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The Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) at Stanford University is seeking qualified candidates for the Director position at our center in Santiago, Chile.

About Stanford University and BOSP Santiago

Stanford University is one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. Our mission is to educate future leaders and promote interdisciplinary, world-class research and teaching. A key aspect of this is to provide serious international educational opportunities to our students. Sustaining and developing these rich offerings is an intensely creative, rewarding, and challenging project.

For more information about BOSP Santiago, please click HERE.

Position Summary

The Director of the Stanford Program in Santiago is charged with nourishing an intellectual and social environment that is supportive of excellence and high academic standards for Stanford undergraduates.  The Director is responsible for the academic and administrative management and day-to-day operation of the BOSP center and for making decisions on local resource allocations and priorities, recognizing both local practice and Stanford University operating principles.

The Stanford Program in Santiago consists of a two-quarter academic program and a shorter summer session. This position supervises staff employees and manages the employment of lecturers and tutors associated with the program.  The Director has immediate responsibilities for Stanford undergraduates attending the center and for providing direction, leadership, advising and support for their needs, in close collaboration with BOSP home campus staff.  This position reports to the Faculty Director at the Stanford campus in California.

In this role, your primary duties and responsibilities will include: 

1. Center Program Management 

• In collaboration with BOSP at the home campus, develop student application criteria, evaluate applications, and prioritize waitlists.
• Maintain communication with local peers by directing other US study abroad programs.
• Ensure that operations of the Center and the academic programs are in compliance with all policies, regulations and laws governing Stanford University, and in the country of program operation.
• Manage relations with local universities, local public safety, US consular, local country immigration officials, and other local governmental agencies and organizations to facilitate the operations of the program.
• Manage Center staff, including hiring, training, motivating, evaluating performance and salary recommendations to achieve program goals.
• Work directly with BOSP home campus staff to prepare and manage the annual budget.
• Supervise the management of facilities and property at the center.
• In coordination with home campus staff, oversee the technological infrastructure of the Center and its uses for academic and administrative purposes.
• Work in close contact with all BOSP administrative staff.
• Manage logistics to support effective participation of visiting Stanford faculty.
• Host Stanford University visitors, as appropriate.
• Maintain contact with and host advocates for the program, including donors and alumni.
• Develop and maintain community relationships.
• Provide strategic oversight for program activities, meetings, and events, including those with external partners.
• Manage the resolution of program issues and concerns, interpret policies, and mediate complex and sensitive issues.
• Manage key processes, including contribution and direction on policy and program content.
• Perform duties as Executive Director of the Stanford Foundation in Chile.

2. Student support services  

• Provide academic advising for students.
• Define, develop, and enable student and faculty use of local libraries, archives, and resources.
• Provide direct advice to students on a range of issues including, but not limited to, academic progress, academic program policies, personal matters, accessibility, housing, local environment, etc., to assist them in making appropriate choices and decisions.
• Advise and/or resolve multi-dimensional matters in response to students in crisis or at risk, counsel students and parents on sensitive and confidential issues.
• Implement university policy related to academic policies; oversee the implementation of policies and practices for students.

3. Academic vision, teaching, and intellectual leadership

• Deliver courses as needed to meet the academic program requirements, annually consulting with the Faculty Director of BOSP.
• Identify, hire, evaluate, and coordinate local faculty to lecture and teach seminar courses at an appropriate academic level, bearing in mind cultural and pedagogical differences. Evaluate teaching performance and effectiveness on a regular basis.
• Develop and implement a curriculum within the context of Stanford University’s academic organization and standards, in coordination with home campus senior staff and faculty.
• Launch new and innovative courses that make use of unique local opportunities.
• In collaboration with the Stanford Language Center, manage a language teaching program.
• Promote interaction between local faculty and between local faculty and visiting Stanford professors, especially in discussions of pedagogy and curricular issues.
• Develop and establish linkages with local academic communities, academic institutions, government agencies, alumni and donors.
• Maintain awareness of emerging academic directions in Chile, including outstanding scholars.
• Follow Stanford academic policies and guidelines.

These duties may be adjusted as needed to suit the academic and business needs of the Stanford Bing Overseas Studies Program.

To be successful in this role, you will bring:  

Education and Experience

• Doctoral degree with 3+ years of university level teaching experience.
• Demonstrated professional administrative experience in higher education in a managerial role.
• Professional experience with American undergraduates at an institution similar to Stanford preferred but not required.
• Experience with overseas study programs preferred but not required.
• Prior attendance at an English-speaking University preferred.
• Experience with program development, enrollment strategy, or academic outreach—especially involving cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, or international education contexts—is strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Native or near-native Spanish language proficiency, both oral and written.
• An advanced level of fluent English skills both oral and written to enable effective communications with others whose primary language is English.
• Advanced knowledge of Chilean and Latin American culture, history and business etiquette.
• Proven skills in strategic program development, enrollment management, academic collaboration, and regional/network building, with a demonstrated ability to innovate and expand educational offerings in cross-cultural or international contexts.
• General knowledge of Chilean and Latin American academic communities.
• Ability to provide academic and managerial leadership of the program and office.
• Computer proficiency with skill in using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Demonstrated ability to establish priorities, manage shifting priorities, and handle numerous time-sensitive projects with multiple deadlines, working independently and collaboratively as appropriate with professional colleagues both within the center and abroad in a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to accomplish goals working through formal and informal channels, with diplomacy and tactfulness.
• Demonstrated creativity, problem solving, critical analysis, initiative, judgment, and decision-making skills.
• Understanding of working in a complex university or similar environment with proven ability to exercise patience and flexibility with students, parents, staff, and faculty and outside constituents.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to the diverse population of Stanford University students.
• Strong interpersonal skills, adept at fostering and maintaining effective collaboration, trust, teamwork and respect.

Physical requirements:

• Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks.
• Frequently sitting.
• Occasionally stand/walk, reach/work above shoulders, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, grasp forcefully, use a telephone, sort/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds or 5 kilos.
• Rarely twist/bend/stoop/squat, kneel/crawl.

*Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.

Work Standards:

• Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
• Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
• Subject to comply with all applicable Stanford University policies and procedures, and applicable laws and employment regulations in Santiago, Chile.

In addition, requirements include:

• Must be legally authorized to work in Chile.
• Will work variable hours, evenings or weekends.
• Will travel locally and/or internationally, including occasional overnight travel.

How to apply:

• Connect to the HireMojo platform and upload your mandatory resume and cover letter as a single attachment, as the platform only allows for one file upload. Ensure that both documents are combined into one PDF or Word file before submitting.
• Your cover letter should succinctly express your enthusiasm for the position and highlight how your background, expertise, and global experience make you an ideal candidate.
• To be fully considered, please submit all documents and online responses in English by the 31st of August 2025.
• Inquiries should be addressed to Guy Margard, Executive Search Consultant at gmargard@stanford.edu.  

Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.