HR Development Internship
To effectively change the dynamic in system-impacted communities, we recognize the need to develop a space where students have the opportunity to do transformative work with incarcerated citizens. Here, we welcome students who understand the unique vision and value that directly-impacted incarcerated citizens bring to today’s movements to end mass incarceration, police brutality, housing discrimination, and more.
Our HR Development Internship Program is a unique program in that it allows student volunteers the opportunity to work directly with our incarcerated founder to glean years of experience working on the inside/outside of America’s prisons to educate, mobilize, and develop effective HR practices to organize underrepresented communities.
The primary objective of this program is to provide students the opportunity to gain invaluable experience utilizing their education in human resources and other related fields to develop, direct and implement comprehensive human resource policy and programs to transform system-impacted communities.
Program Objectives
Our internship program provides an opportunity for students to learn, develop and implement:
- HR infrastructure
- HR policy & procedure
- Volunteer recruitment & retention strategy
- Training programs
- Hiring practices
Each year six student participants will be selected to attend a remote 12 week training program (3-6 hours per week). Thereafter, this program will provide a nine (9) month “hands-on” apprenticeship to apply this training in a professional setting with mentorship from our Board of Directors and incarcerated founder.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:
- Preferred experience with human resources, nonprofits, and/or social justice entities;
- Two years experience with Microsoft Office;
- Preferred experience with HR software systems;
- Data entry;
- Strong written, oral communication and organizational skills;
- Strong project management skills;
- Ability to work independently, and as part of a team, and the ability to take initiative on projects.