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Children-Centered Community Development NGO

This non-profit focuses on creating safe spaces of education, recreation, emotional support, and self-expression for at-risk children. It carries out its activities in neighborhoods in and around the city of Buenos Aires. It is comprised of over 200 volunteers from various professional backgrounds, who are committed to addressing social injustice. The intern will assist with international fundraising efforts and/or communication and marketing efforts.

The intern could work in Fundraising or Marketing and Communications.

University Urban Development Research Center

A department of a dedicated to applied research, professional development, and technical advice that seeks to address one of the main dilemmas facing contemporary society: how to develop the territory and the cities located in it in an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient manner. The intern could work in Development & Sustainability, Education & Teaching, Government & Public Policy, and Urban Development.

Risk Management and Cyber-Security Company

This company has been in the international market since 1987 and considers themselves pioneers in the areas of ​​management, insurance, risk management, quality and security in information systems (IT).

Humanitarian Foundation

Foundation that has been working for ten years with families living in highly under-resourced shantytowns of the City of Buenos Aires, providing opportunities to promote their integral development. The Foundation also has an interdisciplinary work team consisting of 58 people and more than 80 local, foreign, and university volunteers who enrich the space and strengthen the relationships with the beneficiary families. The intern could work in Communications and Social Media, Graphic and Web Design, Marketing and Writing, and/or Coordination and Service.

Sales Consulting Company

The Sales Consulting Company is made up of entrepreneurs who have been founders of prestigious startups, and thus, have experience in consulting to promote sales. They are proud to have expertise in their craft and are one of the first business in Latin America in their professional field. They join the sales teams of their clients to co-create their commercial processes, helping open their clients up to new markets and scale up their businesses. The firm offers services in the following areas: user experience (UX) and product design, service design and customer experience (CX), strategic design and transformation, design and innovation consultancy, qualitative research, user testing of products and services, and training.

Human-Centered Innovation and Design Firm

Human-centered innovation and design firm, with more than twelve years of experience. The firm works with important clients from different industries and backgrounds from all over the world (with a special focus on Latin America), who trust the firm with their most challenging and interesting projects. The intern could work in Business Development and/or Research and Analysis.

Car Dealership

The car dealership is a family company that has been devoted to the automotive business for over 40 years and is the official car dealer of a certain car brand in Argentina. The company works in three business units: brand new vehicles, used vehicles, and post-sales. The intern could work in Operations and/or Research and Analysis.

Nail and Beauty Company

The Nail and Beauty Company started in 2015, by way of developing a very specific nail product and then naming the brand after it. Since then, the company has focused on offering high quality products and is considered one of the top brands for Professional Nail Artists in Argentina. Inspired by everyday stories of entrepreneurial women who achieved financial independence working as Nail Artists, the company develops products to spark their creativity. The intern could work in Business Development & Marketing, Communications & Social Media, and Monitoring & Evaluation.

Race and Marathon Organizer Company

The Race and Marathon Organizer Company is a leader in the Latin American running industry. They have been in business for more than 27 years organizing sports events with a unique infrastructure and a first-class team.

Industry: Marketing & Advertising, Other (Sports Marketing and Events)
Sector: For-profit company
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Possible Intern Roles:

SOCIAL MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS INTERN

The intern will create content for the races organized by the company. In addition, they will be responsible for responding to messages and moderating social media accounts both on the company account and pages created for individual races, editing content, coordinating materials with the internal design department, monitoring/reporting metrics, and live-streaming races. The intern will also develop new methods of conveying information to runners.

Suggested Spanish level: Intermediate
Candidate requirements: The ideal candidate should have a positive team spirit and prior experience in Adobe Creative Suite, content editing tools, and social media.

GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGN INTERN

The intern will propose ideas for both digital and physical design pieces. Their designs range from web pieces to social networks, ads, newsletters, and general online materials. They will tackle big formats such as graphics applied to barricades, starting lines on races, etc. They will generate clear ideas, concepts, and designs of creative assets from beginning to end while working collaboratively with other designers to ensure a consistent, integrated brand perception. Throughout the internship, the intern will collaborate with a cross-functional team that includes organizers, creative directors, and product managers in order to create compelling designs. The selected intern will be following a Master Designer’s guidelines.

