Winter/Spring Internship Opportunity
Based in Brussels, Belgium
Sub-Saharan Africa Program
Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is a non-profit organization that works to transform the way the world deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving.
SFCG’s Africa Program is active in Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Liberia, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The intern will support the Africa Team in providing programmatic, logistical, and financial support to SFCG's projects in the region. For more information on our projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, please visit www.sfcg.org.
The internship begins in January and lasts until June 2014. The last day to apply is January 15, 2014.
Duties for this unpaid internship positions include but are not limited to:
To apply, please send a resume, cover letter, two references, and two one-page writing samples (one in French and one in English) to: africainternships@sfcg.org.
For this position, we require commitments of no less than four days a week. Please note that this position is unpaid. Credit can be arranged for students with their institution. For international applicants, Search for Common Ground is not responsible for providing student or work visas; you will need to make your own visa arrangements.
Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. We ask that you do not follow-up with calls or emails concerning the status of your application.
Candidates who fail to submit and/or complete the full application and do not meet the appropriate application deadline will not be considered.
Based in Brussels, Belgium
Sub-Saharan Africa Program
Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is a non-profit organization that works to transform the way the world deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving.
SFCG’s Africa Program is active in Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Liberia, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The intern will support the Africa Team in providing programmatic, logistical, and financial support to SFCG's projects in the region. For more information on our projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, please visit www.sfcg.org.
The internship begins in January and lasts until June 2014. The last day to apply is January 15, 2014.
Duties for this unpaid internship positions include but are not limited to:
- Contributing to the production of reports and research papers;
- Backstopping the Washington DC-based and Brussels-based Africa Team and country offices overseas; and
- Assisting with website, program literature and database system maintenance.
- Good writing, research, editing and communication skills (required);
- A self-starting, detail-oriented and flexible approach to tasks (required);
- Demonstrable interest in African issues and/or conflict resolution (required); and
- French and English Fluency (required);
- NGO and/or international experience (preferred).
To apply, please send a resume, cover letter, two references, and two one-page writing samples (one in French and one in English) to: africainternships@sfcg.org.
For this position, we require commitments of no less than four days a week. Please note that this position is unpaid. Credit can be arranged for students with their institution. For international applicants, Search for Common Ground is not responsible for providing student or work visas; you will need to make your own visa arrangements.
Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. We ask that you do not follow-up with calls or emails concerning the status of your application.
Candidates who fail to submit and/or complete the full application and do not meet the appropriate application deadline will not be considered.
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