Tag: administrative position

Na’atik Language and Cultural Institute: Language School Library Activities Coordinator 2024-25 (Mexico)

“JobLanguage School Library Activities Coordinator for 2024-25 school year, Na’atik Language and Cultural Institute, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Mexico. Deadline: 15 July 2024.

Purpose of role: To take ownership of our small trilingual library, promoting literacy and the love of reading among our English, Spanish and Maya students. To deliver library based ESL classes to children and young adults. To develop and manage a schedule of extracurricular and intercultural activities in the library.

Specific activities:

  • Welcoming and orienting students to the library, its programs, and its resources
  • Collaborating with English teachers to create a curriculum of accessible library-based English as a second language classes which complement the students’ regular classes.
  • Creating and promoting an extra-curricular program of activities in the library for English language students
  • Promoting library programs for students and parents
  • Managing volunteers from the local community and our Spanish and Maya language immersion (MaS) program
  • Working with the English teachers and MaS program to create and promote intercultural activities amongst students
  • Maintaining the library catalog and managing all aspects of circulation
  • Promoting the borrowing of books, encouraging students to select level and interest appropriate reading materials
  • Maintaining all library resources and materials
  • Working with our Communications and Fundraising Manager as needed to promote the library to the local community and to maintain funding and in-kind donations
  • Organizing and assisting with special events and field trips
  • Teaching substitute English classes, when necessary

NYU Center on International Cooperation: Program Director (Researcher), Prevention, Peacebuilding, and Protracted Crises (USA)

“JobProgram Director (Researcher), Prevention, Peacebuilding, and Protracted Crises, Center on International Cooperation, New York University, NY, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 27 May 2024.

The NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC) seeks a dynamic, innovative Director for its Prevention, Peacebuilding, and Protracted Crises program to drive and shape the center’s work around peace and security, humanitarian policy, and their role in the multilateral order. The ideal candidate should be an adept and credible leader with a practical background in peacebuilding and crisis management, and a proven track record of implementing impactful initiatives. The Director should have proven experience and knowledge of the United Nations (UN) system (with a focus on the UN, regional organizations, humanitarian actors, and the international financial institutions), solid practical and theoretical expertise on conflict and crisis prevention, resolution, post-conflict recovery and reconstruction, and humanitarian assistance (including field experience), and a commitment to elevating the voices of small- and mid-level powers in international debates. They should also have a strong interest and ability in leading data-driven analysis. Finally, the candidate should have proven expertise in navigating the complexities of field research in challenging environments, adhering to the highest standards of ethical conduct, risk management, and responsiveness. This position links together two areas of CIC’s work – prevention and peacebuilding, and humanitarian crises, and reports to the Executive Director.

Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding: Senior Event Coordinator (USA)

“JobSenior Event Coordinator, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, New York, NY, USA. Deadline: 8 July 2024.

Tanenbaum promotes justice and builds respect for religious difference by transforming individuals and institutions to reduce prejudice, hatred, and violence. As a secular and non-sectarian non-profit, Tanenbaum works to promote religious peacebuilders who help counter extremism and violence in armed conflicts, and tackles religious bullying of students, harassment in workplaces, and disparate health treatment for people based on their beliefs.

The Senior Event Coordinator will report to the Director of Development to execute special events to recruit, cultivate and steward a diverse donor community. The Senior Event Coordinator is a goals-oriented, hands-on professional. They are a strategic and a concrete thinker with proven ability to independently implement and evaluate strategies and achieve measurable goals. They are a skilled communicator, with strong event planning skills and a track record in producing results in Development. The right candidate is able to maximize optimal functioning to meet departmental goals.

Institute for Study Abroad: Regional Director of Operations, Europe (Remote)

“JobRegional Director of Operations, Europe, Institute for Study Abroad (Remote, within IFSA’s Europe Portfolio of UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic. Deadline: 8 July 2024

The Regional Director of Operations, Europe position serves as the key managerial leader for the IFSA Europe portfolio. Supervising a team of country-based directors (team of 5-7), the RDO, Europe will be responsible for the strategic development and leadership of all IFSA programs in IFSA’s Europe region including: overseeing the team’s day-to-day program administration; providing academic and cultural support to staff; relationship management with host universities and other partners; and overseeing the development and evolution of academic curriculum and co-curriculum.

Institute for Study Abroad, a US-based nonprofit organization, creates global learning environments to help students gather the critical perspectives, knowledge, and skills essential for future success. 

Stimson Center: Two Positions in South Asia Program (USA)

“JobTwo positions are available with the South Asian Program, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: open until filled (posted 17 May 2024).

