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Bilkent U: Assistant Professor in International Relations (Turkey)

“JobMultiple positions for Assistant Professor in International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Deadline: 31 January 2025.

The Department of International Relations at Bilkent University invites applications for multiple tenure-track assistant professor positions, to begin in September 2025. The department welcomes applications from scholars working in any area within the field of international relations, broadly defined. Candidates who have a regional expertise and whose specialization would complement the existing strengths of the department are particularly encouraged to apply.

Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to produce publications in leading peer-reviewed journals, and to contribute to the undergraduate and graduate programs in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University. The normal teaching load is 2+2, after an initial teaching load reduction.

U Mass Lowell: Office of Multicultural Affairs Coordinator (USA)

“JobCoordinator, Office of Multicultural Affairs, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, USA. Deadline: open until filled.

The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) at University of Massachusetts Lowell serves as a central catalyst for intercultural advancement, diversity, community development, and inclusion. Dedicated to enhancing academic and student success, OMA employs holistic wrap-around services to address diverse student needs comprehensively. The office champions educational equity by providing robust support through educational programs, peer mentorship, and leadership training and plays a pivotal role in promoting student achievement and retention. The position provides the development and implementation of student success and support programs, enhancing access and retention for diverse student populations. Responsibilities include managing student caseload, success coaching, supporting research exposure and skills development through a STEM-based cohort. Additionally, the position collaborates closely with divisional partners, academic departments and various student services to implement a comprehensive educational program that equips students with a holistic support network, promoting wellbeing and fostering seamless pathways to degree attainment and overall undergraduate student success. The OMA Coordinator is a grant funded position (October 2024 to May 2026), with potential for continuation contingent on funding.

Trinity College Dublin: Applied Intercultural Communication & Latin American Studies (Ireland)

“JobAssistant Professor in Applied Intercultural Communication and Latin American Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Deadline: 9 January 2025.

The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies welcomes applications from candidates with excellent research and teaching potential for the position of Assistant Professor in Applied Intercultural Communication and Latin American Studies.

Expertise will be required in contemporary Latin American cultures, histories and societies, and Spanish language, with specific expertise in applied intercultural communication, ideally for business, industry and enterprise purposes. Applications from candidates with a specialisation in one or more of the following will be particularly welcome: Cross-cultural management; Business Ethics and Latin American Resources (Environmental Humanities); EU-Latin America relations, with specific interest in developing Irish-Latin American networks and partnerships. Applicants with one or more regional specialisations including (but not limited to) any of the following are also particularly welcome: the Pacific Alliance (Mexico-Colombia-Chile and Peru), Mercosur (members and associates) and Caribbean, Latin American and Irish/EU relations, which could include CARICOM and Latin American/European connections. They particularly welcome regional expertise which is not limited to a single country, and not necessarily to a single language, but Spanish is a core requirement.

Transylvania U: Coordinator of Global & International Engagement (USA)

“JobCoordinator of Global and International Engagement, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, USA. Deadline: 5 January 2025.

Transylvania University, a top-tier, independent, residential liberal arts college of 1,000 students in Lexington, Kentucky, invites applications for the position of Coordinator of Global and Intercultural Engagement. This is a full-time, on-campus position. The person selected will provide assistance and support in the Office of Global and Intercultural Engagement for tasks related to study abroad, international student services and retention, and campus-wide internationalization efforts. This includes conducting advising sessions for students interested and enrolled in study abroad programs, developing and implementing an online engagement strategy through social media, supporting the preparation of faculty-led study abroad programs, conducting outreach activities and events for students, and serving as a resource to current and prospective students, parents, and the university community. The person in this role will serve as a Designated School Official (DSO) as identified by the U.S. government to update and maintain the SEVIS records of nonimmigrant F-1 visa students, with the responsibility to ensure compliance with federal policy, interpret and implement policies and regulations, and maintain student immigration status and authorization. This person will also serve as the primary advisor and support contact to assist international students with their cultural adjustment and integration into campus and the Lexington, KY area. In support of that goal, the person in this role will organize and carry out new international student orientation, including pre-arrival communication, airport pickups, and select orientation sessions, including both online and in-person events. Responsibilities also include developing social, academic and career development infrastructures that promote international student success, including meaningful connections with faculty, staff, students, and local communities.

U Birmingham: Assistant Professor in Digital Media & Intercultural Communication (UK)

“JobAssistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications (Intercultural Communication), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Deadline: 13 January 2025.

This position is in the Department of Linguistics and Communication, which is in the School of English, Drama and Creative Studies. As part of strategic growth and investment in Digital Media and Communications, the School seeks to recruit an Assistant Professor with effect from 1st April 2025 to be based on the University’s Edgbaston campus. The post holder will demonstrate particular expertise in intercultural communication, and be able to evidence experience of teaching and researching in this area.

The post holder will contribute high quality teaching to a suite of successful programmes which includes the BA in Digital Media and Communications launched on the University’s Edgbaston campus in September 2023, the MA in Digital Media and Creative Industries launched on the Edgbaston campus in September 2024, and the MA in Digital Media and Communications to be launched on the Edgbaston campus in September 2025. The post holder will also play an active role in the development of the Digital Media and Communications provision on the University’s Dubai campus, including optional travel opportunities to that campus.

Research excellence will include initiating, conducting and disseminating original research. The post holder’s research will have measurable outcomes reflected in growing national (and ideally international) reputation. In addition to delivering excellence in teaching and research, successful candidates will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, developing and maintaining generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all colleagues and students. Management and administration is likely to involve contributions at Departmental and School level, and/or making an important contribution to some managerial/leadership activities (e.g. working groups) within the University. This may include developing and making substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement, widening participation, school’s outreach, or similar activities at Department/School level or further within the University.

U Edinburgh: International Programmes (UK)

“JobSWAY Advisor (International Programmes), Edinburgh Global Unit, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Deadline: 6 January 2025.

The University of Edinburgh’s Study and Work Away Service (SWAY) oversees the management of international study and work placement experiences for students and staff, working in partnership with key internal and external stakeholders. The post holder will focus on the delivery of international study exchange activities and be responsible for monitoring and progressing a high volume of bilateral exchange agreement renewals, which will entail working with colleagues across the University to ensure compliance. The post holder will also contribute to delivering an overall student lifecycle experience, including signposting students to opportunities and raising awareness, liaising with Departments and Schools regarding the approval of proposed activities, administering records and grants, reporting, providing guidance and pastoral support to students pre-departure, while on placement and on return.

The post holder will ideally have experience working in study and work abroad, internationalisation and/or partnership development within the Higher Education sector. They should be able to adapt to a fast-paced and changing environment, have a good eye for detail and the ability to work on their own initiative. The post holder will be adept at forming effective working relationships with a diverse and growing set of stakeholders and have good team working skills. Previous experience working with contracts or collaboration agreements will be beneficial.

 

Pew Research Center: Research Associate, Global Attitudes (USA)

“JobResearch Associate, Global Attitudes, Pew Research Center, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 3 December 2024.

Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes team conducts cross-national survey research on major international issues such as attitudes toward the U.S. and American foreign policy, views of China, democracy, religious practice and attitudes, as well as how people view conditions in their countries and their own lives. The bulk of the team’s work focuses on one large annual survey (25+ countries) but periodically the team also employs secondary data, qualitative data and experimental data.

The Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes team has an immediate need for a Research Associate. This position will be involved in all aspects of the survey research process, including: drafting a questionnaire, script testing, managing a cross-national translation and verification process, data quality control, vendor relations, reviewing fieldwork and technical reports, and more. Ideally, a Research Associate will gradually be able to not only participate in but manage these tasks.

A Research Associate will also be involved in analysis and writing reports and other products. Reports on the Global Attitudes team are highly collaborative and a Research Associate will be expected to assist in background research, producing charts and tables, statistical analysis, and number checking, in addition to writing. The Research Associate may serve as a spokesperson for the Global Attitudes team and will discuss our research with key audiences such as the media and policymakers.

This position works closely with other researchers on staff and reports to the Associate Director of Global Attitudes Research.

UNESCO: Intercultural Learning at Museums and Heritage Sites (France but Remote)

“JobIndividual Specialist on Intercultural Learning at Museums and Heritage Sites, UNESCO, ​France (but remote). Deadline: 31 December 2024.

In the framework of the “Fostering Positive Social Transformations in AlUla” project in partnership with the Royal Commission for AlUla (Saudi Arabia), UNESCO is developing a set of activities to create a vision and guidance for promoting intercultural dialogue and learning at museums and heritage sites. While supporting AlUla’s aspiration of becoming a global destination for art, culture and nature tourism and creating the world’s largest Living Museum, this initiative will also develop a longer-term vision for promoting intercultural understanding through heritage, thus contributing to UNESCO’s strategic objective of building inclusive, just and peaceful societies. This project is also in line with the UNESCO’s Recommendation concerning the Protection and Promotion of Museums and Collections, their Diversity and their Role in Society, adopted in 2015, which underlines the key role of museums and heritage preservation in fostering intercultural dialogue, social integration and cohesion.

