Seeking Destination Manager for our growing team

We’re looking for an energetic Destination Manager to join our friendly Ops Team in delivering outstanding experiences for our school teams travelling the world!  Would you like to inspire tomorrow’s Global Citizens to lead positive global change? Think this is the job for you? Then read on…

• Location: Hybrid working from home and from our Cotswolds office
• Salary: Starting on 26k gross per annum, annual bonus and benefits, including private healthcare (see below)
• Full-time, permanent role, at 37.5 hours per week. Excellent promotion opportunities in an expanding company
• Exciting travel opportunities to Nepal, the Himalayas and Europe
• Start date: June 2024, or as soon as possible

An exciting opportunity to play a key role in an educational travel organisation. Your organisational ability in the UK and internationally will ensure our students have outstanding experiences. For the successful candidate making a positive difference, there are excellent promotion opportunities in an expanding company.

Benefits include:

• Annual Bonus, Private BUPA healthcare, and workplace pension
• Personal development training courses, and overseas travel opportunities
• 22 days annual leave per year, plus extra holiday between Christmas and New Year
• Time off In Lieu (TOIL) Policy

Who are we?

After life-changing experiences working for the United Nations and International Red Cross overseas, Mark and Katharine set up Global Action to provide outstanding overseas trips for UK school students. Each delivers a unique Global Learning programme, empowering students to affect positive global change. We are now the UK’s leading provider of high-quality Global Learning programmes.

We engage young people in learning about poverty reduction, environmental issues and social justice through educational trips to: Nepal, the Indian Himalayas, Malaysian Borneo, Zanzibar Island, Costa Rica, Greece, and Switzerland.

Global Action is the only UK school trips company whose Directors have worked overseas for the UN at senior management level. We are a young, dynamic company based in Cirencester.

The Destination Manager Role

We are recruiting a Destination Manager to take responsibility for delivering high quality school trips overseas. Your aim is quite simply to ensure our students and teachers have outstanding experiences.

Working both from the Cirencester office and remotely, you will plan market leading educational itineraries, and work with our in-country partners to organise all in-country logistical arrangements, as well as: project work, seminars with United Nations agencies and international NGOs, and outdoor activities such as mountain treks and snorkeling. You will have responsibility for all related expenditure to keep within company budgets, and to strict safety standards.

You will liaise with our clients, in-country partners, and travel to overseas locations to set up new projects and fieldwork. Full training will be provided.  The role may also be responsible for further functions within the operations team, for example, safety and medical equipment management and leader recruitment.

For a dynamic individual proving successful results, there is a real opportunity to expand their responsibility within Global Action.

Attributes, Skills and Experience

 Essential:

• Proven experience in project management, planning and coordination, with excellent administration skills, including budget management and logistics
• Self-confident with excellent communication skills – comfortable presenting to students or parents
• Excellent time management skills – ability to work to tight deadlines under own initiative without direct supervision, and with very good attention to detail
• Team player, happy to work in small business where everyone has to be ‘hands on’
• Positive, flexible, and a proactive problem-solver
• Passion for outdoor education, environmental protection, and international development
• Happy going on the road during busy periods, e.g., workshops and evening presentations
• Working on site at our office in Cirencester at least two days a month

Desired:

• Undergraduate degree (or equivalent professional experience)
• Overseas expedition and/or volunteer experience in developing countries; Nepal and/or India specifically would be a bonus
• Office experience with an expedition company or within the travel industry
• Experience managing activities with school groups
• Full UK Driving Licence and access to your own vehicle

How to apply

Please send your CV, with a cover letter clarifying why you want to work with us, and how you meet the above criteria, to Simon Vorley, Operations Director: info@global-action.co.uk

Closing date: Midnight 14^th April 2024

Interviews: Week commencing 15^th April

Start date:  June 2023, or as soon as possible