Internship Opportunities at Global Citizens for Sustainable Development (GCSD) for the year 2012.

Period:

1. Three months Internship Program (1st January – 31st March 2012)

Deadline: 30th November 2011

2. Six months Internship Program (1st January – 30th June 2012)

Deadline: 30th November 2011

3. SUMMER INTERNSHIP Program (15th June - 31st August 2012)

Deadline: 31st March 2012

Accommodation will be provided.

Location: Bangalore, India

During the internship, the Interns will be involved with the following projects:

1. Vedike Eco-residential School and Global Living and Learning Center - Doing research on the migrant workers and their children in Bangalore, green buildings, green technology to be used on the campus and other details of the program. Teaching children and helping develop programs at the Global Living and Learning Centre like the Vocational Education and Livelihood Centre, etc.

2. Asian Forum for Solidarity Economy – Research and prepare documents for the Forum.

3. Preparation for the Sri Lanka-India Forum to be held in May 2012 and Korea-India Forum to be held in August 2012

4. Global Citizenship Leadership Training Program: Working with a team of experts to create a Leadership Training Program module.

5. Preparation of the Summer and Winter Session programs of GCSD

Summer Internship includes projects mentioned above and....

6. Bangalore MDG Champions Program

7. Global Citizens Youth Assembly 2012

8. WE BUILD 2012

9. VEDIKE Sports Day

10. Korea-India Forum scheduled from 15th August - 24th August 2012.

Qualifications required:

1. Applicants should have good writing skills as most of these skills will be used for documentation and publications to be produced of the programs to be held during their internships.

2. Applicants should be either studying or should be a recent university graduate interested in Indian culture, global citizenship, social development work and cross-cultural dialogue

3. Applicants must be computer literate (email/internet, web page, lay-out/design, etc) and proficient in English; working knowledge of any Asian language especially Chinese, Japanese and Korean is an advantage.

Conditions of service

1. Interns will serve for specific period of three/six months and two and half months in summer as mentioned above.

2. Travel costs will not be provided. Intern will have to travel to India on a tourist visa and it is mandatory that the intern has a valid International Health Insurance during the internship period.

3. Room will be provided for lodging.

4. He/She must fulfill his/her duties and abide by the rules and regulations of the program.

5. Interns are expected to work full-time and to carry out the duties assigned to them. Personal travels during the internship period, especially weekends is discouraged. If the intern wants to travel he/she is requested to make plans before or after the internship period.

Procedure for applying, Applicants should submit the following documentation:

1. A completed, dated and signed internship application form

2. An updated Curriculum Vitae

3. A scanned copy of the passport with at least 6 months validity.

4. An endorsement/referral Letter from Professors/Dean of the college/university

5. OPTIONAL (Any written sample of research work, abstract of academic papers or an essay 3-10 pages maximum).

How to Apply?

Please address your applications to the Executive Manager, Mr. Ebenezer John. Email address: ebenezer@globalcitizens.org.in Please send all the documentations as mentioned above enclosed with the application form as scanned documents either in PDF format or as WORD attachments.