HELP BUILD DEMOCRACY & DIPLOMACY FOR A MORE CARING WORLD

ABOUT LEARNING LIFE

 

Learning Life is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit lab devoted to innovating education, democracy and diplomacy by spreading learning in everyday life beyond school walls. In our increasingly interconnected yet divided world, we develop innovative learning communities in order to widen and deepen participation in democracy and diplomacy.

 

With this mission in mind, we run two programs. The Family Diplomacy Initiative (FDI) connects families worldwide across lines of country, class, race and religion via the internet to share and learn together with an eye to training family diplomats to advocate for a more caring world. Our DMV Democracy Learning Community (DMV DLC) is a nascent association of individuals and organizations in the Washington DC or DC-MD-VA (DMV) metro area working together to strengthen democracy by developing engaging events, products, services and spaces that nurture fun, learning, networking, collaboration and wider, deeper citizen participation.

ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP

Learning Life accepts resumes from graduate and undergraduate students worldwide interested in interning with us remotely. The internship ranges from 8 to 32 hours per week, depending on academic requirements, though most of our interns work about 10 hours/week. The internship is remote/online, so students can intern from anywhere in the USA, and given certain conditions (e.g., reliable internet connection, meeting-feasible time zones, advanced English, French or Spanish language ability) from abroad. Depending on each student’s interests and skills plus our organizational needs, interns support the above-mentioned two programs, assisting with a variety of tasks including research and writing; local-to-global communications and list development via social media, email and phone; poster, video and website design and development; fundraising research and outreach, and more.

The internship typically starts in early-to-late January, mid-to-late May or late August, though other start dates are permissible depending on the student’s academic calendar. Interns must be able to commit a minimum of 8-10 hours/week: about 6-9 hours/week of independent work + and 1-4 hours of work meetings, including a live one-on-one meeting via Zoom once per week with Learning Life’s Director, Paul Lachelier, to go over work completed and assign new tasks. The internship is unpaid, but offers substantive, resume-building experience working on innovative democracy and diplomacy initiatives, and a formal reference and/or recommendation letter upon request given satisfactory performance. 

 

APPLICANTS WE ARE LOOKING FOR

 

Applicants should be interested in democracy, diplomacy, education, communications (video, photo and/or social media), and/or children and families, and also be outgoing, organized, detail-oriented, motivated and punctual. The ability to read, write and speak French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, or any other major language at an advanced to fluent level is a plus, as are poster and video-making skills.

 

HOW TO APPLY

 

Send your resume to email@learninglife.info. No need for a cover letter. Please indicate in your email when you would like to start interning with Learning Life (January, May, or August). We will contact you to schedule an interview if your resume matches what we are looking for. Thank you for your interest!