Project Officer - Intern

Responsibilities

• Assist with new project initiatives in IIRR focus areas: health, education, food systems, economic empowerment, and the environment in IIRR country and regional offices
• Support the identification of literature for relevant project initiatives
• Support in the identification/recording of key analytic tools for measuring the impacts of IIRR rural development programs
• Develop new program concepts in partnership with staff around the world.
• Support in grant proposals through research and/or writing

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline (completed prior to internship start date)
• Well-organized, reliable, and self-motivated
• Helpful and responsive (e.g., when dealing with ad-hoc requests for providing support)
• Resourceful, creative, who enjoys problem-solving
• Impeccable writing skills with meticulous attention to detail and organizational skills
• Curiosity, creativity, and fearlessness in contributing new and bold ideas
• Exceptional interpersonal skills
• Able to meet deadlines and effectively multi-task
• A willingness to fail fast and forward while respecting and valuing input from a global and diverse team
• Able to work in a startup culture that may require fluidity in roles from week to week
• Intermediate experience with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Applications
• Responsive to manager’s feedback, ability to take direction and execute work independently with minimal oversight in a remote working environment
• Passionate about making a positive difference

Benefits

This is an unpaid internship but available for class credits. We have two internship models:

• Full-time - requires a 5 days (40 hours) a week commitment of 3 months
• Part-time - required 3 to 4 days (20 hours) a week commitment of 6 months.

Please note that internship hours must be scheduled during regular New York/East Coast business hours.

Pay

Unpaid

Schedule

Internship hours must be scheduled during regular New York/East Coast business hours.