Intern - Summer 2023 (Global Networks Program)

Job Description

Reports to: Margaret Capella, Program Coordinator

Hourly rate: $16.10/Hr

Anticipated Start Date: Mid-June 2023

Length of Internship: 10 Weeks

Apply by: May 12, 2023

Base of Designation/Remote Eligible: Washington, DC / Remote

World Learning seeks a Summer Intern to support the Global Networks Team. The intern will assist with the administration, implementation, and/or monitoring of international exchange programs for both foreign and American participants.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the recruitment, documentation, review, and selection of participants for programs;
• Conduct research to identify appropriate program components and assist in the preparation of programs and conferences;
• Develop prospective program and conference calendars and itineraries and arrange professional appointments, speakers, and other programming sessions;
• Coordinate with local sponsors to formulate and implement programs outside of Washington, DC;
• Assist in preparing briefing books, registration packets, and program materials for participants;
• Assist in data entry, program documentation, and maintenance of records;
• Contribute to the team’s social media strategy and website development efforts; and
• Handle other assigned tasks as needed and requested by the team.

Requirements

Required Experience/Education:

• Current undergraduates in junior or senior year, current graduate students, or recent graduates;
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.

Required Skills:

• International travel/work experience;
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook;
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously;
• Foreign language skills desired;
• Website development skills desired.

Required Behaviors/Competencies:

• An interest and comfort in working with people from other cultures;
• Fosters diverse, equitable, and inclusive practices and challenges practices that may be exclusionary.
• Effectively copes with change; able to shift comfortably; decides and acts without having the total picture; comfortably handles risk and uncertainty. Demonstrates the ability to function in unstructured work environments and/or uncertain conditions.
• Contribute to an organizational culture of continuous learning through rigorous program monitoring, data tracking, donor and MERL reporting, research, and reflection to ensure strong outcomes.
• Contribute to the organization’s business development targets through ongoing program implementation, funder relationship building, and through other means as directed.
• A curiosity about World Learning as a whole, with the aim of being able to effectively represent the organization to external audiences commensurate with the position.
• Commitment to fostering diverse, equitable, and inclusive practices in program implementation and monitoring practices and challenging practices which may be exclusionary.

Vaccination is strongly recommended for all employees in our U.S. offices except for those receiving medical or religious exemptions. If boosters are subsequently recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) then employees and faculty are strongly encouraged to receive the booster within thirty (30) days of their eligibility.

The World Learning Inc. Family

For more than 90 years, World Learning Inc. is a thriving global organization made up of The Experiment in International Living, the nation’s most experienced provider of international education through exchanges for high school students; School for International Training, offering accredited undergraduate study abroad programs through SIT Study Abroad and internationally focused master’s degrees through SIT Graduate Institute; and World Learning, a global development and exchange nonprofit organization.

World Learning | worldlearning.org

World Learning has worked to create a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world. World Learning’s education, development, and exchange programs help people find their voices, connect with their communities, strengthen the institutions that form the backbone of a democratic society, and build relationships across cultures. With World Learning’s support, these emerging leaders tackle critical global issues like poverty, conflict, and inequality.

The Experiment in International Living | experiment.org

The Experiment in International Living is the nation’s most experienced provider of international education through exchanges for high school students. For more than 90 years, The Experiment has empowered young people to step off the beaten path, experience the world as a classroom, immerse themselves fully in another culture, and build the knowledge and skills needed to confront critical global issues.

SIT | sit.edu

School for International Training (SIT) was founded in the early 1960s as a training center for the first Peace Corps volunteers. For nearly 60 years, SIT has prepared students to be effective changemakers and global citizens through experiential education focused on the world’s most critical global issues. SIT Study Abroad offers accredited summer and semester undergraduate programs in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as comparative programs on multiple continents. SIT Graduate Institute offers global and hybrid certificates, master’s, and doctoral degrees.

An organizational commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access.

We are a globally diverse community of staff, faculty, board members, alumni, students, and participants who believe that inclusive and equitable practices are at the heart of a peaceful and just world. Each of us strives to honor diverse voices and lived experiences, examine our own biases and privileges, actively work to address inequities in our structures, and foster a community of open dialogue. We are committed to acting with accountability, transparency, reciprocity, authenticity, and empathy.

World Learning is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action/veterans/ADA employer, committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce.

About the Organization

The World Learning Inc. Family

World Learning | worldlearning.org

World Learning works globally to enhance the capacity and commitment of individuals, institutions, and communities to create a more peaceful and just world through education, sustainable development, and exchange. Our programs advance leadership in more than 150 countries.

The Experiment in International Living | experiment.org

The Experiment in International Living is the most experienced provider of summer abroad programs for high school students. For more than 85 years, our immersive programs have allowed participants to explore the world in an authentic and impactful way, while developing enduring friendships through hands on cultural experiences and homestays. Students come away from The Experiment with invaluable cultural, interpersonal, leadership, language, and college-prep skills that help them thrive in diverse environments and careers.

SIT |sit.edu

School for International Training (SIT), founded more than 50 years ago as a training center for early Peace Corps volunteers, provides accredited undergraduate study abroad programs on all seven continents and global and low-residency master’s degrees focused on the world’s most pressing issues. Undergraduates on SIT Study Abroad programs engage deeply with a critical global issue—climate and the environment; development and inequality; global health; media, the arts, and social change; peace and human rights; or migration and identity—within specific cultural and geographical contexts. SIT Graduate Institute students get hands-on professional training in the fields of climate change and global sustainability, conflict transformation and peace and justice leadership, international education, sustainable development, and TESOL. All SIT programs are based on the experiential learning model and a commitment to social justice.

An organizational commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and access.

We are a globally diverse community of staff, faculty, board members, alumni, students, and participants who believe that inclusive and equitable practices are at the heart of a peaceful and just world. Each of us strives to honor diverse voices and lived experiences, examine our own biases and privileges, actively work to address inequities in our structures, and foster a community of open dialogue. We are committed to acting with accountability, transparency, reciprocity, authenticity, and empathy.

World Learning is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action/veterans/ADA employer, committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce.