# Economic Empowerment Intern

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Silver Spring, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: internship
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Non-profit

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## Description

The Economic Empowerment program assists refugees to become economically self-sufficient by placing humanitarian immigrants in entry-level work in the United States. The goal of the program is to help clients reduce barriers to self-sufficiency and employment and assist clients in securing full-time jobs.

Responsibilities:

- Assess new clients by creating their individual initial employment plan.

- Create individualized resumes and cover letters, assist with finding job leads, and complete job applications with clients.

- Strategically research potential employer partners and conduct outreach.

- Regularly track service provision through electronic data entry and organize required client documentation.

- Manage distribution and tracking of in-kind donations to clients.

- Other duties assigned by the employment team.

Learning Objectives:

- Gain experience conducting employment assessments.

- Gain insight into immigrant workforce programs.

- Learn how to communicate effectively in a global environment, including utilizing interpreters.

- Acquire knowledge of programs and public benefits available to humanitarian immigrants.

- Learn how to effectively create resumes and job search for clients.

- Gain skills in strategic research and outreach strategies.

- Learn reporting requirements for resettlement agencies and how capturing this data improves services.

Qualifications:

- Current undergraduate, graduate student or less than 12 months out of school.

- Minimum 24 hours per week, three-month commitment and three full working days per week; full-time 32-40 hours per week highly preferred.

- Strong digital literacy skills and the ability to learn new software and tasks.

- Organized and attentive to detail.

- Ability to work independently and multi-task.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

- Works well in a fast-paced environment and adapts quickly to change.

- Interest in working with refugee and humanitarian populations.

- Fluency in Dari, Pashto, Spanish, Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda, Tigrinya, Amharic or other languages frequently spoken by the client base is a plus.

- Access to an insured vehicle preferred, but not required.

## Skills

### Required
- digital literacy
- organizational skills
- communication skills
- multi-tasking

### Nice to have
- Dari
- Pashto
- Spanish
- Kiswahili
- Kinyarwanda
- Tigrinya
- Amharic

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