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Sustainable Communities | Gender Equality | Environmental Justice | Environmental Health | Environmental Education | Women's Empowerment | Women's Economic Development | Women's Education | Women's Safety from Violence | Women's Health | Women's Rights | Environmental Law and Policy | Women and the Environment
About
SUMMARY:
Women Thrive Worldwide's Global Development Policy program works to
ensure that the benefits of U.S. international assistance reach both
women and men in developing countries. We do this by raising
awareness about women's roles in development and in their economies
among policymakers in Congress and in the Administration; with others
in the development community; and with the general public. Women
Thrive Worldwide actively works to increase, monitor and provide
accountability on the U.S.'s investment in international assistance
programs, especially programs that invest in women and girls, and
particularly through indigenous women's organizations abroad.
Our goal is to ensure that U.S. international assistance creates
opportunities for women so that their potential is fully tapped for
reducing poverty and helping countries develop economically.
Time Commitment: 20-40 hours per week from mid-May until August 2008
SPECIFIC DUTIES INCLUDE:
-- Researching and drafting materials on gender in international
development issues;
-- Organizing Women Thrive Worldwide's members for meetings with
Congress;
-- Attending coalition meetings;
-- Tracking current legislation;
-- Occasionally helping with small administrative tasks, such as
updating Thrive's database.
Current projects that interns may be involved in include:
-- Campaign to End Gender-Based Violence through U.S. Leadership
-- Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive (GROWTH)
Act Campaign
-- Millennium Challenge Account.
ALL OF THE WOMEN THRIVE WORLDWIDE'S INTERNSHIPS REQUIRE:
-- Superior oral and written communication skills;
-- Excellent research skills;
-- Strong interest in international development economics, or
political organizing for international women's issues;
-- Enthusiastic and self-motivated work style with attention to
detail;
-- Interest and/or course work in international economics,
development or women's issues;
-- Excellent computer skills, particularly Microsoft Word, Excel
and PowerPoint;
-- Experience with Congress a plus.
Women Thrive Worldwide has had much success with many interns. You
will learn a lot and get a great reference. We invest a lot in our
interns and you will have a high degree of responsibility and very
high level of involvement in the organization.
Women Thrive Worldwide will reimburse reasonable daily transportation
costs.
TO APPLY:
Please send cover letter, resume, short writing sample and contact
information for 3 references to Seema Jalan, Senior Policy Manager,
(sjalan@womensedge.org)
or mail hard copy to: Women Thrive Worldwide, 1825 Connecticut
Avenue, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20009.
No phone calls/fax please. Be sure to mention "Global Development
Policy Internship" on the application. Only short-listed candidates
will be contacted.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: MAY 05, 2008.
Website: http://www.womensedge.org
Women Thrive Worldwide's Global Development Policy program works to
ensure that the benefits of U.S. international assistance reach both
women and men in developing countries. We do this by raising
awareness about women's roles in development and in their economies
among policymakers in Congress and in the Administration; with others
in the development community; and with the general public. Women
Thrive Worldwide actively works to increase, monitor and provide
accountability on the U.S.'s investment in international assistance
programs, especially programs that invest in women and girls, and
particularly through indigenous women's organizations abroad.
Our goal is to ensure that U.S. international assistance creates
opportunities for women so that their potential is fully tapped for
reducing poverty and helping countries develop economically.
Time Commitment: 20-40 hours per week from mid-May until August 2008
SPECIFIC DUTIES INCLUDE:
-- Researching and drafting materials on gender in international
development issues;
-- Organizing Women Thrive Worldwide's members for meetings with
Congress;
-- Attending coalition meetings;
-- Tracking current legislation;
-- Occasionally helping with small administrative tasks, such as
updating Thrive's database.
Current projects that interns may be involved in include:
-- Campaign to End Gender-Based Violence through U.S. Leadership
-- Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive (GROWTH)
Act Campaign
-- Millennium Challenge Account.
ALL OF THE WOMEN THRIVE WORLDWIDE'S INTERNSHIPS REQUIRE:
-- Superior oral and written communication skills;
-- Excellent research skills;
-- Strong interest in international development economics, or
political organizing for international women's issues;
-- Enthusiastic and self-motivated work style with attention to
detail;
-- Interest and/or course work in international economics,
development or women's issues;
-- Excellent computer skills, particularly Microsoft Word, Excel
and PowerPoint;
-- Experience with Congress a plus.
Women Thrive Worldwide has had much success with many interns. You
will learn a lot and get a great reference. We invest a lot in our
interns and you will have a high degree of responsibility and very
high level of involvement in the organization.
Women Thrive Worldwide will reimburse reasonable daily transportation
costs.
TO APPLY:
Please send cover letter, resume, short writing sample and contact
information for 3 references to Seema Jalan, Senior Policy Manager,
(sjalan@womensedge.org)
or mail hard copy to: Women Thrive Worldwide, 1825 Connecticut
Avenue, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20009.
No phone calls/fax please. Be sure to mention "Global Development
Policy Internship" on the application. Only short-listed candidates
will be contacted.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: MAY 05, 2008.
Website: http://www.womensedge.org
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