Community Relations Intern
Position Responsibilities
- Build a dynamic, online and real-world community
- Nurture the community and interact with our users through online properties
- Cultivate relationships with some of our most active users. You will be in tune with the community climate and will be able to influence key stakeholders to make critical process changes
- Help with off line marketing
- Mobilize users to organize community events
- Recruit ambassadors and buddies
- Work with participants and buddies to understand their needs
- Assist in the onboarding process of buddies and ambassadors
- Provide user feedback to the team
- Discover and analyze gaps in the user experience
- Find opportunities to increase user retention
About the Organization
This organization is a social tech startup that connects migrants, refugees, and locals through a language and culture exchange program helping them to feel integrated into the city where they moved to. It breaks barriers, promotes multilingualism, and equality, and democratizes language learning. Cultural incomprehension, stereotypes, language barrier, and ignorance lead to xenophobia, unemployment, criminality, and many others, and the organization aims at solving these social exclusion problems. It fulfills the social mission of integrating citizens through the value of their diversity. It's a cultural and language exchange program where anyone can apply as a student and/or a volunteer teacher allowing people from different cultures to meet, learn and share knowledge. We are a social business with a clear social mission and priorities. Its commercial offer aims only at ensuring financial sustainability.
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.