March 18, 2010

GP Seeks Energetic Youth Worker Intern to Lead Boston Team in Boston and Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic this Summer 2010

• Interested in working with urban youth who are changing the world?•

• Want to spend a summer working with young people on service projects in solidarity with communities in Nicaragua or the Dominica Republic?•

• Come and join Global Potential’s newly forming Boston team!•

Since its founding in New York in 2007, Global Potential (GP) has provided life-transforming experiences with over 75 high-school age young people. These young adults, in turn, have facilitated great impacts in the international and local communities in which they serve.

Global Potential’s model is to partner with educators and urban schools in order to help young people:
• experience immersive and transformative projects
• increase confidence and leadership skills
• explore across boundaries and assumptions
• create concrete benefits for, and lifelong relationships with the international communities where they work
• identify and meet local community needs through the creation of social entrepreneurship projects.

These outcomes are facilitated locally and international over the course of a year and a half. To begin, they are engaged in 5 months of intensive workshops, leading up to a 1.5-month field placement in a rural village in the Dominican Republic or Nicaragua. They then receive 10 months of on-going support in defining and fulfilling next-step goals in education, job skills, and social engagement and entrepreneurship. Young people work in solidarity with each other and their host communities in order to create innovative solutions to poverty and to generate opportunities for intercultural exchange.

Here, in our first year in Boston, Global Potential (GP) has partnered with educators from Health Careers Academy (HcA), and a pioneering group of 12 young people (www.global-potential.org/summer-10). These young people and teachers are heading for a 6-week long service-learning and intercultural exchange project in Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic this summer. We are looking for a phenomenal youth worker to help us lead preparatory workshops for our youth team this April and May (one afternoon a week), and to help accompany and lead the youth team in a field placement this summer (either in Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic). We are especially interested in a youth worker that would be interested in staying involved after the summer, as well. Bi-lingual (Spanish-English) speaking youth workers with experience working and living in developing countries are especially encouraged to apply.

To be considered for this position, please send an email noting relevant experience and a copy of your resume to Sarah Gogel, Deputy Director: sarah@global-potential.org

Global Potential covers all program-related expenses in the field. The only responsibility you have is to cover your airfare, room and board, which adds to approximately $750. We work together to find the best solution for you if finding these funds are a challenge. Since GP’s budget is limited to covering most of the expenses for the participants, we work with summer field staff to help find funding through school scholarships and other online opportunities. Social work supervision hours are available. We are also willing to work with colleges to negotiate credit for your service.

For more information, please feel free to visit our website: http://www.global-potential.org/

Thank you for your interest in Global Potential’s Youth Worker position.

Updated: March 18, 2010