INTERNSHIPS
The Students for Economic Justice (SEJ) Summer Internship is a full-time, $16/hr, 6-week program that empowers the next generation of social justice leaders through leadership and professional development opportunities. SEJ gives undergraduate college students organizing experience in a current San Diego campaign for economic justice. Interns receive trainings from key labor and community leaders throughout San Diego to build an intersectional approach to economic and social justice. During the program duration, SEJ Interns are placed at sites (i.e. labor unions, community organizations, or advocacy groups) to gain hands-on organizing experience.
Ashoka Latin America Intern
Ashoka is looking for undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to a database of social entrepreneurship and conduct analyses for advancing the field of social entrepreneurship and collective impact. The intern will map social entrepreneurs from Latin America and analyze their innovations. The intern will also contribute to knowledge products, such as online courses, innovation sector reports, and innovation diagnostics tools.
Internship – US Department of Justice
CRS is seeking students from diverse academic backgrounds interested in working with “America’s Peacemaker” in communities across the nation. Through CRS’s internship program, students gain first-hand experience working for a federal agency with nationwide impact – helping prevent and respond to conflict, tension, hate crimes, and other challenges facing our communities today.
Internship: Mosaic Outreach & Marketing
We are seeking interns to take the lead on shaping Mosaic, a new sub-brand that aims to support youth activists to translate their activism into systemic change through collaborative action — working across divides without compromising your values and beliefs. Through social media content and virtual skills-building experience Mosaic Power, we help activists who are facing pushback / backlash in their efforts to create change learn how to use collaborative — not just adversarial — tactics to uncover breakthrough, win-win solutions and catalyze enduring change that has widespread support.
Unconventional International (UI)
Unconventional International (UI) is seeking visionary and collaborative young women leaders to join our team. Our communications intern will work in collaboration with our leadership circle to help us expand our outreach and make us shine! This position will require a commitment of 5-10hrs/week between September-December with extensions considered for review after 3 months. See more details below. We’d love to hear from you!
Our Development intern will work in collaboration with our leadership circle as we move towards organizational growth, partnerships and fundraising. We’re looking for someone who will bring enthusiasm and organization to this phase of our growth! Internship positions will require a commitment of 5-10hrs/week between September-December with extensions considered for review after 3 months. See position details below. We’re excited to hear from you!
San Diego Diplomacy Council
Gain hands-on experience in public diplomacy while learning about the work of a nonprofit in San Diego. Our volunteer intern positions are for college juniors through graduate-level students. Our internship program is attractive to emerging global leaders looking to expand their skills and knowledge in the following areas:
OTHER EXTRACURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES
The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
A full-time, six-to-nine month fellowship in Washington, DC. Outstanding individuals will be selected to work with nonprofit, public-interest organizations addressing peace and security issues. This opportunity provides recent college and graduate school alumni with the opportunity to gain a Washington perspective on key issues of peace and security.
Scoville Fellows will choose to work with one of the twenty-six organizations participating in the program. Fellows may undertake a variety of activities, including research, writing, and organizing that support the goals of their host organization.
Fellows receive a salary of $3,400 per month and basic health insurance compensation, plus travel expenses to Washington, DC. The program also provides $1,000 per fellow for professional development to attend relevant conferences or meetings that could cover travel, accommodations, and registration fees, or to take a language or policy course. Application Information
Application Deadlines:
Fall 2022 Fellowship: January 7, 2022
Consortium Speaker Series
The Consortium’s Speaker Series brings an international roster of frontline practitioners, reflective activists and engaged scholars to University of Massachusetts Boston’s campus. Their talks address the complex realities of women’s and men’s lives and livelihoods in conflict-affected areas, the challenges of trying to bring feminist commitments into security policy and humanitarian practice, and the ways in which gender analysis can and must transform resolutely “gender-blind” paradigms of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Information about Upcoming Speaker Events, Events Earlier This Year, and Past Speaker Events is available here. You can find videos or transcripts of these events, when available, under Consortium Lectures.
Elected Officials to Protect America
Become a National Fellow! EOPA is now accepting applications for part of full-time Fellows. They are seeking highly motivated, dedicated, and passionate changemakers to assist with a variety of projects in the startup phase, including research, outreach, strategy, partnerships, fundraising, and communications. If you want to contribute to a high-leverage start-up campaign and make a national difference, this fellowship is for you. More information regarding the fellowship and how to apply can be found on their website.
GLOBAL POLICY. DIPLOMACY. SUSTAINABILITY. FELLOWSHIP Summer Cohort Application Open
The Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability Fellowship seeks to provide its fellows with a foundational understanding of governance, policy, sustainable ecosystems, and strategic issues. Fellows are united by their passion to bring about a global change, and typically come from a wide variety of countries and backgrounds. If you are interested in applying to be a part of their summer cohort, learn more and apply here.
Global Shapers Community Los Angeles
The World Economic Forum Los Angeles Global Shapers is recruiting their next class of leaders!
Being part of the community has been an incredibly rewarding experience, from working on local impact projects to collaborating with fellow shapers around the world, to becoming friends with truly inspiring people.
The hub accepts new applicants on a monthly rolling basis for available openings. Please complete the application on their website to be considered or tag someone you think might be a good fit.
PMF
Bearing the Presidential moniker, the PMF Program is a flagship leadership development program at the entry level for advanced degree candidates. It was created more than three decades ago by Executive Order and has gone through many changes over the years. The Program attracts and selects the best candidates possible, but is really designed with a more narrow focus – developing a cadre of potential government leaders. It provides some sustenance during the first years of employment and encourages development of leadership capabilities. The PMF Program inculcates a lasting bond as well as a spirit of public service, ultimately encouraging and leading to a career in the government
UK-based peacebuilding charity seeks interns to become actively involved in programmes, providing meaningful assistance to the organisation as it carries out its mission.
Concordis is a UK registered peacebuilding charity with programmes in Central African Republic, Mauritania, Sudan and South Sudan, plus some new work in the pipeline.
We work alongside those involved in or affected by armed conflict, helping them find workable solutions that address the root causes of conflict and contribute to lasting peace and economic development. We’re committed to finding solutions that benefit women as well as men, those in armed groups as well as those who chose not to take up arms, national governments as well as civil society.
Sustainable Harvest International
Are you a social media savant, an exceptional writer and storyteller, and also passionate about environmental justice? Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is hiring a part-time Communications Intern and we want to hear from you! Join our remote team and build your skills in the field of communication while supporting SHI’s mission to create a just and sustainable world through transformative farmer training that nourishes communities and the Earth. Learn more and apply now through our website: https://lnkd.in/eCrV8Bv
THE TRUTH SCHOOL educating social change leaders
World Learning Youth Exchange: Summer 2022 Staff Application
World Learning’s Global Programs are building a better future for all people through education, sustainable development, and exchange. We work with individuals, communities, and institutions to find comprehensive solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges, such as poverty, conflict, and inequality. Together, we have made a difference in more than 150 countries—and counting.