Community Building

**Perhaps this resonates?**:
You are a tertiary student looking for a place to hone and sharpen your skills during your upcoming school break.

While penning your new year resolutions, you found yourself reflecting more on your career aspirations, and what would really drive you and wake you up in the morning for the year ahead. _You want to use your gifts to contribute to a more just, more sustainable and more hopeful future_. Or perhaps, like us, you see a new array of possibilities arise during this (pan)endemic, particularly in the area of _building and empowering communities_ around us.

If you are still reading this, let’s take our resonance further. Skillseed is growing and we want to meet you.

**ROLE**:
**As our Intern specialising in Project Management in our Community Building Complement,**

You will work directly with our Community Builders in the Complement. You will be trained to support the Community Building team in designing, facilitating and managing both in-person and virtual experiences as well as providing business development support.

**Specifically, you’ll be**:

- Designing, developing, implementing and facilitating innovative and socially impactful community building courses in Singapore. These courses would be experienced in in-person, virtual or blended formats.
- Supporting our non-profit initiative _Resilience Trails_, where Skillseed, alongside friends with disabilities, single mothers and individuals from other under-resourced communities, as well as our partners from AMKFSC Community Services, have co-created trails in our Guides’ neighbourhoods to bring our participants along a journey of _empowerment_, _empathy _and _endless possibilities_.
- Supporting the Community Building team to coordinate with our diverse partners and stakeholders; managing course logistics, admin matters and budgets from end to end.
- Providing support to identify, develop and cultivate professional relationships with a diverse client base through research, virtual and/or face-to-face outreach, exhibitions and follow-up of leads from our online content and referrals.
- Supporting our Community & Capability Building teams in widening our outreach to potential client partners, including untapped markets locally and internationally.
- _ (For university students)_ Promote Skillseed’s work by researching and writing ‘Thought Leadership’ articles to highlight our expertise in experiential learning/ education, specifically in capability development and community engagement.
- _ (For university students) _To provide research, admin and operational support in new business development initiatives
- _ (For university students) _To consolidate, analyse and provide recommendations to improve Client Partner Satisfaction for our programmes

**As you join our space, you’ll also benefit from**:

- Active participation in the strategic planning process of a social enterprise including developing goals, objectives and processes
- Honing skills in project management and planning
- Exposure to the social sector and social issues, and how we might address these social issues with technology and capacity building
- Learning skills in managing online stakeholder engagement through newsletters, social media platforms and more
- Analysing various client partners’ needs and expectations to determine business opportunities
- _ (For university students) _Develop business opportunities in target segments, review market needs and opportunities and develop client partnerships

**Requirements**:
**Some traits and skills we’re looking for**:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Preferably competent in a Second Language, written and verbal
- Familiar with Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office Suite, especially Powerpoint and Excel
- People-orientedness - You enjoy and naturally host or join community or gatherings _without being asked to_;** **you are also a natural connector who enjoys building relationships across different networks, backgrounds and cultures
- A growth-oriented mindset. It sounds like a platitude, but it’s crucial in our space - you are always seeking to improve yourself and it reflects in your work quality
- Prior experience in project management and/or business development will be preferred
- Prior experience in at least one or more of the following areas: service learning, facilitation, community development, marketing and/or business development, social causes and youth development will be preferred

**PACKAGE OVERVIEW**:
**Here’s what we are offering under the **Global Ready Talent Programme (supported by Enterprise Singapore)**:
**_ Please note that GRT only supports full-time internships for Singaporeans and Singapore PRs. They must be full-time students from ITE, NYP, NP, RP, SP, TP, NTU, NUS, SUSS, SIT, SMU or SUTD. Internship duration is a minimum of 6 weeks._**

For poly students; internship duration: min. 8 weeks up to 12 weeks
- 5 working days a week (M