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Employment Intern Spring/Summer 2024 Unpaid

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International Rescue Committee

Apr 26

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  • Internship
    Part-time
    Off-cycle Internship
  • People, HR & Administration
  • Wichita

Requirements

  • Comfort working with diverse populations and English language learners. 
  • Familiar with basic office equipment 
  • Experience working in social work/social services preferred, but not required.
  • IRC leading the way from harm to home.
  • IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Responsibilities

  • Provide case management and employment services directly to clients enrolled in the Matching
  • Grant program, helping them to achieve early self -sufficiency. Works closely with the
  • Employment Specialists to ensure clients receive seamless and high quality services;
  • Serves as an advocate and resource for clients and provides equal treatment to all client
  • groups in accordance with the agency's commitment to the dignity of all persons.
  • Tracks client self-sufficiency outcomes and works with the Development team to connect
  • Matching Grant clients with necessary donations and to ensure the program is meeting
  • matching resource requirements.
  • Coordinating with Early Employment Specialist, work one-on-one with refugees and asylees
  • to assist with resume creation, job application, and job search.
  • Provide ongoing coaching and counseling to program clients while also facilitating access to
  • specialized local resources, helping them to overcome the barriers they face to achieve their
  • goals for economic and social self-sufficiency.
  • Organize and expand local employment partnerships to support them to understand clients
  • and cultural diversification, and IRE Employment Program with workshops.
  • Learning Objectives:
  • Intern will gain exposure to refugee integration through programing.
  • Intern will learn to communicate effectively with clients across cultures.
  • Intern will learn to implement programming in a resettlement office.

International Rescue Committee

We respond to the world’s worst humanitarian crises & help people to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

Non-profit
Industry
5001-10,000
Employees
1933
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and help people to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees and displaced people forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40+ countries and in 29 U.S. cities, the IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure.