FALL 2019 INTERNSHIP:
HELP DEVELOP FAMILY DIPLOMACY & OPEN THE WORLD TO LOWER-INCOME CHILDREN
ABOUT LEARNING LIFE AND THE INTERNSHIP
Learning Life is a nonprofit education and citizen engagement lab based in Washington D.C. Our flagship program, the Citizen Diplomacy Initiative (CDI), connects families in different nations via the internet to nurture a family form of citizen diplomacy.
Learning Life is now accepting resumes from graduate and undergraduate students interested in interning with our Citizen Diplomacy Initiative. Students can intern from anywhere in the USA, though preferably from the East Coast time zone (EST). Depending on each student’s interests and skills plus our organizational needs, interns assist with a variety of tasks including research and writing; local to global outreach via social media, email and phone; document translation and/or live language interpreting; website and design; photo and video recording and/or editing; fundraising and more.
The internship starts Friday, September 6, and ends Friday, December 6. During this period, interns must be able to commit a total of about 8 hours/week consisting of:
1. A five-hour work meeting on Fridays 12-5pm at George Washington University’s Marvin Center in DC (2-3 blocks from the Foggy Bottom Station on the Orange/Silver/Blue Lines) with fellow interns and Learning Life’s Director, Paul Lachelier. Interns outside metro DC work during the same period, but online in direct communication with Paul.
2. 2-3 hours of homework or a weekend world education field trip or meeting with lower-income families or children Learning Life works with in DC through our Citizen Diplomacy Initiative.
This internship is unpaid, but offers substantive, resume-building experience on an innovative international diplomacy initiative, and a formal reference and/or recommendation letter upon request given satisfactory performance.
THE INTERNS WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Applicants should be interested in international affairs, social media (including Facebook), education, and children and families, and also be outgoing, organized, detail-oriented, motivated and punctual. The ability to read, write and speak French or Spanish at at least an intermediate level is a strong plus. Demonstrated skill in building social media audience, ideally on Facebook, is a plus, but not required. For those students in metro DC, having a car is also a plus but not required.
HOW TO APPLY
Email Paul Lachelier at paul@learninglife.info with your resume and times you are available in the next seven days, including weekends, for a phone interview. Please indicate in your email whether you speak Spanish and/or French and at what level (basic, intermediate, advanced, or fluent).
