Part Time Exchange Student Coordinator - Visalia, CA

Local Coordinator — International Student Exchange Facilitate the exchange year for international high school teen leaders by finding a host family, a community, and a place to belong — while you earn income doing meaningful work!

World Link is an exchange student program that works with international high school students who have earned a merit-based scholarship through the U.Department of State. We focus on cultural exchange, local community connections, and student leadership development. We are looking for community connectors to serve as Local Coordinators in select communities across the U.This is a flexible, very part-time, 1099 contract position that combines relationship-building, community outreach, student support, and international exchange.

This IS primarily work from home but is NOT a desk job. Knows people in your community Enjoys teenagers and has a heart for young people Wants meaningful part-time work that makes a real difference As a World Link Local Coordinator, you will: CONNECT — Build relationships in your community and recruit volunteer host families. MATCH — Help match international students with your volunteer host families and schools. SUPPORT — Maintain regular contact with students and host families and help navigate questions or challenges. DEVELOP — Encourage students as they participate in school, community, leadership and cultural activities. BUILD COMMUNITY — Help create meaningful connections between students, families and the communities they call home for the semester or school year.

You will receive training, guidance and support from the World Link team. The rewarding part is helping a young person's dream come true and seeing the love and connection that grows between the student and host family! You'll need to be willing to make phone calls, send messages, ask people for referrals, follow up, build relationships and keep going when the first few "no's" come. You will have the full support of our team, but you will be making it happen in your local community. Flexible, part-time 1099 contract work

Training and ongoing support

The opportunity to work within your own community

The chance to build relationships with local families and young people from around the world

Youth group or youth organization leaders

Community or nonprofit volunteers Professionals who want to be involved in community work in their free time Current or Retired educators or community leaders You don't need to be an expert on international exchange. World Link is currently expanding our Local Coordinator team in several communities, and we are moving quickly. We have 45 YES scholarship students coming for one semester this January , in addition to 120 FLEX Global students coming in the Fall! We're looking for people who can get involved now, complete training and begin building their local network.

Click "Apply" and include a brief note telling us what community you're in and why this caught your attention. Or, if you already know you're interested, message Holly Nichols directly on LinkedIn to move forward quickly.

We are scheduling conversations and moving quickly to find the best applicants because we our training is coming up soon!

If you're a community connector who wants to impact the lives in your community and around the world, we'd love to meet you.

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