Summer Resident Assistant
EF International Language Campuses
Santa Barbara, CA
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 one week - a year 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 have responsibility for the smooth running of the residence and ensure a high level of customer service and student satisfaction. Please note that the role is on a rotation basis and one can expect to work 5 days/ week.
Your key tasks will consist of, but not be limited to:

• Checking and making sure that rooms are ready, clean and available for arriving students
• Meeting and greeting new students on arrival
• Assisting with checking in and taking students to rooms
• Informing arriving students about rules and fines (community standards)
• Curfew checks for under 18 year old students
• Regularly checking rooms to ensure accommodation meets high standards of quality, cleanliness, and comfort.
• Assisting students with problems
• Dealing emergency situations should they arise
• Ensuring that residence rules are being adhered to and report all issues to Residence Manager
• Liaising with Residence Staff, organizing and partaking/running activities in residence
• Liaising closely with catering and residence suppliers
• Ensuring a consistently high quality of meals.
• Coordinating damage checks and collecting room deposits
• Assisting student departure: checking rooms, reminding students of leaving date/time & procedures
• Assisting check-out process
• Coordinating with residence staff, onsite cleaning team, laundry supplier for linen pick-up/ drop-off
• Residence on-call duty on rotation
• Other duties assigned by Residence Manager

Requirements

• Organized with a high level of attention to detail.
• Capable of using your own initiative.
• Have the right to live and work in the country of employment.
• Complete fluency in English.
• Attend a training weekend before your contract commencing.
• Organized with a high level of attention to detail.
• Must be over the age of 21
• Obtain a Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

Employment period:

• June - August, 2024

Earnings

• $20/ hour plus Room & Half Board

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.