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Gateway Executive Search is representing Berklee in its search for the Director of International Student Services and Study Abroad.
Mission:
Berklee’s mission is to educate, train, and develop students to excel in music as a career.
As the preeminent institute of contemporary music and the performing arts, Berklee will transform arts education and empower artists to better our world. Building an inclusive culture that promotes diversity in all its forms, we will nurture the growth of the world’s most inspired artists in music, theater, and dance so they may fully realize their creative and career potential. Berklee will forge new connections among art forms, musical traditions, technologies, and institutions, creating a dynamic global network that fosters innovation, collaboration, and community.
160 Mass Avenue dorms, dining studio and recording studios.
Berklee and Boston Conservatory at Berklee buildings on the Fenway.
Berklee offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs at its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as in New York City, Los Angeles and Valencia, Spain, and online.
Founded on jazz and popular music rooted in the African cultural diaspora, the comprehensive curriculum is distinctly contemporary in its content and approach, and embraces the principal musical movements of our time. Since 1945, Berklee has remained committed to not only reflecting the music of today, but shaping the music of tomorrow.
Innovation is in the Berklee DNA, as Berklee has championed change for over half a century. Berklee updates its curriculum and technology to make them more relevant, and to attract diverse students who reflect the multiplicity of influences in today’s music. And Berklee prepares its students for a lifetime of professional and personal growth through the study of the arts, sciences, and humanities.
More than a college, Berklee has become the world’s singular learning lab for the music of today—and tomorrow. A microcosm of the music world, reflecting the interplay between music and culture; an environment where aspiring music professionals learn how to integrate new ideas, adapt to changing musical genres, and showcase their distinctive skills in an evolving community. Berklee is at the center of a widening network of industry professionals who use their openness, virtuosity, and versatility to take music in surprising new directions. Today Berklee is developing new initiatives to reach and influence an ever-widening global audience.
Berklee Global is a broad initiative that seeks to bring the Berklee experience around the world and includes:
Berklee launched an innovative student success advising model in 2022, making a significant investment in transforming student services into a holistic student support network. Employing a student-centered approach, all advisors across campus, including international student advisors, affirm and support each student’s personal development and growth.
The Director will play an essential leadership role in ensuring the work of the International Student Services and Study Abroad Office is effectively integrated into the student success advising model described in the THRIVE strategic direction.
The Berklee in Valencia Opera House with students, faculty and staff. Palau de les Arts.
Berklee is seeking a student-focused, experienced international educator who is passionate about contributing to student success and excellence in a global context.
The Director of International Student Services and Study Abroad will support Berklee’s mission and strategic global focus by overseeing international student services and engagement strategies, as well as programs, exchanges and experiences for Berklee students studying abroad.
Reporting to the Associate Dean, Student Success Programs, the Director is a member of the Student Success Leadership Team.
Leadership, Management and Planning
International Students: Immigration Compliance
International Student Services and Advising
Study Abroad Programs
Required
Preferred
Berklee supports an inclusive workplace where everyone excels based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance. Berklee affirms that inequality is detrimental to the faculty, staff, students, and the communities it serves. Berklee’s goal is to make lasting change through its actions. Berklee is committed to providing fair and equitable consideration of all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, age, national origin, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, or status as a member of the armed forces or veteran of the armed forces, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.
As part of this commitment, Berklee will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact the Human Resources Team at hroperations@Berklee.edu or call 617-747-2375.
Berklee is committed to increasing the diversity of our institution, community, and the curriculum. Candidates who can contribute to that goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in this area.
Berklee has retained Gateway Executive Search to lead this search.
Applications should include a resume and a statement of interest of no more than two pages that addresses why the applicant is interested in the position and how their professional knowledge and skills meet the required and preferred qualifications for this position, as well as how their professional experience fits with the needs of Berklee.
Applications and nominations will be accepted until the position is filled. All inquiries, nominations, and expressions of interest will be held in confidence and should be submitted electronically at this link. Applications submitted by email will not be accepted.
Gateway Executive Search provides boutique executive search services to institutions and organizations seeking highly professional and skilled practitioners. Executive search consultants are professionals with extensive networks to identify and recruit diverse talent.
Catherine Hutchison Winnie, Ph.D., Senior Search Consultant, cwinnie@gatewayinternational.org
General questions should be directed to:
Angie Johnson, Talent Acquisition Coordinator, search@gatewayinternational.org
Berklee College of Music
An experienced global researcher and administrator, Mark Beirn brings a critical approach to risk management, factoring structural racism and identity-based violence into his rubric for supporting equitable global mobility.
Specialization Areas:
– Global Risk Management
– Education Abroad
– Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in International Education
– Health and Safety
– Curriculum Development
Stephen Appiah-Padi is an international educator with several years of teaching and administrative experience in both 4 and 2-year HEIs. An experienced global education practitioner-scholar, with a demonstrated history of success in the field.
Dr. Appiah-Padi has a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in Educational Policy & Administration with a specialization in International/Intercultural Education.
At Northwestern College, he provided oversight in the administration of education abroad and international student services. In Lansing, Michigan, he first oversaw diversity and intercultural education at Lansing Community College, and later created the Center for International and Intercultural Education (CIIE) which merged intercultural engagement and international education programs of the institution, and he became its first director. Additionally, Dr. Appiah-Padi taught a course, “Diversity in the American Workplace”, to undergraduate management students of the College. In his current position, he provides leadership and vision in advancing strategic internationalization initiatives, including international partnerships and study abroad programs at Bucknell University.
Dr Appiah-Padi has created and facilitated several workshops for faculty and staff development in higher education and in business organizations. He has presented at several national and international conferences. In NAFSA, among several volunteer leadership positions, he has served as Dean of the Fundamentals of Intercultural Communication Workshop, the Leadership Development Committee member, Chair of the Africa Special Interest Group, and a Fellow of the Global Fellowship Program for mentoring emerging leaders of internationalization in African HEIs. He currently serves as a member of the NAFSA Board of Directors.
Specialization Areas:
– Education Abroad
– International education leadership development
– Intercultural education and engagement
– International partnerships and linkages
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Dr. Rosa Almoguera has worked as an international educator for over twenty years. She was trained as a Hispanic Philologist at the Universidad Complutense, in Madrid, and did her M.A. at the University of Pennsylvania. Her Ph.D., from Universidad Complutense included a field study and edition of written balladry “Romancero”. During many years Rosa combined teaching and her role as a senior administrator at the Fundación Ortega-Marañón in Toledo, Spain. At the Foundation, Rosa directed and, in many cases created, programs for the University of Minnesota, Notre Dame, Princeton, Ohio State, Arcadia, and the University of Chicago. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, University of Portland, and Interamericana de Puerto Rico.
Beginning in 2016, Rosa works as an international education consultant for both public and private European and US higher education institutions. Rosa has been successful in developing new partnerships and programs, as well as helping improve already existing ones.
Rosa is a member of Forum and NAFSA and has presented with higher education professionals on innovative academic and research programming, STEM in study abroad and Nationalism in Europe. Rosa is currently completing the final Professional Certification from the Forum on Education Abroad.
Specialization Areas:
– Student services
– Education abroad programming
– Institutional partnerships
– Education and training
