Undergrad Internships at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice | DEADLINE: November 15, 2020

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice is now accepting applications for the Spring 2021 Undergraduate Internships. Please help us get the word out to qualified applicants! Interns bring excitement and expanded capabilities to the Rapoport Center and support various initiatives depending on their background, interest, and the needs of the Center. Fall, spring, and summer internships are available for undergraduates who are interested in:

• Working on human rights and social justice research and advocacy projects
• Learning how an academic center functions
• Engaging in human rights scholarship
• Gaining practical experience
• Collaborating with faculty, staff, and students

Primary duties of an intern at the Rapoport Center include:

• Assisting with research and advocacy projects
• Supporting the coordination and publicity of events and programs
• Writing and editing articles, designing layout, and working extensively with the software program InDesign for the Center's Annual Review publication
• Expanding the Center's social media outreach
• Providing administrative support for Center programs
• Contributing written work for press releases, website, and Annual Review publications
• Serving as liaison to UT undergraduate community (through the Human Rights Student Advisory Council) and helping develop Center's undergraduate outreach
• Assisting Co-Directors, Assistant Director, Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Rights Scholars, graduate students, and affiliated faculty with other projects and tasks as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Commitment to working on issues of human rights and justice
• Excellent writing and editing ability
• Individual initiative and flexibility
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Professional demeanor

The following qualifications may be preferred in some candidates:

• Proficiency in a Spanish and/or Portuguese
• Demonstrated experience with videography, video-editing, and podcast and/or webisode production
• Demonstrated experience with publication, design, and website software (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign)
• Experience with scholarly research and editing
• Journalism experience

Internships offer a stipend. Selected interns should be available at least 10 hours per week during the semester, and 20 hours per week during the summer.

How to Apply

Qualified students should submit the following items through our online application form.

Note: November 15, 2020, deadline is for Spring 2021 internships

• Cover letter
• State why you are interested in the position; demonstrate basic knowledge of our programs and activities
• CV/Resume
• Indicate any relevant skills and foreign language proficiency
• Transcript
• Unofficial is acceptable; please send via email
• List of three references
• At least two must be UT faculty; include name, title, and contact information; full letters not required
• Writing sample
• 3-5 pages; does not need to relate directly to human rights, although that is preferable

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For BDP Students only: For students who participate in the Bridging Disciplines Program (BDP), please see the Barbara Harlow Internship in Human Rights & Social Justice (open only to students who are in the BDP Program). The BDP deadline for spring 2020 internships is November 15, 2020. The internship is similar to the Rapoport Center’s standard undergraduate internship: selected interns should be available at least 10 hours per week during the semester, and 20 hours per week during the summer. What distinguishes the Harlow internship is that it offers a higher stipend and requires three additional components:

• In the cover letter, students should reflect (in one paragraph) on how Harlow's scholarship and activism might influence their work with the Rapoport Center and their pursuit of human rights and social justice more broadly.
• During the internship, each recipient will write a piece for our Human Rights Commentary page, which either engages directly with Harlow's work or uses her work as a lens through which to engage critically with a topic.
• After the internship, each recipient will create a poster to reflect on the internship, taking into account Harlow's impact on their experience, and present it at the Annual BDP poster session in April. (Fall and Summer interns will submit at the end of their respective term, and then present in April.)

How to Apply (BDP Students only): Qualified students should submit the following items through our online Harlow internship application form. Students who are not selected for the Barbara Harlow Internship will be considered for our standard undergraduate internship.

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Contact Rapoport Center Assistant Director Sarah Eliason, if you have any questions regarding these internship opportunities.