Help refugees learn English! Become a Vocational and English Language Training Intern!

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*Please note: Summer internships are filled. Please apply for Fall 2015.*

Responsibilities include:

• Assisting teachers in English Language Training (ELT) and Vocational English classes, including tutoring and/or teaching students.
• Creating and implementing programs and activities for ELT and Vocational English students.
• Mentoring ELT and/or Vocational English students.
• Assisting with job-readiness training and employer outreach for ELT and Vocational English students.
• Working with individuals and groups on job-readiness skills including interviewing techniques, filling out job applications, and workplace culture orientations.
• Database entry.
• Assessment and reporting of program participant needs.
• Creation and maintenance of job upgrade and career plan forms.
• Assisting with the delivery of supplemental instruction courses to program participants.
• Helping with other projects, reports, and administrative tasks as necessary.
• 15-40 hours per week availability

Qualifications:

• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Interest in working with refugees in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic environment.
• Patience and flexibility.
• Computer proficiency.
• Some knowledge of ESL and teaching or tutoring experience is helpful.
• Language proficiency in Amharic, Arabic, Burmese etc, French, Kirundi, Kinyarwanda, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, and Uzbek is preferred, but not required.