IHP Visiting Faculty - Health and Community - Spring 2025

Visiting Faculty - Traveling Position International Honors Program/SIT Study Abroad
IHP Health and Community: Globalization, Culture, & Care

Reports to: Program Director
Salary Range: $28,000 - $32,000 (contract period, salary commensurate with experience)
Anticipated Start Date: December 2024
Term of Employment: approximately 5-6 months
Apply by: March 31, 2024
Base of Designation/Remote Eligible: Travel to Washington, DC (USA), India, South Africa, and Argentina required.
Conditional on Enrollment

TO APPLY
Please submit your application via the online system: https://worldlearning.applicantpro.com/jobs/3260459 by uploading your letter of interest, as well as a CV (including the contact information of three academic references).

Travel insurance provided subject to plan terms.

School for International Training (SIT) seeks a Visiting Faculty member to join an interdisciplinary team of faculty and country coordinators leading IHP's Health and Community: Globalization, Culture, and Care program in the Spring of 2025. Each semester term enrolls approximately 15-30 students from leading U.S. colleges and universities for interdisciplinary study and a global comparative perspective in four different program locations. Please note that the following itineraries reflect past semesters and tentative future semesters, but all itineraries are contingent on conditions in each country and program needs:

• Spring 2025 (late January to mid-May): Washington, DC (USA), India, South Africa, and Argentina

RESPONSIBILITIES
We are seeking a traveling faculty member who will:

• Facilitate learning and teach two courses:
  - Health, Culture, and Community (an introductory course based in medical anthropology)
  - Community Health Research Methods and Ethics (an introductory research methods class that highlights methods used in public health fieldwork; this course is taught in collaboration with local country staff)
• See IHP Health and Community: Globalization, Culture, & Care for details.
• Regular participation in all country program activities including guest speakers, site visits and other non-lecture components is expected.
• Work with the Provost & Dean of Faculty, Program Director, and Country Coordinators, to ensure that any academic, administrative and student affairs associated with the program are resolved.
• Take appropriate measures to protect the health and safety of students in partnership with SIT Student Affairs and local staff.
• Visiting Faculty are responsible for ensuring that all students travelling on the official group flight are checked-in and through immigration.
• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS

Required Experience/Education:

• Terminal degree (PhD or equivalent) and practice researching and teaching in a related field, such as medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, sociology, and/or public health/policy.
• Expertise in at least one of the topic areas listed above and general knowledge of history and social theory. Research and/or practical experience at the interface of environment/development.
• Experience teaching at the college level and a strong commitment to experiential learning, including non-didactic methods that promote critical thinking and field-based research, discussion, and self-reflection.
• Experience living and working abroad (preferred).

Required Behaviors

• Must be able to meet the physical, emotional maturity,and mental health demands as well as possess the personal qualities-patience, adaptability, collegiality, cross-cultural competence, and organization-needed to be part of an intensive, team-oriented study abroad program that covers four countries in one semester.
• The ability and desire to support and communicate with students throughout the study abroad experience both in and outside of the classroom.

Vaccination is strongly recommended for all employees in our U.S. offices except for those receiving medical or religious exemptions. If boosters are subsequently recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) then employees and faculty will be recommended to receive the booster within thirty (30) days of their eligibility.

TO APPLY
Please submit your application via the online system: