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internship positions:
- Kenya: Youth Livelihood Officer
- Bolivia: Youth Livelihood Officer
- Ethiopia: Youth Livelihood Officer
- Sierra Leone: Youth Livelihood & Partnership Support Officer
- Tanzania: Youth Livelihood Officer
- India: Street Youth Job Readiness Coordinator
- Philippines: Street Youth Job Readiness Coordinator
- Sierra Leone: Youth Livelihood Officer
page last updated:
November 16, 2011 11:27 AM
youth internships
Currently Street Kids supports 8 interns through the International Youth Internship Program (IYIP) who are working with our partners in the following countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Bolivia, India and the Philippines.
IYIP is financially supported by the Government of Canada through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). To follow the interns’ adventures and to learn more about the program check out the interns blog: What’s Up Street Kids? (www.whatsupstreetkids.org)
eligibility
Street Kids International is currently recruiting for a third cohort of 8 internship placements lasting 6-8 months depending on the country of placement. Interns will be expected to attend a 5 day pre-departure training in Toronto in mid January 2012 and should expect to depart shortly thereafter. All interns should have language skills relevant to the posting location, or language acquisition skills. Interns must demonstrate the ability to adapt to new cultures and climates, have experience living or working overseas and be able to prove skills related to adaptability, enterprise, leadership and patience. Interns will be expected to "hit the ground running" and be able to perform at a high level with minimal supervision in a constantly changing environment.
Experience and skills in facilitation and research, knowledge of gender and international development issues, understanding of monitoring and evaluation and experience with youth are also required. Interns will be responsible for various public engagement activities, relating their experiences to the Canadian public through social media, presentations and forums.
To be eligible for the International Youth Internship Program, an intern must be:
- A Canadian citizen or permanent resident
- A post-secondary graduate - graduate of a degree or diploma program from a university, college, post-secondary school of technology, post-secondary institute or a CEGEP
- Out of school
- Between the ages of 19 and 30
- Unemployed or underemployed
- Legally entitled to work in Canada
For more information about the program please visit CIDA’s webpage:
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/psij-iyip.nsf/vOrgEn?OpenView&RestrictToCategory=2010/2011
Include in your application a statement of interest, current resume and the contact information for three references in one document. Ensure the statement of interest contains the following:
- Where you heard about the internship
- Motivation for application
- Placement(s) of interest
- Suitability for the role
Application deadline is December 2, 2011 at 5pm.
Please send applications to: kristy [at] streetkids.org
Equity self-identification:
Street Kids International and the Canadian International Development Agency are committed to improving employment equity. You are invited to disclose gender, visible minority status or employment related disability however there is no obligation to do so.
Please apply by email with one document labeled:
IYIP Application_YOUR NAME and use the same label in the subject line of your email. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.
The postings to be filled are described below:
Nairobi, Kenya
youth livelihood officer
The intern will work with Make a Better World Kenya (MABWOK) to strengthen their youth entrepreneurship programming and sustainability. MABWOK is a not-for-profit organization based in Kenya that seeks to empower poor people living in urban slums and rural areas through the provision of education, training and economic empowerment. MABWOK is located in Mukuru, Nairobi and currently supports programs in 3 areas: Economic and Livelihood Support Programme, Youth Education and Training Programme and the Maternal and Reproductive Health Programme.
