Director of The Middlebury Starr School in - Rio De Janeiro, Brasil - Middlebury College

Descrição

Administer, implement, and develop Middlebury's academic program in Brazil. The program currently operates in Florianopolis, Niteroi, and Belo Horizonte.

The Director will work closely with the Office of International Programs & Off-Campus Study (IPOCS) in consultation with the appropriate Middlebury faculty, programs and departments, the Latin America Faculty Advisory Board, and the Dean of International Programs.

The Director will be required to develop and manage key relationships in a cooperative, strategic manner.

This position has an anticipated start date of June 2024.


Responsibilities will include:


Academic Programs:

• Administers/develops courses, together with the Dean of International Programs (DoIP) andIPOCS, as well as appropriate Middlebury faculty, programs and departments.
• Works with host university faculty to properly place students in appropriate mainstream content courses at host universities.
• Designs and implements cocurricular activities to support academic goals.
• Oversees and is ultimately responsible for onsite course selection and registration; maintaining academic records; collecting student course and program evaluations. Provides Middlebury with onsite registration information (including course numbers, course titles, academic discipline) for eachstudent by the end of the registration period; provides timely submission of final course grades from all instructors and institutions.
• Implements testing system to evaluate linguistic and cultural progress, including pre and post testing for assessment purposes.
• Monitors class attendance and grading standards.
• Works closely with host university faculty, monitoring teaching effectiveness and encouraging mediation, as necessary.
• Visits classes regularly (where appropriate) and consults with host university faculty on student progress, assessment, and placement.
• Reports recommendations concerning curricula to IPOCS.
• Develops and manages, with the Dean of International Programs and the appropriate Middlebury College faculty, programs, and departments, programs of faculty and student interchange between host country institutions and Middlebury College.
• Helps develop and oversee credit and noncredit internship opportunities.
• Oversees the implementation of undergraduate and graduate programs by U.S. and hostcountry resident staff and local host institutions, including visits each semester to sites (Niteroi, Belo Horizonte, Florianopolis) where students are on Middlebury programs.
• Develops and manages, with IPOCS and the appropriate Middlebury College faculty, programs, and departments, programs of faculty and student interchange between host country institutions, Middlebury College, and Monterey.

Student Affairs:

• Oversees and is ultimately responsible for: student discipline; student advising/counseling (academic, personal, medical, career etc.); facilitating student housing arrangements (apartments, home stays,dorms); designing and implementing onsite student orientations that cover all academic, social, safety, and health issues; student excursions; encouraging individual extracurricular activities; advising onand keeping itineraries and contact information for independent, overnight, student travel; and allsecurity, safety, health, discrimination, and harassment issues.

Administrative Responsibilities:

• Coordinates efforts with host university colleagues at all levels to ensure that all parts of the program are in place and working effectively.
• Provides regular updates to IPOCS staff, as well as endofsemester and endof

- year reports

• Visits Middlebury as necessary to meet with IPOCS staff, as well as area studies and language faculty to review the academic program at the host institutions and, when appropriate, to plan curricular and programmatic adjustments. During such visits, depending on timing, Director will participate in pre

- departure student orientations or other information sessions.

• Attends twiceayear meetings for the directors of the Middlebury Schools Abroad.
• Coordinates all onsite arrangements (housing, local transportation, meetings) for visiting delegations, whether by Middlebury personnel or personnel from other institutions whose students attend (or plan to attend) the school abroad.
• Works with marketing staff at Middlebury to recruit students to the program. This may include travel to other U.S. colleges and universities to meet with faculty and study abroad administrators.
• Has frequent communication and collaboration with the relevant Assistant Director in IPOCS.
• Builds trust and works collaboratively with students, faculty, staff, administrators, and community partners to balance the multiple, varying interests of diverse stakeholders

Management and Personnel:

• In conjunction with the Dean of International Programs, makes and implements short and longrange financial, staff and programmatic plans for the School in Brazil.
• If addition