Program Dates: September 1, 2024- August 31, 2025

Mandatory 3- Day Pre-Deployment Training (Arlington, VA): June 5-7, 2024

*Applications for this position will be processed on a rolling basis, so interested applicants are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible.

**Most offices are currently on a hybrid model. There are staff is office most if not all days of the week, but your supervisor may only be in office 2-3 days a week.

Some of the specific opportunities include the following:

Romania Opportunities:

Project Assistant Intern:

• Support the implementation of the proposed project/projects, achieving objectives in support of the larger goal of combatting human trafficking across Romania, Bulgaria and the region.
• Track the progress of projects using appropriate project management tools and techniques.
• Assists in the collection, compilation and analysis of data relative to the project/program.
• Assists in the coordination/organization of project teams meetings (forwarding project files to the relevant parties and personnel).
• Assists in the coordination/ organization of relevant training and in the provision of user support to staff.
• Provides assistance in the maintenance of records (administrative tasks such as data collection, classification and archiving).
• Assists in writing reports and other project related documentation (helping draft administrative documents and obtaining and reviewing information for them).
• Preferred Skills: Have/Working towards obtaining a degree in international development, project management, human rights, public policy, public administration, or related field preferred

Legal Assistant Intern:

• Conducting in-depth research and data analysis related to government policy
• Knowledge of justice system institutions
• Analyze the legislation change and make reports on weekly basis
• Policy analysis and reform strategy to influence legislative and policy changes that would contribute to a transformed criminal justice system that protects victims of trafficking
• Knowledge and understanding of European context and EU frameworks
• Excellent written and oral communication skills both in Romanian & English
• Works well under stress with a sustained positive attitude.
• Exceptionally high level of honesty and integrity.
• Attention to detail.
• Computer literate with proficiency in MS Excel, Word, Outlook.

HR, Administrative and Events Intern:

• Provide support with logistics for trainings / workshops / conferences
• Provide administrative support
• Create and maintain database for vendors
• Support in logistic for donor's visits
• Works well under stress with a sustained positive attitude.
• Computer literate with proficiency in Outlook Office
• Well organized; self-management

Finance Intern:

• Receive and coordinate preparation of monthly time sheet
• Scan transactions and other documents for online filing in M-files
• Photocopy and filing finance documents including achieving
• Maintain Inventory of Equipment and other fixed assets as per local requirements
• Provide administrative support
• Create and maintain updated database for vendors
• Excellent written and oral communication skills both in Romanian & English
• Works well under stress with a sustained positive attitude.
• Exceptionally high level of honesty and integrity.
• Attention to detail.
• Computer literate with proficiency in MS Excel, Word, Outlook.

Uganda Opportunities:

Legal Fellow:

• Identifying and documenting best practices from other jurisdictions that can enhance IJM Uganda’s response to SVAC and IPV cases.
• Supporting with the case flow process including review of decision memos.
• Conducting legal research to enrich the virtual law library with knowledge on GBV, IPV, and SVAC including articles, eBooks, and court judgments, among others.
• Completed Law School

Program Fellow:

• Support the team in ensuring the quality of activity and grant reports.
• Support the strategy development for community leaders’ core approach.
• Support in closing partnership opportunities
• Guide the team in ensuring we respect grant commitments.
• Supporting with the closure of partnership opportunities.
• Evaluating and maintaining a coordinated case response mechanism for ongoing effectiveness
• successful case response mechanisms and implementing them for adoption.
• Collaborating with the Ministry of Gender to expand the coordinated case response mechanism.

Media and Communications Fellow:

• Designing posters, and flyers, and compiling video clips so that we have a pool of approved content for social media.
• Putting together a depository of photos
• Supporting with urgent administrative tasks such as following up on payment process for contracted vendors, reviewing branded items etc.
• Skills in photography, video recording and editing, design, social media usage, design work and good communication skills.
• Language: English. Experience in Communications and marketing, journalism/media and Advocacy.

Aftercare Intern:

• Reviewing new policies, guidelines
• Documenting best practices in aftercare case management, aftercare learnings
• Ensuring cases are updated in JDS regularly and have the required tools attached.
• Support Administrative issues.
• Discovering effective strategies to improve survivor interviews through well-equipped survivor-friendly spaces.
• Collaborating with the team to identify partners for psychosocial support.

