Graduate Boarding Assistant (Boy's House)

About the role

St George's International School, a co-educational independent school in Montreux, Switzerland, is looking for a Graduate Boarding Assistant for its boarding department. The assistant works as part of a team to look after the safety and well-being of students from about 60 different nationalities in the house, while keeping the school's ethos and core values. The school is described as being at the foot of the mountains and by the lake, in the heart of the Swiss Riviera.

Key responsibilities

• Work as part of a team to ensure the safety and well-being of the students in the house
• Support the team in keeping the boarding house running smoothly
• Assist with extra-curricular activities and play an active role in the weekend activity programme
• Support students during study time
• Help with airport transfers at key times of the term
• Carry out other duties that the school may reasonably ask

Required profile

• Educated to degree level
• Appropriate right to work in Switzerland
• Driving licence
• Experience of working with young people
• Ability to understand and enjoy multiculturalism
• Caring, organised and flexible; enthusiastic, energetic and proactive; resilient, resourceful and calm
• Team player, self-disciplined and open-minded, with a sense of humour
• English speaker (C2)

Required skills

• IT skills, particularly with Microsoft Office