Fall 2025: Women's Resilience Center Intern (Unpaid)
Support community engagement and programming at the Women’s Resilience Center.
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Overview
Support community engagement and programming at the Women’s Resilience Center.
You have:
- Must be currently enrolled (or a recent graduate) in an Associate’s, Bachelor’s or Master’s program focused on Women’s/Gender Studies, Public Health, Social Work, Art Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy or a related field.
- Must have driver’s license and reliable transportation.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organization and time-management skills.
- Proactive, motivated, and flexible; able to remain calm and adapt within a fast-paced, sometimes unpredictable work environment.
- Demonstrated success working and communicating with people of varied English-speaking abilities strongly preferred.
- Experience with direct service strongly preferred.
- Proficiency in Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Pashto, Ukrainian, or Russian preferred.
Job Description
The Women's Resilience Center (WRC) is a safe, collaborative space where the diverse needs of all women+ are respected and where they can seek, share, and obtain information about their rights and their inherent potential for safety, health, education, economic wellbeing, and power. It is a responsive, creative space that engages women+ as co-creators and encourages expression, enhanced wellbeing, and community connectedness. (When we use the term women+, this includes women of all ages, all abilities, diverse ethnic and religious affiliation and diverse sexual orientation and gender identities.)
SCOPE OF WOMEN’S RESILIENCE CENTER INTERN WORK: In this internship, students will have the opportunity to contribute to the WRC through community engagement and outreach as well as by supporting the facilitation of programming.
RESPONSIBILITIES: Based on intern skills and experience, responsibilities may include a combination of program support, administrative/data support, and direct service:
- Support with outreach to women+ in the IRC community about WRC programs
- Co-facilitate orientations to new WRC members
- Co-facilitate wellness workshops and presentations
- Support our 'Safe Spaces' work to make the WRC a more inclusive place for women+
- Collaborate with interns, staff, other departments at IRC, and community partners
- Facilitate internal referrals to other IRC programs
- Provide WRC members information about community resources
- Contribute to data monitoring and evaluation of WRC programs
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Intern will have the opportunity to enhance their facilitation skills
- Intern will expand their experience providing healing centered and culturally humble services
- Intern will participate in weekly Safety & Wellness intern group supervision to enhance collaborative learning
REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be currently enrolled (or a recent graduate) in an Associate’s, Bachelor’s or Master’s program focused on Women’s/Gender Studies, Public Health, Social Work, Art Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy or a related field.
- Must have driver’s license and reliable transportation
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organization and time-management skills
- Proactive, motivated, and flexible; able to remain calm and adapt within a fast-paced, sometimes unpredictable work environment
- Demonstrated success working and communicating with people of varied English-speaking abilities strongly preferred
- Experience with direct service strongly preferred
- Proficiency in Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Pashto, Ukrainian, or Russian preferred - In addition to the standard background check, candidates must complete a Live Scan fingerprinting process as required by the IRC.
This position reports to the Women’s Protection and Empowerment Supervisor.
Compensation: This is an unpaid internship opportunity.
Working Environment:
- The Women’s Resilience Center Internship is in-person at the El Cajon office, remote interns may be considered
- San Diego Office hours are scheduled Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm PST. Selected interns can choose their hours based on this window of availability.
Qualifications
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe a time when you successfully facilitated a workshop or presentation? | This question assesses your facilitation skills and experience. | Share a specific experience where you planned and executed a workshop. |
| How have you adapted your communication style when working with individuals from diverse backgrounds? | This question evaluates your cultural competence and adaptability. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What does a safe and inclusive space mean to you in the context of community work? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Describe an instance where you contributed to a team project. What role did you play? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Can you share an experience where you had to manage multiple tasks effectively? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you ensure that you provide culturally humble services? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What strategies do you use to keep yourself motivated in a challenging environment? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What community resources do you think are essential for women+ in the IRC community? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
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