One of the key objectives of this project is to promote the role of museums and heritages sites as spaces for intercultural dialogue and learning by designing a visitor experience that would enable the participants to develop intercultural competencies through engaging in live dialogue and sharing their cultural inheritance with each other. This experience will be designed during the Intercultural Training Week for museum and heritage site management professionals that will be held in Paris on 17-21 February 2025.

In particular, this experience will build upon UNESCO’s work to promote intercultural competencies through the UNESCO Story Circles methodology which has been used for several years to equip individuals with knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective and appropriate communication across differences, such as listening, empathy, critical thinking, cultural self-awareness, respect for diversity, and a sense of common humanity.

As part of this project, UNESCO will produce a publication which will serve as a guide for museums and heritage sites in promoting intercultural dialogue and learning.

Under the overall authority of the Chief of the Section for Inclusion, Rights and Intercultural Dialogue and the direct supervision of the Programme Specialist, and in close coordination with the Associate Project Officer, the Individual Specialist shall:

  • Lead the design and development of the publication exploring the role of museums and heritage sites in promoting intercultural learning – through examining the existing case studies and developing future guidance;
  • Make sure the publication describes key approaches and methodologies in intercultural learning;
  • Highlight the role of museums and heritage sites as key spaces for intercultural dialogue and learning;
  • Provide an overview of the existing initiatives promoting intercultural learning at museums and demonstrating how heritage can foster dialogue through an evidence-based approach;
  • Ensure the publication features several successful case studies promoting intercultural understanding at scale from around the world;
  • Outline the methodology and proposed impact assessment tools for the visitor experience designed as part of this project, providing a structured algorithm for replicating this experience in various cultural and institutional contexts.

The final publication will be launched at UNESCO at the end of the project will be freely accessible through the UNESCO Digital Library.

The Individual Specialist will work remotely. The period of assignment is approximately 90 days distributed over the period of 11 months from 1 February to 31 December 2025, to ensure that the publication captures the key stages of project development.

Coastal Carolina U: Coordinator of Education Abroad Programs (USA)

“JobCoordinator of Education Abroad Programs, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 2 December 2024.

Coastal Carolina University is currently accepting applications for the following full-time position: Coordinator of Education Abroad Programs in the Center for Global Engagement. Coastal Carolina University is seeking an engaging, global-minded and culturally aware individual to work as a part of the education abroad team in their Center for Global Engagement (CGE). As education abroad is a vital part of Coastal Carolina University’s new strategic plan, the Coordinator of Education Abroad Programs will play an important role in the expansion and growth of education abroad. This position oversees their comprehensive advising services utilizing an empowered advising approach. This valued colleague will also have responsibility with innovative faculty/staff travel with students’ program and assist with submission of all of Coastal’s study/intern abroad applications. In this role, this colleague will have the creativity to design signature events to generate greater awareness of education abroad at Coastal Carolina, and this colleague will also assist in managing and supporting vital administrative policies to ensure a successful study abroad experience from beginning to end.

 

Dallas College: Global Student Support Specialist (USA)

“JobGlobal Student Support Specialist, Dallas College, Dallas, TX, USA. Deadline: 18 December 2024.

The Specialist, Student Support advances the success and holistic thriving of multiple identities, including members of global student populations. This position will facilitate regular student communication, outreach and community involvement, professional development, and recommend implementation and changes to institutional policies and practices to support the academic and co-curricular success of international student populations. The Specialist, Student Support understands state and national legislation affecting students and will serve as liaison between both internal departmental and external organizations to help bridge the gap of resources and services.

NOTE: There is a related second position at the same college, having the same application deadline:

The Senior Manager of Intercultural Student Engagement develops a cadre of co-curricular engagement offerings in partnership with academic, workforce and student success departments to help support Dallas College commitment to create a campus culture where students feel they belong and can thrive academically. The Senior manager leads a team of seven coordinators across the seven Dallas College campuses and is responsible for their recruitment and professional development. The position reports to the Director of Intercultural and Global Student Initiatives.