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Position: Kiva Volunteer Program Intern
Location: San Francisco, CA – Downtown/Mission District
Job Type: Volunteer, 3 days/week
Term: 6 months
Next start dates: September 2009, December 2009, March 2010

Job Description: The Kiva Volunteer Editing and Translation Program works with a team over 300 volunteers on 6 continents to edit, translate and verify entrepreneur profiles posted to Kiva.org.
As an intern with the Kiva Volunteer Editing and Translation Program, you will play an important role in bringing on new volunteers and supporting the growth of Kiva’s volunteer programs. You will be the first face of Kiva to new volunteers, and will help welcome them and provide information about Kiva’s volunteer teams. You will participate in volunteer community and program development. We are looking for an individual who is a self-starter and loves interacting with a wide range of people, is exceptionally organized and detail-oriented, and loves to learn. We're looking for candidates to fill this position in Kiva’s San Francisco headquarters. This is a part-time unpaid position.

Core Tasks:
• Own project for volunteer recruitment, screening and testing. Communicate with applicants.
• Build volunteer community. Create content for volunteer newsletter and wiki, including monthly Microfinance Partner of the Month feature.
• Support volunteer events.
• Do online research for new team projects or tools.
• Build your Excel skills! Learn to run reports and create graphs for the team.
• Provide administrative support as needed.
Ideal Candidate:
• Excellent writing skills in English
• Strong skills with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word) and web applications
• Superior customer service orientation
• Excels at keeping information organized and tracking details
• Creative problem-solving skills and curiosity to learn
• Flexible and willing to help as needed
• BA or current undergraduate
• A plus: proficiency in Spanish, French, or Russian

Benefits
• Casual work environment
• Opportunity to join the team of the world’s first online person-to-person lending platform
• Get exposure to microfinance
• Learn about program management and an innovative crowdsourcing program for editors/translators
• References gladly given for successful participants

If interested…
• Send email to iwanttovolunteer@kiva.org including the subject line “Volunteer Program Intern”
• Include resume and brief cover letter explaining why you are interested and qualified
• Due to the high numbers of applicants for this position, we regret that we can only respond to candidates that we would like to interview.