Department: WES Mariam Assefa Fund

Duration: June through September 2024

Reporting to: Senior Associate, Partnerships & Strategic Initiatives

Weekly hours: Maximum 20 hours per week

Rate of Pay: $21 per hour

About WES:

World Education Services (WES) is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to helping immigrants, refugees, and international students achieve economic, social, and educational inclusion in the United States and Canada. For nearly 50 years, WES has helped people learn, work, and thrive in new places and helped society recognize the value of people’s education and experience.

• Support the planning and preparation of key internal and external meetings and events; including supporting funder engagements, finalizing presentations, and coordinating other meetings with WES staff and philanthropic colleagues.
• Help to improve content and delivery for internal initiatives (e.g. Fund Ambassadors) in the United States and Canada
• Facilitate the input and updating of partner correspondence and documents into the team’s data management systems (Salesforce, Excel)
• Contribute to the development of partnership and funding-related reports, memos, and presentations.

• Conduct literature reviews on key research topics related to the Fund’s partnership strategy and co-funding approaches, such as workforce development for newcomers, immigrants and refugees, powershifting to proximate leaders, best practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion, movement building, participatory grant-making, pooled funding, trust-based philanthropy, and more, while researching common trends or themes regionally and nationally.
• Coordinate, compile, and disseminate the team’s monthly Partnerships updates, sourcing relevant news and articles relevant to the Partnerships portfolio, webinars, events and partner updates to share with the Fund team and key stakeholders in the Fund’s network.

• Provide administrative support to the Associate Director and Senior Associate as needed.
• Support the Fund and WES colleagues on special projects as they arise.

• Have a commitment to supporting immigrants and refugees and excitement about WES’ mission, the Fund’s impact goals, and advancing equity, inclusion, and diversity.
• Bring lived experience from immigrant and refugee communities and communities of color, as well the issues that the Fund focuses on.
• Have a deep-rooted intellectual curiosity, an openness to diverse ideas and perspectives, and a continued interest in learning and professional development.
• Bring a “can-do” attitude, have a willingness to stretch up and down in their role, take on additional responsibilities, and quickly establish credibility in new areas of work.
• Build collaborative working relationships with colleagues and external partners, mobilizing people at all levels towards collective goals.
• Bring an entrepreneurial mindset to generate new approaches, spot innovative opportunities, take calculated risks, and initiate action.
• Thrive in an environment that values transparency, collaboration, and an orientation for impact.

• Current candidate and/or recent graduate from a public policy, international relations, economics, business, and/or another relevant graduate program.
• Ability to research, analyze and present quantitative and qualitative data to various stakeholders.
• Demonstrate analytical skills to assess situations, break down complex problems, identify strategic tradeoffs, and apply learnings in a larger context.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Preferred professional experience focusing on workforce development, immigration, refugee resettlement, economic development, and/or justice or equity work in a related field
• Awareness of, or interest in, the philanthropic sector and trust-based practices.
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint.