Student Info Session Slides
Next Deadline: Passed.
Applicants will receive status updates by November 3
Winternship Opportunities in Mexico City
Program Overview
DRCLAS partners with several organizations in Mexico City to provide January internship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in various fields. Some examples are Computer Science, Study of Biological and Biomedical, Global Health, Education, Journalism, Human Rights, Urban Resilience and Sustainability, among many others. These internship programs serve as pre-professional experiences. Students should be prepared to work, mainly in Spanish, in an office-like atmosphere. The program also includes cultural activities throughout Mexico, administered by DRCLAS staff. The programs take place in Mexico City, a densely populated megacity and the capital of Mexico. An open-mind and positive attitude is necessary for the participant to succeed.
Program Dates
January 3 - 20, 2024 (includes arrival and departure dates)
2023-2024 Timeline for Applicants:
- September 18: DRCLAS Student Programs Info Session @ 4 PM
- October 2: Mexico Winternships Info Session (4 PM @ DRCLAS)
- October 3: Applications Open!
- October 10: Deadline to Apply for all Harvard students
- October 16 - 25: Invite-only interviews for candidates
- Late October: Secondary Interviews (as required with certain organizations)
- First week of November: Notifications of application status delivered
Eligibility
The program is open to Harvard undergraduate and graduate students with a minimum of an intermediate level of Spanish (for example, the equivalent of at least two semesters of Spanish at Harvard). All students must be in Good Academic Standing, and both enrolled in Fall 2023 and returning in the Spring 2024 Term, to be eligible.
Application Requirements
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All students will apply in CARAT
- Find the application here
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Personal responses to the following general themes/prompts (writen in English or Spanish):
- Interest in region/Mexico, potential impact the program may have on you and the reverse, interest in organization(s) and why
- Updated resume/CV (English is accepted)
- Unofficial transcript from current Fall 2023 semester (proof of enrollment)
- Selected applicants will be invited to sign-up for a mandatory in-person interview as well
Interview Process
Interviews are invitation-only and will occur during the week of October 16-25, 2023. Invited participants will be notified by October 13, 2023.
Program Costs & Availability of Funding
Program Fee: $1,000
All students must pay the program fee via term-bill
Confirmation Deposit: $100
All students must pay the confirmation deposit via term-bill
Cancellation Fee:
Please see tab below for a detailed breakdown of the policy
*All students will be considered for need-based funding by simply applying via CARAT. DRCLAS will make every effort to support selected students in partcipating in the program.
Cancellation Policy
2023-2024 DRCLAS Cancellation/Withdrawal Policy:
Please note that no students are obligated to confirm participation in DRCLAS programs once offered an opportunity. The following policy goes into effect once students officially complete the program contract and acceptance form online, confirming their participation in the DRCLAS Winter program.
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Cancellation/Withdrawal Amount:
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Amount Charged to Student Term-bill
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Additional Notes
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Starting upon completion of contract and acceptance form
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$100 Confirmation Deposit
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Full stipend (if applicable) must returned to DRCLAS
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Starting 6 weeks prior to program start date (November 22, 2023)
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$100 Confirmation Deposit + 1/4 Program Fee ($250)
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Full stipend (if applicable) must returned to DRCLAS
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Starting 4 weeks prior to program start date (December 6, 2023)
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Confirmation Deposit $100 + Half Program Fee ($500)
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Full stipend (if applicable) must returned to DRCLAS
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Starting 2 weeks prior to program start date (December 22, 2023)
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Confirmation Deposit $100 + 3/4 Program Fee ($750)
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Full stipend (if applicable) must returned to DRCLAS
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Starting during the program (on or between January 3 – 20, 2024)
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Confirmation Deposit $100 + Full Program Fee ($1000)
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Full stipend (if applicable) must returned to DRCLAS
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Please message any questions regarding cancellation fees to Rachel Murray-Crawford, Assistant Director of Student Programs.
2024 Winternship Opportunities
Architecture
Arquitectura 911
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Arquitectura 911 is an independent practice based in Mexico City founded in 2002 by Saidee Springall and Jose Castillo committed to architecture, urban design and planning projects.
Internship Description
The work includes research, cultural, institutional, housing, mobility projects and mixed-use master plans in various cities in Mexico.
Intern Qualifications
- Qualities: Proactive, focused, sense of ownership
- Academic Major: Architecture, Urbanism, Design
- Undergraduates on their last year or masters students
- Computer skills: Autocad, Revit, Adobe, Office
CAPSUS//Mexico
Organization Description:
Our mission is to promote urban sustainability and transform cities into spaces with a more inclusive and higher quality of living while having a lower environmental impact. In our projects, we propose grounded, innovative solutions that foresee a better future for coming generations. Our field of work covers sustainability issues in the energy, environmental management, and urban sectors, recognizing that sustainable development should embody continuous improvement in environmental, economic, and social terms.
Intern tasks and responsibilities:
Interns
#1: Develop Climate Action Plans Intern
#2: Sustainable Urban Planning
Intern #1: Virtual Provide Technical Assistance (TA) to municipal governments in preparing Municipal Climate Action Plans (CAP) and identifying financing instruments to mobilize and diversify financing for urban resilience and climate change mitigation, with the aim of transitioning towards low-carbon, climate-smart development. The Intern will work on the emission diagnosis and vulnerability analysis to address the need to reduce GHGs emissions, adapt to climate change impacts and generate broader social, environmental, and economic benefits. The intern will be responsible for supporting the (i) baseline diagnostics needed for the CAPs (GHGs inventory, business as usual (BAU) and mitigation scenarios based on current plans and actions, and the climate risk and vulnerability assessment); and (ii) developing their CAPs with all their components, including the prioritization of investments and identification of financing instruments, and involving all relevant stakeholders. The climate action plans are expected to inform urban investment programs at the local level and contribute to maximizing their mitigation and adaptation potential.
Intern #2:Virtual Work with the team in developing Growth/Shrinkage scenarios for 2 cities reflecting different public policies and urban plans for the physical, spatial, fiscal, environmental, economic and social development of the cities, through: a. Adapting urban scenario tool to the city context in collaboration with the participating municipalities and based on the data availability. b. Developing different scenarios for the next 20-30 years, examining the implications for policy making targeting areas with the greatest population influx, and uneven social, spatial, and economic development. The scenarios will include trend/business as usual scenarios, current planning scenarios, and sustainable development scenarios.
Intern qualifications:
Intern1: Environmental Engineer, Environmental policy or similar Fluent in english and spanish Experience in climate change issues Able to work virtually with own computer
Intern 2: Urban Planner or similar Fluent in english Experience in urban planning Able to work virtually with own computer Experience with geographical information systems is a plus Interest in sustainable development.
Format
Hybrid
Open to undergraduate and graduate students
LIGA Espacio para arquitectura
Organization Description:
LIGA Espacio para arquitectura es una institución sin fines de lucro que persigue la difusión de la arquitectura latinoamericana contemporánea, mediante diversos formatos entre los que destacan las exposiciones. En nuestros 10 años de práctica hemos desarrollado 35 exposiciones.
Internship Description:
Necesitaremos ayuda para desarrollar la exposición que se inaugurará en febrero de 2023: LIGA 36. Además, estamos actualizando toda nuestra web, y necesitamos apoyo con la plataforma.
Desarrollo de catálogo de exposiciones, apoyo en escritura de texto de sala y texto curatorial, apoyo en montaje, apoyo en contacto y seguimiento con proveedores para exposición, seguimiento a artistas, desarrollo de calendarios de trabajo, desarrollo de excel con presupuestos. Apoyo en traducción de textos de español a inglés y viceversa.
Intern Qualifications:
- Nivel de español - intermedio/alto
- Alumnos procedentes de carreras: arquitectura, historia del arte, literatura.
- Preferible conocimiento de paquetería adobe (photoshop, illustrator, indesign)
- Conocimiento de software de drive: google sheets, presentaciones...
Format:
In person (Mexico City, Mexico)
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana
Arts
Ambulante // MEXICO
Organization Description:
Ambulante is a non-profit organization devoted to supporting and promoting documentary films as a tool for social and cultural transformation. Founded in 2005 by actors Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna and Elena Fortes, and currently directed by Paulina Suárez, Ambulante seeks to strengthening documentary film culture in Mexico and Central America, in order to contribute to a more open and critical society, and facilitate access to different perspectives from around the world. Among its work schemes, Ambulante identifies and travels to spaces with limited exhibition offers and training in documentary film, in order to promote cultural exchange, promote a participatory, critical and informed attitude in the viewer and open new channels of reflection in Mexico.
Internship Description:
Each year, Ambulante organizes an international film festival, which tours Mexico for two months with a lineup including about 130 titles from 30 countries. Currently, Ambulante is the widest-reaching documentary film festival in Mexico, and a unique exhibition space in the world. This is a noncompetitive festival that offers about 60% of its programming for free. The internship will happen during a definitive period for this years' Festival program, as part of the programming team the intern will be present during the final stages of film curatorship and the early and very much active stages of the programming process for films and various cultural activities, this process includes the selection of dates, timeslots, venues, participants, etc.
Interns will be expected to:
- Support for internal processes regarding project management.
- Cleaning and updating databases for films, filmmakers and related data.
- Follow up on linking processes with allies.
- Managing files and materials resulting from various application entries.
- Support with translation (Spanish to English and vice versa) of a diverse range of texts and documents.
Intern Qualifications:
- The preferred majors for this internship are: Communications, Sociology, Pedagogy, Cinema, Visual Arts and Culture related majors.
- Interest and familiarity with current social issues is desired, these include: human rights defense, climate crisis, land defense, the advancement of disenfranchised communities, etc. -The intern must be familiar with the Google Drive environment.
- Previous experience with cultural projects, film festivals or film related projects is desired.
- Knowledge about the database platform Airtable is preferred but not necessary.
- Proficiency in the Spanish language is preferred
Format:
Remote or In person - Mexico City
Open to undergraduates and graduate students
Museu do Amanhã // Brazil
Organization Description:
Museu do Amanhã (The Museum of Tomorrow) is a Science and Arts Museum, and educational research center in Rio de Janeiro. It is an environment of ideas, explorations and questions about the time of great change in which we live and the different paths that open up for the future.
Intern Qualifications:
- Intermediate Portuguese
- Capacity for Autonomous work.
- Creativity and passion for sustainability.
- Capacity for Autonomous work.
- Creativity and passion for sustainability.
Open to undergraduate and graduate students
Stsebetikbolom // MEXICO
Organización colectiva de fotografía y arte Tsotsil
UNESCO // Chile
Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura
Intern Qualifications:
Intermediate to advanced Spanish required
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Business and Finance
Horton International
Organization Description:
We provide outstanding consultative advice that helps organizations achieve their strategic staffing objectives. Our executive search services are exacting, timely and highly effective, and are specifically designed to help clients achieve their business goals. Horton International works in close tandem with our clients' internal staffing organizations and line managers. We offer reliable, effective solutions to recruiting and resourcing challenges for a diverse range of organizations, from small, privately held start-ups to leading Global corporations.
Internship Description:
Design and lead the implementation of a B2B digital marketing plan to increase revenue generation for Mexico's operations. Achievement of measurable ROI is expected.
Intern Qualifications:
- Has highly developed all round interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication, presentation, networking and negotiation skills
- Customer service oriented with a positive, well-motivated attitude, self-starter
- Conscientious, hard-working and driven to improve sales and activity performance beyond targets
- Competent IT skills with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office, google programs and social networking tools. Experience of Salesforce would be preferred, but not essential
- Sound experience in developing and implementing B2B digital lead generation campaigns
- A high level of professionalism
- Number-oriented
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Prismapar Latam
PRISMAPAR
Organization Description:
Prismapar is a strategic and financial advisory firm focused on the education industry consulting on corporate finance, strategy and business development. Prismapar advises its clients on business expansion, mergers and acquisitions, strategic sale and capital raising from banks, private equity funds or capital markets. Working alongside the client, Prismapar works as a “Business Development Partner," helping clients from the initial stages of the strategy formulation up to its implementation. As a strategic partner, Prismapar helps its clients maintain the focus on their core business so that managers save time during mergers and acquisitions or capital raising processes, which always are significantly time consuming. Typically, we work with companies that are expanding or strategically repositioning themselves, either according to decisions made by their shareholders and managers or as a result of external market forces
Internship Description:
Work directly with partners to develop a leading edtech impact ecosystem service firm. Responsibilities include market analysis, financial projections, impact index, thought leadership, alliances.
Intern Qualifications:
- Ability to develop sophisticated financial analysis.
- Understand marketing practices
- Be research driven.
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Data Analysis
Dateras
Organization Description:
Dateras is a start up working with several NGOs. They believe that sophisticated data analysis can and should be available, not only to private initiatives, but to civil organizations and governments so that they can make sound decisions. Their job is to close the gap between the use of data and the public. To do this, they inspect, clean, transform and model information to empower customers with strong messages and effective demands.
