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POSITION TITLE: Green Girls College Intern
ORGANIZATION: City Parks Foundation
Green Girls After School is a STEM-based program that engages middle school girls from under-resourced communities in hands-on activities and outdoor adventures in New York City parks and waterways. During our weekly after school program, students explore environmental science and learn about different environmental issues through experiential education, service learning projects and student-centered discussions.
CPF has created this internship opportunity for talented college students to gain hands-on experience working with youth and explore environmental science education while helping to promote environmental stewardship, community awareness and positive youth development. Green Girls After School program operates during the school year, after school hours between (3:00 pm – 6 pm) from October 2021 to June, 2022. Each site meets once a week for a total of 12 weeks each semester.
CPF is seeking a college intern for the Fall to assist Green Girls After School Program Manager in providing instruction and guidance to middle school girls and high school interns during program hours for up to 15 hours each week from October to January, up to a total of 182 hours. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge in environmental science and basic understanding of youth development. Green Girls After School takes place at 4 different sites throughout Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. The college intern will be required to travel to and from our Monday and Friday program sites independently and participate in any planned field trips which take place throughout the city. The college intern may be asked to work at the CPF education department main offices at 1234 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10029 and virtually as needed.
For the full position description and application instructions, click here.
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POSITION TITLE: NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens
ORGANIZATION: Graduate Intern
NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens is seeking a graduate intern to support various exciting and innovative early childhood programs (Healthy Steps, VIP, Centering Parenting, etc) within our pediatric department. Responsibilities may include:
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary staff within pediatrics clinic
- Administrative and clinical support for programs
- Multidisciplinary team meetings
- Data management
- Learning about and observing integrated behavioral health initiatives: VIP, Centering, Reach Out and Read
For the full position description and application instructions, click here.
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POSITION TITLE: Research Intern
ORGANIZATION: MoveUp, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute
STUDY DESCRIPTION: This research study will explore the impact of the COVID-19 on justice-involved youth 18-24 years old, including substance use, engaging in risky sexual behaviors and access to treatment.
DUTIES: Interns will be asked to remotely conduct structured, 2 hour follow up interviews via computer and/or phone with study participants. They will also conduct participant tracking (both via telephone and home visits), data entry, and other office-related activities. This internship has some in-person components: home visits for participant tracking and occasionally conducting in-person interviews. WHAT TO
EXPECT: This unpaid internship offers the opportunity to learn about the process of conducting a large-scale randomized control trial. Interns will receive extensive training on interview and retention techniques, and will have the opportunity to gain skills and experience related to in-depth interviewing, participant and tracking, and data collection.
For the full position description and application instructions, click here.
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POSITION TITLE: Research Intern
ORGANIZATION: Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute
STUDY DESCRIPTION: The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is currently seeking a qualified candidate to work as a volunteer Research Assistant on a project that will compare the ability of two social network strategies to reach those who use opioids and other substances in order to increase their uptake of onsite COVID-19 testing. This testing will be delivered in two community-based organizations located in New York City (South Bronx, Washington Heights, Lower East Side). The is not a remote position, the Research Assistant will be expected in the field – working out of both organizations.
DUTIES: Interns will be asked to screen potential participants, consent eligible participants for the study and conduct a structured 45-minute survey. We will provide training.
WHAT TO EXPECT: This unpaid internship offers the opportunity to learn about the process of conducting a large-scale randomized control trial. Interns will receive extensive training on interview and retention techniques and will have the opportunity to gain skills and experience related to in-depth interviewing, participant and tracking, and data collection.
For the full position description and application instructions, click here.
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POSITION TITLE: Policy Research Intern
ORGANIZATION: International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (IPPFWHR)
The Global Advocacy for Change Unit leads the design and implementation of IPPFWHR’s global sexual and reproductive justice advocacy strategy and plan. Acting as a feminist amplifier of partners’ knowledge and expertise and as a collaborator in creating change, the Unit supports the participation and recognition of women, girls, and gender-diverse people from the Global South – particularly those who have been impacted by colonialism and the African and Indigenous diaspora and forced migration and armed conflicts – in global policy making spaces and the global sexual and reproductive justice agenda. The Unit also convenes partners across IPPFWHR’s ecosystem to collectively define positions for key international forums. To support IPPFWHR’s expanded ecosystem, the Unit will create feminist structures that enable partners and others to bring their expertise and knowledge from the grassroots, national, and regional levels to global forums, as well as for bringing recommendations from global spaces back to activists on the ground.
The Policy Research Intern position will support the Global Advocacy for Change Unit (“the Unit”) at IPPFWHR. The Policy Research Intern will provide critical research and knowledge management support in the development and implementation of the Unit’s policy research portfolio. The Policy Research Intern will support the Unit’s institutional knowledge on key sexual and reproductive health and rights issues and identify opportunities for further research to support the Unit’s advocacy agenda. The Policy Research Intern will gain unique insight into the strategic and programmatic components necessary for a global feminist ecosystem to effect positive political change as well as develop a critical understanding of how the policies of the United States and other donor governments and agencies affect the health and lives of women and girls worldwide.
For the full job description and to apply, click here.
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POSITION TITLE: Intern, Public Information
ORGANIZATION: United Nations, Human Security Unit
The internship with the Human Security Unit, located in New York, is for a duration of three months. Depending on the needs of the unit and upon satisfactory performance of the intern, there is a possibility for extension for another three months. The total duration of the entire internship period is six months at maximum. For more information and case-studies on the Human Security Approach please consult: http://www.un.org/humansecurity/
See details of the post below. There is no cost to apply.
INTERN – PUBLIC INFORMATION, I (Temporary Job Opening)
United Nations
NEW YORK
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