The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of nearly 11,000 practitioners, students, teachers, and staff from UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, donors, governments and universities who work together within a humanitarian and development framework to ensure all persons the right to quality education and a safe learning environment in emergencies and post-crisis recovery.
In the past 15 years, the Education in Emergencies field has grown tremendously, evidenced by the increasing number of MA students choosing to specialize in EiE; increasing number of tools and resources to support EiE policy and practices; increasing number of researchers with EiE expertise; exponential growth of INEE membership; and the global use of the INEE Minimum Standards as a benchmark of quality and accountability in EiE programs and policies. Today, EiE has been well established as a sub-field within education, and this sub-field is likely to see a growth in rigorous research in the coming years.
The Journal on Education in Emergencies was set up in response to the growing need for rigorous EiE research to strengthen the evidence base, support EiE policy and practice, and improve learning in and across organizations and academic institutions.
This internship presents a unique learning opportunity to work closely with Editorial Team of the Journal on Education in Emergencies: the Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor, Editorial Board members, manuscript authors, peer reviewers and other interns. The intern will support the manuscript submission and peer review processes. Training on the PeerTrack system will be provided.
Duties and Responsibilities
The INEE Journal intern will report to the INEE Senior Coordinator, WG on Minimum Standards & Network Tools, and will be responsible for various projects that will ensure the smooth functioning and coordination of the peer review process for submissions to the Journal on Education in Emergencies, including:
- Coordination and Communications: Support the smooth process and coordination of calls for submissions, manuscript submissions through the PeerTrack software, communications with peer reviewers, communications with authors and necessary production (graphic design, printing etc); answer questions by authors and partners.
- PeerTrack system support: answer questions from authors, Editorial Board members and staff to ensure easy use of the PeerTrack system; Develop FAQs on the use of PeerTrack.
- Fundraising: Support fundraising and reporting efforts on the Journal by contributing with research and drafting of donor proposals, budgets and reports.
- Call of Papers: Lead on the promotion of Call for Papers and advertising for the Journal;
- Develop a strategy for innovative and interactive engagement between article authors and INEE members/Journal readers (blogs, videos, discussion boards Q&A).
- Website development and content management: Draft new Journal website layout structure; Develop and update content on the Journal's website. Write, review and edit documents, as needed.
- Research: research other Journals and draft policies and procedures for the Journal on
- Education in Emergencies, as necessary.
LEARNING OUTCOMES Learn about the latest scholarly research in the field of Education in Emergencies, and current EiE practice; Learn to work with and manage a Peer Review Software System (a standard journal production system) for scholarly journals; Learn valuable project management and editorial skills.
REQUIREMENTS
- MA student in a relevant field preferred (e.g. education, social work, international relations, refugee issues); upper class BA students with previous work/internship experience may be considered.
- Excellent organizational skills: the ability to track and follow-up on various efforts
- Excellent analytical and writing skills: the ability to draft correspondence, briefs, and
- reports.
- Strong communication skills: excellent command of English-language, both spoken and
- written.
- Good interpersonal skills: the ability to successfully interact with a variety of people
- Flexible work attitude: the ability to follow direction and effectively learn and work in an
- inter-agency environment as well as self-motivate
- Excellent Computer skills: MS Word and Excel.
The intern must be available to work 15h/week starting in March 2015. Interns may take school credit for the internship with prior agreement from the supervisor. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until position is filled.
Compensation: This is an unpaid opportunity.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please follow this link to apply: http://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=YW5nZWxhdi4wNDI4NC4zODMwQGlyYy5hcGxpdHJhay...
