IHP Visiting Faculty - Human Rights - Spring 2025

Visiting Faculty - Traveling Position International Honors Program/SIT Study Abroad
IHP Human Rights: Movements, Power, & Resistance

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 New York City/Brattleboro VT (USA), Nepal, Jordan, and Chile required.
Conditional on Enrollment

To Apply: Apply via this online application system: https://worldlearning.applicantpro.com/jobs/3260506 by submitting 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 Human Rights: Movements, Power, and Resistance program in 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): New York City/Brattleboro,VT, Nepal, Jordan, Chile

RESPONSIBILITIES
We are seeking a traveling faculty member who will:

• Facilitate learning and teach two courses:
  - Fieldwork Ethics and Comparative Methods
  - Comparative Issues in Human Rights
• See IHP Human Rights: Movements, Power, & Resistance for details.
• Facilitate student learning through processing of non-lecture program components and providing timely feedback on assignments. 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 traveling on the official group flight are checked-in and through immigration.
• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS

Required Experience/Education:
• Terminal degree (PhD or equivalent) in a relevant field, such as Human Rights, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Geography, History, Cultural/Ethnic Studies, or Law.
• Expertise in at least one s listed above and general knowledge of governance, history, and social theory.
• 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).
• Research and/or practical experience at the interface of human rights, social justice, and development.

Required Behaviors
• Must be able to meet the physical, emotional maturity, mental health, demands and 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
Apply via this online application system by submitting your letter of interest, as well as a CV (including the contact information of three academic references).

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