Fully-funded: Apply now to be a summer 2024 Youth Program Leader in USA.

Summer 2024 Youth Program Leader

World Learning Youth Programs bring international high school age youth to the U.S. for short-term intensive leadership and peacebuilding programs and exchanges.

The programs have traditional summer camp elements combined with academic content on global issues, civics, peacebuilding, cross-cultural and language studies. All programs follow a similar format of orientation, group development and training in a first location, followed by an excursion to a homestay community and further exploration of the program theme, concluding with re-entry, reflection and, in some cases, project design in a final location. U.S. programs start with an orientation segment, followed by a homestay segment implemented by one of our over 20 local partner organizations spread across the U.S., and ends with a synthesis segment in Washington, D.C. Most programs expect students to create an issue-based project design which will be implemented post-program in their home communities. Some of the domestic programs include U.S. youth and some of our programs take U.S. youth overseas. We have more than 1,000 youth participants on over 20 programs each year.

Summer 2024 Youth Program Leader

World Learning seeks individuals who have demonstrated interest in youth development and experiential learning, and experience working with young people and leading short-term, high school exchange programs. Leaders maximize the wellbeing of participants in order to foster meaningful and memorable learning experiences. Leaders deliver educational content and are knowledgeable in the design and delivery of active, engaging workshops. Leaders also represent World Learning in U.S. domestic host communities, and at times overseas, and manage partner relationships with integrity and professionalism.

World Learning leaders are dedicated to the field of youth development and love working directly with young people. They are dynamic, flexible, energetic and team players who succeed in multifaceted, intense, fast-paced and collaborative environments. They are professionals who are responsible, and able to manage challenges and uncertainty with poise, compassion, and compromise.

Our Leaders

• Are dynamic, flexible, energetic, pro-active team players;
• Genuinely enjoy spending time with high school students;
• Are caring, warm, friendly, and love to laugh;
• Are willing to put their participants’ learning and development ahead of their own experience;
• Are ready for an intense, challenging, and rewarding programming experience;
• Have a high level of social and emotional intelligence;
• Have organizational and logistical skills;
• Demonstrate skills and experience in cross-cultural sensitivity and communication;
• Bring a wide variety of backgrounds and social identities;
• Are aware of and committed to addressing bias, systemic inequalities, power, privilege, and oppression;
• Are, above all, educators and leaders

Our Leaders

Pay, Benefits, and Opportunities

• New leaders receive $110 per program day, plus full room and board. Return leaders receive $115 per program day, plus full room and board. Note: Leaders are on World Learning payroll, and income is taxable; no staff can be independent contractors.
  
• World Learning covers leaders’ program-related travel expenses including: up to one round-trip domestic travel reservation from your nearest major airport, train station, or bus station, depending on your location, to Staff Training in Brattleboro, Vermont and back to your nearest major airport, train station, or bus station after the program. World Learning does not cover the cost of leaders’ transportation to/from their nearest major airport, train, or bus station for travel to/from their domestic flight/train/bus trip. (*Only applicable for leaders within the contiguous U.S. World Learning will reimburse leaders based outside of the contiguous U.S. up to $500 each way for their international travel costs—flight, train, hotel, etc.—to help offset their travel expenses, for a total of up to $1,000.)
  
• Leaders receive immersive Staff Training in late June. Room and board during this intensive professional development training is provided, but it is not paid time.
  
• Program itineraries are planned in advance, allowing leaders to focus their energy and skills on fostering participant growth, leading workshops, managing group dynamics, and facilitating experiential learning and reflection.
  
• Workers compensation is provided; there is no medical insurance available with US-based positions. Leaders on programs with international travel components are provided with emergency travel insurance for the duration of their time outside of the US.
• Leaders gain new colleagues and friends as they become part of World Learning’s network of educators, development professionals, and alumni that spans 85+ years and 60+ countries.
  
• After leaders have worked one summer program, they are eligible to be hired for the youth programs which occur during the rest of the year.

Apply to become a Youth Program Leader

Our application for 2024 is open! The application deadline is January 31st, 2024 at 11:59 PM EDT. Click here to apply.

Please note: We request that applicants contact us via email at groupleaders@worldlearning.org and not phone; due to our small staff and the large volume of applications we receive, we cannot field inquiry calls.

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