CIEE Global Navigator Program Leader

• Speak in the target language at all times, unless there is a health or safety risk, and use only the target language when talking with participants as well as other Program Leaders and local CIEE center staff.
• Encourage and engage participants to stay in the target language outside of class and provide feedback, when appropriate, on their language use.
• Be a learning bridge by helping participants apply what they learn in class in the community. Facilitate experiential learning outside of the classroom by asking open-ended questions and engaging participants to reflect on their experiences and observations and making connections.
• Attend the last 30 minutes of class to co-facilitate the lesson Wrap-Up with your assigned language instructor. Observe and take notes on participants’ language needs and prepare participants for their daily Community Conversation through use of different instructional strategies (e.g., modeling language, role-playing, strategically pairing participants, etc.).
• Monitor participants’ personal and intercultural growth through regular review of their reflection journals; facilitate structured debriefs on participants’ reflection journals once per week.
• Assist participants as they complete an online post-program assessment to measure growth.
• Submit grades and evaluate assignments in an online learning platform (Canvas) on a weekly basis. 

• Help participants connect with the local community, get to know people and understand local culture. Help participants understand how a local NGO is addressing a community challenge. Guide participants to the understanding that the solutions to local challenges are best created and sustained by members of the local community.  
• Live in participant housing (if participants are not in homestays) and be ready to assist at all hours.  
• Engage in service activities alongside participants.  
• Lead daily check-in discussions and reflection journaling sessions.  
• Support local instructors by leading activities and facilitating project work from Social Change curriculum.  
• Assess participant learning using rubrics and help them set personal goals.  
• Assist participants as they complete online pre- and post- program assessments to measure growth. 

• Help participants make connections between lectures, field research, activities, and excursions through reflection and discussions.
• Live in participant housing (if participants are not in homestays) and be ready to assist at all hours.
• Support classroom instructors as needed by, for example, facilitating project work time, leading small groups, or reviewing participant work and assessments. (Duties vary by location)
• Assist participants as they complete online pre- and post- program assessments to measure growth.
• Support participants with the planning and delivery of their final projects and share content of final presentations with CIEE U.S. central team.
• Help participants develop a plan for sharing their final project with their home community. 

We hire several hundred Program Leaders across all of our programs each year to maintain a 12:1 participant to Program Leader ratio. 

If your application and experience looks like a good fit for one of our programs, we will send your information to one of our program locations. You can expect to have at least one virtual interview with the center staff to discuss your experience and to go through the program expectations. If you are accepted, we will send you an offer letter and continue your onboarding throughout the spring through online and virtual trainings preparing you for departure.

No, visitors are not allowed to stay in CIEE housing. These programs are very busy and your top priority is to be available to the participants.  

Yes, we do require all Program Leaders have a current certification in CPR. If you need to take a class to obtain this, CIEE will allow you to include this cost in your end-of-program expense report.

While we do ask for your preferences for programs during the application process, we take many factors into consideration when deciding the locations for which you will interview. We always do our best to ensure that we are sending our Program Leaders to the best location where they can have the greatest impact or where we have the greatest need. 

Yes, we often have Program Leaders stay in the same location for a total of 6 to 8 weeks, and they sometimes do two different programs. This is generally only recommended for returning Program Leaders.

We start hiring for locations as early as October but often continue looking for candidates into the late spring if we have a late surge in participant enrollment. We are not able to respond to every application we receive as we often have over 1000 applicants. 

Yes, CIEE covers your round-trip flights, transportation to and from your home airport, and travel expenses during the travel days.

We will book your flights for you through our travel partner Flightfox. For all U.S.-based Program Leaders, we will book you on round-trip flights to accompany the participants to and from the program destination. You should be prepared to assist participants with any potential travel delays or flight cancellations that could result in you arriving on program or returning home a few days late.

Yes, CIEE will provide housing in a homestay, dorms, hostels, hotels, or shared apartment, all of which will provide you with a single room. Keep in mind that other countries have very different air conditioning standards.

Meals will be provided either through your homestay or via a meal stipend. This will vary from site to site.

Yes, we enroll all U.S.-Based Program Leaders in iNext Comprehensive Ultimate Plan. This covers only medical costs during the dates of the program.

All U.S.-based Program Leaders are required to chaperone the group flights for both the outbound and return flights. However, we do offer the following incentive as part of the Program Leader referral program: When you refer 8 to 11 students to travel on one of our programs, you are exempt from chaperoning your flight back and can extend your trip!

We encourage our Program Leaders to refer their students, friends, and family on CIEE programs! To refer, simply log into your my.ciee.org account and check out your referral dashboard. While you are not eligible for a cash reward for referring, you qualify for great perks. For more info, check out the Program Leader Referral Program.