Internship Description:
We would like the intern to work at our project www.fuistetu.org. The intern will help us conduct data analysis for anti-corruption purposes and communicate our results on social networks.
Intern Qualifications:
- Spanish (medium level)
- Independent and goal-driven work style
- Undergraduate
- Willingness to learn Adobe Reader
- Knowledge of R or Stata is a plus
Open to undergraduates
Documentary Film
Ambulante
Organization Description:
Ambulante is a non-profit organization focused on supporting and promoting documentary films as a tool for social and cultural transformation. Founded in Mexico in 2005 by Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz, AMBULANTE brings documentary films and training programs to places where they are rarely available, in order to create a participative, informed and critical public, to procure new forms of expression, and to encourage debate in Mexico and abroad. Each year, AMBULANTE Org, in collaboration with CANANA, Cinépolis and the Morelia International Film Festival, carries out a traveling film festival across 12 regions in Mexico during three months. The festival is non-competitive and hosts guests from all over the world that participate in conferences, seminars, encounters with the audience, and screenings in a variety of indoor and outdoor venues across the country. Since 2011, it also showcases a series of documentaries at VIVE LATINO, one of the largest music festivals in Latin America.
Intern Qualifications:
- Spanish Language Requirement
Open to undergraduate and graduate students, primarily interested in film
Economic Development
Innovations for Poverty Action
INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA)
Organization Description:
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA brings together researchers and decision-makers to design, rigorously evaluate, and refine these solutions and their applications, ensuring that the evidence created is used to improve the lives of the world’s poor.
Internship Description:
Project: Crime, violence, and a weak rule of law jointly present some of the most pressing issues for Latin America. They affect citizen behavior and relations at every level of society, so these shortcomings impose a significant cost on the economy and constitute a severe threat to economic development and political stability. This project seeks to explore how to design local police forces in Mexico (and Latin America more broadly) that can rise to the challenge of reducing violence, increasing institutional legitimacy and trust in institutions, and strengthening the rule of law. The project thus focuses on three sets of questions:
- The specific organizational capabilities and structural characteristics that are systematically proven to deliver better results (or questions of basic organizational design);
- The process and sequence through which these organizational capabilities should be incorporated into new or existing police organizations (or questions of organizational construction and change);
- How, given an organizational design, police organizations can build citizen engagement, participation, and trust through their protocols, practices, and interactions with citizens (or questions of the enactment of practices). This includes an understanding of how police organizations in Mexico should implement evidence-based interventions that have been proven to effectively reduce violence.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting research staff in coordinating and collaborating with the partners
- Revising survey questionnaires, designing training materials for field teams; cleaning and analyzing data
- Assisting in refining and designing the data collection process; and coordinating field logistics for upcoming field activities
- Undertake data cleaning with the IPA RA
Intern Qualifications:
- Interest in development issues
- Good understanding of impact evaluation methodologies (particularly randomized controlled trials) and terminology
- Strong academic background, comfortable reviewing academic papers
- Basic knowledge of working on STATA or R software
- Excellent writing, analytical, synoptic, and communication skills (Spanish)
- Previous experience working in a developing country is a plus
Instituto de Planeación y Desarrollo de Guadalajara
Organization Description:
We are dedicated to coordinating the work between municipalities and state government on issues of metropolitan relevance. Our purpose is to elaborate and propose metropolitan planning instruments, studies and project proposals, as well as mechanisms that improve the coupling of the Metropolitan Coordination Instances, allowing intervention in all phases of the metropolitan coordination policies within the scope of their powers.
Internship Description:
Interns will work in the Coordination of Metropolitan Linkage, with varied tasks specifically related to the institutional link with municipalities of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, as well as the organization and operation of the Metropolitan Coordination Board, the political coordination instance of the metropolis. In addition, interns will work with the Technical Secretariat of the Metropolitan Citizen Council, helping with the development and strengthening of citizen participation mechanisms.
The office also coordinates the development of the Metropolitan Strategic Plan for a Friendly City with Older Adults, which must be completed by the dates of collaboration of the practitioner. Therefore, interns will assist in the validation process of the final document.
Additionally, the Institute has a Planning Directorate with Technical Management of Mobility, Territorial Planning and Risk Management, and another Development Management Directorate with Technical Management of International Cooperation, Sustainability and Project Bank, in which interns could also work.
Intern Qualifications:
- Advanced Spanish
- Interest in urban planning, urban development, metropolitan coordination, sustainability
- Disposition and flexibility for the type of work to be carried out
- Knowledge of geographic information software would help you perform more technical tasks
- Working under pressure
- Spirit of service
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Que Funciona para el Desarrollo
Organization Description:
Our mission is to contribute to the development of knowledge and the economy through the elaboration and dissemination of rigorous studies that inform policy-makers and private organizations about what programs promote economic development and which are the most efficient and efficacious implementation designs for strengthening such programs.
Internship Description:
Statistical analysis and data management. We have projects in health, education and poverty alleviation with Mexican data. The intern will work with statistical software (mainly Stata, and probably R or Python) to contribute to the analysis of the projects. The intern will work at ITAM Santa Teresa (Mexico City) with professor Arturo Aguilar (PhD) from the Department of Economics.
Intern Qualifications:
- Basic Spanish
- PhD or M.A. student in Economics, Statistics or Data Sciences
- Experience with statistical software: Stata (required), R o Python is a plus
- Ability to work independently
Open to graduates
Education
Clubes de Ciencia Mexico
Organization Description:
Clubes de Ciencia Mexico is a non profit organization that aims to expand access to high quality science education and to inspire the future generation of scientists, technologists and innovators in Mexico through international networks, online and hands-on workshops.
Internship Description:
- Assistant in Assesment: Assist in the analysis of the impact assessment survey of the last 5 years of Mexico City
- Management Assistant: Assist in the 3-year growth plan. Design a fundraising strategy and institutional relations
- Production Assistant: Review and optimization of the logistics necessary for the programs of Science Clubs Mexico are carried out in time and order. Planning of the 2020 edition of short summer courses
- Communication Assistant: Assist in the creation of a communication plan for the different stakeholders of the organization. Assist in the creation of multimedia content for the different media that allow communicating the mission and activities of Mexico City
Intern Qualifications
- Education: Undergrad in natural sciences, engineering, business administration or economics. Masters in Education, Business or Public Administration would be desired
- Experience: Experience in design/development, budget design, management administration, evaluation and implementation of technical projects in education-related fields is desirable. Knowledge of the current trends in educational and outreach concepts and/or experience engaging and collaborating with the private and public sector on educational related issues is desired
- Language: Advanced English (spoken and written). Advanced Spanish (spoken and written) is desired
Open to undergraduates and graduates
CENEVAL
CENTRO NACIONAL DE EVALUACIÓN PARA LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR (Ceneval)
Organization Description:
Ceneval is a Mexican organization with over 25 years of experience in designing and administering instruments to evaluate knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies, as well as in analyzing and transmitting their results. All our processes are standardized and follow international norms in assessment.
