Dance 4 Peace is now recruiting Communications, Program and Community Interns in Washington, DC and New York City for Summer 2012!

Dance 4 Peace (http://www.dance4peace.org) is an innovative, global nonprofit that uses dance to inspire youth to be leaders and peacemakers in their communities.

We are a fast-paced educational nonprofit that began in Bogota, Colombia during a dancer’s Fulbright Scholarship and now have programs in the United States in Baltimore, Newark, New York City and Washington DC and internationally in Colombia, Germany, and the Philippines. Our mission is to promote social and emotional learning skills in youth in a global context in order to prevent school violence and bullying and to build conflict resolution competencies and communities of peace.

Dance 4 Peace was recently awarded a Cordes Fellowship at the Opportunity Collaboration and named a Youth Leader by the Inter-American Development Bank. We are building a movement of intercultural exchange in peacebuilding and violence prevention through dance. Dance 4 Peace hubs share best practices in conflict resolution and social and emotional learning as part of the global PeaceMover network. Our program is creative, dynamic, completely movement-based and evaluated, and adaptable to specific cultures, communities and contexts. We envision a world where creative movement redefines how we build cultures of peace in schools.

We offer:
The ability to spend your time on high-impact work that is already defining the future of movement-based peace education
A fun, talented team that empowers you and gives you the freedom to be creative and help shape the organization

Responsibilities for Program Interns in Washington, DC or NYC:
Support trainings on D4P curriculum and implementation best practices.
Research and initiate contact with new potential educational partners in DC, Baltimore and NYC.
Provide PeaceMover facilitator support in classrooms via best practice sharing portal.
Assist with community building efforts by scheduling, and maintaining events for PeaceMovers and others in the D4P Community.
Research relevant peace education and arts education literature.
Compile, maintain and report program evaluation information on a weekly basis to assess strengths and areas for improvement.
Maintain and update D4P internal Staff and Training Websites.
Assist with D4P communication efforts.
Conduct site visits to local D4P sites.

Responsibilities for Communications Intern in Washington, DC or NYC:
Contribute to D4P’s social media efforts on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.
Research and creatively connect with Peace Education constituencies beyond D4P.
Develop, edit, and maintain the D4P bi-weekly e-newsletter and D4P blog.
Conduct site visits to local D4P sites.

Responsibilities for Community Intern in Washington, DC or NYC
Manage and organize audio/visual media to demonstrate classroom activities, best practices, and trainings amongst the PeaceMover Community.
Organize Salesforce communication.
Lead response to general D4P inquiries.
Conduct site visits to local D4P sites.

Qualifications:
Local student in the field pursuing a BA or advanced degree
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
Acute attention to detail
Strong independence and ability to take initiative in project follow-through
Desire to work on issues related to peace-building around the globe

Apply by sending an email to move@dance4peace.org with subject line “2012 Summer Internship (Program, Communications or Community) - Your Name”, resume, a letter to us describing why you want to join our team this semester, and a writing sample.

Join our movement online:
www.dance4peace.org
www.facebook.com/dance4peace
www.twitter.com/dance4peacenow