But i’m refining our hiring for cultural immersion coordinators who center intercultural learning, not just logistics. For those running similar programs — ours are 6–8 week homestays with 25 host families — where have you found strong candidates and which competencies do you assess (facilitation, reflective practice, equity mindset)? Also curious which job boards or phrasing in postings has surfaced multilingual, community‑rooted applicants.
Have you tried Idealist? With 25 host families, run a conflict‑mediation roleplay; post on https://joblist.nafsa.org.
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But building on @joelg_56, we ask finalists to lead a 12‑minute critical‑incident debrief of a tricky host‑family scenario, then do a 2‑minute meta‑reflection; it quickly shows facilitation, reflective practice, and equity lens. Want the exact prompt we use?
Most of our strongest coordinators came via SIT/World Learning and Peace Corps alumni listservs, not general boards. For assessment, I give finalists a real pre‑departure email to 25 host families and ask them to rewrite it to foreground “intercultural learning” and equity, then talk through one trade‑off they made; it surfaces facilitation instincts without a staged role‑play. If you want a niche posting spot, try the Diversity Abroad Network jobs board (https://jobs.diversitynetwork.org), though it can skew toward folks with formal IE backgrounds.
And for 6–8 week timelines, I have finalists co-design a host orientation; I also screen for trauma-informed practice — https://forumea.org/career-center/ Sound useful?