# Financial Capability Intern

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Silver Spring, MD
**Job type**: part-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Financial Capability Program (FinCap) as part of the Economic Empowerment Program supports clients to become financially independent through financial education, credit building, coaching and providing low-interest loan products.

Responsibilities:

- Reach out to potential clients explaining the IRC financial program services and products

- Assess client needs, develop short-term and long-term financial goals and enroll clients in relevant programming

- Assist financial coaches with scheduling, client meetings and financial workshops

- Facilitate financial literacy workshops for clients

- Lead our women’s financial empowerment program by providing gender-focused workshops aimed at increasing women’s financial participation

- Collaborate, build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues

- Adhere to IRC policies, particularly those related to confidentiality and client privacy

- Other duties as identified by IRC staff

Learning Objectives:

- Intern will learn about personal finance topics and managing personal finance methods

- Intern will gain insights into IRC casework and financial literacy programs and the process of refugee and asylee integration within the United States

- Intern will learn to communicate effectively with clients across cultures and with interpreters

- Intern will learn individual coaching techniques to engage and empower adults

- Intern will learn about financial literacy topics, financial systems and how to navigate them effectively

- Intern will learn presentation and inter-personal skills

Qualifications:

- Self-motivated; able to work independently

- Ability to collaborate with fellow interns and staff - this is a team-focused internship

- Excellent communication and writing skills, including cross-cultural communicative skills

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

- Confident in public speaking or interest to develop these skills

- Strong interest in refugee and asylee issues

- Language skills in Amharic, Arabic, Dari, Farsi, French, Kinyarwanda, Spanish, or Swahili are a plus

- Three months minimum. Required 20+ hours/week. Preferred 35+ hours/week

- Preference to current students and recent graduates

## Skills

### Required
- financial education
- credit building
- coaching
- communication
- teamwork

### Nice to have
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Dari
- Farsi
- French
- Kinyarwanda
- Spanish
- Swahili

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