Manages the annual tour, builds relationships with the new bursars, conducts the orientation prior to the tour, works with the Goodenough College programme co-ordinator to arrange the tour programme, supervises tour activities, bursar engagement, cohesion and welfare, and sustains the characteristic ethos of the tour through which its objectives are realised.

Dr John Gibbon, an Abe Bailey bursar from UCT in 1959, fulfilled this role from 2000 to 2018.

Mr Keith Richardson took over this role from 2018. He is the retired Headmaster Wynberg Boys' High School and is currently a professional mentor to educational leaders in Western Cape schools.