Theater Arts Teacher

What are we looking for?

We are looking for an experienced Theater Arts teacher, who also has the ability to teach English A. Please note what additional subjects you can teach in your cover letter.

What is the context?

Founded in 1982, the United World College-USA is one of 18 United World College (UWC) campuses worldwide and the only campus in the United States. The UWC movement seeks "to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future." As such, UWC-USA values and promotes all manner of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access as part of our fundamental mission to bring people together across differences in service of a more peaceful and sustainable world. Our students are selected through national committees in more than 150 countries, and nearly 85% of our students are on scholarship, ensuring unparalleled national and socioeconomic diversity in our student body. With expeditionary, place-based, and experiential learning at the center of our academic program, and a strong residential curriculum in our multinational / multicultural boarding environment, UWC-USA stretches its students, faculty and staff to learn and grow in a multi-perspectival community dedicated to democratic processes as reflective of our country location and traditions.

What do we want our education to prepare young people for?

UWC's mission began in response to the international tensions of the Cold War. Its mission to bring young people together before their prejudices are solidified, in service of peace and a sustainable future, is as important as ever. In the world our students know, the main obstacles to unity remain differences in identity that too often separate us from one another : nationality, culture, language, religion, ethnicity, race, gender, and sexual identity. The main obstacles to peace and sustainability today are not entirely new either, but the globalizing forces of our age have reshaped them. No matter where our students come from they increasingly see these challenges up close in local, national or international settings :

• Economic, political, and social inequality between those at the center and those on the margins of societies worldwide;
• Political polarization rooted in ideology, grievance, and uneven democratic practice / institutions;
• Climate change , ecosystem destruction, and biodiversity collapse resulting from destructive modes of production, consumption, and land use.
• Accelerated technological innovation that alters our relationships to information, work and one another.

Beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year, the educational program at UWC-USA will seek to prepare students for these four global challenges by taking students out of the classroom to meet with organizations and institutions in northern New Mexico on a biweekly basis. For learning to prepare young people for these challenges of the future, we are committed to ensuring that they graduate from UWC-USA with contextualized, real-world understandings of the complexities of the challenges ahead.

Who should apply?

Qualifications - ideal candidates will demonstrate a combination of the following qualities :

Required Education

Required License

Note : Broadly, we are able to support sponsorship for a J-1 visa, but this is not guaranteed.

Applications

Application review for teaching faculty positions will begin January 15, 2025. We will continue to review applications until the positions are filled. Please send the following materials via our application portal :

We will keep all inquiries and applications strictly confidential until the semi-finalist phase, at which point it may be necessary for us to make limited outreach to references.

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