Youth Education Intern

Position Title: Youth Education Intern
Compensation:  Unpaid internship
Reports to: IRC NYC Youth Education Coordinator
Position term: September 2021-May 2022
Position Hours:  15 hours/week

Background: Since its inception in 1999, the IRC NYC Youth Education Department has developed partnerships with New York City public schools, community-based organizations and local colleges and universities to provide refugee youth with year-round academic support, literacy training, and enrichment activities.  The IRC NYC Youth Education Department programs provide refugee and immigrant youth with linguistically supportive, culturally responsive, trauma-informed learning opportunities. 

Essential Position Functions:

•  Operationalize and monitor recruitment and hiring processes for IRC Youth Tutoring, including:
• Managing promotion of volunteer job description
• Conducting preliminary resume screening
• Tracking application status
• Communicating with IRC Community Partnerships department via professional email correspondence
• Communicating with applicants via professional email correspondence
• Compiling and organizing all applicant files, digitally
• Monitor IRC Youth Tutor case note and SMART Goal completion
• Manage IRC Youth Tutoring and IRC Leaders in Training programmatic data monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and draft final program reports
• Update and create Youth Education department promotional materials, including securing accurate translations
• Planning virtual college tours for the Leaders in Training program
• Other duties as assigned

Learning Objectives: The Youth Education Intern will:

• Learn how to manage a large-scale volunteer hiring process for roughly 20 positions from the initial application stage to finalizing hiring paperwork
• Learn how to manage monitoring and evaluation for complex educational programs
• Learn about the various management responsibilities of interdependent educational programs
• Learn about inter- and intra-departmental coordination processes across IRC in service of youth education programming