Location: Nationwide

Salary: £21k to £22k location based plus benefits

Application Deadline: Ongoing Recruitment

We recruit bright graduates who want to make an impact - both on running our centres as a business, and on the lives of our members who attend. Explore offers you the opportunity to take a hands on approach to management from day one. A high level of responsibility and extensive training will allow you to thrive and rapidly progress your career. You can enjoy real job satisfaction and gain the skills to develop a small business successfully.

Explore Learning is a national network of education centres providing maths and English tuition to children aged 5-14, aiming to improve knowledge, confidence and enjoyment of learning. We work closely with the children and their parents to create a tailored learning programme that meets their individual needs and maps to the National Curriculum.

Essential Criteria:

Candidates must be:

• Enthusiastic and confident to promote Explore Learning at any opportunity.
• Professional, articulate and persuasive.
• Willing and able to take responsibility for the success of a centre.
• Passionate about helping children achieve their potential & able to build a strong rapport.
• Highly motivated with a bright enthusiastic personality.
• Ambitious to enhance their professional development and become a Centre Director.
   

Experience of working with children, 2:2 degree in any discipline, grade B at maths and English GCSE or equivalent are also required.


The Role of Assistant Director


You will gain broad business experience, learning to promote, market and sell a new concept in education; how to operate a business unit, and be responsible for the recruitment and development of a team of tutors as part of the Management team. We also hope you will embrace the opportunity to progress to Centre Director within 12-24 months where you will directly supervise staff and have overall responsibility for the Centre’s development, operations and profitability.



The role of Assistant Director is varied, challenging and very rewarding; offering you the chance to gain broad business experience, while working in a fun environment to benefit children. Starting as an Assistant Director you will be in a team of three, either launching a new centre or running an established centre. The key to the success of each centre is down to the three managers: the Centre Director and two Assistant Directors. The full time team are graduates, all sharing a passion for education and the desire to help children reach their full potential.

What we are Looking For

Assistant Directors need to be willing to take on the responsibility to drive forward the growth and development of our learning centres using their promotional and managerial strengths.

All applicants MUST be eligible to work in the UK without requiring a work permit.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary of £21,000 PA (plus London weighting). A target based monthly bonus scheme with the potential to earn up to £2,880 PA.

How to Apply

Our recruitment process runs all year round as we continue to launch new centres throughout the year. Opportunities arise throughout the year in our new and existing centres, so please apply for any settings.

We recommend applying early if you are interested in working in a particular centre/region at a specific time, that way we can offer you a position early and will put you ahead of other applicants interested in the same area.



We also accept deferred applications if you have not graduated yet or are thinking of travelling.

Please visit the careers section of our website www.explorelearning.co.uk/careers select “How to Apply”.

Email a completed application form (available from our website) along with a CV and bespoke cover letter.

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Explore Learning is an ambitious and fast growing company dedicated to making a difference in children’s education.

We recruit bright graduates who want to make an impact - both on running our centres as a business, and on the lives of our members who attend.  Explore offers you the opportunity to take a hands on approach to management from day one.  A high level of responsibility and extensive training will allow you to thrive and rapidly progress your career.  You can enjoy real job satisfaction and gain the skills to develop a small business successfully. 

Explore Learning is a national network of education centres providing maths and English tuition to children aged 5-14, aiming to improve knowledge, confidence and enjoyment of learning.  We work closely with the children and their parents to create a tailored learning programme that meets their individual needs and maps to the National Curriculum.

We launched in 2001, and have 48 centres in operation across the UK benefiting over 40,000 children.

Case Study 1

Amandeep – Assistant Director, Leicester

My typical day starts at 11am.  First thing in the morning we plan out our day as a team. This involves scheduling our appointments; discussing together what priorities we have that day, and how to get further towards our monthly targets. The targets mean that we’re all constantly motivated and excited about hitting them.  Our company Sales Manager, Laura, designs fantastic competitions each month for centre’s that perform well in this area and some prizes have included day’s off, gift vouchers, magazine subscriptions, and most recently a trip together to Barcelona with hotel, travel and spending money!  We also hold weekly meetings, which are great opportunities where we develop new ideas that have a direct and immediate impact on how the centre operates.

My morning will then vary every single day.  Each member of the team has their own roles to take complete charge of and manage; these include areas such as managing finance, recruitment of tutors, external marketing, developing and training tutors, schools relationship co-ordinator and many more.  Each of these brings different challenges and areas of focus and responsibility.  My role of External Marketing Manager stretches my creative side, I plan out marketing events that may take place all over the area through the local community, and in addition I build up good relations with marketing contacts.  In contrast my role as finance manager requires me to be organised and focused.  I dip into lots of my roles throughout the morning, some mornings spending more time on particular ones that others depending on what I feel is a current priority for the centre.

At 3 o’clock the centre opens, and the tutors and children arrive.  I really enjoy the fact that all the children and parents are on first name basis with us, and that we get to know them all individually.  As a manger also focused on mentoring the tutors; ensuring they are doing a great job, and that all of the children are having great sessions. Working with the tutors also involves implementing their initial induction training, holding monthly training sessions with all the part time staff, and aiding their personal development through appraisals.  I have always found this an incredibly rewarding responsibility.

During the afternoon I will hold various appointments with parents to help aid the growth of the centre and maintain customer retention.  These include Trial Sessions to showcase the centre to interested parents; I work with their children and demonstrate the benefits of Explore for their individual needs.  I also hold Parents Consultations with current member’s to feedback to them about their child’s progress and development with us, this is a great way to build up long term relations with our members and maintain their enthusiasm for the centre.   Towards the end of the evening I will be on the telephone, calling prospective members that we have met and confirming the appointments for the next day.  I may also spend some time speaking to shoppers in Sainsbury’s about the centre to build peoples awareness, and this may involve getting children involved in related activities as well as chatting to interested parents.

I love the fact that my day involves constant interaction with people, I often find I have not stopped talking all day!  I also enjoy the opportunity to get out into the community and not always stay in one place.  This may involve going into local schools to run numeracy and literacy activities with the children, doing workshops with local Brownie groups or running marketing events in the town centre.  Most of all I love the variety every day brings, and the feeling of real responsibility I get with Explore!