Tag: administrative position

IIE: Scholar Support Specialist, Scholar Rescue Fund (USA/Hybrid)

“JobScholar Support Specialist, Scholar Rescue Fund, The Institute of International Education (IIE), New York, NY (Hybrid). Deadline: Open until filled; posted 6 January 2025.

The IIE Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) is the only global program that arranges, funds and supports fellowships for threatened and displaced scholars at partnering higher education institutions worldwide. IIE-SRF’s Scholar Support Specialist leads and coordinates the program’s personal, academic, and professional development offerings to IIE-SRF fellows and alumni, a diverse population of scholars around the world with unique needs. The Scholar Support Specialist develops and executes a strategy for creating and enhancing programmatic offerings; helps build a network of institutions and individuals that can offer support and other opportunities; and directly advises individual fellows and alumni as needed. The individual in this role will have a documented history working in academia and higher education and across different cultures.

UNC: Assistant Director for International Programs (USA)

“JobAssistant Director for International Programs, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA. Deadline: 3 February 2025.

The Office of International Programs (OIP) serves as a center of leadership for the international role and mission of the university. It is comprised of six related units that function together toward creating an international perspective in all facets of campus life. Those units include: OIP Administration (OIPA), Office of Education Abroad (OEA), International Student and Scholar Office (ISSO), English Language Training Institute (ELTI), Office of Intercultural and Educational Experiences (OIEE), and the Office of Global Education and Engagement (OGEE). OIP also hosts the World Affairs Council of Charlotte (WACC).

The assistant director for the Office of International Programs supports the associate provost for International Programs by collaborating directly with six operational units and assisting with the overall administration of OIP’s ongoing operations, such as communications, marketing and public relations, risk management, and facilities management. Two key responsibilities include developing and overseeing departmental assessment practices and managing OIP’s annual reporting activities, which encompass the annual strategic plan report and the report on international exchange partnership activities.

US Department of State: Global Teaching Projects (USA)

“JobGlobal Teaching Projects, English Language Fellow Program, 2025-26, US Department of State (serving internationally). Deadline: 24 Febuary 2025.

The English Language Fellow Program sends experienced U.S. educators who have extensive experience in working with English Language Learners on paid in-country teaching assignments at universities and other academic institutions around the world. Fellow projects focus on training pre-service teachers, teaching university students or adult professionals, and building English language capacity in local communities. Fellows are citizen ambassadors who promote mutual understanding through English language learning and cultural exchange. The English Language Fellow Program provides professionals with a platform to build skills that can greatly enhance their careers.

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.

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 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.