Internship Description:
The intern will support the Research Department in analyzing data from different evaluation instruments (for example, questionnaires, admission or graduation tests) to gather information in order to generate reports that describe the instruments or its examinees. In addition, the intern will get an overview about the processes executed to design, assemble, administrate and grade a test.
Intern Qualifications:
- Fluent Spanish
- Psychometrics and statistical background knowledge
- Interest in education
- Excel and PowerPoint skills
Format
Hybrid
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Education for Sharing
Organization Description:
E4S is an international non-profit organization with the mission of forming better global citizens from childhood through the power of play. We team up with teachers and parents to develop social emotional learning skills among our children and youth through a play-reflect-act framework.
Internship Description:
This is a project for the area of Impact Evaluation to strengthen the evaluation of the results and impact of Education for Sharing, which is a non-profit organization that designs and implements programs for the citizenship education of children and adolescents.
- Design a plan to develop and implement an impact monitoring and evaluation framework
- Conduct a diagnosis and SWOT analysis of the evaluation area
- Develop a feasible evaluation proposal that adapts to the organization's needs
- Design an implementation plan for the proposed evaluation
Intern Qualifications:
- Monitoring and evaluation of public policies and social programs
- Qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods
- Experimental and quasi-experimental studies
- Econometrics and statistics softwares
- Desirable Spanish language skills
Hacedores
Organization Description:
An educational innovation company, based on learning through experience through the use of technology; it creates learning spaces and design courses and workshops that put Maker Education into practice, fostering creativity and knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM).
Internship Description:
Will be working directly with the CEO to detect opportunities and make proposals that allow us to raise funds, whether institutional or private, to be invested in the expansion of the company.
Intern Qualifications:
- Basic knowledge of the Spanish language.
- Mastery in the use of word processing and spreadsheet programs.
- Passion for finances, basic education and community development.
- Good writing and spelling.
- Ease of speech and public relations.
- Interest in technology.
Format:
Hybrid
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Vía Educación A.C.
Organization Description:
Via is a non-profit civil education, which seeks to generate development opportunities through the design, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of educational strategies. It seeks to influence educational quality, public policy, citizen participation and corporate responsibility. Its objective as an organization is to propose methods to overcome poverty through education and generating opportunities for sustainable social development.
Intern Qualifications:
Intermediate to Advanced Spanish language skills
Intermediate to Advanced Spanish language skills
Open to returning College undergraduates students only
Government
Mexican Agency of International Cooperation for Development
Organization Description:
Created in 2011, the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) is an agency of Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mexico’s priority areas of development cooperation are education, health, environment and climate change, and science and technology. Geographic priorities are Central America; the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean; and developing countries of Asia-Pacific and Africa.
Internship Description:
The main duty of the intern will be to provide research assistance for a project regarding the development of the region of the Istmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca in three aspects: economic, social and infrastructure projects. The intern will write informative notes and analyze data regarding the region in order to propose a comprehensive sustainable development plan that will be implemented by the Mexican Government with the lead of the AMEXCID. Other duties include assistance to high level meetings and briefing the Director General on the correspondence between the Ministry and other institutions such as embassies, private companies, international organisms and other federal agencies (foreign and national).
Intern Qualifications:
- Fluent in Spanish
- Good data analysis basis
- Good writing
- Knowledge of key elements of the region
- Good knowledge of policy skills
- Organization skills
- Time management skills
- Team work
- Basic knowledge on finances
- General knowledge on energy policy
- Ability to summarize and extract important ideas
- Preferably a management or finance undergrad or graduate
Open to undergraduates and graduates
National Electoral Institute
Organization Description:
The National Electoral Institute (INE) is the autonomous public institution responsible for organizing democratic elections, guaranteeing the exercise of the political-electoral rights of citizens and promoting democratic development in Mexico.
Among the main activities include:
- Organize elections
A strategic objective is to comply with one of the main purposes of the new electoral system: standardize the standards with which electoral processes are organized and thus guarantee high levels of quality in Mexican democracy.
- Process the Voter’s ID
The Voter’s ID is an identity document used by millions of people to identify themselves as Mexican citizens and exercise their right to vote in our country and abroad. It is processed free of charge and has multiple security controls.
Promote equality and non-discrimination
It has the obligation to promote, respect, protect and guarantee human rights, thus mainstreaming the perspective of gender equality and non-discrimination in the exercise of political rights.
Internship Description:
Projects:
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Gender and non- discrimination unit
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Overview
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Comparative study of policies in Latin America for the inclusion of vulnerable groups
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The project is to conduct a comparative analytical study of the policies by electoral institutions in Latin America related to the inclusion of citizen priority attention groups, in order to find their suitability to implement them in Mexico to strengthen political rights and democracy.
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You will work under the Technical Unit for Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination.
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The intern will receive individual tutoring and will have the opportunity to attend meetings by senior stakeholders who will present national efforts and results.
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Responsibilities
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Assist in research, drafting policy documents, internal research notes on public policies and initiatives carried out in other countries and institutions.
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Contribute to the development of affirmative action strategies and measures and strategic actions to promote the inclusion of citizenship.
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Help with the drafting of the Final Report of the elaborated research, including the preparation of meetings, background research, data entry and internal reports.
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National Civic Culture Strategy
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Overview
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This project focuses on the implementation of the National Civic Culture Strategy (ENCCIVICA), a nationwide public policy strategy coordinated, designed in implemented by the NEI. Its aim is to promote understanding and participation in public issues in a democratic context.
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For this project, you will work under the Executive Direction of Electoral Training and Civic Education.
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The intern will receive individual tutoring and will have the opportunity to attend meetings with senior stakeholders who will present national efforts and results.
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Responsibilities
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Assist in research, drafting policy documents, and creating strategies to best achieve ENCCIVICA’s goals.
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Research and document relevant experiences for internal discussion.
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Help with the preparation of meetings, background research, data entry and internal reports.