Position Description
- Provide logistical support for implementation of youth livelihood training program
- Provide support for IT and literacy training
- Support MABWOK to develop a framework for youth business plan review and loan application process
- Document and monitor the development of youth savings and loan clubs
- Provide support for MABWOK to access alternative sources of funding
- Take part in field documentation
- Prepare monthly monitoring reports
- Monitor youth progress including documentation of youth success stories and case studies
- Ensure that innovations in youth livelihood support are shared through worldwide network of partners and Master Trainers
- Maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders and networks, develop new relationships where feasible
- Support MABWOKs participation in a community of practice focused on youth livelihoods and social enterprise for young people
- Support MABWOKs communication and fundraising strategies
- Continued support for the development of the business and strategic plan of the brick making social enterprise with NACHU
- Research housing policy/land tenureship in Kenya, urban slum upgrading, affordable housing and alternative building technologies
- Public engagement activities as required
Qualifications
- Experience working with vulnerable populations an asset
- Background in IT, literacy and fundraising is also an asset
- Understanding of social enterprise is desired
- Overseas experience an asset
- Desired qualities: flexibility, patience, good communicator, knowledge of Swahili
La Paz, Bolivia
youth livelihood officer
This internship will strengthen the Bolivian institutions team (CDEA) through the exchange of knowledge and experience pertaining to youth development, and will further Street Kids International's programming of accompanied livelihood training. This project will focus on the use and enhancement of participatory educational tools to improve the quality of life and social conditions of marginalized youth and foster self-sustainability. CDEA operates out of La Paz and seeks to develop initiatives, actions, and strategies oriented to improve the quality of life and strengthen the potential of populations in social disadvantage. CDEA has directed its efforts to promoting diversity, equality, universal human rights and human values through the development and implementation of innovative, educational training programs for both formal and non-formal streams. Fluency in Spanish is a requirement for this position.
Position Description
- Deliver entrepreneurship training modules including Street Kids International's own Street Business Toolkit and Street Banking Toolkit
- Co-facilitate accompaniment training to equip youth workers with effective strategies to support youth
- Coordination and implementation of youth practice business training opportunities
- Collaborate with the CDEA team in the research and development of youth driven materials to support training
- Take part in field documentation and reporting
- Monitor youth progress including documentation of youth entrepreneur success stories and case studies
- Ensure that innovations in youth livelihood support are shared through worldwide network of partners and Master Trainers
- Support CDEA's participation and leadership in a community of practice focused on youth livelihoods
- Support CDEA's communication and fundraising strategies, including regular web based updates
- Public engagement activities as required
Qualifications
- Spanish speaker with experience and skills in facilitation, research and youth leadership
- Background in IT
- Background in education/communications
- Experience working with vulnerable populations an asset
- Overseas experience an asset
- Desired qualities: flexibility, team player, patience, good communicator
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
youth livelihood officer
This internship will strengthen the Emmanuel Development Association's (EDA) capacity by providing support to entrepreneurship training modules and implementation and testing of a peer mentorship module. The intern will also be responsible for monitoring and evaluation of the training, gender analysis of training materials and supporting EDA's leadership and participation in a community of practice.
EDA envisions a country where children have the opportunity to develop their capabilities so that they can participate equally in the development of their communities, regions and country irrespective of ethnic group, social class or gender.
EDA assists communities in the following areas: Education and Training, Integrated Community Health and Sanitation, Gender and Women Empowerment and Advocacy Work. Since its establishment, EDA has been at the forefront of community development, with over 11 years of experience in designing and implementing integrated community development for children, women and employment programmes for youth in Ethiopia.
Position Description
- Coordinate and support youth entrepreneurship training modules
- Follow up on the process of implementation and refinement of the peer mentorship training module
- Report on the process of adaptation and lessons learned from current module delivery for young people
- Coordinate the matching of youth with mentors and provision of ongoing support
- Provide support in monitoring and evaluation of the Street Kids/EDA partnership programme across Debre Berhan and Addis Ababa areas, including supporting the EDA Project Coordinator in design of the programme evaluation, data collection, gender analysis and reporting.
- Ensure that innovations in youth livelihood support are shared through worldwide network of partners and Master Trainers
- Support EDA's participation in a community of practice focused on youth livelihoods
- Support EDA's communication, branding and fundraising strategies
- Support integration of SKI programming into EDA's activities
Qualifications
- Experience working with vulnerable populations an asset
- Experience working with budgets
- Skills in monitoring and evaluation
- Overseas experience an asset
- Desired qualities: flexibility, patience, adaptability, team player
Bo, Sierra Leone
youth livelihood & partnership support officer
The intern will work with Hands Empowering The Less Privileged (HELP) Salone to strengthen their communications, documentation, monitoring and evaluation and support their youth entrepreneurship activities.
HELP Salone in Sierra Leone is a local non-profit working with marginalized youth, women and children in the most deprived and underserved communities in Sierra Leone. HELP has a wealth of experience in implementing diverse development programs in Sierra Leone in areas such as water and sanitation, skills training income generation for women, micro-finance, youth support and food security.
Position Description
- Support for youth livelihood training activities
- Support HELP's staff in partnership development for youth livelihood
- Documentation of lessons learned and case studies involving young people, microfinance and micro enterprise development
- Ensure that innovations in youth livelihood support are shared through worldwide network of partners and Master Trainers
- Support HELP's participation in a community of practice focused on youth livelihoods
- Support HELP's communication, branding and fundraising strategies including support for proposal and report writing
- Work with HELP's Communication and Documentation unit to improve website and social media communications
Qualifications
- Experience and skills in communications including social media and coordination of multi stakeholder processes
- Experience working with vulnerable populations an asset
- Facilitation and relationship building skills
- Overseas experience an asset
- Desired qualities: flexibility, patience, good communicator
Bo, Sierra Leone
youth livelihood officer
The intern will work with Hands Empowering The Less Privileged (HELP) Salone to strengthen their youth entrepreneurship programming and assist in monitoring and evaluation of youth livelihood activities.
HELP Salone in Sierra Leone is a local non-profit working with marginalized youth, women and children in the most deprived and underserved communities in Sierra Leone. HELP has a wealth of experience in implementing diverse development programs in Sierra Leone in areas such as water and sanitation, skills training income generation for women, micro-finance, youth support and food security.
Position Description
- Provide logistical support for implementation of youth entrepreneurship training program
- Collaborate with HELP Salone's field officers to co-facilitate youth entrepreneurship training
- Provide support in collection of training baseline data
- Assist in researching and support youth involvement in microfinance and savings initiatives
- Support HELP Salone in monitoring and evaluating activities
- Monitor youth progress and support youth business development
- Monitor gender participation in programs and develop strategy to increase gender equality in programs
- Ensure that innovations in youth livelihood support are shared throughout Sierra Leone and Street Kids' worldwide network of partners and Master Trainers
- Support HELP's participation in a community of practice focused on youth livelihoods and business development services for the sector
- Conduct preliminary market analysis for rural and agricultural entrepreneurship opportunities for youth
- Support development of HELP's social enterprise in Business Development Services
- Assist in proposal development
Qualifications
- Experience and skills in food security and working with marginalized young people
- Experience in convening multi stakeholder
- Overseas experience an asset
- Experience working with vulnerable populations an asset
- Desired qualities: flexibility, patience, good communicator
Arusha, Tanzania
youth livelihood officer
The intern will be a member of the children's program staff group at Mkombozi, providing technical assistance and capacity building to the staff and children's program coordinator in developing and implementing methodologies and processes for delivering youth livelihood interventions. The intern will facilitate youth's participation in program processes and interventions meant to improve their livelihood, including the refinement of a micro-franchise toolkit for young people. The intern will advise on the review of systems and their compatible implementation in addition to facilitating the development of tools and techniques to enable staff members to achieve quality interventions in youth livelihood and gender inclusive programming.
Mkombozi (meaning "liberator" or "emancipator" in Swahili) is the leading child-focused agency in Tanzania's Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions, using education, research, advocacy, and outreach to help vulnerable children and youth to grow in mind, body and spirit. Mkombozi captures local potential through learning and reflection and acts as a catalyst for holistic development. Mkombozi envisions a world where all children and youth are prioritized and can access opportunities to become well rounded, inquiring and productive people who are working towards a more just and democratic society.
