• Job Description

  Req#: SOCIA006960

  Summary

  Save the Children is seeking a Social Work Intern to support the work of the Head Start Mental Health Advising Team. In this role you will be supporting Save the Children Head Start mental health and wellness strategy to implement a culture of wellness wherein the mental health and wellness of all children, families, and staff fosters a positive, trauma informed, work and learning environment.

  What You’ll be Doing (Essential Duties, Responsibilities and Impact)

  • Assisting the Head Start Mental Health Advising Team in developing a written action plan/approach to mental wellness.
  • Assisting State Head Start Programs in developing action plans for supporting mental wellness.
  • Assisting State Programs by creating a community partnership resource directory to include mental health services for children and families.
  • Assisting the Mental Health Advising Team on implementation of the 8-dimentions of wellness across Head Start programs including collecting data on staff participation and feedback.
  • Partnering with the Head Start Mental Health Advising Team in collecting, updating, and analyzing mental health and wellness data to inform mental health and wellness initiatives and professional development trainings across Head Start programs.

  Required Qualifications

  • Must be an actively enrolled Bachelor, Master or other post high school education program, or have graduated within 6 months of intern program start date
  • Possess strong written skills, solid interpersonal skills and ability to work within a team
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, and web-based conferencing technology like Microsoft Teams and Zoom™.
  • Currently eligible to work in the U.S.
  • Experience with data-sensitive environments
  • Please attach resume and cover letter to your application

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Knowledge in the philosophy and practices of Head Start/Early Head Start
  • Experience working with culturally and socio-economically diverse families and children
  • Strong understanding of working with families using the strength-based approach

  What’s In It for You

  • Provide you with the knowledge, values, and skills to respond competently to the aspirations and service need of diverse client populations.
  • Prepare you to assume leadership roles in the planning, development, management, and evaluation of culturally competent service to individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities

  • Structured learning and development program
  • Meaningful work under the direct supervision of an experienced Save the Children staff member
  • Highly collaborative and innovative teams
  • Networking program with managers across the organization
  • Flexible schedule
  • A family friendly work environment
  • The knowledge that the work you are supporting is changing the lives of children all around the world

  Classification: Paid Intern

  Part-time: 24 hours per week (up to 8 hours max per day)

  Dates: September 23 - December 6, 2024

  Pay: $17.00

  About Save the Children

  Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

  Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

  Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

  Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

  Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

  The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

• About the company

  The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in nat...

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