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Electronic voting mechanisms
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Overview
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This project focuses on the implementation of the use of electronic voting in the next federal election of 2021. Until now Mexico uses only paper ballots that are singly counted. The use of electronic devices presents a lot of challenges.
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For this project, you will work under the Executive Direction of Electoral Organization.
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The intern will receive individual tutoring and will have the opportunity to attend meetings with senior stakeholders who will present national efforts and results.
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Responsibilities
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Assist in research, drafting policy documents, and designing the strategy to do a pilot application of electronic voting in the next elections.
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Research and document relevant experiences for internal discussion.
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Help with the preparation of meetings, background research, data entry and internal reports.
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Intern Qualifications:
- Gender and non- discrimination Unit
This project is ideal for anyone looking for a career in political science, human rights and electoral studies. You will be exposed to a variety of advocacy efforts and gender equality and non-discrimination policies and national inclusion policies implemented during the elections in Mexico. Advanced Spanish is required.
- National Civic Culture Strategy
This project seeks a major in public policy, political science, education, sociology or similar fields. Advanced Spanish is required.
- Electronic voting mechanisms
This project seeks a major in public policy, political science, education, sociology or similar fields. Advanced Spanish is required.
- Federal Registry
This project seeks a major in public policy, political science, education, sociology or similar fields. Advanced Spanish is required.
- Electronic voting
Any cryptography related major, focused on the application of information systems. Experience with the application of cryptographic algorithms based on number theory or elliptic curves (C/C++, Java) is desirable and knowledge of Blockchain and an intermediate level of Spanish.
Health
Institituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas/UNAM
Institituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas/UNAM
STUDY OF CORD FAILURE AND PREDISPOSITION TO LEUKEMIA.
Organization Description:
The Mission of the Institute is the study of biological and biomedical phenomena at the molecular, biochemical, cellular, organismic and population levels, to contribute with this knowledge to scientific development, and to the teaching and dissemination of science in our country with a view to development healthy world.
Internship Description:
- PROJECT 1: Systems biology to understand how cells deficient in DNA repair decide between survival or apoptosis.
The objective of this project is to use dynamic mechanistic models to understand the cellular decision process between survival and apoptosis in cells deficient in the FA/BRCA pathway, including cancer cells.
PROJECT 2: Detection of malignant stem cells in spinal cord failure syndromes using technologies with single cell resolution. Collaborators: Dr. Sara Frías (IIB, UNAM and INP), Dr. Alan D’Andrea (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School) and Dr. Anniina Färkkilä (Helsinki University)
Intern Qualifications:
- Intermediate Spanish.
- General programming knowledge.
-knowledge of genetics.
Format
Presencial
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Global Health Initiative, Tec de Monterrey // Mexico
Organization Description:
The Global Health Initiative – led by Tec alumni and professors –- has gathered support and enthusiasm across the public health and medical community in Mexico to formalize the first Global Health Institute (GHI) in Latin America. The Tecnológico de Monterrey (aka the Tec) is uniquely positioned to launch the first GHI because of its innovative educational approach, network and connections to the global health field, and world-wide reputation of excellence and entrepreneurship. The Tec ranks first in Mexico amongst all education institutions. In our approach to launch and design the GHI, we are using Marketing Research and Community Organizing frameworks along with a diverse array of research and implementation methodologies and projects that go from semi-structured interviews, surveys, to community organizing and design thinking.
Internship Description:
Current projects (subject to change):
1. Mixed methods analysis on the impact on healthcare access by the new health reform recently issued by President AMLO (creation of INSABI. Nov, 2019)
2. Develop contents for a global health certificate at Tec de Monterrey
3. Quantitative study on the economic impact of vaccination gaps in Mexico
4. Quantitative study on the relationship between non-pharmacological interventions in the states of mexico and the burden of COVID-19
5. The influence of the Rockefeller Foundation on the political economy of the Mexican Healthcare System New research projects are expected to be developed in the coming months.
6. Proposals from students are also welcomed.
1. Mixed methods analysis on the impact on healthcare access by the new health reform recently issued by President AMLO (creation of INSABI. Nov, 2019)
2. Develop contents for a global health certificate at Tec de Monterrey
3. Quantitative study on the economic impact of vaccination gaps in Mexico
4. Quantitative study on the relationship between non-pharmacological interventions in the states of mexico and the burden of COVID-19
5. The influence of the Rockefeller Foundation on the political economy of the Mexican Healthcare System New research projects are expected to be developed in the coming months.
6. Proposals from students are also welcomed.
The duties depend on the research topic selected. But in general terms:
- Carry out qualitative and/or quantitative work, data processing, analyzing and leading process for publication submission.
- Perform qualitative and/or data analysis and writing findings.
- Coordinating diverse stakeholders interested in collaborating with the GHI A possible deliverable for a research projects it may be a first draft of a peer-reviewed paper for publication.
- The intern will be acknowledged accordingly in the authors’ list.
- Carry out qualitative and/or quantitative work, data processing, analyzing and leading process for publication submission.
- Perform qualitative and/or data analysis and writing findings.
- Coordinating diverse stakeholders interested in collaborating with the GHI A possible deliverable for a research projects it may be a first draft of a peer-reviewed paper for publication.
- The intern will be acknowledged accordingly in the authors’ list.
Intern Qualifications
- The Global Health Research Intern must be passionate about global health and problems that transcend borders. Likewise, they should see the value of the new generations to influence the future of the country. In addition, having some basis on qualitative and quantitative methods to perform research in global public health would be desirable, however, not necessary.
- Fluency in Spanish is required.
Format
In-person
Open to undergraduate and graduate students
Institituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas/UNAM
Genomic Medicine and Environmental Toxicology
Organization Description:
The Mission of the Institute is the study of biological and biomedical phenomena at the molecular, biochemical, cellular, organismic and population levels, to contribute with this knowledge to scientific development, and to the teaching and dissemination of science in our country with a view to development healthy world.
Internship Description:
Healp in research:
-Exposure to environmental toxins and risk of cardiovascular disease.
-Pregnancy and childhood as periods of susceptibility to environmental toxins.
-Mitochondrial DNA and microRNA content as biomarkers of exposure to environmental toxins and cardiovascular disease.
-In vitro models for the study of mitochondrial biomarkers and endothelial dysfunction.
Intern Qualifications:
- Demonstrated interest and experience in any of the areas related to public health or molecular biology.
- Graduate students with prior research experience preferred.
- The intern must be proficient in Spanish, as all team meetings and communications are in Spanish.
- Ability to work well independently and within a team.
