Pro Bono Spring 2024 Undergraduate Student Internship

Job Title:Pro BonoSpring 2024 Undergraduate Student Internship

Department: Office of the General Counsel, Pro Bono

Center Background: The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is a global human rights organization working to ensure that reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights around the world. With offices in New York City, New York; Nairobi, Kenya; Bogota, Colombia; Geneva, Switzerland; and Washington, D.C., the Center is a non-profit, non-partisan organization changing law and policy throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States. Our 230+ diverse professionals are committed to advancing the Center's human rights mission through game-changing litigation, legal policy, and advocacy work. This has powerd the Center's exceptional growth to an operating budget of over $50 million and won the respect of law firms in countries around the world, with an additional $29 million annually of donated legal services, representing the work of countless lawyers from more than 46 countries.

The Center's Strategic Plan sets a high mark for impact: By 2030, half of the world's population will be living under stronger protections for reproductive rights than they are today. The Center has a track record of success to back up this ambitious goal. Since our founding in 1992, the Center has transformed how reproductive rights are understood and applied by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide on issues including maternal health, abortion, assisted reproduction, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). We have won groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. Committees, and regional human rights bodies. Additionally, the Center has led the development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights and has built the legal capacity of women's rights advocates in more than 65 countries and counting.

The Role: The Center seeks an undergraduate intern to support the work of the Pro Bono team. The Pro Bono Intern will support weekly team meetings, maintain key data points in Salesforce, and assist the Pro Bono Associate and Pro Bono Coordinator with tasks related to the annual valuation process. Other tasks such as research, mappings, and presentation support will be assigned as needed.

The internship is part-time from February – May 2024. The required commitment for this internship will be 14 hours per week, 3.5 hours / day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The intern must be available between 10am and 12:30pm ET on Thursdays but working hours on other days can be flexible.

Candidates will be expected to use a personal computer/laptop and have access to WiFi/internet. Applicants from anywhere in the United States will be considered. However, the position will be supervised by staff who work during the Center's typical business hours, 9:30am-5:30pm EST. Therefore, this position can offer flexible hours within that window.

This position will be remote, though working a few days a week from the Center's New York Office may be an option dependent on the candidate's location.

Covid-19 Vaccination is required for all U.S.-based employees of the Center.

Primary Responsibilities:

The scope of this position will cover but is not limited to:

• Research on external partners, primarily law firms and firm attorneys, to update contact information, identify practice areas of interest, and maintain up to date information on the Center's Pro Bono Partners;
• Develop and / or update large data sets related to contact information, case referral tracking, law firm practice areas, matter feedback and / or geographic mappings;
• Assist with Salesforce maintenance by obtaining documents related to relevant cases, referrals, and external meetings;
• Provide administrative support for the Program's annual valuation including managing documents and tracking submissions;
• Gather agenda items for the weekly team meeting and take meeting minutes;
• Support document management and cleanup in SharePoint and Microsoft Teams;
• Provide general administrative support to the Pro Bono Team.

Qualifications:

• Current student enrolled in a bachelor's degree program or a recent graduate;
• Strong commitment to the Center's mission, purpose, and values;
• Interest in nonprofit management and administration;
• Excellent administrative and organizational skills;
• Excellent online research skills;
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively under deadlines;
• Experience with Salesforce or another CRM, and
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs particularly Excel.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Microsoft Sharepoint
• Experience with Monday.com

Don't meet every single requirement? At the Center, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Develop & Manage Self & Others: Takes ownership of individual growth in order to achieve full potential; recognizes the value of team members and helps them develop their full potential while also achieving set objectives.
• Collaboration (People First): Works intra- and/or cross-departmentally to support the goals and overarching strategies of the Center and its strategic plan.
• Feedback (Improve & Innovate): Actively engaged in feedback cycles: Gives and requests feedback to and from peers, supervisors and direct reports about work products, behaviors, values, style, and approaches with a view on how this impacts self, other individuals, and teams.
• Accountability: Follow-through on each commitment made to individual contributors, teams and partners and proactively informs others of any delays that occur along the way.

Work Competencies:

• Project Management: Works effectively on project teams in order to achieve long-term project goal and objectives.
• Problem Solve & Make Decisions: Identifies, analyzes and resolves existing and anticipated problems, using common sense to make timely decisions in order to reach the best solutions for the organization.
• Internal/External Focus: Anticipates internal and external partner's needs; assesses requirements and identifies new solutions that align with overall goals and objectives of the organization.
• Communication & Influence: Communicates with and influences others to gain agreement and commitment to the strategic goals of the organization.

Compensation: This position is $20/hr.

Duration of Position: This is a part-time internship during Spring 2024, February - May 2024

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Center is committed to inclusive hiring and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We strongly encourage people from all communities to apply. If you are excited about this role and unsure about whether your past experience aligns with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Our hiring processes and our work culture offer support and flexibility for staff with a variety of needs. Should you face an accessibility barrier in the application and interview process please let us know by contacting talent@reprorights.org. We will work with you to provide the accommodation that works best for you.

To learn more about the Center's commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), please visit Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Center for Reproductive Rights

Learn more about the Center for Reproductive Rights, go to www.reproductiverights.org

How to Apply: Please complete the application below to apply. A cover letter and resume must be included in your application. Please include these application materials as attachments.

Please note that all genuine Center openings must be applied through the Center website. The Center does not charge a fee at any stage in the recruitment process (application, interviews, or selection). Nor does it request any medical examinations or bank account information as part of this process. If someone contacts, you on behalf of the Center requesting payment for your application please notify talent@reprorights.org before taking any further action.

Our hiring processes and our work culture offer support and flexibility for staff with a variety of needs. Should you face an accessibility barrier in the application and interview process please let us know by contacting talent@reprorights.org. We will work with you to provide the accommodation that works best for you.

Deadline for applications: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Center policy on visa sponsorship for US based positions: Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by The Center for Reproductive Rights.