Youth Education Intern (Unpaid)

About the role

The IRC- RAI New York Office’s Youth Education department is looking for strong intern candidates to work on five core programs for youth: Youth Tools for Opportunities and Academic Development (TOAD), Youth English Classes (YESOL), Leaders in Training (LIT), Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E).

Responsibilities

• Assist in organizing and facilitating online after-school and in-person Saturday TOAD programming, focusing on areas such as English language skills, math, and other subjects as needed.
• Support Youth ESOL Specialist with creation of class material and direction of the class through regular feedback.
• Support with material and program development, including recommending class materials and activities to the Youth ESOL Specialist.
• Lead in-person Saturday Parent ESOL classes with guidance from Youth ESOL Specialist.
• Support with intake process and assessments for students entering and exiting the program.
• Perform other related Youth Education tasks as needed.
• Collaborate with the Youth Education Specialist to design and revise pre- and post-assessments, school readiness surveys, and response surveys.
• Support the collection, organization, and cleaning of quantitative and qualitative data related to Youth Education programs.
• Aid in analyzing assessment and survey data to help inform program development and curriculum adjustments.
• Contribute to summary reports, annual report, visualizations (e.g., charts or dashboards), impact summaries and presentations of findings.
• Help track progress against program indicators and support documentation of lessons learned.
• Facilitate assessments to enrolling NYSA students online and in-person.
• Create sample lesson plans for incoming NYSA instructors.
• Create elective schedules for Upper School NYSA students.
• Research best practices in newcomer youth education to put into practice at mini-NYSA and NYSA.
• Assist in the facilitation of Mini-NYSA including planning and leading some lessons as assigned.
• Update NYSA teacher training.
• Facilitate assessments to enrolling NYSA students online and in-person.
• Create elective schedules for Upper School NYSA students.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Current undergraduate or graduate student, or recent graduate (Preference will be given to candidates with degrees in Education or related fields)
• Experience in ESOL, ENL, ELL highly preferred)
• Experience or strong interest in working with refugee and immigrant children
• Punctuality, excellent time management skills, and a flexible schedule
• Outstanding intercultural and interpersonal communication skills with demonstrated ability to work effectively with people from other cultural backgrounds
• Ability to maintain confidentiality regarding client information
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with minimal supervision
• Fluency in written and spoken English required. Second language proficiency in relevant language highly desirable (including Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, French, Fulani, Haitian Creole, Mandarin, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish)

Skills

• Effective teaching strategies for multilingual classrooms
• Trauma-informed education and programming
• Engagement strategies with refugee families and communities
• Assessment and monitoring and evaluation skills
• Nonprofit program development and volunteer management skills
• Familiarity with the U.S. educational system and strategies for supporting refugee youth within it

Benefits

This is a hybrid position, with opportunities to be online and in-person in our midtown Manhattan office at 263 W 38th Street.

Pay

This is an unpaid position.

Schedule

All Interns Must Be available for Saturday programming (either in-person or online depending on program scheduling.)

Learning Objectives

• Design and implement effective teaching strategies for multilingual classrooms
• Understand trauma-informed education and programming
• Develop engagement strategies with refugee families and communities
• Build assessment and monitoring and evaluation skills
• Gain familiarity with the U.S. educational system and develop strategies for supporting refugee youth within it