Manager, Funded Programs

• You will change the world. CIEE builds bridges between different people, different countries, and different cultures. We help young people participate in high-quality international exchange and study abroad programs that bring the world together. We change lives, our alumni change the world. Be part of the change!
• You will receive a competitive total rewards package. CIEE strives to provide all employees with competitive salaries and exceptional benefits. Benefits include excellent healthcare insurance; annual contributions to your retirement fund of up to 5% of your salary; generous personal time off, including vacation, holidays, and floating Fridays; and a full suite of insurance, including life, travel, short-term, and long-term disability insurance.
  

• You will be part of a fast-paced, international, diverse, and collaborative team of professionals. CIEE operates the largest nonprofit network of study-abroad locations, with facilities and staff in 26 countries. Additionally, we help international participants from over 130 countries come to the USA each year. Committed to excellence and solving whatever problem the world throws at them, CIEE professionals work on international teams and are dedicated to advancing our 75-year-old mission to make the world a more peaceful place.

Annually, the Funded Programs team facilitates approximately 410 international scholarships, including approximately 260 U.S. Department of State-funded scholarships for international high school students through the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX), Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange (YES), and Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) and 150 scholarships for participants of Exchange Foundations clients the Albanian-American Development Fund (AADF), the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation (BAFF), and the Romanian-American Foundation (RAF). In addition, the Funded Programs team administers a range of leadership development and enrichment short programs, including the CIEE-funded Young Civic Leadership Summit.

CIEE leads an annual summit for international changemakers named the Ambassador Johnny and Mrs. Angie Young Civic Leadership Summit (Y-CLS). Each year, about 50 Young Fellows are selected to travel to Washington, D.C. to learn, among other things, methods for working across national and intercultural barriers to overcome challenges to peace in our world.

The Manager, of Funded Programs, working with the Coordinator, of Funded Programs, is responsible for supporting all aspects of these programs, including but not limited to participant selection, coordination of logistics, staffing, and training, program finance, and day-to-day operations. The position requires extensive coordination with multiple external and internal stakeholders including the U.S. Department of State, program participants, and other CIEE teams.

CIEE also administers several grant programs through the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and with various U.S. Embassies throughout the world. The Manager of funded Programs may also assist with this programming as needed

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the Ambassador Johnny and Mrs. Angie Young Civic Leadership Summit
• Manage and coordinate participant selection, staffing, training, guest speakers, and all logistics for seminars, including on-site programming
Communicate effectively across teams and with different stakeholders as a representative of CIEE

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• Bachelor's degree
• Excellent Organizational and time management skills with an ability and willingness to remain flexible, shifting between projects based on the seasonality of the program, as directed by supervisor
• Strong experience with coordinating seminar logistics, including but not limited to travel, lodging, and guest speakers
• Meticulous attention to detail in a very fast-paced environment
• Strong, professional, written, and verbal communication skills
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically
• Intercultural communication experience is a plus
Computer skills including MS Teams, Word, Excel, and Outlook are essential

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