Position Title: Intern, Global Impact

Location: Washington D.C. (Hybrid)

Department: Global Youth & Education: Schools

Internship Dates: May 2025 – July 2025

Hours: 40 Hours per Week

Compensation: School Credit

Position Summary:

Special Olympics provides school-based programming to promote inclusion of student with intellectual disabilities in over 140 countries, including over 7,000 schools in the United States. To implement this programming, Special Olympics staff at global headquarters, national, and local levels collaborate to support adult volunteers, youth leaders, and participants, as well as teachers and school administrators. Each of over 100,000 schools around the world participating in Special Olympics Unified Sports and other inclusive programming has its own story of impact.

This position will contribute to the collection of this global impact story. In collaboration with colleagues at the Washington, DC headquarters of Special Olympics and distributed globally (esp. Panama, Ireland, Egypt, South Africa, China, and Singapore), this position will manage the collection of local and national stories of impact through established reporting systems/protocol and work to both show case individual stories of impact and synthesize into a coherent global narrative of change and impact.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven computer skills
• Ability to work independently, as well as in a group
• Interpersonal/human relations skills
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, including a demonstrated ability to communicate culturally and professionally diverse
• Strong attention to detail

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