Location
Cambridge
Advertising Salary
Up to £35,000 per annum

About The Role

Bell is recruiting a Student Services Manager to join our Cambridge school. This role involves managing and delivering the student services and welfare provision for Bell Cambridge, taking a lead customer-service role at a world-renowned education provider for international students. The environment is fun and fast-paced, and involves working with young people from around the world.

Key responsibilities will include:

  • Deliver student support and information services, and ensure the student services department provides a consistently high level of service
  • Take primary responsibility for the pastoral care and safeguarding of students at Bell Cambridge, keeping up to date with safeguarding issues and regularly reviewing safeguarding policies and procedures
  • Manage the accommodation team, ensuring there is provision of high-quality homestay and residential accommodation to meet demand   
  • Manage accommodation in the Accommodation Officer’s absence and offer support during busy times
  • Deal with, record and monitor non-academic student queries and issues, ensuring they are efficiently seen through to resolution
  • Manage the Social Programme Coordinator and ensure the social programme is run to a high standard
  • Liaise with other staff within Bell such as teachers, sales and marketing staff, IT staff and our maintenance supervisor to ensure effective operations
  • Ensure student visa records are correctly and accurately stored and check that all students in school have relevant visas for their stay at Bell
  • Help prepare the school for inspections
  • On a rota basis, take  the emergency phone assisting the out of hours call handling service with any issues they cannot resolve
  • Assist with walk-in sales and promoting Bell Cambridge to visitors
  • Protect at all times the confidentiality of information handled within the remit of the post
This is a customer-facing role and is not suitable for home, hybrid or flexible hours working.
 
Bell is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. A DBS check will be requested in the event of a successful application.

About You

As the first point of contact for students, it is important that the Student Services Manager is a skilled communicator who can provide excellent customer services. Experience of working with young people or working in a similar academic environment with young adults would be highly beneficial. An understanding of safeguarding young people and experience of dealing with safeguarding issues is also highly desirable.

About Us

At Bell, we believe that English is more than a language. It's a stepping stone that will help you achieve your dreams. For over 60 years, we have provided unforgettable learning experiences to students and teachers from around the world, transforming the lives of over one million. Through our teaching approach we encourage students to aim high, exceed their learning goals and become confident users of the English language. Frank Bell opened his first language school in Cambridge in 1955, which still operates today. Since then, Bell has grown from one prestigious English language school in Cambridge to an internationally recognised, high-quality education business which unlocks the world for its students through learning English and learning in English. Today, Bell offers English language courses to juniors and adults, prepares students for university in the UK and trains the world's English Language teachers.
 
Employee Benefits:
Annual leave – 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays. Increasing with long service.
Employee assistance plan - access to a free wellbeing platform and app.
Salary sacrifice pension scheme
Enhanced sick pay
Life assurance scheme of 3 x your salary
Buy/Sell annual leave scheme - buy or sell up to 5 days.
Cycle to Work scheme
Techscheme
One day paid leave per annum to volunteer for a charity of your choice
Company paid dental plan
Free onsite car parking
Subsidised canteen
Social committee who organise regular company social events

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