timely manner.
Creating staff rotas and ensuring employee contracted hours are adhered to and additional hours recorded weekly.
Ensuring accuracy of all staff working hours for payroll purposes.
Reviewing completed Meal provision forms and Occupancy record forms prior to weekly submission to the host centre.
Supporting the Activity Management team.
Supporting the Academic Management team.
Supporting the Welfare and Accommodation team.
Ensuring all management teams receive completed feedback in a timely manner.
Overseeing Student arrivals and departures procedures are in place and adhered to.
Managing apositive workingrelationship with all stakeholders.
Organisational Compliance:
The job holder will be expected to operate in accordance with the company’s Code of Conduct, and any local policies and operating procedures relating to academic, welfare and safeguarding matters.
Employees are required to cooperate fully with all arrangements in place related to Health and Safety which include implementation and compliance with control measures resultant from risk assessments and engagement with, and completion of, any relevant Health andSafety training.
Education desired:
Educated to Degree level or equivalent/or working towards
Additional qualifications desired:
Safeguarding Level 1 and 2
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Title: Centre Manager
Company: Embassy Summer
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Category: Management, Education / Teaching
