Youth Education and Employability Intern
We offer a unique learning experience, providing practical work experience and a deeper understanding of the charity sector and community-based education.
As a Youth Education and Employability Intern, you’ll support the youth team to ensure the smooth and impactful delivery of our services, working closely with team members, girls, young women and their families.
The purpose of this role is to support the enhancement of our Spark Skills Programme by developing a comprehensive bank of reusable, engaging, and age-appropriate session plans.
The Spark Skills Program is a life skills initiative that offers weekly sessions to girls of secondary school age:
- Sparklers (Year 7)
- Junior Spark Skills (Years 8 and 9)
- Spark Skills (Years 10 and above)
These sessions empower girls to grow into confident women who can build strong, positive networks and contribute meaningfully to society.
Topics covered include friendships, mental health, confidence building, conflict resolution, and more. Additionally, you’ll work to embed the SkillsBuilder framework into our programme. SkillsBuilder provides a structured approach for developing essential, transferable skills in a consistent and measurable way, ensuring the girls gain lifelong skills for personal and professional success.
Working closely with the Life Skills and Employability Programme Lead, you will:
- Create a library of weekly session plans to support the Life Skills Programme.
- Embed the newly adopted SkillsBuilder framework to foster measurable skill development within the programme.
- Engage with the girls to integrate their ideas and interests into session planning.
- Design termly plans for all Life Skills clubs, ensuring a cohesive, well-rounded programme.
- Assist in the delivery of group sessions, activities, and workshops as needed.
- Research and source materials for activities and sessions.
- Build positive relationships with the women and girls who access our centre, contributing to a supportive community environment.
- Good interpersonal skills, able to work well within a diverse team
- Computer literate - Microsoft Outlook, Excel
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision
- Good time management
- Reliable and punctual
- An interest in working with children and young people, community development or social care
- Flexibility and willingness to lend a hand with a variety of activities as and when required Desirable:
- Experience of working with children or young people
- Experience of volunteering and/or workshop planning
- Some knowledge of a second language (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic)
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
We are an educational charity for women and girls, based in London. Inspired by Catholic Social Teaching in response to local needs, we address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Community Environments such as poor housing conditions, homelessness, lack of language and basic skills, and other barriers that can prevent our 800+ women and girls and their families from thriving. The services we have developed with and for our clients focus on education, training, and employability skills to enhance confidence and self-esteem, raise aspirations and provide opportunities and networks to improve the lives of the women and girls whom we serve. Our education and support programmes are flexible services tailored to the needs of the local community. All projects combine education with one-to-one mentoring. Social mobility mentoring is a science-based intervention that gives women and girls the tools to identify and overcome their specific challenges and improve their life chances. Our relational, trauma-informed and professional approach ensures women and girls recognise their worth and take concrete steps to build a bright future for themselves, their families and their communities.
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS
On-site Supervision and Support
Our internships include 24/7 on-site staff to support students working and living abroad. All students will also report to a supervisor at their internship site. Supervisors provide and oversee daily tasks, introduce the intern to team members, and mentor the intern in organizational agility, skill acquisition, and career readiness. Interns complete a midpoint and final evaluation, and supervisors complete a final evaluation of their interns. All work responsibilities and projects are approved in advance.
Academic Credit
Students on an internship have the opportunity to enroll in their home university for credit, or enroll in a course through API to transfer back to their university for credit. Email support-internships@apiexperience.com for more information and a syllabus.
Housing and Excursions
Housing and excursions are included in your internship and will be selectable during the application process.
Visa Sponsorship
This position does not offer visa sponsorship for non-US citizens
Visa Sponsorship (London, Edinburgh, Sydney only)
Selected candidates will be responsible for obtaining a temporary work visa with support from API, please note that this has an additional expense on the candidate. For more information visit our visa page