Summer 2025 Employment Services Intern IINE Lowell
Summer 2025 Employment Services Intern IINE Lowell
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Summer 2025 Employment Services Intern (IINE Lowell)
The International Institute of New England is a 501(c)3 nonprofit serving refugees and immigrants in Boston MA Lowell MA and Manchester NH. The Institute offers internships to students graduate students and recent graduates with demonstrated interest or experience in supporting refugee asylee and immigrant populations. Each internship includes an educational component through which interns contextualize their experience and reflect on their service.
All internships are unpaid and correspond roughly with the US semester system:
Summer Internship: June through midAugust 2025
(Applications requested by May 2nd considered thereafter until positions are filled)
First consideration is given to applicants that can commit at least 16 hours per week over the course of the semester outlined above. Applicants are encouraged to apply regardless of whether their schedule fits the semester system; IINE makes exceptions on a casebycase basis. Slots fill quickly and candidates are encouraged to apply earlier than the requested date above.
Please note that this internship will be a hybrid format meaning that some inperson hours at our Lowell MA office are required.
Career Services Internship Overview
Our Employment Services program places newlyarrived refugees into their first jobs in the US as well as refugees who are seeking job upgrades. Employment Specialists work one on one with clients to develop job resumes search for openings complete applications and attend job interviews. Once refugee clients are placed in a job Employment Specialists track retention at regular intervals and offer a variety of continued support and coaching for the individuals as they settle into their new job. Interns meet oneonone with clients to provide additional resume and cover letter writing support help practice for interviews with potential employers and to answer questions clients may have once they start new jobs.
Reports To: Lead Employment Services Case Specialist
Location: Lowell MA (hybrid format)
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist the Case Specialist to provide feedback to clients working on resumes cover letters and job applications
- Practice with clients ahead of interviews
- Check in with clients about their applications and interviews
- Accompany clients to interviews and job fairs
- Follow up with potential employers until a decision is made
- Help clients identify and apply to apprenticeship and training programs related to their career goals
- Teach Work Orientation Workshops
- Regularly summarize client accomplishments and feedback for Case Specialist
- Document clientfacing activities through case notes and other forms of documentation
Qualifications:
- Interest in international refugee asylee and/or immigrant issues
- Patience speaking with nonnative English speakers/nonEnglish speakers
- Professionalism discretion and maturity in dealing with confidential information
- Experience with US job application process
- Experience editing and formatting especially resumes and cover letters
- Language skills in Arabic French Spanish Pashto Somali Haitian Creole Swahili Kinyarwanda or Nepali preferred
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Highly organized with great attention to detail
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word Excel Outlook and PowerPoint
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize and create strong resumes and cover letters while honing editing and formatting skills
- Successfully build relationships and refer candidates to potential employers
- Successfully navigate the application interview and orientation processes typical of recruitment systems used by US employers
- Identify and access community resources and services particularly those that cater to the needs of refugees and immigrants.
- Understand the US Refugee Resettlement program as well as what part the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and resettlement agencies like the International Institute of New England play in receiving and integrating refugees.
- Respectfully express and engage with ideas and values in a multicultural multilingual environment.
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
