The Africa Center Internship Opportunity: Business Plan Development
Period of Internship: Summer 2015
The Africa Center is currently seeking an intern to help with market research and preparations
for its business plan. The intern’s responsibilities will include:
• Identifying, quantifying, and describing the community of civic, private sector, and
cultural actors engaging in Africa-‐related activity in NYC and throughout the U.S.
• Quantifying the amount businesses and individuals annually spend to access Africa-‐
related content (Membership in institutions like the Corporate Council on
Africa, attendence at one-‐off events like the Harvard Africa Business Conference, the New York African Film Festival, etc)
• Harvesting insights from corporate membership programs of affiliated organizations in
the U.S., e.g. Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations, Asia Society, etc.
Internships are unpaid positions. Candidates should be able to commit to a minimum of two
days (or 16 hours) per week for a period of two and a half months. Academic credit is available.
Qualifications:
Excellent written and verbal communication with a flexibility handling diverse tasks; currently pursuing or recently completed a graduate business degree; strong research, writing and editing skills; reliable, punctual, and flexible handling diverse tasks; full professional proficiency
in English; and proficiency with Microsoft Office. Interest in African business, policy and culture.
About The Africa Center:
The Africa Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institution, provides a gateway for engagement with contemporary Africa. The Center’s work is premised on the idea that this emerging market of one billion people, characterized by extraordinary diversity and complexity, is inescapably relevant to building a prosperous, secure, and desirable future.
Minutes from the United Nations and located at One Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue adjoining Harlem in New York City, The Africa Center will operate locally and globally to transform our understanding of the world’s oldest continent, which also boasts its youngest population. Encompassing culture, policy, and business, The Africa Center promotes partnership, collaboration, dialogue and understanding between African artists, business leaders and civil
society and their counterparts in the United States and beyond. The Africa Center will host visual, performing, and digital arts presentations; develop and disseminate innovative educational tools; convene focused, thoughtful peer-‐to-‐peer exchanges; and sponsor results-‐ oriented policy research.
In its first three years of being fully operational, the Center will focus primarily on three themes that resonate particularly powerfully in New York City: urbanization, managing diversity, and empowering and engaging young people. This fertile starting ground recognizes the fact that Africa is the most rapidly urbanizing continent on the planet; home to extraordinary religious, cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and environmental diversity; and demographically is the youngest region in the world. These themes will inform our work across our three major lines of activity: culture, policy and business.
How to apply:
E-‐mail your application to Bridget Foley, Vice President, Administration, at: [email protected] by May 15, 2015 with the subject line: “Business Intern, The Africa Center, Summer 2015.”
Applications should include a resume and a cover letter, indicating your interest in the position and days and hours in the summer (June 15—August 31, 2015) that you are available to intern. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
No phone calls, please. Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. Please consider your application received unless it is bounced back
