Accommodation Intern

Accommodation Internship, EF Rome 

Full time

Weekday hours available

Start date: February 3rd

A career with EF combines the support and opportunity of a large international organization with the spirit and energy of a small business. We look for thinkers and doers – creative, collaborative, and motivated people excited by education, communication, and travel. 

Reporting to the Accommodation team and the School Director, the selected applicant will be responsible for calling potential hosts to help recruit host families for this summer and autumn. The role also includes attending host family recruitment events and outdoor actions across Rome to promote hosting EF’s international students. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Performing calls on the database of inquiries.
• Participating in EF events, door-to-door canvassing, and street action around Rome to generate new leads.
• Following up with inquiries.
• Providing pre-departure accommodation information to homestay hosts about arriving students.

Qualifications and competencies: 

• Highly motivated, energetic, and positive.
• Excellent telephone skills.
• Target driven with sales experience.
• A flexible approach to work and hours of work is essential.
• Friendly and approachable manner, not afraid to speak to strangers and make phone calls.
• Able to remain calm under pressure and to diffuse potentially difficult situations.
• Excellent communicator with external clients such as host families, students, and colleagues.
• Attention to detail, organized, and thorough.
• Knows the city of Rome

Why you will love EF Rome:

To full-time, permanent staff, we offer: 

• Global Career Opportunities
• Global Management Training.
• Global training.
• Discounts on EF programs.

About EF Education First 

At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.

When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.

Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://www.ef.com.

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