Description
The Immigrant Youth English Cafe Intern will support the Miami-Dade-based Immigrant Youth team in delivering essential services to immigrant children and their families.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading conversational English skills for youth and adults.
- Preparing topics, materials, and talking points for each session.
- Planning and scheduling the English Café.
- Leading several weekly English Café sessions.
- Assisting with creating a promotional campaign to engage clients in the English Café.
- Assisting with outreach to local organizations to help establish partnerships within the community.
- Helping with data collection and tracking related to the English Café attendance.
The intern will learn how to:
- Design and deliver project-based social services.
- Develop leadership skills.
- Develop skills in client empowerment and advocacy.
- Learn cultural sensitivity.
Requirements:
- Passionate about language education.
- Excellent communication and writing skills.
- Organized with attention to detail.
- Able to work independently and under pressure.
- An interest in international issues.
- Strong desire to help people and enthusiasm for working in a multicultural setting.
- Computer literacy – preferably with PC systems.
- Access to internet.
- Must pass a background check.
- Must be at least 18 years old.
- Minimum commitment of 15 hours per week for a minimum of 3 consecutive months.
- Submit intern hours on volunteer dashboard.
- Bilingual in English/Spanish.
The internship will be filled on a rolling basis. We will continue to accept applications until August 14th, 2026, or until the position is filled, whichever occurs first. Internship will begin the week of September 8th, 2026.