Bolivia Opportunities

Legal Intern/Fellow:

• Respond to general requests from the Legal Area;
• Legal Area File Support;
• Assembling test notebooks;
• Preparation of internal documentation of the Legal Area;
• Attendance at events,
• Legal investigations,
• Follow-ups in court,
• Support in hearings,
• Other support in the area as needed.
• Fluent Spanish and English (fluent not perfect)
• Knowledge and some level of experience in violence cases.
• Ability to provide trainings
• A commitment to professional ethics and abilities to handle sensitive and confidential information.

Administration Intern/Fellow

• Support the activities of the field office director and administration leader;
• Compilation of information and drafting of Quarterly Reports in English;
• Compilation of information, preparation and sending of daily news report in English;
• Compilation of information, preparation and sending of weekly prayer letter and quarterly MailChimp report in English and Spanish;
• Translation and/or review of management documents
• Compilation of information from the Monthly Report and Dashboard.
• Digitize internal resources and save in SharePoint.
• Keep SharePoint updated.
• Special projects assigned by the field director and administration leader;
• Other support in the area as needed.

Aftercare Intern/Fellow

• Support in the logistics and planning of activities in the area.
• Maintain up-to-date statistics and information for the area.
• Draft Monthly Reports and Dashboards.
• Work in coordination in the case committee to evaluate cases and accept/reject referrals.
• Cooperate with related institutions to develop care strategies.
• Help IJM psychologists to provide effective support to beneficiaries.
• Assist in the development of systems and processes for the respective Aftercare teams as needed; and
• Other departmental support as needed.
• Any other project or responsibility assigned by the supervisor
• Keep electronic and physical files up to date.

MERL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning) Intern/Fellow

• Write training/workshop reports implemented by the technical team
• Prepare monthly reports for socialization of evaluation results with the technical and management team.
• Prepare quarterly reports to monitor compliance with indicator goals
• Collaborate in the methodological design of the Bolivia Project for the Andean Community and its components.
• Collection of monthly and quarterly data for the indicators.
• Translation of information collected to have availability in both languages

Communications Intern/Fellow

• Edit and upload photos to social networks.
• Make sure that the whole team meets the branding standards in both internal and external information
• Carry out and coordinate the creation of material and posts according to the branding standards of arts and / or videos for IJM Bolivia Facebook page.
• Carry out and coordinate the creation of arts and / or videos for the posts on Facebook page of Aves y Probos, and Voceros.
• Support Partnership and Administration area with the needs related to communications.
• Special projects assigned by the field director and administration leader;
• Other support in the area as needed.

Peru Opportunities:

*The Peru office is newer (and smaller) and with this comes incredible opportunity to help build the team and impact their work within the country to combat sexual violence against children.

• Because of this, we are looking for mature candidates who show strong initiative, and independence.
• English and Spanish is required, although all meetings with the Peru team are in Spanish. You do not need to be fluent in either language, but you need a strong level of both (Spanish is more of a priority than English).
• For the right Fellow Candidate, further positions may be available than what is listed below and your application is encouraged.

Communication Intern/Fellow:

• The Communications Intern/Fellow will assist the Program Manager with IJM’s communications, promotion, branding or social marketing. This position will help to gain hands-on experience and training in many aspects of social marketing and development, while also gaining a good understanding of an emerging nonprofit organization in Peru. These will be part of his/her/their responsibilities:

• Assisting Program Manager with overall external and internal communications.

• Assisting with the implementation of the Strategic Development plan for communications, including newsletters (internal, external), and other related to social media tasks in general.

• Participating in the branding of specific projects, fully supporting the IJM strategy

• Creating and curating engaging content.

• Updating with relevant information to IJM Andean region social media sites.

• Assisting project management team to create relevant media content for each project (promoting events): videos, photos, etc.

• Assisting with certain press opportunities – press releases, advertisements, and promotional materials etc.

• Assisting with mailings or bulletins to our audience and other contacts.

• You are inventive and hard working with ideas about creative ways to engage audiences in achieving the organization’s vision.

• Great verbal and written communication skills in English and Spanish

• Knowledge and experience with social media platforms.

