Internships, Volunteer, and Employment Opportunities
The following is just a partial listing of multiple opportunities available to undergraduate and graduate students. Government agencies, think-tanks, advocacy groups, faith-based organizations, human rights NGOs, and others are represented, and were selected on the basis of their offerings for students, recent graduates, and others interested in an international career or volunteering overseas. All work in some capacity with Middle East issues, but many are generalists in their international work.
Government
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Department of State employment webpage, linked to online applications for various jobs in civil and foreign service, as well as student internship opportunities
http://www.state.gov/careers/ -
CIA employment/internship webpage
http://www.cia.gov/employment/index.html - Department of Defense employment webpage
http://www.defenselink.mil/sites/c.html#civjobs - Defense Intelligence Agency employment webpage
http://www.dia.mil/employment/ - Department of Commerce employment/internship webpage
http://www.commerce.gov/jobs.html - Department of Homeland Security summer student internship and employment webpage
http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/careers/ - Peace Corps service webpage
http://www.peacecorps.gov - Peace Corps jobs webpage
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=pchq.jobs - USAID student employment/internship webpage
http://www.usaid.gov/careers/studentprograms.html - U.S. House of Representatives employment/internship webpage
http://www.house.gov/cao-hr/ - U.S. Senate homepage - Contact individual senator's offices for employment/internship opportunities.
http://www.senate.gov/ - United States Institute of Peace employment webpage
http://www.usip.org/work-us
International Organizations
- Academy for Educational Development employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.aed.org/Employment/index.cfm - American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute internship webpage
http://www.adc.org/internprogram/html/ - American Friends Service Committee employment/internship/volunteer webpage
http://afsc.org/jobs - American Near East Refugee Aid employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.anera.org/aboutUs/joinTeam.php
- American Refugee Committee employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.arcemployment.org/ - Americares NGO employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.americares.org/aboutus/jobs/
- Amideast internship/employment opportunities both here and in the Middle East.
http://forms.amideast.org/forms/AEEO/
- Amnesty International employment/volunteer webpage
http://web.amnesty.org/jobs
- Bread for the World Christian charity organization employment/internship webpage
http://www.bread.org/about-us/jobs - The Brookings Institution employment/internship webpage
http://www.brook.edu/admin/employment.htm - Cato Institute employment/internship webpage
http://www.cato.org/jobs/jobops.html - Care USA poverty relief organization employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.careusa.org/careers/index.asp - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace employment/internship webpage
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/about/index.cfm?fa=employment - The Carter Center at Emory University
Internships at premier human rights and international health organization
http://cartercenter.org/involved/internship/index.html - Catholic Relief Services employment/volunteer webpage
http://crs.org/about/careers/
- Center for American Progress job and internship webpages
http://www.americanprogress.org/aboutus/jobs
http://www.americanprogress.org/aboutus/intern - Center for Strategic and International Studies employment/internship webpage
http://csis.org/about-us/internships
- Church World Service employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.churchworldservice.org/employment/index.html - ChildFund employment/volunteer webpage - Christian aid
http://www.childfund.org/
- Council for International Educational Exchange volunteer webpage various projects in Morocco and Turkey)
http://www.ciee.org/volunteer/choose_program/global_volunteer.aspx - Council on Foreign Relations employment/internship webpage
http://www.cfr.org/about/career_opportunities/associates.html - Doctors Without Borders employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/employment/ - FINCA International (international funding & development) employment/volunteer webpage
http://tbe.taleo.net/NA6/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=FINCA&cws=1 - Foreign Policy Research Institute internship webpage
http://www.fpri.org/about/internships.html - Freedom House NGO employment/internship webpage
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=13 - Global Exchange International Human rights NGO employment/internship webpage
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/jobs.html - Global Impact charity network employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.charity.org/Jobs_and_Internships
- Global Policy Forum internship webpage
http://www.globalpolicy.org/visitctr/interns/index.htm - Habitat for Humanity Global Youth Program
Volunteer opportunities in many countries for youth 14-25.
https://www.habitat.org/hr/default.aspx
- Heritage Foundation employment/internship webpage
http://www.heritage.org/About/Careers/index.cfm - Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) employment/internship webpage
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/about_us/about_us.htm - Human Rights Watch - international NGO employment webpage
http://www.hrw.org/jobs/ - Interaction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations, with more than 160 members operating in every developing country. Many employment and volunteer opportunities.
http://www.interaction.org/career-opportunities
- Institute for Policy Studies internship webpage
http://www.ips-dc.org/about/joinus
- International Foundation for Election Systems - Democracy@Large employment and internship webpage
http://www.ifes.org/careers.html - International Justice Mission (Christian NGO) employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.ijm.org/careers; http://www.ijm.org/getinvolved/volunteerwithijm - International Orthodox Christian Charities employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.iocc.org/getinvolved_homepage.aspx
- International Republican Institute volunteer and employment webpages
http://www.iri.org/join-support/volunteer-iri and
http://www.iri.org/join-support/work-us
- Portal for volunteer opportunities in Israel
http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/i-vol.htm - The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development internship webpage
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/internships.php - Lutheran World Relief employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.lwr.org/jobs/index.asp
- Mercy Corps employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.mercycorps.org/getinvolved/volunteer/ - Middle East Forum employment/internship webpage
http://www.meforum.org/employment.php - Middle East Institute internship webpage
http://www.mei.edu/Home/Internships.aspx
- Middle East Report internship webpage
http://www.merip.org/misc/internships.html - National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations internship webpage
http://www.ncusar.org/internship/ - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs employment/internship webpage
http://www.ndi.org/employment
- National Endowment for Democracy employment/internship webpage
http://www.ned.org/about/jobs - National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.nusacc.org/about/employment - New Israel Fund - social justice internship fellowships in Israel
http://www.nif.org/get-involved/fellowships/social-justice-fellowships/ - The Open Society Institute - employment opportunities
http://www.soros.org/about/careers - Oxfam America -- Internships and volunteer opportunites at Oxfam's Boston and Washington
offices.
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/whoweare/jobs - UNICEF employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index.html - Unitarian Universalist Service committee employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.uusc.org/jobs_and_internships
- United Nations Development Program employment webpage
http://jobs.undp.org/ - United Nations volunteer and employment webpages
http://www.unv.org/ and https://jobs.un.org/Galaxy/Release3/vacancy/vacancy.aspx - Volunteer for Peace
Affordable international workcamps in many countries, including the Middle East.
http://www.vfp.org/ - Washington Institute for Near East Policy internship webpage
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/ - Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children employment/volunteer
webpage
http://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/about/employment
- Women for Women International - NGO employment/volunteer/internship webpage
http://www.womenforwomen.org/aoempl.htm - Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars - Middle East Program
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/opportunity/internships-the-middle-east-program - World Affairs Council employment & internships webpages
http://www.world-affairs.org/aboutus_employment.html
http://www.world-affairs.org/aboutus_internships.html - World Bank employment/internship webpage
http://lnweb28.worldbank.org/hrs/careers.nsf - World Vision (Christian aid and development organization) employment/volunteer webpage
http://www.worldvision.org/