Centre's Activities
Jobs and Internships
ACROSS CANADA
• CampusAcess
Is a online directory that contains an extensive list of internship programs that offer students and graduates an opportunity to gain practical experience, explore potential careers and enrich their lives. There are many different types of programs, so look for an internship that matches your interests and goals. Visit their website for more information
www.campusaccess.com
www.campusaccess.com/internships/index.html
• Canadian Student Fair Trade Network (CFSTN) Co-op Coffee
Cooperative Coffee, internship
Please contact CSFTN for further information (see bottom of posting). Cooperative Coffee offers you the chance to gain experience in the field!
Contact: Philippe Lapointe, National Coordinator
Canadian Student Fair Trade Network (CSFTN)
lapointephil@gmail.com, 514-251-2752,
• CANADEM GPS runs the International Career Advancement Placement (ICAP) Program, an internship/volunteer program that places Canadian graduates, mid career individuals, and Global Citizens in UN field mission around the world. Some fields include policy development, law, governance, refugee, post conflict, human rights, environmental and poverty reduction.
www.canademvolunteers.com/ICAP.html
• The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is Canada’s largest leading agency for development assistance. It has a mandate to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more equitable, and prosperous world. CIDA --Offers jobs and internships in the areas of social justice that deals with specific issues such as gender, women, diversity and others that are local to your community. To learn more about what the CIDA has to offer checkout their website.
• Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) offers an internship program.
Are you passionate about social justice issues? Are you looking for a chance to apply your university education to pressing issues and current questions? Each year, CPJ’s Public Justice Internship Program provides a recent graduate with the opportunity to explore the meaning of public justice and learn to frame current political issues in this context. Through writing articles, researching policies and engaging in dialogue with senior policy staff, the intern will become better equipped to challenge issues of injustice in Canada. Please visit their website and click on the about us option view their employment and internship opportunities.
• The Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) seeks to end global poverty, and to promote social justice and human dignity for all. The Council is a coalition of Canadian voluntary sector organizations working globally to achieve sustainable human development. They offer employ-ment and internship opportunities across Canada and overseas.
www.oxfam.ca/what-you-can-do/work-for-oxfam
• FOCAL- The Canadian Foundation for the Americas is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean through policy dialogue and analysis. While promoting good governance, economic prosperity and social justice, basing our work on principles of intellectual integrity, racial diversity and gender equality. FOCAL offers part-time, voluntary internships during the summer, fall and winter terms. For more information check out their website and click on internship programs.
• OXFAM Canada in a member of Oxfam international, an organization dedicated to creating self-sustaining programs in developing communities’ worldwide. Through advocacy campaigns, development programs and emergency response initiatives, Oxfam is committed to creating lasting solutions to fight global poverty, hunger, and social injustices; by working with these communities around the world to promote social justice. They offer employment in many areas, visit their website for more links and information.
www.oxfam.ca/what-you-can-do/work-for-oxfam
• Young professionals needed for placements in indigenous communities overseas. Ghost River Rediscovery is currently recruiting participants for its professional level placements.
Contact: Gesa Harmston,
Program Officer at: Ghost River Rediscovery,
Suite 303 227 10th St N.W. Calgary,
Alberta T2N 1V5, Tel: 403 270 9351 Fax: 403 270 9371
ylpofficer@ghostriverrediscovery.com
www.ghostriverrediscovery.com
OVERSEAS
• The Centre for Social Research (CSR) is one of the leading Women's Institutions working in the field of social action since 1983. CSR was founded by a group of concerned social scientists dedicated to promoting the empowerment of women. CSR aims to empower women and provide them with the resources to be self-reliant individuals. They work at the grassroots, regional and international levels to raise women's awareness of their rights, while achieving economic self-sufficiency and raising awareness of social, political and legal issues. CSR offers internships directly or through AIESEC, visit the websites for more information.
www.csrindia.org/internships.html
• CSR
2, Nelson Mandela Marg Vasant Kunj,
New Delhi - 110070
Phone : 91-11-26899998, 91-11-26125583
Fax : 91-11-26137823
info1@csrindia.org
csr@nda.vsnl.net.in
• AIESEC Windsor
University of Windsor
Odette Building, Room 333
Windsor, ON N9B 3P4
Tel.: (519) 991-6687
Fax: (519) 973-7073
aiesec@uwindsor.ca
www.aiesec.ca/windsor
• ELI - Experimental Learning International, ELI - a world of opportunity. Has both internship and volunteer opportunities that deal with human rights, labour issues, gender issues, women, etc. ELI offers internship opportunities in cooperation with NGOs, government organizations, and private companies around the world. Visit their website for more information.
• Foundation for Sustainable Developments, FSD
FSD supports the efforts of more than 200 community-based organizations throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America that are working to better their communities, environments, and the economic opportunities around them. They offer internships in such areas as women empowerment, community developments and human rights.
GO ABROAD
• Is the leading international education and experiential travel resource. Its directories contain over 15,000 opportunities abroad updated daily including study abroad, internships, volunteer opportunities; teach abroad, language schools and much more. It lists specific areas of interest in which to volunteer with over 300 countries to choose form and organizations
www.goabroad.com
www.internabroad.com
www.jobsabroad.com
• International Organization for Migration (IOM) internship Programme provides students with the opportunity to learn about IOM's activities, to gain initial work experience, and/or to prepare for a degree dissertation. IOM provides on the job training to interns so that both they and the organization can benefit. In addition to this, IOM evaluates interns who may eventually be included on the roster for future external vacancies. Furthermore, internships build links with their institutions and universities. Interns tend to be students approaching the end of their programme or graduates between 19 and 32 years of age (average age is 26).
www.iom.int/jahia/jsp/index.jsp
www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/about-iom/ recruitment/internships
• The Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Program provides young professionals pursuing a career in development with hands-on experience in multi-lateral technical co-operation. A full list of the programs is listed on the website along with other initiatives.
www.jposc.org/content/programme/presentation-en.html
• UNIFEM -- is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women's human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas:
(1) reducing feminized poverty,
(2) ending violence against women,
(3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and
(4) achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war
www.unifem.org/about/internships.php
• UNIFEM also provides a list of other related links to other organizations that deal with women empowerment.
• Foreign Affairs Canada Internship Opportunities
Young professionals needed for placements in indigenous communities overseas. Ghost River Rediscovery is currently recruiting participants for its professional level placements; 10 under the Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) Young Professionals International (YPI) program and 2 under the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) International Youth Internship Program (IYIP) .
These positions will provide the opportunity for Canadian youth ages 18-30 to obtain primary international work experience in the area of culture and identity. Participants will gain valuable professional skills while learning about the values and culture of indigenous communities in Austria, Bolivia, Dominica, Finland, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Sri Lanka and Sweden.
Each six-month placement will consist of two weeks of training and preparation in Canada, followed by six months in the overseas posts. The placements all pertain to indigenous youth leadership development, however, job postings will vary depending on location. These positions will provide participants with substantive knowledge, program development skills, and hands-on international work experience. It will also give young Canadian leaders the skills and opportunities to shape their world, allowing them to become effective leaders and positive agents of change within their own communities.
If you have questions or require further information, please contact Gesa Harmston, Program Officer at:
Ghost River Rediscovery,
Suite 303 227 10th St N.W.
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1V5,
Tel: 403 270 9351
Fax: 403 270 9371
ylpofficer@ghostriverrediscovery.com
www.ghostriverrediscovery.com
• Canadian Student Fair Trade Network (CFSTN) Co-op Coffee
Cooperative Coffee, internship
Please contact CSFTN for further information (see bottom of posting). Cooperative Coffee offers you the chance to gain experience in the field!
Contact: Philippe Lapointe, National Coordinator
Canadian Student Fair Trade Network (CSFTN)
lapointephil@gmail.com, 514-251-2752,
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4
(519) 253-3000
