Job Location : Beltsville,MD, USA
Save the Children's U.S. Programs (USP) division is seeking an intern for fall 2024 on our Philanthropic Partnerships, External Affairs team. The remote internship will provide you with an opportunity to use your critical research skills to conduct prospect research and new business development to support our work across rural America. Save the Children's expertise is on reaching children early - from birth through elementary school; and our goals are to increase kindergarten readiness and grade-level literacy and math proficiency for children in under-resourced rural communities. The External Affairs department of USP is a collaborative team that is dedicated to driving resources (cash and Gift-in-Kind) to support our programs across rural America. We are seeking an intern to support our Philanthropic Partnerships team across a variety of fundraising projects, with a primary focus on prospect research and new business development.
What You'll be Doing (Essential Duties)
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
What's In It for You
Classification: Paid Intern or Fellow
Part-time: 16-24 hours per week (up to 8 hours max per day)
Dates: September 23 – December 6, 2024
Compensation: $17 / hour (interns only)
About Save the Children
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.
Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.
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