• A commitment to professional ethics and abilities to handle sensitive and confidential information.

• Ability to work independently and in a team of multicultural individuals and IJM partners

• Affinity with Graphic design platforms.

Church Mobilization Intern or Fellow

• Engaging the Peruvian Body of Christ in the fight against VAWC (Violence against Women and Children).
• Develop materials for churches, training leaders and help churches to develop new initiatives for preventing violence at community level.
• Help to create a network of churches that advocate for the survivors.
• Fluent in Spanish.
• Experience in working with churches, understanding of pastoral care.
• Innovative person

Administration and Finance Intern/Fellow:

• Receive and coordinate preparation of monthly time sheet
• Scan transactions and other documents for online filing in M-files
• Photocopy and filing finance documents including achieving
• Maintain Inventory of Equipment and other fixed assets as per local requirements
• Provide administrative support
• Create and maintain updated database for vendors
• Bachelor's degree in finance, administration, accounting or related careers.
• Previous experience in the financial, management, administrative or accounting field.
• Minimum advanced level of Spanish.
• Intermediate English.
• Knowledge of MS Office, ERP tools.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Strong communication skills, with attention to detail.
• Creative, reliable, proactive, charismatic and willing to help where needed.
• Able to work as part of a team and accept guidance and direction from staff members.

Philippines Opportunities:

National Prosecution Advocacy and Training Intern/Fellow (Manila):

• Our team is in need of an intern/fellow able to support our prosecution advocacy and training efforts with the National Government. Someone who is knowledgeable of the law, can monitor and assess prosecution data and capable of research in relation to product development for upcoming prosecution innovations.
• Legal knowledge; experience in conducting trainings; research; report writing; data management

Finance Intern/Fellow (Manila):

• Our team needs at an intern/fellow to support us in our non-Workday tasks.
• This includes, among others, preparing PowerPoint presentations, drafting regular finance communications (including coming up with ways to do so creatively).

Legal Fellow (Cebu & Manila):

• Support the lawyers in casework, rescue operations, creation of training materials, advocacy
• Pleading preparation, research memos, legal presentations, analyze gaps and challenges and propose solutions, advocacy and bridge-building with justice actors, trauma-informed, work directly with survivors, storytelling, innovative, committed, courageous, adaptability.

Executive Assistant Intern

• Intern that can support the OSEC Program Executive Team in day to day activities and tasks, can multi-task and is open to supporting multiple high level projects.
• Speech Writing, Events organization, Project Management

Investigations & Law Enforcement Development Intern/Fellow (Manila & Cebu):

• Intern able to support administrative tasks and reporting.
• Manila Fellow with a background in IT, software engineering, OSINT research, law enforcement collaboration.
• Cebu Fellow with LE background, conducting trainings, or at least working with LE, ideally with background in conducting OSINT, investigated on cases involving child sexual exploitation. Experience in: mentoring, coaching, training skills, excellent verbal and writing, research skills, excellent interpersonal relationships, ability to work in diverse cultural setting.

Program Management Fellow (Cebu):

• Assist in organizing and facilitating annual, and quarterly strategic planning sessions with the Cebu Leadership Team
• Assist in the preparation of quarterly reports and other program reports that the Program Office Director (POD) would need to submit
• Coordinate with MERL in so far as the data needs of the POD.
• Skills needed for this role: Tech savvy especially in terms of tools we can use for presentation or brainstorming, Impeccable notes-taker, Strong business writing skills, Can work with minimal supervision, Not intimidated with data, Great communicator, Willing to engage with the team (even remotely)

Program Management Intern or Fellow (Manila):

• The Program Fellow/Intern will work closely with the Manila Program Office team and provide support in program management and implementation, research, monitoring, partner collaboration, training, reporting, advocacy, and professional development.
• Program management and/or monitoring, evaluation, research and learning, report writing, data management.
• Good communication skills and keen learner.

Aftercare Fellow (Cebu):

• The fellow will be expected to share his/her expertise to the Aftercare team as well as with Aftercare partners including government and non government organizations; will be expected to support Aftercare team in regular activities like preparing power point slides and conducting trainings, providing research information on areas needed by the team or doing mini research if necessary; provide inputs to Aftercare team on best practices on survivor empowerment or mental health, i.e., suicide, depression, etc.
• Preferred experience in: training and meeting facilitation; writing concept notes; research; preparing power point slides; coaching and mentoring.

