Host Family Recruiter

Bristol

Full Time/Part time

Start date: Immediate

Position: Host Family Recruiter

The Person

Do you enjoy the challenge of selling, meeting targets and finding outstanding quality? Would you love to work as part of a local and global team? Are you proud of our beautiful city and can help us showcase Bristol to international students? Are you enthusiastic and organized?

You may be the perfect person to help us recruit the best Host Families in Bristol!

The Role

We are looking for passionate sales driven person, who can build rapport quickly and help is to recruit good quality families for our international students. This could be a fixed term role, full or part time and can be combined with studying or working elsewhere.

The Requirements

The provision of homestay and residential accommodation

• Recruit (Call, Bookings and Visits) suitable families for the homestay program ensuring compliance with the International Code of care and any accreditation regulations.
• Work with other Host Family team members to ensure all leads are followed up and visits are completed, with in a timely manner.
• Meet agreed, Call, Visit, and Bed Targets.
• Ensure all interviews, inspections and documentation are completed and maintained for each family.
• Maintain accurate records for each family and ensure all families have been provided with the necessary handbook information.
• Match notes on families as best as possible and process the placements on the database as soon as possible to stop any cancellation.
• Be conscious of cultural and linguistic difficulties and organize language interpretation where necessary.
• Supply the School Director and Accommodation Manager with weekly Host family Recruitment updates.
• Right to work in the UK.

Qualifications and competencies:

• Highly motivated, energetic, positive
• Excellent telephone skills
• Target-driven with sales experience
• A flexible approach to work & hours of work undertaken is essential
• Friendly & approachable manner, not afraid to speak to strangers and cold-call
• Able to remain calm under pressure & to diffuse potentially difficult situations
• Sensitive to needs of international students living away from home
• Excellent communicator with external clients such as host families, students and colleagues
• Attention to detail, organised & thorough

Apply if this sounds like you!

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.