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Local Coordinator, East Surrey

Bright World Guardianships takes care of international students who are studying at UK boarding schools. Our Local Coordinators play a crucial role in the care that we offer to students and the development of the areas in which we operate.

We are recruiting for an Area Manager (or ‘Local Coordinator’) in East Surrey, with Worcester Park being the ideal base for this position due to it's central location to the boarding schools in the county and the area.

The role will be starting for August 2024 and the new academicy year 2024/25, as our current person in post is splitting their area.
- Flexible working hours
- Working from a home office
- Requirement to attend some activities at the schools in the area and visit host families
- Must be able to drive, have access to their own car and be prepared to travel up to 90 minutes to some schools and host families.

Financial remuneration includes:

- Payments for mileage
- Host family visits and student visits
- Parent's Evenings and school PR visits
- Termly payments for each student and additional payments for each time one a student stays with a host family.
- Paid attendance and travel for our Annual Conference in June

**Please note this position is not Full Time and would fit well around another part time role. Those in another Full Time role are not ideally suited to this role.**

**The self-employed and freelance role** of the Local Coordinator is to manage and develop the guardianship of students and school relationships within your local area:

- To uphold our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- To agree to having an Advanced DBS Check for working with Children before starting in post

Student Care
- To maintain your area of our online student portal, uploading reports and notifications on your students on this platform.
- To assist any visiting parents with meeting a host family (this happens occasionally when parents come over with students)
- To act as an emergency local contact should a student need picking up urgently, or in case of a medical emergency where the school and/or the host family cannot assist

PR & Business Development
- To grow and develop the area for Bright World Guardianships by maintaining excellent contact with existing schools and researching and forging good relationships with new schools.

Host Family Inspections
- To visit and inspect host families in your local area and report back to Head Office by completing our host family questionnaire, taking digital photos, sighting and recording identification checks for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificates.

“Bright World works in partnership with Child Protection specialists, Travel Safe and holds a bronze award to show full commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Bright World expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment”.

We ask that you be computer literate for this role with the administration part of the job.

We also ask that you hold a valid driving license and car insurance for the UK.

Work remotely
- Yes

**Job Type**: Freelance

Pay: £3,000.00-£5,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 01/08/2024