Join Our Team

Carpe Diem Education (CDE) & Global Routes (GR) hire experienced educators, travelers, and cultural liaisons who are dedicated to inspiring growth and transformation.

CDE & GR provide a work environment that is fun, challenging, and rewarding. Our administrative and field staff are responsible for implementing our mission at every level of our programs. We aim to provide the highest level of responsiveness and support for our students and families. This means hiring the most passionate, committed, and professional staff out there.

Carpe Diem Education and Global Routes consider all applicants holistically and is committed to the goal of building a diverse and inclusive staff. We strongly encourage applicants from historically underrepresented groups, including but not limited to folks with lived experience in communities of color and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Field Position: Overseas Educator

Overseas Educators are mentors, role models, and leaders. They effectively provide support for students, explore and expand comfort zones, manage risk, advocate for optimal student health, and support logistics from transportation to budgets. They are ambassadors to local contacts and represent our community internationally. They bring heart, soul, and grit to a job that is challenging, rewarding, and multi-faceted.

We look for program leaders who are committed to facilitating growth in their students, their co-workers, and in themselves. For 3-5 weeks in the summer and 6-10 weeks during the spring and fall semesters, OEs assist students in navigating cultures and countries, learning how to be responsible travelers, and in developing effective interpersonal and communication skills.

If you feel you have the right balance of leadership and mentorship, travel sensitivity, cultural understanding, community living skills, risk management experience,  and a passion for working with students ages 14-18 (summer) or 17-22 (semester), we encourage you to apply for an Overseas Educator position.

Applications to be an Overseas Educator are accepted on a rolling basis, and interviews are conducted throughout the year.

Spring: NOTE: Carpe Diem is not running programming Spring 2025.  Typically spring programs run from mid-late February to early May. Staff training starts in early-mid February.

Summer: We run summer programs in collaboration with Global Routes. Programs vary in duration and run from late June to early August. Staff training starts in mid-June.

Fall: Programs run from mid-September to late November. Staff training starts in early September.

OE benefits include:

  • A competitive salary that increases each semester
  • Employer-matched 401k retirement plans
  • The opportunity to participate in a CDE / GR sponsored Wilderness First Aid course every summer.
    Certification costs are covered by CDE / GR for current staff.
  • Other benefits include:
    • Travel insurance for the duration of the semester
    • All eligible accrued air miles
    • All standard program costs covered
    • Standard expenses paid during our leadership training
    • Travel stipends to and from Portland, Oregon.
    • The opportunity to make an impact and provide direction for young people!

Please do not call, email or reach out via “Contact Us” with general employment inquiries. If you’re serious about applying for an Overseas Educator position, please read through all of the information provided on this page.

Seeking Diverse Applicants

We aspire to increase diversity and inclusivity within our community of field staff, administration, local contacts, and students through active recruitment and retention efforts. We define diversity broadly to include social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, socioeconomic status, nationality, physical ability, religious beliefs, age, and experience. As a result, we are actively looking for and are recruiting diverse candidates for our Overseas Educator positions. If you are a candidate from one or some of these communities, please apply. Even if you do not yet qualify to lead programs for us, we will try our best to support you in finding ways to gain that experience.

Program Regions

  • Hawai'i
  • Italy & Greece
  • UK & the Netherlands
  • Central America (Guatemala & Costa Rica)
  • South America (Ecuador & Peru)
  • India & Nepal
  • South Pacific (New Zealand & Australia)
  • Southeast Asia (Thailand & Cambodia)

Required Qualifications

  • Able to work legally in the U.S.; meaning you are either a U.S. citizen or possess a working Visa or Green Card
    (Carpe Diem cannot hire individuals who are not eligible to work in the U.S., nor are we able to assist in obtaining work visas at this time.)
  • Proficiency in Spanish for our Latin America semesters and summer programs
  • Direct experience living, working or independently traveling in the regions for which you apply
  • Professional experience leading or facilitating groups (preferably with students ages 14- 18 (summer) or 17 – 22 (semester)
  • Experience successfully working with a co-leader
  • Current Wilderness First Aid (WFA) and CPR certifications or ability to complete the courses pre-departure. 
  • Valid Drivers License for our South Pacific, Hawai'i and Italy & Greece programs
  • The typical age of our semester Overseas Educators is 26-35. We rarely hire staff younger than 24 for semesters or summers, as we are looking for candidates with professional experience working with youth and/or working overseas.

Desired Skills

  • Experience practicing intercultural communication and culturally sensitive travel
  • A strong desire to support young people
  • Enjoys the challenge of working with young first-time travelers
  • Experience working with teens and young adults
  • Actively engaged in own personal growth and development
  • Flexible and able to perform well in constantly changing environments
  • Conscious of diversity and inclusivity  
  • Strong mentorship skills
  • Effective organizational skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Able to establish clear guidelines and boundaries to support others
  • Strong conflict resolution and problem-solving skills
  • Enjoys being a resource for other people
  • Willing to be available to students during travel times 24 hours a day 7 days a week

About The Application Process
When your application is received it will first be reviewed by our hiring committee. Upon completion of their review, you’ll either be invited to a 30-45 minute first round interview, or encouraged to reapply with more experience. After the initial interview you may be invited for a second, final interview.

Interviews will be conducted via Zoom (or -in-person if you're in Portland!) and generally take 60 - 90 minutes. While first round interviews are conducted on a rolling basis throughout the year, typically second round interviews for fall are conducted in April & May, for spring in October and November, and for Summer in February & March. If you are able to come in person we would be happy to conduct the interview whenever it works for you logistically. After your interview, you can expect to hear from us with final notifications by December for Spring hires, June for Fall hires, and April for Summer hires.

Administrative Positions

Interested in supporting students, families or schools as they embark on a summer program, gap year or custom program? Do you want to work on a collaborative team of awesome individuals? Are you committed to your own growth and transformation and that of your fellow humans? Are you hard working, dedicated, and passionate about what we do and have the administrative expertise to help us do it even better? If so, we’d love to receive your application!

 

All administrative positions are filled at this time.