(And things do often go wrong, paid excursions get canceled at last minute, food/hotel quality can be poor, and some activities aren't even age appropriate for high schoolers). Liability for the trips rests solely on the teacher and can affect their reputation to the point they may have to change schools if something goes wrong. The IPC is expected to train a teacher to sell the WorldStrides product to their students. It's impossible to stress enough how few teachers are actually willing to take on this immense responsibility. What they don't mention is that the position is 90% mind-numbingly boring cold calling to schools and teachers who have no interest in leading these kinds of trips. WS draws in young people by advertising on Instagram that the job is a great way to travel for free. The culture changed a lot over my tenure there. Most people with the skills they were searching for wouldn't accept their offers and if they did they would only stay short term until they found something better. They like to hire people with titles and degrees that sound prestigious, but they always got the very worst person who qualified with those things due to poor salary offers. I kind of assumed the generous counter offers I received were for future promotions (and was implied to think that), but I got looked over for an obvious promotion and that kind of made it clear where I really stood within the company. The title you start with will be how they always view you. I do not think they do a very good job of promoting within. I had to do that a few times, but they were always fair with me with counter offers that kept me there longer than I probably should have stayed. Like everywhere, paying your dues and showing your value will come in handy, but only if you ever find another job and put in your two weeks notice. Getting properly paid at the company takes some work. The pandemic sped up some of the obvious things that were going to happen long term (downsizing, change of roles, outsourcing to Mexico), but it really is unfortunate they don't have many competent people in management to keep the product running long term. For the most part, I got to contribute to doing some good in the world while getting compensated.
The day to day part of the job was fairly easy and I wasn't micro managed by my superiors.