INTERNSHIP NOTICE 1:
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 nations worldwide via the internet to nurture a family form of citizen diplomacy. Our International Mentoring Program helps open the world to children from lower-income families in the USA and abroad. Our Democracy Dinners 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 remotely. Depending on each student’s interests and skills plus our organizational needs, interns support the above-mentioned three programs, assisting 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, January 8, 2021 with a 1-2 hour orientation meeting via Zoom, and ends in early May. During this period, interns must be able to commit a total of 10 hours/week: 9 hours/week of independent work + a live one-on-one 1-hour meeting online once per week with Learning Life’s Director, Paul Lachelier, to go over work completed and assign new tasks.
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, diplomacy, communications (video, photo and/or social media, especially Facebook), education, and/or 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 poster and video-making skills.
HOW TO APPLY
Email Paul Lachelier at paul@learninglife.info with your resume. No need for a cover letter. Please indicate in your email whether you speak Spanish, Arabic and/or French and at what level (basic, intermediate, advanced, or fluent). Paul will contact you in December to schedule a phone interview if your resume matches what we are looking for. Thank you for your interest!
INTERNSHIP NOTICE 2:
LEARN TO HELP ENTREPRENEURS START, GROW, SOAR
ABOUT SOLOPRENEUR SUCCESS
Steve Coombes lives to help business owners succeed. By 2030, he aims to help one million solopreneurs and small business owners start and grow their business. An Army infantry veteran and computer programmer turned internationally-recognized copywriter and copywriting instructor, Steve has helped dozens of companies grow their businesses, and taught hundreds of students the principles of copywriting through the American Writers & Artists Institute. Steve’s Solopreneur Success business offers a podcast, business community, and personal coaching to a growing client base of solopreneurs and small business owners.
ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP
Steve is now accepting resumes from graduate and undergraduate students nationwide interested in interning with Solopreneur Success remotely. Depending on each student’s interests and skills plus Solopreneur Success’s organizational needs, interns assist with a variety of tasks including social media communications, video and podcast interviewing and editing, public relations and interview scheduling, research and writing, business administration, and website updating.
The internship tentatively starts Tuesday, January 19, earlier if you can, and ends in early to mid-May, with some accommodation for later start or earlier end as needed. During this period, interns must be able to commit a total of up to 10 hours/week. Interns will meet every week with Steve Coombes to review their work completed and discuss their next tasks.
The internship is unpaid, but offers substantive, resume-building experience in entrepreneurship, communications and business development. A formal work reference and/or recommendation letter are available upon request given satisfactory performance.
THE INTERNS WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Applicants should be interested in communications, marketing, or business. An entrepreneurial mindset is a strong plus. Skill and experience with Audacity, Corel Video Studio, Adobe Premier, Trello, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube are pluses, but not required.
For more information, or to apply, contact intern recruiter, Paul Lachelier, at letlearninglive@gmail.com with your resume plus details of any business or communications experience you have, including any experience with the software and social media listed above.
