Student Experience Coordinator, Part Time - Oxford, United Kingdom - Study Abroad

Description

Student Experience Coordinator, Part Time (Oxford, England)

• Full Time / Part time:

Part Time, approximately 18 hours/week, flexible

• Regular / Temporary:

Regular, Permanent Contract

• Salary:

Minimum salary £13,000. Salary is commensurate with skills and experience

• Benefits:

Pension Contribution; Enjoy flexible work arrangements and an appreciation for work/life balance.

• Location:

Oxford, England

• Reports to:

Director, England and Wales Programmes, based in London


Position Overview

• Are you a lifelong learner, curious about the world around you_

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• Are you ready to bring your unique skills to a missiondriven organization?_
• Do you enjoy being a part of a _

- student's journey _
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- personal, _
- academic_
- and intercultural growth?_

If so, we would love to welcome you to our global community

We are looking for an individual to support IFSA's programmes in Oxford and Cambridge.

This part-time position provides high quality academic and cultural support for undergraduate students studying with IFSA in Oxford and Cambridge.

You will organize co-curricular activities and personal check ins that support student learning and satisfaction outcomes.

During periods when students are not on site, this position will support Custom programs over the summer terms. This position will have work cycles that are more intensive requiring at times evening and weekend hours.

In this position, you will work closely with all members of the local team, as well as colleagues from our sites in the Europe, the Global Health & Safety Team, Academic Programmes, and Student Engagement.

IFSA (Institute for Study Abroad), a US-based nonprofit organization, creates global learning environments to help students gather the critical perspectives, knowledge, and skills essential for future success.

With innovative programming and world-class support, IFSA delivers future-focused study abroad options in 19 countries and 48 cities around the globe.

Our commitments to inclusive excellence, intercultural agility, individualized learning and enduring impact are present in every aspect of our programs.

Inclusion is a driving passion of our organization.

We are committed to building a community where the thoughts and opinions of all team members are valued and contribute to our collective success, just as we build programmes with the same focus.

If you share our unwavering commitment to Inclusive Excellence and want to join a community that actively strives to improve in all that we do, IFSA is the place for you.

In this position, your responsibilities would include:

• Preparation and presentation of pre-arrival student webinars, assistance with welfare check ins
• Coordinate and support excursions, cocurricular activities, orientations, and other events as needed
• Coordinate and support custom bids and programmes, as well as supporting the planning and delivery of custom programmes
• Conduct appreciative advising meetings, including learning plan consultations, and regularly meet with students to assess their experiences and help resolve problems
• Monitor student's integration and wellbeing through regular communication and campus visits
• Support academic management of programmes, including the course registration process, appreciative advising, and student learning plan consultations
• Coordinate the booking and timetabling of IFSA classroom space
• Contribute to emergency response and student incident management based on established protocol, and participate in afterhours emergency phone rotation
• Initial point of contact for general student inquiries
• Duties assigned by Director to assist with student services and England/Wales operations.
• Other duties and projects, as assigned, that may include opportunities to contribute to other IFSA site operations via remote work; opportunities to work with Student Engagement on prearrival student advising; opportunities to work with Institutional Engagement to develop institutional partner relationships.

Requirements, Work Experience

and Education

• 12 years of work experience in sectors such as higher education, tourism, event planning, or hospitality
• Strong time management and planning skills, with the ability to work independently to execute timesensitive tasks and duties successfully
• Strong attention to detail in creating internal and external documents and in managing programme and administrative data
• Strong digital competencies, including the ability to engage with multiple systems and our database platform, Salesforce
• Ability to cultivate and model practices and behaviours that reflect IFSA's organisational commitments of inclusive excellence, intercultural agility, individualized learning and enduring impact
• Proven ability to work well in a team and to engage effectively with colleagues across an organization
• Ability to engage with and support students with diverse lived experiences including students of colour, student