With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Humanitarian Learning & Knowledge Management Intern

Remote within the US

World Vision Internships provide a three-month opportunity for exceptional students and recent graduates ready to explore a career in the international relief and development sector. We are committed to providing interns with a meaningful learning experience where they can learn, grow, and connect with other emerging professionals passionate about our mission.

Internship Opportunity

When disasters strike, ensuring children have access to essentials like clean water, food, and shelter is crucial. The Disaster Management (DM) team is dedicated to safeguarding vulnerable populations from physical harm, disease, educational disruption, family separation, trafficking, and exploitation. Our approach spans the entire spectrum of disaster management—from early warning systems and risk reduction to preparedness, emergency response, recovery, and ultimately transition.

Join the Learning & Knowledge Management unit to help lead the DM team in applying continuous learning to enhance our performance in humanitarian programming. This involves bolstering systems, structures, and environments that facilitate the capture, storage, and sharing of knowledge, and leveraging this learning for practical application and organisational change.

What You’ll Do:

Knowledge Management

Co-develop library taxonomy & draft for all resources.

Support Subject Matter Experts to:

Refine library taxonomy.

Conduct an audit of resources by function/theme.

Update relevant content to our intranet (WV Central).

Humanitarian learning

Update real-time evaluation guidelines.

Conduct and transcribe some key informant interviews.

Support the development of a humanitarian learning trend report.

Translate resources into French, Arabic, or Portuguese, as feasible.

Other responsibilities

Develop internal newsletters

Coordinate internal webinars

Why Join Us:

Content Collaboration: Collaborate with subject matter experts to co-create content for pertinent projects.

 Resource Accessibility: Enhance the accessibility and usability of humanitarian resources.

Learning Process Improvement: Strengthen the comprehensiveness and coherence of humanitarian learning processes.

Skill Development: Enhance skills in specialized disciplines within humanitarian learning and knowledge management.

Expand Your Horizons: Explore the international relief sector, unleash your leadership skills, and strengthen your Christian faith with Weekly Professional Development Sessions.

Transform Lives: Take on challenging and meaningful work assignments while developing your technical skills and gaining valuable hands-on experience.

Join an Inspiring Community: Form connections with a diverse nationwide intern cohort and colleagues who, inspired by their Christian faith, support children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places.

What You’ll Bring:

Effective Communication: Possess strong communication skills and the ability to work independently to achieve desired outcomes.

Initiative and Attention to Detail: Self-starter with a keen eye for detail, adept at multitasking, agile, and driven by curiosity.

Responsibility and Enthusiasm: You are responsible, responsive, and enthusiastic about using your God-given talents to positively impact the world.

Commitment to our Mission: You have a demonstrated commitment to and alignment with the goals, mission, and vision of World Vision, embodying its values in all aspects of your work.

You have a strong acumen for digital collaboration tools (e.g. SharePoint, MS Teams, Zoom, etc.).

You have qualitative research experience.

You are fluent in French, Arabic, and/or Portuguese.

What You Need to Know:

Details

Location: Remote within the US. You must be physically located in one of the following states where WVI is registered as an employer: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.

Appropriate Fields of Study/Majors: Knowledge Management, Library Science, Data Analytics, Qualitative Research, Behavioral Science, Humanitarian Studies, or related fields. 

Internship Cohort Dates: 27 May – 22 August. 

Stipend: this internship is unpaid, but all US-based interns receive a monthly stipend of $800.

Hours: Full-time and part-time opportunities are available (24-40 hours/week)

Eligibility

All candidates must meet the following requirements:

At least 18 years of age.

Eligible to work in the United States (US Citizen/resident or F1-student visa) and have a valid US Social Security Number.

Able to commit to at least 24 hours per week for the entire internship period: 27 May – 22 August. 

Current student or recent graduate from an undergraduate/graduate programme (within 2 years).

Adhere to World Vision International’s Christian Statement of Faith.

Willingness to use own electronic devices for internship purposes, and disposition to let WVI install endpoint security software in those devices.

Applicant Types Accepted: