Global Exchange devotes staff time to raising awareness among staff about issues of privilege and diversity and how these issues affect our work environment and our campaigns. We seek candidates who have an openness to engaging these issues and a commitment to incorporating an analysis of privilege and different forms of oppression into their work.

 

SUMMER PROGRAM: The majority of available positions for our summer internship program have been filled. However, we have a few that were not filled and/or new position openings. These positions will be be open until filled so if you are interested send in your application packet immediately.

 

To Apply: Read through the materials available here and follow this process:

Send a cover letter, stating: 1. Why you are interested in interning at Global Exchange and 2. What strengths you could bring to the organization. We also ask that you complete the enclosed Internship Application, and provide us with a résumé and two letters of recommendation and/or three references.



 

Please mail your application packet to:

Global Exchange Internship Coordinator

2017 Mission St., 2nd Floor

San Francisco, Ca. 94110
 

**No emailed applications will be accepted unless you are currently outside the country. If you are out of the country during this time please email your application packet in a word document to: interns@globalexchange.org

 

 

 

AVAILABLE POSITIONS:

• Latin America Reality Tours
• Economic Actvism for Palestine
• Campaign intern sought: Elect Democracy!
• Video Intern
• Raise the Bar Hershey

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Latin America Reality Tours

Global Exchange's Latin America Reality Tours Program seeks to educate citizens of the Global North about the dynamic changes occurring within Latin America by shifting knowledge beyond the headlines and creating people-to-people ties with communities, organizations and individuals. Aiming to mobilize citizens in changing US foreign policy towards the region, the program foregrounds human rights within a framework of sustainable development and environmental justice. The delegations endeavor to foment lasting solidarity between Global North and South citizens and to increase participation in movements against corporate globalization and toward the creation of a more economically just hemisphere. Responsibilities:

WORK DESCRIPTION FOR INTERNS:

• Assist in the coordination of tours
• Compile orientation and welcome back materials for tour participants
• Update tour descriptions, itineraries, country profiles and news updates on the RT website
• Update collateral material including flyers and background readers for each destination
• Help research and conduct outreach for upcoming tours, including identifying markets and opportunities
• Perform administrative duties as needed, including documenting trip information in computer database, translating information from in-country trip leaders, inputting registration information, checking flight information, copying, faxing, mailing, answering emails, etc.

INTERNS WILL LEARN:

• Professional skills in a fast-paced, non-profit work environment
• How to coordinate projects with a broad range of partners
• Marketing and outreach skills
• What socially-responsible travel looks like
• A deeper understanding of social justice issues in the assigned destinations

REQUIREMENTS & EXPECTATIONS:

• Ability to commit to 8-16 hours per week, for 3 months minimum
• An interest to learn, and to work with dedicated team of individuals
• An interest in international affairs, US foreign policy, travel
• Some language skills in assigned area are preferred
• Do not have to be a student
• These are UNPAID internships.

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Economic Activism for Palestine

Help support existing campaigns! train as a corporate researchers and learn how to take on global corporations!

The Palestine program seeks a research interns to work with BaySearchers - the Bay Area corporate research group  - to help support economic accountability campaigns with information about corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The intern will help lead independent research projects, and will be responsible for publishing the research results on our website.

We are looking for a highly independent worker with excellent writing skills, research experience, a fast learner with healthy curiosity. Strong preference to activists and to people with prior knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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CAMPAIGN INTERN SOUGHT: ELECT DEMOCRACY!

Are you an aspiring campaigner or organizer and exceptional motivator with a passion for getting corporations out of our elections and demanding accountability from elected officials? Are you ready to bridge 99% people power and analysis with demands to decolonize the corporate stranglehold over our political system?

Global Exchange is looking for a motivated, passionate and hard-working intern to help with our new campaign:  Elect Democracy!

Working directly with our campaigners, you will support and help shape the Elect Democracy Campaign. We need your help organizing events and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area to support national grassroots efforts to make it toxic for politicians and political candidates to accept campaign contributions from the finance, insurance, and real estate sectors. Please note: we are not endorsing or supporting any particular candidates (of any party) in this campaign, we are campaigning to get corporate money out of the way of the needs and interests of the 99%.

 

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with campaigning, organizing and coordinating events
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with online organizing using tools such as Facebook and Twitter
• Interest in nonviolent direct action, grassroots organizing, and coalition-building
• Proficiency in English; conversation level language skills in other languages are a plus
• Fantastic prioritization and time management skills
• Familiarity and/or desire to learn about the following issues: the Occupy movement, direct democracy, the 2012 election and what’s at stake, campaign finance controversy, corporate personhood, lobbying, and the finance sector, recent news around bailouts, foreclosure & student loan debt
• Video editing or graphic design skills are a big plus, but not required

 

Responsibilities:

• Build local capacity in the San Francisco Bay Area to support campaign goals and activities
• Work with and report to the Elect Democracy campaigner to support strategies related to providing grassroots toolkits for communities to research corporate campaign donations to elected officials

 

Here at Global Exchange we deeply value diversity, continually educate ourselves about privilege and oppression, and integrate these values into all of our work. We are seeking candidates who have a commitment to engage in this process and work with us to create a just, inclusive, and sustainable work environment and world. Women, People of Color, and LGBTQNGCI folks encouraged to apply.

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VIDEO INTERN SOUGHT

Are you an aspiring filmmaker or video editor who wants to use your powers for good? Do you dream of making videos that tell a moving story and inspire people to take action? Can you take footage, edit footage, and upload to the web?

Global Exchange is looking for a motivated, passionate and hard-working video intern to support our campaigns and departments.

Working directly with our campaigners, you will support and help shape the Occupy Our Elections Campaign. We need your help telling the truth: we want to amplify the stories of what real impacts are on the 99% when Congress is bought and sold with corporate money. Our goal is to make it toxic for politicians and political candidates to accept campaign contributions from the finance, insurance, and real estate sectors.

 

Desired Qualifications:

• Superior video editing, written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to take video footage, edit in Final Cut Pro, and upload files to YouTube and other web sources.
• Proficiency in English; conversation level language skills in other languages are a plus
• Fantastic prioritization and time management skills
• Familiarity and/or desire to learn about the following issues: the Occupy movement, direct democracy, the 2012 election and what’s at stake, campaign finance controversy, corporate personhood, lobbying, and the finance sector, recent news around bailouts, foreclosure & student loan debt
• Affinity with online organizing using tools such as Facebook and Twitter
• Additional experience with graphic design is a plus but not required

 

Responsibilities:

• Work with and report to the Occupy Our Elections campaigner to create short, moving videos that provide factual information and tell moving stories about the impact of corporate contributions on political candidate voting records, and  how this impacts the 99%.
• Other video editing responsibilities for other departments at Global Exchange where possible

Here at Global Exchange we deeply value diversity, continually educate ourselves about privilege and oppression, and integrate these values into all of our work. We are seeking candidates who have a commitment to engage in this process and work with us to create a just, inclusive, and sustainable work environment and world. Women, People of Color, and LGBTQNGCI folks encouraged to apply.

 

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Raise the Bar Hershey

 Raise the Bar, Hershey’s internship offered through Sustainable Living Road Show.  Our friends and Partners at the Sustainable Living Road show take a bio-diesal bus around to summer festivals presenting interactive ecological and political programming to festival goers. They have offered to showcase our Raise the Bar, Hershey’s campaign as one of the projects — building an interactive display called “We want more from our S’mores!”  If you are interested in the internship which would involve travelling and camping throughout the country you can contact them directly at : ao@sustainablelivingroadshow.org  and we would be happy to forward your intern application.