Academic Manager - Summer 2026

Who You Are

• Are you a natural leader, who loves managing and coaching people to be their best?
• Do you believe engagement, interaction and fun are key to successful EFL learning?
• Are you passionate about cultural and international exchange?
• Are you tech-savvy and quick at learning new IT skills and systems?

If so, this role could be the one for you.

The Role
As an Academic Manager, you assume overall responsibility for the academic program at at one of our EF summer schools. This role includes providing oversight, management and coaching to your team of EFL teachers, through regular in-classroom observations and feedback sessions. You are also responsible for leading trainings, for developing and implementing online inductions, and for assisting teachers with lesson planning, paperwork, and classroom management. This is a high-energy role that requires a strong leader and manager, someone who can provide tools, training and guidance such that their EFL Teachers can deliver fun, engaging and successful learning experiences.

Responsibilities

• Setting up the school and physically ensuring all classrooms meet EF specifications, and are maintained throughout the season.
• Allocating teachers and classrooms to groups of students, and playing a ‘hands on’ role in allocating students into classes on the first days in school.
• Managing academic stock including exam papers, certificates and equipment and making sure teaching team has the required stock.
• Managing all teaching staff at your Centre, and working together with other Senior Staff to ensure full integration of teaching staff into team.
• Coordinating timetables for all academic groups, and keeping up to date in EF’s production system.
• Collating and reviewing academic paperwork, and inputting data into the system.
• Welfare and discipline within the classroom.
• Dealing with problems and emergency situations should they arise
• Delivering initial teacher briefing, daily and weekly meetings.
• Teacher observations, feedback and development.

 
Candidate Profile

• Face-to-face TEFL (eg. CELTA or Cert.TESOL, minimum 100 hours).
• Qualifications due to be completed in the current academic year will also be considered.
• Minimum six months’ teaching experience or one summer teaching for EF.
• Enthusiastic, organised and a natural leader.
• Capable of using your own initiative.
• Is business-minded with a strong sense of customer service and attention to detail.
• Have the right to live and work in the country of employment.
• Complete fluency in English.

Details

• Academic Management role available on a fixed term basis for approx. 12 weeks between June, July & August. 
• Full-time, 6-day per week contract
• Mandatory Senior Staff Training in Malta on May 29th & 30th prior to start date

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, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.
Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has school and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://ef.com

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