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Intern, Grant Operations

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Alexandria, VA, USA
Internship

Interns at United Way Worldwide gain valuable learning and working experience at a leading nonprofit organization. Our goal is to make every intern who works with us feel included, valuable, and productive. In addition to the hands-on experience you’ll receive working at the largest nonprofit in the world, you will be provided with weekly professional development workshops. Other opportunities include mentorship pairing, cross-department projects, volunteer events, and more. If you have the drive to advance common good in communities across the world, then United Way Worldwide has the internship opportunity for you. 

The internship opportunities are open to current students or recent graduates of a college program. The intern is expected to demonstrate a keen interest in nonprofits, as well as interest in a field of study related to the position. 

This internship position reports to the Senior Director, Enablement on the Investor Relations team. This position will focus on the formalization and institutionalization of an organization wide grants performance and reporting process as well as support impact reporting efforts for our international grants. This includes working directly with the Sr. Director, Enablement as well as various stakeholders across Investor Relations and UWW to enhance and finalize the processes. Once finalized, the intern will lead the creation of training materials and support the logistics involved in provided organization wide training, as needed. 

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Identify opportunities to enhance international grant impact reporting 
  • Align international grant impact reporting with specific organizational record in salesforce  
  • Craft donor facing international impact reports as needed 
  • Assist with the development and enhancement of monthly and quarterly performance dashboards 
  • Support logistics for facilitating UWW wide training sessions for UWW grants process 
Skills/Experience: 
  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple projects and timelines while being detail-oriented 
  • High proficiency with applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint  
  • Ability to work independently, knowing when to escalate issues as appropriate  
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills 
  • Ability to collaborate as part of a team and take on additional responsibilities as required  
  • Comfortable working daily with a computer to complete work 
Compensation/Benefits: 
  • $100 semi-monthly travel stipend provided 
  • Weekly professional development workshops provided onsite  
  • Chance to meet and work with top nonprofit experts in the country 
  • Free coffee & tea onsite 
  • Free parking at United Way Worldwide’s parking garage 
  • Near Blue/Yellow Metro line (Braddock Metro Station) 

Organization Info

United Way Worldwide

Overview
Headquarters: 
Alexandria, VA, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1934
About Us
Mission: 

United Way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.

United Way fights for the health, education and financial stability of every person in every community. We win by living United. By forging unlikely partnerships. By finding new solutions to old problems. By mobilizing the best resources. And by inspiring individuals to join the fight against their community's most daunting social crises.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Oct 8 2019
Active Until: 
Nov 8 2019
Hiring Organization: 
United Way Worldwide
industry: 
Nonprofit