**Job Details**
**Company Information**
– **Reports to:** Program Director
– **Salary Range:** $28,000 – $32,000 based on experience (contract period)
– **Anticipated Start Date:** July 2025
– **Term of Employment:** Approximately 5-6 months
– **Application Deadline:** March 1, 2025
– **Base of Designation/Remote Eligibility:** Travel required (see details below)
– **Condition:** Conditional on Enrollment
**To Apply:** Please click on Apply above or visit [World Learning Careers](https://worldlearning.applicantpro.com/jobs) to submit your application. Ensure to upload the following mandatory documents: a letter of interest and your CV, including contact information for three academic references. Your letter of interest should address the questions listed further below.
Travel insurance is provided for locations outside of the home base, subject to plan terms.
**Position Overview:**
School for International Training is seeking Visiting Faculty members to be part of an interdisciplinary team of faculty and host country coordinators for IHP’s programs in Fall 2025. Each term enrolls approximately 15-30 students from leading U.S. colleges and universities to explore interdisciplinary urban studies from comparative and global perspectives across urban locations on four different continents. Further details are available in the job posting at [World Learning Careers](https://worldlearning.applicantpro.com/jobs).
**Program Itineraries:**
– **Cities in the 21st Century:** New York City (USA), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Barcelona (Spain), and Cape Town (South Africa)
– **Food Systems: Agriculture, Sustainability, & Justice:** Georgia (USA), Ecuador, Malawi, and Spain
– **Climate Change: The Politics of Land, Water and Energy Justice:** San Francisco (USA), Morocco, Nepal, and Ecuador
– **Health and Community: Globalization, Culture, & Care:** Washington, DC (USA), India, South Africa, and Argentina
– **Human Rights: Movements, Power, & Resistance:** New York City/Brattleboro VT (USA), Nepal, Jordan, Chile
For more detailed itineraries, please visit our website: [IHP Comparative Program](https://studyabroad.sit.edu/programs/ihp-comparative-program/).
**Responsibilities:**
– Facilitate learning and teach two courses.
– Guide student learning through processing of non-lecture components and provide timely feedback on assignments.
– Actively participate in all program activities, such as guest lectures and site visits.
– Collaborate with the Provost and Dean of Faculty, Program Director, and Country Coordinators to resolve any academic, administrative, or student issues.
– Ensure student health and safety in collaboration with SIT Student Affairs and local staff.
– Oversee student check-in and immigration processes for official group flights.
– Collect receipts and complete expense reports promptly as per World Learning financial policies.
– Perform other duties as assigned.
**Required Experience/Education:**
– Terminal degree (PhD or equivalent; All But Dissertation considered) in relevant fields:
– **Cities in the 21st Century:** Political economy, sociology, geography, political science, or other social science fields related to urban studies.
– **Climate Change:** Relevant fields include political economy, sociology, anthropology, history, geography, or political ecology.
– **Food Systems:** Fields such as development economics, sustainable development, international affairs/public policy, political science, or food systems planning.
– **Health and Community:** Practice in medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, sociology, and/or public health/policy.
– **Human Rights:** Fields such as human rights, anthropology, sociology, political science, geography, history, cultural/ethnic studies, or law.
– Experience teaching at the college level and commitment to experiential, non-didactic learning that encourages critical thinking and field research.
– Preferred experience in living and working abroad.
– Qualitative research experience in urban studies and/or professional experience in urban community development, planning, or social movements.
**Required Behaviors:**
– Ability to meet physical and emotional demands, demonstrate patience, adaptability, collegiality, and cross-cultural competence in an intense, team-driven study abroad program across four countries.
– Skills in building rapport with students and adaptable, creative teaching approaches.
**Letter of Interest:**
Consider the unique challenges of guiding college-aged students through a semester of diverse urban and rural environments, involving classroom and small-group learning. Highlight how your academic background and work experience prepare you for this role, particularly your interest in this visiting opportunity over a traditional academic position. Discuss your experiences in team collaboration, relationship-building with students, adaptability, and innovative pedagogical approaches.
**The World Learning Inc. Family**
World Learning Inc., with over 90 years of history, encompasses The Experiment in International Living, the School for International Training (SIT), and World Learning, a nonprofit focused on global development and exchanges. SIT, founded in the 1960s, prepares students as global changemakers through experiential education. The Experiment offers international exchanges for high school students, promoting skills to address global challenges.
World Learning is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. We strive for inclusive, equitable practices and honor diverse experiences, promoting open dialogue and accountability within our diverse global community.
**Employer Commitment:**
World Learning is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action/veterans/ADA employer, dedicated to increasing workforce diversity.
**Company Website:** [SIT](http://www.sit.edu/)
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