Youth Safeguarding & Autonomy Intern
On-siteArlington, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Youth Safeguarding & Autonomy Intern supports design and improvement of Youth Safeguarding and Youth Autonomy trainings, makes them more engaging and aligned with real-world contexts, leads updates to Ashoka’s Youth Autonomy Toolkit with staff and young people, conducts research on the insurance landscape affecting youth-serving organizations, helps identify opportunities to influence the field, engages with young people and educators to gather insights, and contributes to internal strategy and external-facing materials. The role requires strong research and writing, comfort working independently in a remote environment, collaboration across a distributed team, openness to learning from young people as co-leaders, and a drive to contribute to systemic change in youth development and safeguarding.
Desired Qualifications
- Curiosity about systems and change
- Strong research skills
- Clear writing ability
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment
- Collaborative work across a distributed team
- Self-motivation and entrepreneurial mindset
- Detail-oriented and organized
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Willingness to learn from young people as co-leaders
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