AIFS Abroad

About AIFS Abroad

At AIFS, we bring the world together. We believe in the transformative nature of international education and preparing globally-minded citizens through our academic and career-oriented programs to build a more equitable, sustainable, and peaceful world. Since 1964 we’ve helped more than 1.6 million participants engage in cultural exchange and educational opportunities. AIFS abroad is focused on three programs: study abroad, customized faculty led, international internship and career readiness programs in over 20 countries and virtually. AIFS Abroad is one of many divisions of AIFS Inc, our parent company that is wholly owned by the UK charity established by Sir Cyril Taylor, the founder of AIFS.

Team Culture

We are a mission driven dynamic group of international education professionals committed to making the world better through our programs. We use the Clifton Strengths tool during our hiring process, in our internal professional development and for the participants on our programs, and focus on maximizing the potential of everyone on our team. You can expect a transparent and innovative work culture where goals are made and tracked, and ideas from all staff are welcomed.

Access, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity

AIFS is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and company’s achievement as well.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in gender, age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, spirituality, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

AIFS’ diversity initiatives are applicable—but not limited—to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; transfers; social and recreational programs; layoffs; terminations; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity that encourages and enforces:

• Respectful communication and cooperation between all employees, participants and clients.
• Teamwork and employee participation, permitting the representation of all groups and employee perspectives.
• Work/life balance through flexible work schedules to accommodate employees’ varying needs.
• Employer and employee contributions to the communities we serve to promote a greater understanding and respect for the diversity.

You can learn more about our work toward becoming a more inclusive organization on our website at www.aifsabroad.com. On the site you can download our Plan of Action for Access, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (AIDE) which details our annual goals in these areas and allows folks to track our progress toward them.