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CURRENT OPENINGS



HOMESTAY RECRUITER

Position Description -
The Homestay Recruiter finds, qualifies and signs up Host Families for NWISE’s incoming foreign exchange students.

I. Qualifications

  1. Experience recruiting volunteers, particularly on the phone
  2. Evening and weekend availability for phoning
  3. Knowledge of the community
  4. Experience with international cultures preferred

II. Overall Responsibilities
The Homestay Recruiter (HR) has four major responsibilities:

  1. Understanding NISE philosophy and major goals and objectives, including American host family involvement.
  2. Identifying and arranging neighborhood transit and meeting facility to serve as a base for student activities and classes and to act as a site for student drop off and pick up
  3. Recruiting and interviewing approximately 27 host families according to schedule provided.
  4. Matching students with families once the student applications arrive.

III. General Duties

  1. Locating and arranging the neighborhood transit site and meeting facility.
  2. Recruiting, primarily by phone, approximately 25 host families for students and 2 families for escorts. For successful matching of students with families, the recruiter should select families according to the following formula: 1/3 who can accept a male student, 1/3 who can accept a female, and 1/3 who can accept either gender.
  3. Maintaining a 3" x 5" index card system of family information, plus any future recruitment possibilities.
  4. Interviewing, in person in their homes, all host family (HF) candidates, and completing HF Application forms, with two valid references listed.
  5. Distributing a copy of Host Family Guidelines to families before signing them up, as well as two recommendation forms with self-addressed stamped envelopes for the two host family references.
  6. Insure return of references on host families:
    1. Check with NISE office regularly
    2. Contact HF if references not returned
    3. Obtain references by phone, if needed

* Payment for recruitment of HF will not be made until at least one HF recommendation is received.

  1. Reporting: Weekly phone reporting to assigned NISE staff with the following information:
    1. Number of families interviewed and signed up
    2. Number of "yes" answers not yet signed
    3. Number of possible families identified, or "leads"

* If there is no communication within a 2-week period, employment agreement will be terminated.

  1. Keeping regular contact with families already recruited.
  2. Matching students with families as soon as applications arrive and giving Host Family a copy of the student application.
  3. Monitoring families to write a welcoming note to the visiting student and his/her family as soon as possible.
  4. Notifying host families of, and attending, the HF Orientation.

IV. Criteria for Host Family selection. (See also Host Family Guidelines)

  1. Families should live within an easy drive of the Academic Center.
  2. Families do not get paid; their hosting is voluntary.
  3. The HR will visit each home to determine acceptability ("good character") based on neatness, reasonable cleanliness, and wholesomeness; having kids at home; having time to be a host family, including ability to get the students to school by 8:30 AM most days and handle pickup and/or participate in a carpool.
  4. Recruited families for students must have at least one child.
  5. There will be no double placements of exchange students unless authorized by NISE operations. No splits will be approved until 20 Host Families have been recruited!
  6. Family exceptions. While we seek traditional two-parent families to host our students, single parents are acceptable if they meet our standard screening requirements and can handle transportation adequately.
  7. Foreign escorts or teachers may be placed with individuals or families without children.

V. Compensation

  1. Base pay is $40.00 per each student placed with a Host Family (a split situation constitutes one student placement)
  2. Bonus potential is up to $60.00 per student placed with a Host Family within stated recruitment time goals during the summer program, and up to $50.00 per student placed in the Winter/Spring program.
  3. Points can be earned towards travel abroad at the rate of up to 1 point per student placed within stated recruitment time goals (80 points are equal to 1 round-trip ticket; 150 points are equal to 2 round-trip tickets).

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