Format
Presencial
Open to undergraduate and graduate students
Law
EC Legal Rubio Villegas
Organization Description:
EC Legal Rubio Villegas is one of the largest national law firms in Mexico. It resulted from the merger of four independent regional law firms located in Mexico City, Ciudad Juarez, Queretaro City and Chihuahua City, a gradual process that started in 2014.
Internship Description:
They need assistance to consolidate a cohesive and unified national organization.
Intern Qualifications:
- Spanish preferred but not indispensable.
- Graduate level.
- Able to provide guidance to consonsolidate our culture, operations, and strategy.
Open to graduate students
Social Impact and Human Rights
AtentaMente
Organization Description:
AtentaMente is a nonprofit organization that focuses on cultivating social emotional skills through initiatives in education, government, stand-alone workshops, and professional development. Based in Mexico City, the organization has offices in four Mexican states, though through its collaboration with the Secretary of Education, The United Nations Development Programme, and several other foundations and private enterprises, AtentaMente’s impact can be seen throughout the country. True to its mission statement “cambio yo, cambia todo” AtentaMente focuses on developing rigorous, evidence-based, programming to cultivate the inner wellbeing of individuals of all ages and all walks of life, through this model, the organization hopes to change the Mexican social fabric, promoting a society that is happier, healthier, and truly harmonious.
Internship Description:
Project 1: Research and Academic Intern Project Description: The intern will provide programmatic and content support for AtentaMente’s academic programs, including, but not limited to k-8 curriculum material, workshop content, and pedagogical approach.
Project 2: Communications Intern Project Description: In conjunction with AtentaMente’s communications team, the intern will support the organization’s communications strategy, including, but not limited to the organization’s website, social media pages, and original promotional material.
Intern Qualifications:
Project 1
● Minimum of intermediate Spanish
● Background knowledge and interest in social emotional learning
● Background knowledge and interest in research
● Computer skills (Microsoft Office suite, video editing or design platform experience is a plus)
● Media communications skills - social media
● Flexibility and versatility to work on fast-growing and continuously evolving projects
● Attention to detail
● Entrepreneurship, strong ability to work in highly unstructured environment; readiness to roll up sleeves
● Ability to work independently
● Strong relationship-building skills
Project 2
● Minimum of intermediate Spanish
● Media communications skills - social media
● Ability to work independently
● Computer skills (Microsoft Office suite, video editing or design platform experience is a plus)
● Ability to work independently
● Strong relationship-building skills
● Enthusiasm
● Entrepreneurship, strong ability to work in highly unstructured environment; readiness to roll up sleeves
● Minimum of intermediate Spanish
● Background knowledge and interest in social emotional learning
● Background knowledge and interest in research
● Computer skills (Microsoft Office suite, video editing or design platform experience is a plus)
● Media communications skills - social media
● Flexibility and versatility to work on fast-growing and continuously evolving projects
● Attention to detail
● Entrepreneurship, strong ability to work in highly unstructured environment; readiness to roll up sleeves
● Ability to work independently
● Strong relationship-building skills
Project 2
● Minimum of intermediate Spanish
● Media communications skills - social media
● Ability to work independently
● Computer skills (Microsoft Office suite, video editing or design platform experience is a plus)
● Ability to work independently
● Strong relationship-building skills
● Enthusiasm
● Entrepreneurship, strong ability to work in highly unstructured environment; readiness to roll up sleeves
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante
Organization Description:
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante supports Mexico-based migrant workers to defend and protect their rights as they move between their home communities in Mexico and their workplaces in the United States. With their binational, multilingual staff and geographic reach they have grown in response to increasing needs for advocacy and services and seek to overcome the U.S.-Mexico border as a barrier to justice.
Internship Description:
CDM is currently engaged in several initiatives to research and document experiences of diverse migrant communities for legal, policy, and training purposes. Depending on experience and language abilities, interns' responsibilities may include interviewing migrants / migrant workers about their experiences in recruitment and employment in the United States, data analysis, research, and report drafting. As a highly interdisciplinary organization, it is likely that interns will be exposed to two or more of the following areas within a single project: Outreach, Education and Leadership Development; Policy Advocacy; and Litigation Support.
Intern Qualifications:
- Cultural competency is a must
- Advanced Spanish proficiency strongly preferred, but not required
- Experience in advocacy, legal, and/or policy fields is a plus but not required
- Design skills a plus
- Students should also be willing to participate in a pre-arrival on-boarding call and conduct light background reading prior to arrival.
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Otros Dreams en Accion (ODA)
Otros Dreams en Accion (ODA)
Organization Description:
Otros Dreams en Accion is a grassroots organization for and by our deported and returned community. We strive to help folks who have been deported or have had a forced return to adapt to living in Mexico, and we also create artistic events to help our community express their emotions. We try to lead decompresing sessions where our commnity can get to know each other and process everything they have been through.
Internship Description:
They would be helping us with, but they would be working with our Community Engagement coordination, and with our cultural centar.
- help organiaze our cultrual center
- join different meetings to know what events will be happening and which we will need help with
-work on our volunteer toolkit -among other things
Intern Qualifications:
-Intermediate to Advanced Spanish
Open to returning Harvard College students only
Instituto RIA
Organization Description:
Instituto RIA, AC is a Mexican organization dedicated to generating high quality research, advocating for innovative, evidence-based public policies from a social justice framework and with a focus on promoting human rights. Access to justice, peace building and effective drug policies stand at the center of our analysis, proposals and advocacy
Internship Description:
The intern will be in the research department primarily, with a bit of advocacy work depending on the current political context. The person would be tasked with background research on a paper they are writing on poppy cultivation in Mexico and a possible regulated market for medicinal poppy-based products. This person would also have the possibility of attending meetings (based on Spanish proficiency) based on the current shifts in drug policy reform underway. The person would also provide the organization with some logistical support as needed, although they would like this to be a rewarding experience for them, therefore it would be minimal and as previously stated, the focus would be on research.
Intern Qualifications:
- Intermediate to advanced Spanish would be ideal.
- Political science, public policy, sociology, development policy, legal studies would all be fine.
- Interest in public policies, movement building, innovations in drug policies, politics and social change processes.
- Flexible work style since we are an adaptable, agile organization that also must respond to political needs.
- Good at drafting, literature reviews, citations and basic research skills.
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Sustainability
ASIPLA // CHILE
Trade Association of Plastics Industries (ASIPLA)
Organization Description:
ASIPLA is the Trade Association of Plastics Industries and they have represented, for more than sixty years, a sector that has historically put innovation and sustainability at the service of people, to contribute to improving their quality of life.
