Internship 6 Week Social Impact Consultant – Brazil (March & June 2016) Skilled professionals required to #JoinUs in March/June to work alongside aspiring young social entrepreneurs in the field of arts, culture and sport.
Job Description
Hello!
We are _SocialStarters and we design the spaces and opportunities to nurture and ignite the social changer in you.
We currently take career changers and career breakers, post-grads and sabbaticalists, corporate learners and freelancers to amazing places, to work alongside grassroots social entrepreneurs, social changers and NGOs. We are looking for volunteers who can use their skills and experience to create change.
Join us in March & June 2016 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Our mission for this programme is to support projects and enterprises who are using creative and street level arts and sports as the conduit to change.
We are recruiting volunteer ‘Social Impact Consultants’, who we will train to support grassroots social entrepreneurs for a unique programme in Rio, Brazil that will affect change during the year of the olympic games. As well as gaining hands on experience in the world of social enterprise overseas there will also be the opportunity to focus on your learning and development, an important part of your volunteer journey.
Who are we?
We are a small group of young professionals who have been making our move away from the corporate sector in the last few years. Since then we’ve been notching up hours in volunteer management, international development, youth media, CSR & social enterprise. Between us we have over 30 years of professional experience, and recently we’ve been running enterprise and social action youth programmes, managing over 200 volunteers along the way.
Who are you?
You feel it’s time to share your skills and experience to make an impact in the world
Or perhaps you want to immerse yourself into another culture, meet like minded people and take on a new challenge
Maybe, you’ve left your job or are thinking of leaving and want to explore different opportunities
You’re looking to travel with purpose
You want to gain new skills or work on your own personal development
You want to make a change in your life and are looking for an experience that might spark a shift in your life, but you don’t know where to start
This programme specifically focuses on the entrepreneurship behind sports and community development, as well as street level arts.
* Please note that we are ideally seeking participants who have a basic level of speaking Portuguese, Italian or Spanish.
Who will you be working with?
Your clients will be a group of young grassroots entrepreneurs who are trying to make a difference in their communities.
You’ll get to work on some really cool stuff with inspiring young creatives – this will truly be an experience you never forget!
We work with Eixo Rio, a department within the State Secretariat in Rio. Their work involves developing and boosting cultural, creative and entrepreneurial projects and opportunities across Rio.
You’ll get to work with start-ups & NGOs that at an early stage in their commercial journey.
What happens on the programme?
Firstly using your profiles, the client’s needs assessments and information from our partner, we match you with a client who needs the skills and experience that you have
You then take part in Training Week which equips you with the essentials you need to know about global and local social entrepreneurship, basic consultancy tools and techniques, and an introduction to start up methods. The aim is to enable you to support you client appropriately over the forthcoming 5 weeks
We then put you into pairs with the client you have both been matched with
You will conduct your own needs assessment to determine what can be achieved in the following 5 weeks
You’ll pick a project to work on, focusing on the key objectives that you decide on with your client
You will then spend the remaining weeks identifying problems, sharing knowledge, designing solutions, testing ideas or building brands making a long lasting impact for your client
After Training Week the learning doesn’t stop either – we provide additional sessions through workshops to give you a deeper dive into some of the methods we introduce, affording you better knowledge in key areas
We also provide 1:1 sessions and additional workshops to guide you through your own personal development journey
If you have a project or business idea you want to explore in your spare time this is also encouraged and you can rally support from your peer group!
A former Brazil Consutant says:
“The first week of Bootcamp was fast paced, exciting, innovative, and really challenged my current ways of thinking. This was invaluable for the next stage of working with clients, as I felt equipped with the right tools to help them overcome the challenges their projects faced. Being one of a multidisciplinary team from all over the world gave support, value and added lots of fun to the experience. Life is really what you make it, and this experience has left me with a new perspective, new friends, and a renewed energy to go and make a difference in the world. Bring it on!”
Louise Thomson, Former Corporate Fraud Investigator, UK.
Compensation details
This is a programme for skilled professionals with approximately 3+ years experience; and people who want to do more meaningful work.
On this programme, you will be based in Rio de Janerio for 6 weeks, and will contribute a competitive programme fee that covers all in-country associated costs including comfortable accommodation, wifi, phone credit, materials and other programme related expenses, project related travel as well as a contribution to the training. Flights, visas & food will be extra.
Programme Fee: £2280.00
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