Refugees International

Community Manager

• Supporting RI’s documentation and research related to federal immigration actions, and their impacts on immigrant communities and the organizations that serve and support them
• In collaboration with community partners, completing a resource and community mapping of organizations, advocates, service providers, grassroots groups, impacted communities, and other stakeholders connected to immigration response work
• Providing administrative support for active work streams, including tracking tasks, organizing materials, maintaining shared documents, supporting follow-up, and helping coordinate ongoing project needs
• Supporting outreach and engagement efforts designed to expand participation by volunteers, community partners, advocates, and people with relevant lived or professional experience
• Assisting with event and meeting organization, including scheduling, preparing agendas and materials, coordinating logistics, taking detailed notes, and summarizing key discussions and action items
• Conducting a literature review on ethical storytelling, oral history methods, trauma-informed documentation, and data stewardship
• Helping identify best practices for creating safe and community-centered spaces to preserve stories, data, written accounts, and other materials related to immigration policy and protection challenges
• Drafting short memos, summaries, background materials, outreach language, and other written products as needed
• Supporting other tasks as assigned.

Summer Intern – U.S. Immigration Policy and Community Engagement

Translator

• Assist in the development of fellowship training curricula by identifying and vetting expert trainers tailored to the specific needs of the cohort.
• Map potential partnerships with academic institutions, NGOs, and private sectors to expand the suite of services (scholarships, certifications, and funding) available to fellows.
• Conduct initial outreach to prospective partner organizations to initiate relationship-building and resource-sharing.
• Provide end-to-end logistical support for R-Space events, including agenda setting, speaker coordination, and digital or in-person delivery.
• Help manage the platform’s online engagement efforts.
• Monitor global trends in power-shifting and "localization" within the humanitarian sector.
• The intern will have the opportunity to research, draft, and potentially publish original content on RI’s website regarding refugee leadership and the power-shifting agenda.
• Support other tasks as assigned.

Summer Intern – U.S. Immigration Policy and Community Engagement

Summer Intern – Localization and Refugee Leadership