  1. Research Associate or Analyst (South Asia Program)
    The Henry L. Stimson Center (Stimson), a nonpartisan global security think tank located in Washington, DC, seeks a Research Associate or Research Analyst for our South Asia Program. Reporting to the Deputy Director, this role ensures that our practices support our mission-driven work, align with Stimson’s vision, values, strategic goals, standards of conduct, and operational objectives, and demonstrate our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and employee well-being.
  2. Program Assistant (South Asia Program)

    The Henry L. Stimson Center (Stimson) also seeks a Program Assistant for our South Asia Program. Reporting to the Deputy Director, this role ensures that our practices support our mission-driven work, align with Stimson’s vision, values, strategic goals, standards of conduct, and operational objectives, and demonstrate our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and employee well-being.

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: Secretary General (Switzerland)

“JobSecretary General, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Geneva, Switzerland. Deadline: 13 June 2024.

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a membership-based organisation with Sections and Groups in over 40 countries and partners around the world, with an International Secretariat (IS) based in Geneva and a New York office. Since establishment in 1915, they have brought together women from around the world who are united in working for peace by non-violent means and promoting political, economic and social justice for all.

They are seeking to hire a full-time Secretary General (SG) who is aligned with and exemplifies WILPF’s feminist values. The incoming SG will help lead a transformative process of co-creating a more inclusive WILPF movement and an evolving IS structure – the IS currently comprises 47 staff members and long term consultants with a budget of approximately CHF9 million per annum – while holding the IS accountable for the set of its mandated functions as per WILPF’s Constitution, and leading the collective implementation of the International Programme 2022-2025 (IP)

The ideal candidate will be a feminist leader for peace and social change in line with WILPF’s values, an activist with experience in membership-based movements and leading organisations through change, with a feminist understanding of the human rights, conflict/peacebuilding, and/or disarmament sector, and with social capital and legitimacy in this sector.  They will be open-minded, brave and curious, a motivator and a collaborator, able to lead diverse groups of people in collectively achieving goals, and an excellent communicator for varied audiences.

UNESCO: Programme Specialist (France)

“JobProgramme Specialist, Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO, Paris, France. Deadline: 13 June 2024.

Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences Sector (ADG/SHS), strategic guidance from the Director for Research, Ethics and Inclusion and direct supervision of the Chief of Inclusion, Rights, and Intercultural Dialogue Section, the Programme Specialist is responsible for analyzing, implementing and monitoring projects and activities within the inclusion, rights and intercultural dialogue Section, leading work to promote dialogue for social cohesion, resilience, accountability, civic empowerment and conflict transformation; and contributing to work to enhance social and gender inclusion through the empowerment of vulnerable and marginalised communities and the fight against racism and discrimination.

The incumbent, working within the frameworks of UNESCO’s Medium Term Strategy (C/4), the approved Programme and Budget (C/5) and global development plans such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, will guide the technical development of sectional, cross-sectional and divisional projects and activities, financed by core and voluntary funding; provide recommendations on project feasibility and possible collaborations; engage with substantive developments in relevant technical fields; and manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to provide expert technical advice.

City U Macau: Head of Office of Global Affairs (China)

“JobHead of Office of Global Affairs, City University of Macau, Macau, China. Deadline: 30 May 2024.

Job description: 

  • Assist the senior management in steering the development of the University in global affairs (mainland and international) systematically according to its vision & mission;
  • Responsible for the University’s global strategies, global education, study abroad and exchange programs, and the University’s institutional development and partnerships;
  • Liaise collaborations and partnerships with international universities and corporations;
  • Responsible for the management of University regulations, guidelines and procedures for establishing global partnerships, exchange programs, academic research collaborations;
  • Responsible for the coordination of the university’s external exchange resources, effectively implement and manage agreements and MOUs, dual/joint programs, student or academic exchanges, alliances and activities with external entities;
  • Managing University’s “Global Consortium of Metropolitan Universities”;
  • Responsible for international visits by university delegations;
  • Responsible for other University affairs as assigned.

IIE: Project Manager, Fulbright Events (USA/Hybrid)

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Project Manager, Fulbright Events, Institute of International Education, Washington, DC, USA (hybrid position). Deadline: 2 August 2024.

The Institute of International Education (IIE) is hiring a Project Manager for our Fulbright Events Programs. This position will work with the Fulbright Events Team. The Fulbright Events team advances the mission of the Fulbright program by creating engagement and connections among Fulbright students, scholars, and professionals. Through our events, Fulbrighters from around the world connect with each other, engage with concepts and ideas, and further their professional development, academic success, and understanding of the United States and other countries.

The Project Manager implements seminars, conferences, orientations, and other events for the Fulbright Program. This position requires collaboration with other internal and external stakeholders. The Project Manager will oversee the work of coordinators, temporary employees, and volunteers on a project-by-project basis. This role will support the financial and operational health of the Fulbright Events, Outreach, Recruitment, and Communications teams.

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