Thailand Opportunities (Bangkok).

Communications Intern or Fellow:

• Intern or Fellow to help with all communications work, including maintaining and posting to our social media channels, writing stories, coordinating breaking news updates, and responding to global/regional comms requests and projects. Willing to work independently, be a self starter, have prior experience with communications, writing, editing, coordination, social media management, project management
• If already located in Southeast Asia time zone (or near), may be able to do position remotely.

Advocacy Intern/ Fellow:

• The Advocacy Intern/ Fellow will work with the Senior Lead, Advocacy of the APAC FLS Hub to support country teams in developing and implementing their country advocacy goals. The incumbent will also support the operationalizing of two sets of regional advocacy goals: the regional advocacy goals of the FLS Hub, and the regional advocacy goals on forced scamming. Finally, the incumbent will support the organizing of internal and external meetings/ calls related to advocacy.

Executive/Activation Fellow:

• Fellow will be responsible for case analysis, stakeholder mapping, and strategy development processes for APAC FLS hub's activation activities.
• Project Management, report writing, analytical skills.

Aftercare Fellow:

• We need an intern/fellow to assist HOD provide technical supervision to SS team, provide assisting and support Thai social service team to in casework activities, design aftercare training curriculum and proposal, review government documents relate to VoT aftercare services & Protection and provide professional input in order strengthen Thailand PJS.
• Looking for someone with knowledge and experience related to social work, psychology, who can develop training design, training skill, and has computer skill, interpersonal skills.
• English required, Thai is preferred.

Cambodia Opportunities:

Communications Intern or Fellow:

• Provide story writing training and coaching to selected staff
• Provide training on photography and videography to selected staff
• Compile/produce presentation materials about IJM work for use with visitor, NGO partner or government
• Help provide English proof reading and writing support to Comms function
• Fulfill global or regional Comms requests.
• Creative skills such as photography, videography, writing, communications and branding skills

Casework intern or Fellow

• Provide technical support to caseworker in compiling investigation report for case opening
• Provide technical support to caseworker in compiling progress report (Language support)
• Language training and coaching in the areas of investigation
• Casework, Investigation, Criminal Justice, and legal background is a plus

Internship Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Organizational and administrative skills;
• Attention to detail;
• Knowledge of Microsoft software and Windows strongly preferred; and
• Fluency in Spanish required for Latin America offices.

Fellowship Qualifications

• Masters degree in related field.
• 2 + years of relevant work experience strongly preferred; and

Critical Qualities

• Cross cultural communication skills;
• Experience working cross culturally;
• Culturally aware and appreciative of difference;
• Mature orthodox Christian faith;
• Humble and resilient;
• Pursues excellence;
• Strong service ethic;
• Innovative problem solver;
• Ability to build trust and strong partnerships with others;
• Courageous in pursuing opportunities and challenges;
• Tenacious in achieving goals; and
• Professional.

To apply, please upload the following items compiled into one pdf: ((Firstname.Lastname.Application.pdf)( Please note, applications missing one or more of these items will be considered incomplete and will not be reviewed.)

• Cover Letter describing your interest in an IJM Internship or Fellowship (Please indicate the specific positions you are applying for)
• Resume
• Statement of Faith (if not addressed in cover letter. Please share about what your faith means to you and how it has inspired you to take part in the work of IJM).

**When you apply, you will be asked to provide the names and contact information for two references; one Work or Academic Reference and one Spiritual Reference. Please note that if we move forward with your application, we may be contacting them for further information about your candidacy.

All IJM internships and fellowships are unpaid positions. Interns and fellows are expected to financially support themselves throughout the duration of their time of service (+- $25,000 USD for all expenses throughout the year). It is common to fundraise your support for this experience. Please note that we do provide a fundraising platform for those with access to an American bank account that donors can use to get tax receipts, and we are happy to provide other fundraising resources.

If the position is posted as an internship, a fellow candidate is more than welcome to apply. The title can be changed depending on the level of qualifications of the candidate.