Project Description:
The student will join the team of the Association of Plastic Industries (ASIPLA) to support different and diverse activities related to daily work, as well as collaboration in long-term projects that require information gathering and analysis that the student can develop.
The student will join the team of the Association of Plastic Industries (ASIPLA) to support different and diverse activities related to daily work, as well as collaboration in long-term projects that require information gathering and analysis that the student can develop.
Intern Qualifications:
Intermediate to advanced Spanish required
Open to undergraduates and graduates
CAPSUS // MEXICO
Organization Description:
Our mission is to promote urban sustainability and transform cities into spaces with a more inclusive and higher quality of living while having a lower environmental impact. In our projects, we propose grounded, innovative solutions that foresee a better future for coming generations. Our field of work covers sustainability issues in the energy, environmental management, and urban sectors, recognizing that sustainable development should embody continuous improvement in environmental, economic, and social terms.
Intern tasks and responsibilities:
Interns
#1: Develop Climate Action Plans Intern
#2: Sustainable Urban Planning
Intern #1: Virtual Provide Technical Assistance (TA) to municipal governments in preparing Municipal Climate Action Plans (CAP) and identifying financing instruments to mobilize and diversify financing for urban resilience and climate change mitigation, with the aim of transitioning towards low-carbon, climate-smart development. The Intern will work on the emission diagnosis and vulnerability analysis to address the need to reduce GHGs emissions, adapt to climate change impacts and generate broader social, environmental, and economic benefits. The intern will be responsible for supporting the (i) baseline diagnostics needed for the CAPs (GHGs inventory, business as usual (BAU) and mitigation scenarios based on current plans and actions, and the climate risk and vulnerability assessment); and (ii) developing their CAPs with all their components, including the prioritization of investments and identification of financing instruments, and involving all relevant stakeholders. The climate action plans are expected to inform urban investment programs at the local level and contribute to maximizing their mitigation and adaptation potential.
Intern #2:Virtual Work with the team in developing Growth/Shrinkage scenarios for 2 cities reflecting different public policies and urban plans for the physical, spatial, fiscal, environmental, economic and social development of the cities, through: a. Adapting urban scenario tool to the city context in collaboration with the participating municipalities and based on the data availability. b. Developing different scenarios for the next 20-30 years, examining the implications for policy making targeting areas with the greatest population influx, and uneven social, spatial, and economic development. The scenarios will include trend/business as usual scenarios, current planning scenarios, and sustainable development scenarios.
Intern qualifications:
Intern1: Environmental Engineer, Environmental policy or similar Fluent in english and spanish Experience in climate change issues Able to work virtually with own computer
Intern 2: Urban Planner or similar Fluent in english Experience in urban planning Able to work virtually with own computer Experience with geographical information systems is a plus Interest in sustainable development.
Format
Hybrid
Open to undergraduate and graduate students
Fundacion Chile // CHILE
Fundación Chile
Organization Description:
Fundación Chile (FC) are a public-private partnership whose purpose is to promote Chilean’s transformation towards sustainable development. FC has been pioneer enabling and promoting different productive sectors, such as aquaculture, agribusiness, solar energy, and Latin America’s first venture capital funds. While the problems and interventions FC have worked on have focused on Chile’s needs, many other parts of the world confront challenges in those same topics: energy, water, natural resources, worker training, venture capital and the like. FC partners with 160 organizations from 35 countries, from the public and private world, to share expertise, scout solutions and tap into new markets.
Intern Qualifications:
Intermediate to advanced Spanish required
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Green Peace // CHILE
GREEN PEACE CHILE
Organization Description:
Greenpeace work to defend the environment, promote peace and encourage people to change attitudes and behaviors that put nature at risk.
Intern Qualifications:
Intermediate to advanced Spanish
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Museu do Amanhã // Brazil
Organization Description:
Museu do Amanhã (The Museum of Tomorrow) is a Science and Arts Museum, and educational research center in Rio de Janeiro. It is an environment of ideas, explorations and questions about the time of great change in which we live and the different paths that open up for the future.
Intern Qualifications:
- Intermediate Portuguese
- Capacity for Autonomous work.
- Creativity and passion for sustainability.
- Capacity for Autonomous work.
- Creativity and passion for sustainability.
Open to undergraduate and graduate students
Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana (ORU) // MEXICO
Organization Description:
ORU is an emerging practice of applied research, urban design and landscape infrastructure that explores the socio-environmental impact of a territorial dimension in design to build resilience and improve the human experience. For this, ORU expands the technical capacities of different regions, cities and communities to strengthen a culture of multi-scalar, multi-temporal and multi-actor planning that allows them to design and implement projects of urban regeneration and systemic integration.
Internship Description:
We’re woking on multiple urban planning, urban design and landscape infrastructure projects. Also, we’re doing a research for the Mexico Innovation Fund at Harvard, exploring water infrastructure with Anita Berrizbeitia (Chair of the Landscape Department, GSD).
The responsibilities include:
- Joining the ORU team for 3 weeks,
- Helping us organize and coordinate a workshop and
- Joining our team within our varios projects and tasks.
Intern Qualifications:
- Experience with Urban design or landscape and mapping
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Technology
PIT POLICY LAB
Policy Lab (PIT) Public Interes Technology
Organization Description:
We are technologists, policymakers, and social innovation professionals who promote the use of digital tools and new technologies at the service of the common good. We work with decision-makers from different sectors to design strategies and solutions to current and future challenges.
We explore the potential of technological applications of social interest and narrow them down to practical solutions.
We explore the potential of technological applications of social interest and narrow them down to practical solutions.
Internship Description:
Aim:
Organizational - To foster social and economic development in Mexico through cross-sector initiatives that harness the power of new technologies, solving global challenges at a local level.
Personal - To grow in an innovative and collaborative environment and better understand the social innovation sector in Mexico and how technology can contribute to reaching social objectives.
Responsibilities:
Organizational - To foster social and economic development in Mexico through cross-sector initiatives that harness the power of new technologies, solving global challenges at a local level.
