Academic Manager - Summer 2026
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- Msida, Malta Island Sliema, Malta Island
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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?
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.
- 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.
- 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