Summer 2025 Education Services Intern IINE Lowell
Summer 2025 Education Services Intern IINE Lowell
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Summer 2025 Education 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.
Education Services Internship Overview
IINEs English for Speakers of Other Languages Program serves clients ages 18 through studentcentered and experiential techniques. Interns serve as coaches to help clients gain beginning English skills that will allow them to secure jobs advance in their careers enter training programs or further their education. ESOL classes are held weekday mornings and evenings. All ESOL interns will be supervised by the ESOL Instructor and can expect to gain valuable experience developing and implementing lesson plans conducting workshops and tutoring students.
Reports To: ESOL Instructor
Location: Lowell MA (hybrid format)
Key Responsibilities:
- Help facilitate orientations for newly arrived refugee clients.
- Assist teachers with instruction in the ESOL classes
- Tutor students oneonone
- Assist the ESOL Instructor in updating client records
- Provide general administrative assistance to the ESOL Program teams
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
- Tutoring or teaching experience especially in small groups or on a oneonone basis
- Experience teaching or tutoring adult learners preferred
- Participation in educationfocused programs and Englishteaching certifications (TEFL TESL TESOL) given first consideration
- Language skills in Arabic Dari Pashto French Spanish Portuguese Somali Swahili Kinyarwanda or Haitian Creole preferred
- Highly organized with great attention to detail
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word Excel Outlook and PowerPoint
Learning Objectives:
- Prepare and facilitate studentcentered classroom instruction for adult continuing education programs
- Identify and employ best practices to communicate with ESOL students of all levels
- Gain multilevel classroom management skills
- 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
