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Local Coordinator - Global Exchange, Arkansas

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ORGANIZATION: CIEE HS FOUNDATION

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CIEE, Council on International Educational Exchange, is seeking Local Coordinators in Arkansas. As a CIEE Local Coordinator, you help coordinate school and host family placements for international high school students in your local community. You also work with regional staff to coordinate supervision and support for students and families throughout the duration of the exchange program. CIEE Local Coordinators are passionate about bringing the world closer together, increasing inter-cultural awareness, and finding safe and welcoming homes in their community for international exchange students.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Recruit and select host families in your area
  • Match students with host families
  • Build and maintain relationships with local schools
  • Provide support and guidance to students and host families throughout the experience
  • Serve as a Liaison between local students, families, and schools and our professional support staff

Knowledge and Skills:

Successful candidates for the Local Coordinator position possess the following qualities and skills: Creativity, patience, persistence, strong social skills and the ability to work with all people. Ability to problem-solve, network, communicate effectively, and act objectively, within CIEE and Department of State guidelines. An understanding of cultural differences is helpful, as well as a desire to work with international youth.

Hours/ Compensation:

This position is not salaried; this is an independent contractor role. Local Coordinators earn financial compensation in the form of placement & supervision fees, bonuses, and travel incentives. Compensation is based on each placement and earlier placements earn increased incentives. Earn as much as $1500 per placement + supervision stipends + bonus incentives. As a Local Coordinator, you manage your own schedule and have flexible hours; many of our current local coordinators have full time jobs, are stay at home moms and dads, or are retired.

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About CIEE HS FOUNDATION

Location:

600 Southborough Drive, South Portland, ME 04106, US

Mission Statement

Being a CIEE High School USA host family is about creating a home away from home. You’re part parent, part cultural ambassador, part mentor. Hosting is a chance to learn from one another. Our host families tell us over and over that their lives are just as touched and changed as those of their exchange student. You’ll join 16,000 CIEE host families that welcome students from 55 countries while they attend high school with the United States’ oldest and largest nonprofit study abroad and intercultural exchange organization. Each year, we bring students who are eager to learn to more than 1,000 schools from our network.

Description

Seeking A potential host family for a student in the Henderson and Las Vegas area for the month of August 2022! If you have a room and can provide a student 3 meals a day, please open your heart and home and invite a high school student into your home. Welcome and temporary host families may apply! This is unpaid and only volunteering.

apply today at ciee.org/hostapply
once completed email local coordinator at hervory.ciee@gmail.com

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Community
International
Children & Youth, Community, International

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

72201

(34.74997,-92.2852)
 

SKILLS

  • Community Outreach

GOOD FOR

N/A

REQUIREMENTS

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