Position Description
- Facilitate capacity building for social and street educators on effective delivery of youth livelihood services
- Work with educators in exploring, reviewing and developing tools and tactics for delivering youth entrepreneurship modules, microfranchise tool kit finalization and job preparation
- Facilitate development of methodologies, processes and tools for researching and evaluating the impact of working with youth entrepreneurship modules
- Explore opportunities to forge mutually beneficial relationships with the private sector, local government, and financial institutions to support youth employment and/or business development
- Work with street educators in integrating entrepreneurship modules in Mobile School intervention
- Work with social educators in integrating entrepreneurship modules in family reunification
- Ensure that innovations in youth livelihood support are shared through worldwide network of partners and Master Trainers
- Support Mkombozi's participation in a community of practice focused on youth livelihoods
Qualifications
- Experience and skills in curriculum development
- Knowledge of innovative interventions for increasing youth employment in developing contexts such as micro-franchising
- Business experience an asset
- Understanding of monitoring and evaluation and tool development
- Experience working with vulnerable populations an asset
- Overseas experience an asset.
- Desired qualities: flexibility, patience, good communicator, and knowledge of Swahili
Pune/Delhi, India
street youth job readiness coordinator
This internship will strengthen the Project Concern International India (PCI/India) team by coordinating the Street Source program and youth livelihood interventions.
Street Source is a job readiness program for marginalized youth to improve their quality of life through meaningful sustainable safe formal employment at an entry level.
PCI/India has been active since 1997 and is an affiliate of Project Concern International. The India country office is located in New Delhi and has five regional offices around the country. PCI/India has developed a diverse portfolio of programs in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support; polio eradication; water and sanitation; micro-enterprise and micro finance; humanitarian assistance and children at risk.
Position Description
- Assistance with Street Source programming, a job readiness program for marginalized youth
- Co-facilitate the accompaniment training to equip counsellors and life skills education teachers with effective strategies
- Coordinate and implement youth practice business training opportunities
- Collaborate with the PCI team in the research and development of innovative tools for life skills sessions to support training and address identified gaps
- Assist in identifying new opportunities for tool development and program growth
- Take part in daily field documentation
- Prepare monthly monitoring reports
- Monitor youth progress including documentation of youth life skills interventions
- Ensure that innovations in youth livelihood support are shared through worldwide network of partners and Master Trainers
- Support the PCI team to develop an actionable program growth strategy over three years
- Support PCI to explore strategies for scaling up Street Source programming
Qualifications
- Experience and skills in multi sector collaboration and youth leadership
- Knowledge of communications
- Understanding of monitoring, evaluation and tool development
- Experience working with vulnerable populations an asset
- Overseas experience an asset
- Experience with the private sector an asset
- Desired qualities: flexibility, patience, good communicator, Hindi/Marathi language skills
Manila, Philippines
street youth job readiness coordinator
The intern's support of the Street Source project in partnership with Street Kids International and Virlanie Foundation, Inc. will contribute to the self sufficiency and independent living for the youth that Virlanie works with.
Virlanie offers a number of community outreach programs that provide social support and education to the children and families of Manila's poorest neighbourhoods. The Virlanie Foundation, Inc. (VFI) is a private non-sectarian child caring institution in Metro Manila, Philippines. The foundation serves children found living in the streets as well as those referred by other institutions. Virlanie works to prevent the future physical and psychological abuse of children. It envisions empowered children who see a brighter future for themselves.
Position Description
- Collaborate with the YAP Coordinator and the Magellan Learning Center Coordinator on the development of the curriculum based on the needs of the young adults
- Assist the Street Source Coordinator and Family Program Social Worker in implementing the screening and orientation process for selected youth beneficiaries
- Draft components of the curriculum and presents to the team for review and approval.
- Pilot components of the curriculum with young adults
- Prepare materials and other training activities in collaboration with YAPC and MLCC
- Monitor programming for gender inclusion and ensure curriculum meets the needs of both men and women
- Ensure that innovations in youth livelihood support are shared through Street Kids' worldwide network of partners and Master Trainers
- Support cross-sectoral collaboration among private sector, Virlanie and funders and facilitate multi-stakeholder relationships
Qualifications
- Experience in module and curriculum development, coordination of multi-sector stakeholders, training facilitation, and networking
- Desired qualities: flexibility, patience, good communication skills
- Overseas experience is an asset
- Experience working with vulnerable populations an asset
- Experience in working with Filipinos and understanding of Filipino culture is an asset
