Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Opportunity Statement

What is the context?

Founded in 1982, the United World College-USA is one of 18 United World College (UWC) campuses worldwide and the only campus in the United States. The UWC movement seeks "to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future." As such, UWC-USA values and promotes all manner of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access as part of our fundamental mission to bring people together across differences in service of a more peaceful and sustainable world. With the IB at the center of our academic program, and a strong focus on experiential learning including in a multinational/multicultural boarding environment, UWC-USA stretches its students, faculty, and staff to learn and grow in a multi-perspectival community dedicated to democratic processes as reflective of our country location and traditions.

What is the UWC-USA mission?

We embrace the UWC mission "to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future" by preparing students to serve as catalysts for greater unity, peace, and sustainability in their personal lives, in their communities, and in their relationship to the environment. We accomplish this through intentional, place-based programming, an integral approach to our programming and our lives together, and ample opportunities for student autonomy and leadership under the guidance of caring staff and faculty.

How is UWC-USA unique?

Our participation in the UWC movement and our philanthropy-based educational model distinguish UWC-USA among international boarding schools. As a UWC two-year school, we recruit students through more than 150 National Committees worldwide. Our philanthropy-based model makes our educational program widely accessible to students from families with modest financial resources, no matter where they live in the world, with 85% of UWC-USA students receiving a financial award to attend the school. Together, these two advantages allow us to bring together students whose identities, experiences, and ideas create a microcosm of the world on our campus, which is located in rural Northern New Mexico.

What is our point of view?

On challenges in the world

UWC's mission began in response to the international tensions of the Cold War. Its mission to bring young people together before their prejudices are solidified, in service of peace and a sustainable future, is as important as ever. In the world our students know, the main obstacles to unity remain differences in identity that too often separate us from one another: nationality, culture, language, religion, ethnicity, race, gender, and sexual identity. The main obstacles to peace and sustainability today are not entirely new either, but the globalizing forces of our age have reshaped them. No matter where our students come from, they increasingly see these challenges up close in local, national, or international settings:

• Economic, political, and social inequality between those at the center and those on the margins of societies worldwide;
• Political polarization rooted in ideology, grievance, and uneven democratic practice/ institutions;
• Climate change, ecosystem destruction, and biodiversity collapse, resulting from destructive modes of production, consumption, and land use.

In this global context, our students face the more personal challenge of growing into healthy young adults and thoughtful leaders amid real cultural, social, and educational tensions worldwide:

• Just as they embrace the great diversity of people and cultures in the world, they feel the powerful forces of assimilation and homogenization that threaten local identities and the wisdom they contain.
• New social identities, relationships, and networks are welcome at this age, but the bonds of affection and solidarity are weakened by the intrusion of markets and the media in their personal and interpersonal spheres.
• Twenty-first-century technologies - increasingly available to schools - are changing exponentially, yet they need connections with adults and one another to ground them.
• The global marketplace and new technologies will continue to transform our students' relationships with others, learning, and work, presenting both new opportunities and new obstacles for their personal well-being in the world.

On opportunities in international, boarding school education

The UWC boarding school was founded primarily to facilitate international and intercultural understanding by bringing young people from all over the world to live and learn together. Its early partnership in the creation of the International Baccalaureate made it a pioneer in inquiry-based learning. Its focus on experiential learning and the importance of diversity also established it as a pioneer. Today, there is a greater variety of educational models in the international boarding school sector than ever before. This development encourages all international boarding schools, including UWC-USA, to think creatively within and beyond the predominant models we have inherited. UWC-USA is a full participant in an ongoing dialogue across UWC International and the International Baccalaureate Office (IBO) about new educational directions that best meet the opportunities and challenges of our age.

What is the role?

Drivers are needed for the following:

• In town trips
• Out of town trips
• Days and evenings
• Weekdays and weekends

What are the key details?

• 30 faculty and 60 staff
• 240 students in grades 11 and 12, admitted on the basis of merit, promise, and potential through over 150 National Committees worldwide and a Global Selection Process run as a partnership between schools and UWC International
• 1:8 faculty-to-student ratio, with class sizes ranging from 8-20 students
• Roughly twenty percent of the students come from the U.S.; the remainder represent more than 80 countries
• 85% of UWC-USA students receive a financial award to attend the school; the average award is $33,000 per year
• Diversity and the value placed on it is paramount, with national diversity only scratching the surface; racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, sexual, gender, and socio-economic diversity all figure large in the opportunity and challenge to work, learn, and live within our diverse community; cultural competency and sensitivity, combined with a willingness to learn and to grow, is a must at UWC-USA.
• Key Resources
  • UWC-USA Community Narrative
  • UWC-USA Educational Objectives
  • UWC-USA 2021-22 School Profile
  • UWC-USA Strategic Plan

Who should apply?

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Must have a valid Driver's License to drive passenger vehicles.
• Must have current CDL with a class P endorsement and current medical card to drive large buses.

Applications

• Cover letter, CV, and three professional references (note: we will not be contacting any references unless you are selected as a semi-finalist).

We will keep all inquiries and applications strictly confidential until the semi-finalist phase, at which point it may be necessary for us to make limited outreach to references.

Please send questions to hr@uwc-usa.org.

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