YWCA - Internship-Family Literacy Center

About the role

YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee offers a part-time, unpaid/voluntary internship that provides students with valuable experience in outcomes research, analysis, development, and tracking, and the opportunity to earn college credit for a social services or education internship. The intern will support the Parent and Child Time component of the Family Literacy Center’s comprehensive four‑component model, which includes Children's Education, Adult Education, Parent Education, and Parent and Child Time, serving Spanish‑speaking participants. The ideal candidate is Spanish/English bilingual.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with program data collection for children and adult students
• Keeping abreast of community resources, workshops and classes; encouraging parent participation in program and community events
• Participating in outreach, recruiting efforts
• Working with children and adult students
• Demonstrating high standards of ethics and professionalism in interactions with colleagues, children, and families
• Willingness to be trained on/implement the components of the YWCA Family Literacy Program
• Engaging children in guided play as a means of increasing language and literacy acquisition and implementing programs that increase communication, self-help, and social skills in the preschool program
• Demonstrating initiative, responsibility, and resourcefulness
• Collaborating within a team
• Maintaining confidentiality at all times
• Performing data entry, phone calling and other duties as needed

Requirements

• Undergraduate or Graduate student enrolled in an Education or Social Services related program
• Spanish/English bilingual (ideal candidate)

Skills

• Experience or willingness to work with children and adult students of diverse populations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Enthusiasm for your work
• Good judgment and professional behavior
• Regular, punctual attendance and attention to all responsibilities
• Confidentiality in dealing with student information
• Ability to communicate effectively with both children and students
• Ability to follow directions, guidelines and policies/procedures of the YWCA
• Ability to work well with all staff
• Working knowledge of computer application software