Youth Education Intern

Position Title: Youth Education Intern
Compensation:  Unpaid internship
Reports to: IRC NYC Youth Education Coordinator
Position term: October 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. Please note this an UNPAID internship opportunity.

Essential Position Functions:
·      Operationalize and monitor recruitment and hiring processes for IRC Youth Tutoring, including:
o   Managing promotion of volunteer job description
o   Conducting preliminary resume screening
o   Tracking application status
o   Communicating with IRC Community Partnerships department via professional email correspondence
o   Communicating with applicants via professional email correspondence
o   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:
1.    Learn how to manage a large-scale volunteer hiring process for roughly 20 positions from the initial application stage to finalizing hiring paperwork
2.    Learn how to manage monitoring and evaluation for complex educational programs
3.    Learn about the various management responsibilities of interdependent educational programs
4.    Learn about inter- and intra-departmental coordination processes across IRC in service of youth education programming