Summer Activity Manager

Job Posting Date: 25 Nov 2025

Location:

London / remote, GB

Job

School:
Bucksmore

Company:
Nord Anglia Education

Bucksmore Education is full of history and tradition, but also of originality and challenge. With 40 years of experience to perfect and improve the quality of our prestigious summer schools, we are proud of the summer programmes we offer. It is our goal to support every student towards achieving their goals, in a safe and positive learning environment, whether this is building on their language skills, developing fundamental 21st century leadership skills and a global mindset or studying at a top UK boarding school or university.

The summer school was modelled on American summer camps, with ‘Counsellors’ who live with students, teach lessons and lead excursions and activities, providing a higher level of pastoral care, guidance, and friendship – giving students more than just ‘teachers’ and ‘activity leaders’ at a summer school.

Working in summer schools is a rewarding experience for both students and staff, and Bucksmore aims to make our courses ones that our students never forget. The Bucksmore philosophy is for students to mix with their fellow students and staff wherever possible to make their time with us a rich and genuinely international cultural experience.

Location:

London, Brighton, Oxford & Cambridge

Employment dates: 28th June to 28th July. All staff undertake a paid period of induction prior to student arrival on a course.

The position of Activity Manager (AM) is a highly responsible and challenging role, suitable only for those with excellent leadership, communication, time management and organisational skills. The AM’s chief role is to plan and organise the activity programme and effectively manage the Counsellors involved in each activity. The AM will ensure that each activity is prepared, implemented and correctly supervised as set out by the Bucksmore Head Office.

As one of the senior managers the AM will work closely with the Centre Manager and Director of Studies to ensure the smooth day to day running of the centre. This list summarises the key tasks of the role and is not a definitive list of all the tasks to be undertaken as those can be varied from time to time at the discretion of the Centre Manager or Operations Manager and Head Office Team.

Bucksmore will exercise this right reasonably.

• Attend the staff induction and take part in all Health and Safety related training
• Write and consult the risk assessment for an activity or excursion

• Plan, organise and implement a range of appropriate activities during daytimes, afternoons and evenings
• Take responsibility for excursions, ensuring you have planned sufficiently well to guide the students effectively
• Research an excursion destination so as to be able to guide students effectively by leading and guiding students when on excursions and guided walking tours, communicating with them in a way that is clear, informative and engaging
• Ensure that activities and excursions you are running are structured, inclusive and appropriately resourced
• Help promote the activity programme to students by displaying posters or visiting classes

• Co-manage and motivate a team of residential and sometimes non-residential staff
• Lead regular team meetings to inform Counsellors of their tasks related to the activity and excursion programme
• Monitor the performance of Counsellors and contribute towards staff appraisals
• Assist the Course Director with planning the weekly staff rota
• Represent Bucksmore as centre management and liaise with host college staff

• Manage a weekly budget
• Keep accurate records of budget spending and send to Head Office weekly
• Plan each week’s timetable before the start of the week and send to Head Office in advance to allow time for authorisation

• Supervise students during meal times
• Where required assist with student transfers to and from airports as directed by the Course Director
• Where required, as part of your rota, perform waking up duties and ‘lights out’ duties

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