Senior Activity Leader

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**What's on Offer**:
**Location**: Manchester
**Salary**: Between £505 per week
**Contract Type**: Fixed Term Summer Contract (Available During June 2025 - August 2025)
**Hours**: 42 hours per week

**Team Member Benefits**:
**Accommodation**: Free (residential roles only)

**Meals**: 3 meals per day, catering to dietary and religious requirements
**Career Development**: Comprehensive paid training & career development
**Culture**: Friendly & supportive multicultural working environment
**Wellbeing**: Dedicated Mental Health Champions
**Rewards**: Team Members Recognition Awards

**Annual Leave**:Annual leave accrual 12.07% to be paid at end of fixed term contract

**Bonus for Eligible Returners**: £20 per week
- The Manchester City Football School’s collaboration with BSC Young Learners offers a unique opportunity to be part of a professional, dynamic team in the heart of Manchester’s football culture, Etihad Campus. With the support of qualified coaches and specialists, you will be helping young players aged 9-17 develop their football skills and language abilities in an engaging, high-performance environment._
- Young Learners improve both their technical football skills and English skills, using real game scenarios to absorb Manchester City’s world-class style. The football programme focuses on personal growth, athletic performance, and building confidence while enhancing young learners spoken, written and listened English delivered by CELTA or industry equivalent qualified teachers. The program integrates English language learning into the football setting, using creative scenarios like press conferences to help students practice and develop their language skills in a dynamic and engaging way._
- If you're passionate about football, language learning, and youth development, this is the perfect opportunity to make an impact and inspire the next generation of young football players._

**Overview**:
The purpose of a Senior Activity Leader (SAL) is to oversee and manage the planning, organisation, and execution of various activities and programs, primarily designed for BSC Young Learners (BSC YL). This role plays a critical part in creating a positive and enriching experience for participants, as well as team members. You will be a main contact for Activity Leaders on the ground. Leading them from the front and exemplifying the high standards of a great leader. You will take charge on the airport arrivals day being the main communication link between on the ground and the operations team.

The main duties and responsibilities are listed below

**Duties**:
**Activities**
- To coordinate and manage a team of activity leaders, ensuring that activities and programs are well-structured, engaging, and aligned with the organization's goals and objectives.
- Delegate necessary tasks to AWLs to ensure everyone’s participation towards quality delivery of the programme.
- Motivate and guide activity leaders during activity sessions.
- Support the Activities Manager to develop materials for Social Programme.
- Manage time appropriately by arriving early to set up activity and gather resources.
- Promote and update the activity programme using posters, noticeboards, sign-up sheets and in communicating with the students.
- Complete dynamic risk assessments whilst on activities and take any necessary action.
- Complete a register for the activity and hand into the activity manager.
- Ensure all facility bookings have been confirmed for the delivery of the social programme.
- Encourage all students to participate in all activities.
- Ask the Activities Manager about any aspect of delivery that you are not sure about.
- Report all incidents on activities, excursions or elsewhere, using the incident report form process.
- Attend and participate in all activity team meetings and excursion briefings.
- Support the Activities Manager to create Activity Packs.
- Consult the Risk Assessments before each activity.
- Familiarise yourself the Operations Handbook.
- Coordinate with team members leaving for airport duty.

**Excursions**
- Accompany and fully supervise students in your care.
- Coordinate AWLs tasks and communicate everyone’s responsibility in the excursion brief, such as collecting packed lunches, picking up registers, collecting group.
- Familiarize yourself with excursion material and the excursion itinerary (these will be provided to you in the pre-excursion briefings the evening before the excursion).
- Attend all pre-excursion briefings.
- Ensure you have any required tickets for attraction bookings.
- If you are responsible for the packed lunches, arrive at breakfast early to eat and collect the trolley.
- Communicate the weather forecast to the group before leaving so they are prepared.
- Ensure students are wearing their lanyards containing their school ID, emergency contact information and wristbands.
- Ensure students are wearing appropriate clothing for the weather. For example, a jacket f