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World Education Services · 4 hours ago

WES Mariam Assefa Fund Intern - Partnerships (Remote)

United States

Internship

Remote

Intern

$21/hr - $21/hr

Start in 2025 Winter

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Responsibilities

Support the planning and preparation of key internal and external meetings and events; including supporting funder engagements, finalizing presentations, and coordinating other meetings with WES staff and philanthropic colleagues.

Help to improve content and delivery for internal initiatives (e.g. Fund Ambassadors) in the United States and Canada

Facilitate the input and updating of partner correspondence and documents into the team’s data management systems (Salesforce, Excel)

Contribute to the development of partnership and funding-related reports, memos, and presentations.

Conduct literature reviews on key research topics related to the Fund’s partnership strategy and co-funding approaches, such as workforce development for newcomers, immigrants and refugees, powershifting to proximate leaders, best practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion, movement building, participatory grant-making, pooled funding, trust-based philanthropy, and more, while researching common trends or themes regionally and nationally.

Coordinate, compile, and disseminate the team’s monthly Partnerships updates, sourcing relevant news and articles relevant to the Partnerships portfolio, webinars, events and partner updates to share with the Fund team and key stakeholders in the Fund’s network.

Provide administrative support to the Associate Director and Senior Associate as needed.

Support the Fund and WES colleagues on special projects as they arise.

Qualification

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Data analysisProgram managementWorkforce developmentImmigration knowledgeEconomic developmentMicrosoft OfficeTrust-based practicesCollaboration skills

Required

Current candidate and/or recent graduate from a public policy, international relations, economics, business, and/or another relevant graduate program.

Ability to research, analyze and present quantitative and qualitative data to various stakeholders.

Demonstrate analytical skills to assess situations, break down complex problems, identify strategic tradeoffs, and apply learnings in a larger context.

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail

Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred

Preferred professional experience focusing on workforce development, immigration, refugee resettlement, economic development, and/or justice or equity work in a related field

Awareness of, or interest in, the philanthropic sector and trust-based practices.

Company

World Education Services

World Education Services, Inc. is a non-profit organization.

Founded in 1974

New York, New York, USA

201-500 employees

http://www.wes.org/

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