Summer Intern

Contract, Part-time

No

Summer Intern at CASA-NYC: Gain Experience in Non-Profit Sector

Organization Overview:

- Volunteer-based, not-for-profit organization
- Provides advocacy for children and youth involved in NYC child welfare proceedings
- Mission: ensure needs and rights of children in foster care are met, and move into safe and permanent homes quickly
- Impact of intergenerational trauma, structural racism, and chronic poverty on clients
- Actively integrating trauma-informed, anti-racist principles into work
- Partner with family members and allies to overcome barriers and achieve equitable outcomes
- Encourage candidates fluent in multiple languages and from historically oppressed groups to apply
- Committed to advancing racial justice and civil rights in advocacy
- Value diversity, equity, and inclusion in staff and organization culture
- Actively recruit and seek to maintain a diverse staff
- Develop pathway to leadership opportunities for historically oppressed populations

Position Description:

- Seeking motivated and enthusiastic summer intern to support executive director and management staff
- Assist with general administrative and operational tasks and special projects
- Excellent opportunity for student or recent graduate to gain hands-on experience in non-profit sector

Key Responsibilities:

- Solicit, manage, organize, and distribute in-kind donations for program participants
- Assist Director of Older Youth Services with outreach and support for older youth transitioning from foster care
- Observe and take notes on court proceedings
- Provide administrative support to management team
- Assist with maintaining and organizing office records, files, supplies, and databases
- Coordinate logistics for events, meetings, and programs
- Conduct research on child welfare interventions and outcomes
- Conduct data entry and analysis
- Take minutes during meetings and distribute to relevant team members
- Assist with planning and implementation of events involving staff, volunteers, and program participants
- Assist with development of social media content
- Update internal policy and protocol documents
- Other tasks as assigned by supervisor

Qualifications:

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- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and reliable
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace
- Ability to take initiative and work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated interest in social justice and non-profit sector
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion principles
- Experience volunteering or working with children/youth in marginalized communities a plus

Salary Information:

- $20/hour
- 20 hours/week
- Approximately June 1st - August 9th
- Hybrid work environment (2-3 days each from home and CASA-NYC office at 48 Wall Street)

To Apply:

- Email resume and detailed cover letter to with "Summer Intern" in subject line
- Cover letter should include statement about interest in advocating for improved services for children and youth in foster care and how this experience will further personal and professional goals

Organization Information:

- Partner project of Fund for the City of New York
- Equal opportunity employer
- Encourage people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ-identified, and differently-abled candidates to apply

Fluency in multiple languages encouraged

Administrative, organizational, communication, microsoft office, google workspace, research, data entry, event planning, social media

Undergraduate degree or recent graduate

Email resume and cover letter to with "Summer Intern" in the subject line.

Qualification and Experience Undergraduate student or recent graduate

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