THE AUSTRAL GROUP

The Austral Group is a rapidly growing company dedicated to organizing educational travel to South America and the USA for MBA and Undergraduate university programs. The Austral Group designs and organizes educational  itineraries of business meetings, company visits, roundtables, and networking opportunities with top business executives, as well as organizing cultural and leisure activities. The Austral Group manages the logistical needs of the university groups, including hotel arrangements, local transport, meals, cultural events, and bilingual tour guides.

Since its founding in 2005, Austral has established itself as the leading educational travel company, working with more than 300 Universities and over 10,000 MBA students on business study trips to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and the United States.

The Austral Group is run by a team of motivated and dynamic professionals who come from multicultural backgrounds in business and the travel and tourism industries who are obsessively focused on operational excellence and total client satisfaction. 

THE POSITION

As a Group Leader you'll be working directly with our clients: groups of MBA students and professors. You'll accompany them to business meetings and on tourism activities, helping them get to know San Francisco and sharing your knowledge and passion for the city.

You'll also be helping to coordinate final logistical elements of the group's activities, be it liaising with bus drivers, making restaurant reservations or fire-fighting if unexpected issues arise.

We're looking for freelancers that we can work with on a project basis when we have groups on the ground. You'll be the primary point of contact for each group from the moment they land to the moment they take off again, so you'll need to be prepared to work evenings and weekends, as our average trip is a full week in length.

You have:

• Interest and excitement in sharing San Francisco with international travellers;
• Complete knowledge of the local area including facts about its population, economy, business, politics, culture and different neighbourhoods;
• Strong spoken communication in English;
• Impeccable time management and attention to detail;
• Confidence leading groups around the city using public and private transportation;
• Determination to ensure complete client satisfaction;
• Proactivity, independence and self-motivation.