Sub-Saharan Africa Program – Summer Internship

Location	Washington DC, USA or Brussels, Belgium
Summary	Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is a non-profit organization that works to transform the way the world deals with conflict – away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. The Africa Program is active in Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Liberia, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The intern will support the Africa Team in providing programmatic, logistical, and financial support to SFCG’s projects in the region. For more information on our projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, please visit www.sfcg.org.
Responsibilities	Duties for this unpaid internship positions include, but are not limited to: Contributing to the production of donor reports and grant proposals; Attending policy meetings, representing the Africa Program; Backstopping the Washington DC-based Africa Team and country offices overseas; and Assisting with website, program literature and database system maintenance.
Minimum Qualifications	The ideal candidate will exhibit: Good writing, editing and communication skills (required); French Fluency (required); A self-starting, detail-oriented and flexible approach to tasks (required); Demonstrable interest in African issues and/or conflict resolution (required); and NGO and/or international experience (preferred).
Salary	Please note that this position is unpaid.
To Apply	Undergraduates (juniors and seniors), graduate students, and recent graduates are welcome to apply. To apply, please send a resume, cover letter, two references, and a one-page writing sample to: africainternships@sfcg.org. The last day to apply is April 1, 2012.