Personal - To grow in an innovative and collaborative environment and better understand the social innovation sector in Mexico and how technology can contribute to reaching social objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Stay up to date with technological developments
- Research the use of technology in different sectors with a development focus
- Support the creation of new strategies and projects or initiatives
- Support the drafting of collaboration and financing proposals
- Support the coordination of events and meetings
- Support design-related activities
- Contribute to the creation of blogs and analysis articles
Intern Qualifications:
- fluent in English and Spanish
- interest in technology and its potential for impact
- project management capabilities
- ability to juggle different projects at the same time
- ability to manage different stakeholders
- research skills
- professionalism
- creativity
- detail oriented
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Hal SmartIA
Organization Description:
Hal SmartIA is a boutique firm that identifies solutions through the intersection of qualitative and quantitative analysis in the context of the global data revolution. The firm focuses on the development of tailored and state-to-the-art scientific products and services for real-world and complex institutional challenges.
Internship Description:
Project: collaborate in the development of a digital platform for small Mexican firms in the retail sector.
Responsibilities: work in the businesses case of the platform and perform quantitative analysis for the development of the product (less or additional responsibilities will depend on the intern's qualifications).
Intern Qualifications:
- Language: English or Spanish
- Preferred academic majors: economics, statistics, finance, computer science and physics
- No work experience is required
- Any undergraduate/graduate level (some level of experience with data analytics is welcome but not required)
- Computer skills: Python and R (other skills are welcome)
Jetty
Organization Description:
Jetty is a small Mexican startup with a grand goal: Creating financially viable, high-quality transit alternatives to the automobile in fiscally constrained megacities across the world. We build such alternatives from pre-existing, quasi-informal systems. Instead of displacing incumbent jitney operators, we learn what they are doing right, and change incentives so they improve their service. We introduce the pre-existing transit industry (passengers, drivers and vehicle owners) to the advantages of modern technologies. We improve their governance and administration, optimize and standardize operations, link revenues to customer satisfaction, and increase profitability. We've sold over 1 million trips through our apps and help 8K users per month get home safely.
Internship Description:
- The interns would work directly with our Data Scientist and Software Development team on:
- The analysis of our routes and triggers for growth.
- The automation of our scheduling platform.
Intern Qualifications:
- Engineering background.
- A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact.
- Ability to work in a high-growth and fast-paced environment.
- Spanish is not required.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Great analytical skills in order to make decisions based on the data.
- An analytical mind and entrepreneurial spirit, capable of working autonomously with a minimum of guidance.
Open to undergraduates and graduates
Urban Planning
Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana (ORU) // Mexico
Organization Description:
ORU (Office for Urban Resilience), an urban design and applied research practice that has specialized in resilience and climate-sensitive landscape infrastructures. ORU started operations in 2013, in Mexico City, and is formed by a team with more than ten years of experience in the academic, public and private sectors, as well as in various multilateral organizations. Their collaborative approach brings together high-level professionals in multiple fields of knowledge such as sociology, geography, hydrology, geology, data analysis, resilience and landscape, among others, which has contributed to successfully implement a wide array of urban design projects.
ORU explores the urban-environmental dimension at different scales and contexts. Its specialization has allowed it to contribute to strengthen a culture of multi-scale, multi-temporal and multi-stakeholder planning, obtaining with this the implementation and gradual and progressive development of processes of urban resilience in cities of different scales and complexities, from regions, to small, medium and large cities.
Internship Description:
ORU is currently working in multiple projects with multilateral organizations such as the InterAmerican Development Bank or the World Bank. We're also working together with the Government of Mexico City in urban planning, design and resilience. Depending on the expertise of the intern, we will assign her/him to one of our key projects.
Intern will support ORU's development team on analytical research, writing, mapping, data analysis and visualization, urban design, landscape or planning strategies.
Intern Qualifications:
- Collaborative and eager to collaborate with a young team of enthusiastic professionals
- Excellent written skills (English is excellent as some of our clients are international organizations
- Spanish is also preferable, but not required).
- Skills for working on data analysis and urban-territorial diagnostic
- Design skills either with landscape, urban design or planning focus
- Mapping and geographical analysis with use of Geographic Information Systems with platforms such as QGIS (geographer or designer)
- Data analysis with programs such as python, excel or R would be a great fit to our team (economist)
- Interest or experience in policy making related to climate change and resilience
- Use of design programs such as Rhino, Adobe Suite is a good fit, but not an impediment
Format:
Hybrid
CAPSUS // Mexico
Organization Description:
Our mission is to promote urban sustainability and transform cities into spaces with a more inclusive and higher quality of living while having a lower environmental impact. In our projects, we propose grounded, innovative solutions that foresee a better future for coming generations. Our field of work covers sustainability issues in the energy, environmental management, and urban sectors, recognizing that sustainable development should embody continuous improvement in environmental, economic, and social terms.
Intern tasks and responsibilities:
Interns
#1: Develop Climate Action Plans Intern
#2: Sustainable Urban Planning
Intern #1: Virtual Provide Technical Assistance (TA) to municipal governments in preparing Municipal Climate Action Plans (CAP) and identifying financing instruments to mobilize and diversify financing for urban resilience and climate change mitigation, with the aim of transitioning towards low-carbon, climate-smart development. The Intern will work on the emission diagnosis and vulnerability analysis to address the need to reduce GHGs emissions, adapt to climate change impacts and generate broader social, environmental, and economic benefits. The intern will be responsible for supporting the (i) baseline diagnostics needed for the CAPs (GHGs inventory, business as usual (BAU) and mitigation scenarios based on current plans and actions, and the climate risk and vulnerability assessment); and (ii) developing their CAPs with all their components, including the prioritization of investments and identification of financing instruments, and involving all relevant stakeholders. The climate action plans are expected to inform urban investment programs at the local level and contribute to maximizing their mitigation and adaptation potential.
Intern #2:Virtual Work with the team in developing Growth/Shrinkage scenarios for 2 cities reflecting different public policies and urban plans for the physical, spatial, fiscal, environmental, economic and social development of the cities, through: a. Adapting urban scenario tool to the city context in collaboration with the participating municipalities and based on the data availability. b. Developing different scenarios for the next 20-30 years, examining the implications for policy making targeting areas with the greatest population influx, and uneven social, spatial, and economic development. The scenarios will include trend/business as usual scenarios, current planning scenarios, and sustainable development scenarios.
Intern qualifications:
Intern1: Environmental Engineer, Environmental policy or similar Fluent in english and spanish Experience in climate change issues Able to work virtually with own computer
Intern 2: Urban Planner or similar Fluent in english Experience in urban planning Able to work virtually with own computer Experience with geographical information systems is a plus Interest in sustainable development.
Format
Hybrid
Open to undergraduate and graduate students
QUESTIONS?
Contact Lorena Rodas, Manager, Mexico Student Programs
Questions?
Contact Rachel Murray-Crawford, Assistant Director of Student Programs