Intercultural Youth Trainer - Criteria for Contract Youth Trainer Selection

All of our intercultural youth trainers are contracted on a per-program, as needed basis, in the geographic area of the program.

EDUCATION

• Preferred:  a degree in a related field, such as intercultural communication, cultural anthropology, education, etc., as well as working knowledge of cultural values research and intercultural concepts.

EXPERIENCE

• At least three years living and working internationally and experience outside of your  home country as a child and/or  with raising children internationally.
• Prior teen or youth intercultural training experience including significant relocation training experience.*

REQUISITE TRAINING ABILITIES

• Understanding of intercultural learning concepts
• Ability to apply experiential learning principles
• Ability to implement the development of concepts and behavioral strategies via age-appropriate scenarios and discussion
• Ability to facilitate a participant-focused approach to materials and information
• Strong facilitation skills and comfort with flexible and fluid training situations
• For teen trainings: Comfort in facilitating external teen cultural consultant
• Ability to collaborate logistics and joint family sessions with adult trainers

*NOTE: IOR does not train individuals or groups to become cultural trainers. We orient our trainers to IOR materials, philosophy of training, and administrative processes, but we recruit only experienced trainers