Refugee Cultural Orientation Intern, Summer 2024

The Cultural Orientation (CO) program is a part of the IRC’s holistic and built-in strategy to resettlement. Cultural orientation supplies coaching to newly arrived refugees to foster a greater understanding of their new atmosphere and the providers obtainable to them within the Louisville space. The Summer season 2024 Cultural Orientation Intern works in shut coordination with the Resettlement Supervisor to design, develop, and ship structured coaching classes on subjects corresponding to monetary administration, U.S. legal guidelines, housing, transportation, security, healthcare, and cultural adjustment with a view to support refugees on their journey in direction of self-sufficiency.

That is an unpaid internship place that requires a minimal dedication of 20 hours every week for at the very least two months.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Intern will develop an understanding of the native sources obtainable to refugee and immigrant purchasers within the Louisville space.
• Intern will deepen their understanding of the distinctive boundaries, challenges, and belongings of the refugee and immigrant communities.
• Intern will acquire expertise in educating, program coordination, and curriculum design.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Present equal therapy to all consumer teams in accordance with the company’s dedication to the dignity of all individuals.
• Coordinate with workers and purchasers to schedule Cultural Orientation.
• Help within the facilitation of Cultural Orientation to purchasers.
• Schedule interpreters for Cultural Orientation courses as wanted.
• Help within the administration of Cultural Orientation assessments.
• Help resettlement workers in improvement of revised curriculum for Cultural Orientation.
• Different duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS

• Capacity to deal with delicate consumer data confidentially.
• Robust intercultural communication abilities, together with demonstrated skill to work successfully with individuals from various backgrounds and throughout language boundaries.
• Capacity to work independently and as part of a crew.
• Comfy with Microsoft Workplace merchandise and willingness to be taught to make use of new software program for knowledge entry.
• Adherence to IRC volunteer/intern and office insurance policies.
• Fluency/proficiency in English, each spoken and written, are required; proficiency in language(s) spoken by consumer group is desired, however not required.

TRAINING & GUIDANCE

In-depth coaching will probably be offered for interns to grasp IRC programming and the varied wants of purchasers accessing IRC providers. Interns will obtain coaching on IRC’s federal R&P and APA service agreements and their programmatic necessities for resettlement providers. Interns with consumer languages who may function an interpreter will obtain steerage on insurance policies when deciphering. Different exercise particular coaching will probably be offered as wanted. Flexibility, initiative, and a want to collaborate are important qualities for this intern alternative. A high-level of confidentiality is required when working with IRC purchasers.

Please word that that is an UNPAID internship; nonetheless, IRC Louisville will present mileage reimbursement for private car utilization for consumer providers in the course of the internship. All intern alternatives are contingent on clearing a background test*. Interns should adhere to the IRC intern and office insurance policies, which incorporates confidentiality and consumer safeguarding.

FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS, & YOUTH PROGRAM LEADERS

If you want to debate connecting your group with the IRC in Louisville for internship alternatives, please e-mail Alma Herović, Improvement Supervisor, at [email protected] with the topic line “INTERNSHIP.”

OTHER WAYS TO GET INVOLVED & SUPPORT

• Study extra concerning the IRC’s work at Rescue.org/Louisville
• Battle for insurance policies that ship actual change for the individuals we serve: Rescue.org/take-action

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