Employment
Regional Development Manager
Job Type: Part-time
Compensation: Base salary plus commission
Location: Recruiting nationally
PAX is currently hiring for the position of Regional Development Manager. This role is a key position in the organization, ensuring PAX is equipped to find welcoming U.S. host families and provide excellent support to exchange students, families, and schools.
Responsibilities
Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited, to the following.
- Arranging academic year homestays and U.S. high school enrollment for exchange students, together with regional team of field representatives (“Local Coordinators”).
- Hiring, training, and managing Local Coordinators.
- Reviewing and creating plan for Local Coordinator development in region.
- Managing timely, accurate, and complete submission of high school exchange student placement paperwork.
- Guiding young, international visitors through personal and cultural adjustment.
- Participating in the PAX National Meeting (held each year in a new attractive location).
Desired Skills
Competitive candidates are optimistic, flexible, and motivated self-starters. They will also bring the following skills, experience, characteristics, and mindset.
- Successful track record of placing exchange students in host families.
- Ability to lead and guide a dispersed team.
- Fondness for working with teens.
- Pride in serving the community.
- Excellent communication skills.
- An internationally minded perspective.
- Education, sales, and management experience a plus.
Benefits
Many Regional Development Managers approach the position as a meaningful opportunity to pursue their interests and passions while contributing to American communities. The position also includes the following benefits.
- Flexible part-time hours
- Work from home
- Travel perks, both domestic and international
- Salary plus commission
- Life Insurance (company paid)
- 401(k) eligibility (company matched)
- Health, dental, and vision insurance eligibility dependent upon scope of contract
What Sets PAX Apart?
Many Exchange Visitor Program Sponsors are very similar. Here are just a few ways PAX is different.
- Support - PAX maintains a dedicated Student Supervision Department (5 full-time staff) to assist Local Coordinators and Regional Development Managers.
- Travel - PAX offers the most international travel incentives in the industry, because we know that educational travel provides cultural understanding, which allows our team to support the PAX community with greater confidence.
- Diversity - PAX students come from 70+ countries and through 5+ scholarship programs.
- Quality - PAX adheres to higher student enrollment standards, which set our students, families, schools, and you up for success.
- Service - All PAX students volunteer, positively impacting American communities and your ability to work in them.
Interested in Applying?
To all those interested in becoming part of the PAX family, we look forward to your application.
Please submit your resume to resumes@pax.org.
Community Coordinator
PAX is currently hiring for the position of Community Coordinator (local representative) in communities nationwide. This independent contractor helps host families and high schools throughout the continental U.S. share their America with exchange students from more than 70 countries by:
- Arranging semester and academic year homestays and high school enrollment for exchange students.
- Generating interest in the local community.
- Holding orientations for both families and students.
- Guiding young, international visitors through personal and cultural adjustment.
- Providing friends and neighbors in their community and the young people they host with positive, life-changing exposure to new cultures.
Ideal candidates will have the following experience, characteristics, and attributes:
- Have parented or worked with teens for three or more years.
- Bring experience from education, sales, or youth counseling.
- Are optimistic, motivated, flexible self-starters.
- Possess excellent communication skills.
- Enjoy a strong network within their community.
