Internship opportunities with Engage Globally

Engage Globally collaborates with interns to support our community-led sustainable development programs in rural Ghana and our virtual environmental education programming. All of our internships are virtual and unpaid. However, we are happy to support internships for academic credit and to help students apply for campus fellowships.
 
Our internships are designed to help students build or demonstrate professional skills including:
  • Communication – social media, marketing, graphic design, photo editing, video-making
  • Environmental education 
  • Crowdfunding / virtual fundraising
  • Understanding of justice, diversity, equity and inclusion in sustainable development
  • Environmental advocacy and engagement
 
We seek interns who:
  • Are interested in environmental education, environmental advocacy, or fundraising and communications for small non-profits
  • Would like to work 18-20 hours per week virtually in the summer and 15 hours per week virtually in the spring and fall
  • Are very well organized and who can work independently 
  • Enjoy working in virtual collaborative teams with other interns
 
What do interns with Engage Globally do?

Each intern will work on the following:
  • A core project (see descriptions below) 
  • Crowdfunding – all interns participate in a one week crowdfunding effort to support our work in Ghana 
  • Online research to create resource lists, such as creating a concisely summarized chart of environmental success stories 
  • Personal professional development – resumes, professional trainings of your choice, weekly reflections, Zoom meetings
 
How do I apply? 

Pre-application steps:
Applying:
  • Email your attached resume and a cover email (no cover letter is needed) to Heather Heckel at [email protected]
  • In your cover email please include:
    • If you are doing an internship for academic credit or fellowship program and if yes, then with what school/program?
    • Which internship projects you are most interested in (see below) and why?
    • What your current career goal is - i.e. if you could have your dream job at age 28, what would that job be?

Examples of internship projects:

  • Environmental education interns
    • Research environmental education materials online
    • Design environmentally themed curriculum for use in our schools in Ghana - ages 3 to 12
    • Create educational materials for a public audience on sustainable living and environmental conservation
    • Virtual event planning for fundraising and education
   
  • Development assistance
    • Conduct fundraising research
    • Reach out to potential community and small business partners
    • Learn about and practice crowdfunding

  • Social media post design / graphic design / website editing / photo editing / video creation
    • Support our communication projects by producing material highlighting our programs in Ghana
    • For this internship, interns need to have experience with Canva and professional social media communication and ideally will know how to use a video making software (for creating videos from photographs).
 
  • Environmental artists
    • We are seeking interns who are interested in the intersections of environmental conservation and artistic creativity
    • Interns will research environmental arts, developing resource lists
    • Interns will produce their own art (drawings, paintings, photographs) to illustrate our projects in Ghana - these booklets are designed to magnify the voices of rural community members, especially youth and children. They will also be used as learning materials in our three learning centers in Northern Ghana. 

        
     Engage Globally is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), click here for information on our approach to inclusive communities.