The intern will be engaged in daily training assignments that involve performing duties and tasks as following:
Interns will work together on below mentioned four projects, with each project assigned to two interns at least, where they can divide the tasks as per their strengths. The interns will also work together to create a fun video detailing their journey as interns of the American Center for posting on social media.
- Design and Execute American Spaces monthly programs (Placement at the American Center):
interns will be tasked with the conception, design, and execution of two or three thematic programs at the American Center during the 8 week-long internships. They will conduct a needs analysis on the topics that will benefit young audiences the most before designing and planning the program. They can replicate already developed programming kits from the American Spaces. These could include but are not limited to career counseling, media literacy, tech training, movie screenings, and/or or diplomacy simulations. The interns will learn the project management skills from conceptualization to execution. They will design the projects on a hybrid model with in-person audiences from local universities and virtual audiences from any of the 18 Lincoln Corners across Pakistan. Interns will learn hybrid program skills, public speaking, organization, and customer service skills through this assignment.
- Social-Media & Evergreen Content Creation:
Interns will work on creating content for ‘Lincoln Corners Academy’ project on evergreen topics. This will include drafting creative concepts, storyboarding, creating campaign toolkits, videography, editing, and
description writing. They will also write blogs on informational topics-specifically the skills sought after by the youth in Pakistan. Interns will critically review the Lincoln Corners Pakistan Facebook page and will
suggest engaging content and mini-marketing campaigns for the page, during an 8-week long assignment. They will closely monitor the increase/decrease in engagement during their assignment. Interns will develop digital/social media management and monitoring skills, as well as professional soft skills.
- Social-Media:
Interns will critically review the Lincoln Corners Pakistan Facebook page and submit a report on its performance. They will track and review social media presence of the best run pages of American Spaces across the globe and prepare a report on the activities that are creating the most engagement. Their suggestions will directly inform and influence the Lincoln Corner Pakistan social media strategy. They will suggest engaging content and mini-marketing campaigns for the page, during an 8-week long assignment. The interns will also submit a detailed proposal on one unique video campaign series. The submission should include the concept note justifying the need for and importance of the topic, script of each video shoot, identification of speakers, logistics etc. The LC page will credit the interns if the project is adopted and executed. They will also closely monitor the increase/decrease in engagement during their assignment. Interns will develop social media management and monitoring skills, as well as professional soft skills.
Conference Management and Administration of Volunteer Program:
Interns will track the Lincoln Corner’s volunteer network called ‘Friends of the Corner’ -and will populate/update the database. They will also create an engagement strategy for the graduated volunteers -and will work with the team to organize a FOC conference in Islamabad. Through this project the interns will learn key networking and outreach skills as well as develop event management skills.