Workforce Programs Intern

Job Description

Job Description

Workforce Programs Intern

Hiring Fall 2024

Mission : Neighborhood Villages designs and scales innovative and collaborative solutions to the biggest challenges facing early education and child care providers serving families with young children ages 0-5 and advances sustainable, equity-driven systems change through advocacy, education, and policy reform.

About Neighborhood Villages : Neighborhood Villages is a Massachusetts systems-change non-profit working to create a future in which all families have access to affordable, high-quality early education and care.

Collectively, NV's interlocking programs are designed to bolster the capacity of the early education and care system, in Massachusetts and across the country, to :

1) Recruit, retain, and develop a professional workforce of early educators and administrators,

2) Support educator professional development and program quality to promote excellence in education and ensure that children reach developmental and literacy milestones, and

3) Meet the full-scope wraparound needs of vulnerable children and families to ensure that they enter classrooms ready to learn and to thrive.

The Program Intern, reporting to the Chief Program Officer, will support a short-term project in the creation of a landscape visual of current ECE infrastructure in MA.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities :

• Assist in creation of a visual to demonstrate current landscape of infrastructure support to educators in the field
• Gather data from previously recorded meetings for content creation
• Attend future meetings around project and take notes, edit, and refine visual as needed
• Meet with Chief Program Officer weekly to discuss process updates

Qualifications :

• Post-secondary degree in progress
• Demonstrated interest and experience in early education
• Exceptional writing, research, and communication skills
• Previous design experience or knowledge in using design applications
• Exceptional ability to independently manage time
• Strong ability to work in a collaborative environment
• Intermediate to advanced skills in Excel

Application Deadline

Rolling

Start Date, End Dates, and Schedule

The start and end dates are flexible; however, this is a fall internship, and we are looking for a commitment of between 5 and 10 weeks.

Hours Per Week

Part-Time or Full-Time Available

Location

Neighborhood Villages is currently operating via a hybrid work model. The Intern will work remotely on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and will be invited (not required, but preferred) to work in-person from Neighborhood Villages' Dorchester office on Thursdays.

Other Requirements

The Intern will need to have access to a computer on which to complete work and an environment in which to complete work on remote work days.

Compensation :

We offer a stipend of $3,000 for 200 hours of work.

Neighborhood Villages does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, homelessness, or military status.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members.

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