Residence Manager Summer

Join a global company with international exposure as a Residence Manager for Summer 2026! In this vital leadership role, you’ll oversee all student residences, ensuring they run smoothly and feel like a true home away from home. You’ll manage and support a team of Residence Advisors, making sure they’re fully trained, confident, and ready to deliver excellent care and service to our international students. You’ll also coordinate student room allocations, handle any residence-related issues, and work closely with suppliers and the wider summer management team to maintain high standards of safety, organization, and student satisfaction.

What You’ll Do

- Lead, train, and support a team of Residence Advisors, ensuring they deliver an outstanding residence experience for all students.

- Oversee all aspects of student accommodation across multiple residences.

- Manage student allocations and ensure all rooms are ready before the summer season begins.

- Work closely with the operations and student services teams to ensure smooth arrivals, check-ins, and departures.

- Support Residence Advisors in handling emergencies, welfare issues, and daily operational challenges.

- Maintain regular communication with residence staff and external accommodation partners.

- Ensure health, safety, and cleanliness standards are consistently met.

- Monitor residence-related administration, including occupancy records and incident reporting.

- Visit residences regularly to provide on-site support, feedback, and motivation to your team.

- Help organize residence activities or social evenings to build community spirit among students.

Who You Are

- A confident leader with strong interpersonal and organizational skills.

- Experienced in team supervision, customer service, or hospitality management.

- Calm, practical, and able to handle emergencies with a level head.

- Highly detail-oriented with excellent time management and problem-solving abilities.

- A strong communicator who enjoys working with people from diverse backgrounds.

- Proactive and flexible, equally comfortable working in the office or on-site at a residence.

- Fluent in English (C1–C2 level); additional languages are a plus.

- Legally able to work in the host country (EU passport or valid work permit).

- Passionate about creating a safe, welcoming, and enjoyable living environment for students.

Details:

- Duration: Contract starting from the middle of May till August (preferred)

- Schedule: Full-time, 6-day work weeks on shift bases, including evenings and weekends.

- Safeguarding: All roles are subject to police conduct checks and character reference checks.

- Eligibility: Must legally be able to work in Malta with a Maltese or EU passport. Has a high level of English.

- Must be available for training dates before start date. Mandatory training in Malta will be happening sometime between the middle and end of May. Specific dates to come soon.

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

EF is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All positions are subject to a criminal background and/or reference checks, as applicable.