Search for Common Ground
Internship: Digital Peacebuilding
Position Summary
The Programs Unit at Search for Common Ground (Search) is seeking an intern for the Summer and Fall 2023 periods to provide support to the organization’s evolving digital peacebuilding programs, partnerships and capacity-building initiatives. This intern will work with the Senior Vice President of Programs, and interact with various programs staff across Search’s four regions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as staff engaged in learning and program quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist the Senior VP Programs with supporting the emerging digital peacebuilding tools and methodologies for the organization;
- Support the Senior VP and program teams across the world in piloting and learning from various digital peacebuilding efforts;
- Support Search personnel as they access various resources to steadily improve diverse digital peacebuilding concepts and skills
- Working with the Senior VP and other staff in program quality and learning to identify and socialize resources, opportunities and best practices in digital peacebuilding
- Support in organizing consultations, capture notes from consultations, schedule meetings and workshops when appropriate
Qualifications
- Current student or recent graduate with a degree in International Relations, Conflict Studies, Development, Computer Science, Digital Marketing, or a related area;
- Written and spoken fluency in English;
- Excellent computer skills (Microsoft Office, Excel utilization, Google suite, Internet Search Engines).
- A self-starting, enthusiastic, and flexible approach to the organization and the position;
- Ability to rapidly learn new concepts and distill complex concepts into accessible products
- Able to move ahead on medium-term goals without tight supervision
- Demonstrated understanding of the implementation of peacebuilding projects;
- Experience, or demonstrated significant interest, in the use of digital technology and digital platforms to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges, either through personal experience, research, or as a practitioner;
- Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills;
- Excellent attention to detail; and
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and tight deadlines.
The ideal candidate will further exhibit:
Salary: Remuneration will be at $17/hour
Hours: The internship will be between 24 and 30 hours per week.
Location: This internship will be done remotely. Applicants must be based in the United States.
Start date and Duration: We are interested in interns that will be available for a minimum of 12 weeks with a preference for candidates who can commit to 16 weeks. The start date can be negotiated with the candidate.
Time commitment: The internship can be full-time or part-time (between 24 and 32 hours per week, with a flexible schedule). Note: There may be two digital peacebuilding interns working collaboratively.
To apply: please send a cover letter and your CV and indicate your proposed start and end dates.
The deadline for submission of applications is May 26, 2023.
As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the position holder may be required to undertake other duties that are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities.
Only applicants invited for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please. Please see our website www.sfcg.org for full details of our work. All Search Employees must adhere to the values: Collaboration- Audacity - Tenacity - Empathy - Results. In accordance with these values, Search enforces compliance with the Code of Conduct and related policies on Anti Workplace Harassment, Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Conflict of Interest, and Anti-fraud. Search is committed to safeguarding the interests, rights, and well-being of children, youth, and vulnerable adults with whom it is in contact and to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for children, youth, and vulnerable adults. Search for Common Ground does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. View our code of conduct here and our privacy policy here.
Les descriptifs de pouvant ne pouvant être exhaustifs, le titulaire du poste pourra être amené à entreprendre d'autres tâches qui correspondent globalement aux responsabilités clés ci-dessus.
Seuls les candidats invités à un entretien seront contactés. Pas d'appels téléphoniques s'il vous plaît. Veuillez consulter notre site Web www.sfcg.org pour tous les détails de notre mission.
Tous les employés de Search doivent adhérer aux valeurs de Search : Collaboration- Audace - Ténacité - Empathie - Résultats. Conformément à ces valeurs, Search fait respecter le code de conduite et les politiques connexes sur la lutte contre le harcèlement au travail, la protection contre l'exploitation et les abus, la protection des enfants, les conflits d'intérêts et la lutte contre la fraude. Search s'engage à préserver les intérêts, les droits et le bien-être des enfants, des jeunes et des adultes vulnérables avec lesquels elle est en contact et à mener ses programmes et ses opérations d'une manière qui soit sûre pour les enfants, les jeunes et les adultes vulnérables.
Search for Common Ground ne fait pas et ne doit pas faire de discrimination fondée sur la race, la couleur, la religion (croyance), le sexe, l'expression de genre, l'âge, l'origine nationale (ascendance), le handicap, l'état matrimonial, l'orientation sexuelle ou le statut militaire, dans aucune de ses activités ou opérations.
Dado que la descripción de funciones no puede ser exhaustiva, el titular del puesto puede tener que realizar otras tareas que coinciden en líneas generales con las responsabilidades clave mencionadas.
Sólo se contactará con los candidatos invitados a una entrevista. Se agradece no recibir llamadas telefónicas. Consulte nuestro sitio web www.sfcg.org para conocer todos los detalles de nuestro trabajo. Todos los empleados de Search deben adherirse a los valores de la organización: Colaboración - Audacia - Tenacidad - Empatía - Resultados. De acuerdo con estos valores, Search hace cumplir el Código de Conducta y las políticas relacionadas con luchar contra el acoso en el lugar de trabajo, la protección contra la explotación y el abuso, la protección de la infancia, los conflictos de intereses y la lucha contra el fraude. Search se compromete a salvaguardar los intereses, derechos y bienestar de los niños, jóvenes y adultos vulnerables con los que está en contacto y a llevar a cabo sus programas y operaciones de una manera que sea segura para los niños, jóvenes y adultos vulnerables. Search for Common Ground no discrimina ni discriminará por motivos de raza, color, religión (credo), género, expresión de género, edad, origen nacional (ascendencia), discapacidad, estado civil, orientación sexual o condición militar, en ninguna de sus actividades u operaciones. Consulte nuestro código de conducta aquí y nuestra política de privacidad aquí.
Search for Common Ground is an international non-profit organization operating in 36 countries whose mission is "to transform the way the world deals with conflict away from adversarial approaches toward cooperative solutions".
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- Founded 1982
- Employees
- 201-500 employees
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