SUMMER INTERNSHIP: HELP BUILD FAMILY DIPLOMACY IN THE WORLD
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 Family Diplomacy Initiative (FDI), connects families in different nations via the internet to nurture a family form of citizen diplomacy. We also run an International Mentoring Program to help open the world to children from lower-income families, and Democracy Dinners to nurture deeper conversation across specialty silos among democracy sector activists, academics, professionals and elected officials in metro D.C.
Learning Life is now accepting resumes from graduate and undergraduate students interested in interning with us either in D.C., or remotely. 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 tentatively starts Friday, May 22, and ends in mid-August, with some accommodation for later start or earlier end as needed. During this period, interns must be able to commit a total of 8-10 hours/week. Assuming the coronavirus pandemic continues in May-August, the internship will consist of 8 hours/week of independent work + a live one-on-one 45-minute meeting online once per week with Learning Life’s Director, Paul Lachelier, to go over work completed and assign new tasks. If we are able to resume in-person meetings some time during the summer, interns’ work will consist of our usual:
1. A five-hour work meeting on Fridays, at 12-5pm or 1-6pm usually 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.
2. 2-3 hours of homework or a weekend world-learning field trip or meeting with lower-income families or children Learning Life works with in DC.
The internship is unpaid, but offers substantive, resume-building experience working on innovative international education and citizen engagement initiatives, 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, Spanish or Arabic at an advanced to fluent level is a plus, as are graphic design skills. For those interning in D.C., having a car is also a plus but not required if the pandemic ends during the summer.
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 (a) you would be interning in D.C. or remotely/online, and if in D.C. whether you have a car, and (b) you speak Spanish, Arabic and/or French and at what level (basic, intermediate, advanced, or fluent). Paul will contact you to schedule a phone interview if your resume matches what we are looking for. Thank you for your interest!
