Global Development Internship
Intern abroad with a Isla's partner non-profit, non-governmental organizations or social enterprises in East Africa, the Balkans of Europe, or India. Experience inclusive global sustainable development at the grassroots level.
Isla recruits interns to assist our local partner organizations on a 9-26-week internship. Typically, interns will have the education, skills, and/or the work experience to meet the needs of the local organizations. For example:
What will I be doing from day to day?
Our local partner organizations have identified specific needs and seek an intern with the right combination of interest and knowledge to work with them to address a specific organizational need..Your initial Scope of Work, which is created by your host organization, is the foundation of your internship experience. A work plan, developed by you and your supervisor, will guide you throughout your internship experience.
One day you may be organizing or facilitating a training while another day you might be implementing a survey to local households. Each position is unique and tailored to match and grow your skills while you provide valuable support to your host organization.
This is a small sample of the possibilities! Click here to choose from the list of internship descriptions.
- Do you have the financial planning skills to help an agricultural coop get its house in order?
- Can you help an HIV/AIDS advocacy organization create and execute a communications plan to share their message with the community?
- Does your experience working with youth inspire you to become an advocate for youth reproductive health and rights education?
- Would you like to contribute your social entrepreneurship knowledge to help a small business develop and have a social impact?
What will I be doing from day to day?
Our local partner organizations have identified specific needs and seek an intern with the right combination of interest and knowledge to work with them to address a specific organizational need..Your initial Scope of Work, which is created by your host organization, is the foundation of your internship experience. A work plan, developed by you and your supervisor, will guide you throughout your internship experience.
One day you may be organizing or facilitating a training while another day you might be implementing a survey to local households. Each position is unique and tailored to match and grow your skills while you provide valuable support to your host organization.
This is a small sample of the possibilities! Click here to choose from the list of internship descriptions.
Customized Internship
Do you have a specific skill set, education, and/or work experience that is not indicated in our internship descriptions listed on our website that you would like to share with us?
Perhaps your education and expertise is in health, public health, social work, midwifery, environmental issues, climate change, early childhood education, youth development, business, social entrepreneurship, finance, fundraising, grant writing, agribusiness and farmer cooperative development, agriculture, natural resources, forestry, international relations, social justice, women's empowerment, appropriate technology and more?!
If so, then you need to let us know! For more information about how you can apply for a customized internship, please contact the Isla team at info@isla-serve.org.
Gap Service Trip
Are you a mid- or post- career professional in between jobs or careers? Or, perhaps you wish to reinvent your career path? Or, maybe you are looking for an alternative, short-term meaningful vacation? Or, you are retired and want a meaningful experience abroad?
Then look no further than an Isla GAP Service Trip. We use the term "gap" internship not as an actual period of time, but as an opportunity for mid- and post-career professionals to fill a gap of time. We offer short-term experiences in global development for you to share your knowledge, possibly even gain new knowledge towards a new career, or simply to have a meaningful time off work for as little as 1-3 weeks and up to 9+ weeks. The Isla GAP Service program seeks working professionals with specific skills and experiences to work on targeted projects with our local partner organizations and social enterprises.
What specific skills might you have to offer?
Many of our partners have specific organizational nee
Our partners also benefit from the expertise of GAP professionals who have experience in the following fields:
Then look no further than an Isla GAP Service Trip. We use the term "gap" internship not as an actual period of time, but as an opportunity for mid- and post-career professionals to fill a gap of time. We offer short-term experiences in global development for you to share your knowledge, possibly even gain new knowledge towards a new career, or simply to have a meaningful time off work for as little as 1-3 weeks and up to 9+ weeks. The Isla GAP Service program seeks working professionals with specific skills and experiences to work on targeted projects with our local partner organizations and social enterprises.
What specific skills might you have to offer?
Many of our partners have specific organizational nee
- Business and financial planning
- Resource mobilization and grant writing
- Fundraising
- Marketing, including online marketing and social media
- Communications and public relations
- Human resources
- Strategic planning
- Organizational development
- Entrepreneurship and social enterprise development
Our partners also benefit from the expertise of GAP professionals who have experience in the following fields:
- Education - early childhood, elementary, and high school teaching; Montessori; youth development; higher education
- Health and well being - nutrition; maternal and child care; sexual reproductive health and HIV/AIDS; occupational, physical, art, music therapies; nursing; public health policy; public health campaigns; health care management.
- Environment - natural resources and wildlife conservation, education, policy, climate change, renewable energy, clean water and air, ecology, recycling basics and waste management.
- Social enterprise development
Faculty-Led & Service-Learning Trips
There is strength in numbers! Are you a faculty member looking to lead a group on an academic experience and field visit with a focus on global sustainable development?
Isla can arrange the trip and place group participants in internships with our host organizations.. All it takes is a group of five or more students to make up an experience of a lifetime.
We can also design a custom service learning program related to the challenges faced by one or more of our local partner organizations. This is an opportunity to implement skills directly with a local partner organization for a short-term experience. Programs range from 10-21 days.
Go beyond team-building and have a real IMPACT!
We can also design a custom service learning program related to the challenges faced by one or more of our local partner organizations. This is an opportunity to implement skills directly with a local partner organization for a short-term experience. Programs range from 10-21 days.
Go beyond team-building and have a real IMPACT!
