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Internship Positions Thank you for your interest in joining the LAA team as an intern! The LAA offers a variety of internship opportunities that provide students valuable, hands-on experience in a Spanish-speaking environment. Check out our internship opportunities below! Communications & Public Relations Interns The Latin American Association offers internship opportunities for college students interested in developing public relations skills. Students gain experience in media relations, writing, editing, web site development, event planning, and marketing. Successful candidates will have strong writing and organization skills, along with high attention to detail, creativity and ability to meet deadlines and produce results. Bilingual English/Spanish skills preferred. 20 hours/week, flexible schedule, class credit available. Send cover letter, resume and two writing samples to Sarah Marske, Communications & Public Relations Manager, Latin American Association,
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, 2750 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30324, Fax: 404-638-1806. Back to top Community Outreach Interns For college students interested in working directly with the Latino community. Interns will gain an understanding of the needs affecting metro-Atlanta’s Latino population and gain skills relating to the social services field. Interns help with early childhood literacy programs, with teaching computer classes in Spanish, and assisting health and nutrition programs and other LAA services. Successful candidates will have a positive attitude, good people skills, and a strong desire to help the community. Bilingual English/Spanish skills is required. 16-20 hours/week, flexible schedule, class credit available. Send cover letter and resume to
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, Latin American Association, 2750 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30324. Back to top Education & Employment Program Interns For college students interested in working directly with the Latino community through educational and career building initiatives. Assist with registration process and facilitation of sessions for education classes such as ESL, Spanish literacy, computer skills, and citizenship. Also assists employment department with facilitating entry-level job seeker workshops in Spanish, helping clients with writing resumes and conducting mock-interview sessions. Interns gain skills in program facilitation and management, public speaking skills in Spanish, and the needs of the Latino community. Successful candidates will have a positive attitude, good organizational skills, attention to detail, and have the ability to work independently on projects. Bilingual English/Spanish skills is required. 16-20 hours/week, set schedule, class credit available. Send cover letter and resume to
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, Latin American Association, 2750 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30324. Back to top For college students seeking to gain experience in corporate fundraising and business development. Interns will gain an in-depth knowledge of fundraising planning and implementation methods and will support LAA fundraising efforts in various manners, such as the drafting of donation receipt letters and assistance with annual campaign activities. Position will require some administrative duties and intern will report directly to the Resource Development Manager. Successful candidates will be very outgoing with strong organizational and communication skills as well as the ability to multitask and meet set deadlines. Bilingual English/Spanish skills preferred. 20 hours/week, flexible schedule, class credit available.
Send cover letter and resume to Myrna Clemmons, Managing Director of Resource Development, Latin American Association,
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, 2750 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA 30342. Fax: 404-638-1806. Back to top Inspira! Youth Initiative Interns For college students interested in assisting in the coordination and development of LAA youth programs. Interns will work directly with the youth coordinator to carry out programs such as Mami y Yo, violin classes, and help prepare curriculum and recruitment for youth summer program and the Latino Youth Leadership Conference. Interns gain skills in youth program management and development, education initiatives, event planning, and issues affecting the Latino community. Successful candidates will have a positive attitude, good organizational skills, attentinon to detail, and have the ability to work independently on projects. Bilingual English/Spanish skills is preferred. 16-20 hours/week during months, flexible schedule, class credit available. Send cover letter and resume to
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, Latin American Association, 2750 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30324. Back to top Inspira! Youth Summer Program Interns For college students interested in working directly with Latino youth, ages 1st through 8th grade. These interns are responsible for directly over-seeing a group of students throughout the summer camp program. Interns lead math and science-focused programs, organize group activities, games, and chaperone field trips. Successful candidates will have a positive attitude, enjoy working with children, are highly responsible and flexible, and have the ability to work independently. Bilingual English/Spanish skills is preferred. 40 hours/week during months of June and July, flexible schedule, class credit available. Send cover letter and resume to
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, Latin American Association, 2750 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30324. Back to top Special Events Interns Interns will assist with event logistics for the LAA’s major fundraising events such as Latin Fever, Compañeros Awards Luncheon, EnLAAce events, and Open Houses. Interns will gain skills in event planning and post event-wrap-up, fundraising, donor relations, sponsor relations, and database management. Successful candidates will be very outgoing with the ability to make cold phone calls. Candidates must have significant knowledge of Excel, strong organization skills, high attention to detail, and ability to meet deadlines. Bilingual English/Spanish skills preferred. 16 - 20 hours/week, flexible schedule, class credit available. Send cover letter and resume to Veronica Maldonado, Development Manager, Latin American Association,
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2750 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30324 Back to top Volunteer Program Interns For college students interested in learning about volunteer coordination, outreach, and event planning. Interns will gain experience in volunteer program development, coordinating volunteer efforts, maintaining volunteer records, and volunteer surveys and appreciation. Interns will also learn about the various elements of working with community partners such as individuals, corporations, universities, nonprofits, and schools. Successful candidates will have a positive attitude, good people skills, organization skills, high attention to detail, creativity and ability to meet deadlines. Bilingual English/Spanish skills preferred. 16 - 20 hours/week, flexible schedule, class credit available. Send cover letter and resume to
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, Latin American Association, 2750 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30324. Back to top Summer 2011 Tutor-Mentor Intern The Youth Department of the Latin American Association will be holding its annual Summer Academic Program in June and July. The camp is designed to meet the unique needs of Latino youth and to help them take steps towards overcoming the achievement gap. The academics are focused on the reading, writing, and math subjects and the days activities are supplemented with educational and fun enrichment. The main purpose of the camp is to empower the students to believe in their immense potential, and in order to achieve this we need interns to be tutor-mentors to create valuable experiences for the participants. Each intern will be paired with a Teacher, and collaboratively they will teach a classroom of Latino youth for the course of 6 weeks. For more information, click here
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