Crisis Response Intern Summer 2025
Crisis Response Intern Summer 2025
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Organization Description
Vital Voices Global Partnership is a leading international nonprofit organization. We invest in women leaders who are tackling the worlds greatest challenges from genderbased violence to the climate crisis economic inequities and more. We are venture catalysts identifying leaders with a daring vision for change and partnering with them to make that vision a reality. What sets Vital Voices apart is that we make longterm holistic investments in leaders with bold ideas for change providing them connections capacity a network of their peers financial support and visibility for their work. We have provided early support for leaders who went on to become Nobel Peace Laureates US Youth Poet Laureates Prime Ministers award winning innovators and breakthrough social entrepreneurs. Over the past 24 years we have directly invested in more than 47000 changemakers across 188 countries who in turn have improved the lives of millions of people in their communities and countries.
Today Vital Voices has a staff of nearly 100 headquartered in Washington DC. In the coming years we have a bold vision to dramatically scale our impact. In early 2022 we opened the first ever Global Headquarters for Womens Leadership a 30000 sq. ft. historic building just blocks from the White House on 16th Street. It is a hub of activity events and collaborations bringing together women leaders and their allies to tackle the worlds greatest challenges.
Mission
Vital Voices invests in women leaders taking on the worlds greatest challenges and accelerates collective action towards an equitable and sustainable world.
Organizational Goals 2030
- Scale our proven investment model from 47000 to 50000 women leaders who together will positively impact the lives of one billion people.
- Make a measurable impact on 12 of the greatest challenges as defined by the Vital Voices Global Network proving the power of collective action.
- Cultivate a critical mass of people around the world who believe that womens leadership has a positive impact.
Summary
The Vital Voices team is seeking a motivated intern who will provide administrative and programmatic support to the Crisis Response department and assist with research of global crisis development of communication materials grant documentation and case management. The Intern will work across a portfolio of projects alongside the Crisis Response team and learn from crossfunctional teams with leaders and peers with various backgrounds education and experiences.
In early 2022 Vital Voices launched a new Crisis Response department to respond to the emergency support needs of global women leaders and activists facing persecution due to their voice and leadership. Informed by ongoing consultations with experts and members of the impacted communities the Crisis Response Team provides training casework support and direct funding to nonprofit and political leaders journalists businesswomen lawyers judges teachers and other activists who are being targeted because they are women changemakers.
Responsibilities include:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Program Support: Support the development of crisis management programmatic plans and systems including but not limited to policies standards procedures casework management tools and templates;
- Research:Conduct research of global crisis and gender related topics based on department priorities.
- Monitoring and Evaluation:Support M&E activities to assess the impact of the Crisis Response Programs and identify areas for improvement.
- Administration:Support overall organizational tasks such as scheduling meetings notetaking and tracking progress towards weekly and quarterly goals.
- Planning and Logistics:Assist with travel planning and logistics of the Crisis Readiness Cohort.
- Communication:Support communication efforts including issue briefs and blog posts to showcase the work of the Crisis Response Team
- Other duties as assigned.
Professional Qualifications:
- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program and majoring in International Studies/Relations/Affairs Political Science or other relevant fields;
- Strong demonstrated interest in global womens issues;
- Excellent oral and written communications skills in English;
- Ability to prioritize tasks swiftly shift priorities and work in a fastpaced environment with tight deadlines sometimes under difficult or challenging circumstances;
- Ability to work independently and as part of a dynamic team;
- Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and selfawareness;
- Strong computer skills including MS Office applications (esp. Excel Word and PowerPoint) social networking tools and database software (i.e. Salesforce).
The stipend for this 10week position is $3000 based on a 3040 hour work week and will be paid in 3 increments throughout the program. For part time interns the stipend is $1500 and based on a 1520 hour work week. This role will begin on May 27th and run through August 2nd 2025. 10 weeks)
The internship program is a hybrid position and requires at minimum 2 days in our DC office per week 1 day for parttime interns). Remote interns may be considered on a case by case basis.
Vital Voices provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements Vital Voices complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Vital Voices expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age genetic information disability or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Vital Voices employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.
Staff may experience secondary trauma due to exposure to descriptive and/or graphic genderbased violence content in their work on the urgent assistance program. Vital Voices does not provide work visa sponsorship or relocation assistance for this position.
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