Suggested Spanish level: Intermediate
Candidate requirements: The ideal candidate should have a positive team spirit and prior knowledge of UX, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop. Knowledge of runners language is a plus.

WEB DEVELOPMENT INTERN

The intern will be responsible for website updates and re-design of the company website. They will use the following languages: php, html, css, mysql, forms.

Suggested Spanish level: Intermediate
Candidate requirements: The ideal candidate should experience using the previously mentioned web languages and codeigniter.


Private Investment Group Service Center

The Private Investment Group Service Center provides accounting and administrative services to the parent private investment company based in Miami, FL. This service center is located in Montevideo, Uruguay. The intern could work in Research & Analysis and/or Monitoring & Evaluation.

Holistic Educational Nonprofit

This nonprofit aims to support the educational trajectories of infants, children, teens, and adults facing housing insecurity. They use an intersectional approach to provide holistic services.

Entrepreneur Incubator

This global nonprofit pioneered the concept of High-Impact Entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Headquartered in New York City, with 21 independently run country affiliates, the organization transforms economies by identifying and supporting high-potential entrepreneurs. Practicing a tested “mentor capitalist” model, the NGO affiliates help entrepreneurs overcome barriers to growth by providing the key ingredients to success: mentorship, networks, strategic advice, talent, skills, access to smart capital, and inspiration. Guided by the NGO, these entrepreneurs generate sustainable economic growth and jobs, become role models, and help nurture a culture of entrepreneurship, which spurs investment and encourages people to innovate and think big. The intern could work in Fundraising, Communications, and/or Research & Analysis.

Argentine Bio-Tech Development Lab

The Argentine Bio-Tech Development Lab works with RNA, plants, enzymes, and other bio-technological elements. Their biohacking team works in computer science and gene-discovery for pathogens of different plants/crops. Their specialists observed that with RNA, it is possible to give signals to plants by showing them bits of the genome of a pathogen, so that they develop natural defenses to diseases rather than using chemicals. They continuously utilize this observation to develop new strategies for sustainable agriculture and believe that it is crucial to understand how plants develop and react to signals from the environment.

Boutique Flexible Solutions Coworking Space

This boutique coworking brand in Buenos Aires attracts top-level teams who value an exceptional workplace experience. It was founded in 2009 and provides a collaborative workspace for entrepreneurs and cutting-edge companies with various comprehensive turnkey options that encourage flexibility. As the only Google for Startups partner in Argentina, it hosts a wide range of events that support the local startup community.

Uruguayan Software Development Agency

The Software Development Agency identifies as Latin America’s most stable and advanced tech epicenters and was named one of the Uruguay’s top three custom software companies by Clutch. They are proud to have a multinational team that hails from all over South America that has successfully completed over 100 projects.

Liberty Oriented Critical Thinking Foundation

This foundation is a hub of critical thinking and research rooted in public politics and principals of liberty. It is a private and indepedent nonprofit that works towards ensuring that the values of Juan Bautista Alberdi and the Consitution of 1853 are present in modern Argentine society. They strive to create an open-minded and tolerant society with low taxes, respect for people’s individual projects, and equality in law.

Grassroots Feminist Organization

This organization fosters feminist collective activism by striving to advance equal participation of women and other minority groups in different areas of social life and to assist researchers worldwide in their work on feminist theory and gender issues studies. Its flagship project is a library and documentation center that hosts over 25.000 books and materials with different supports on trans-feminist theory and literature of women authors. In addition, they also run a research and training center that provides a variety of training and capacity-building programs for women and historically marginalized groups in its community. The intern will work in fundraising, archiving, or library management.

Government Student Exchange Organization

The initiative was established by the American Congress in 1946. Its mission is to promote better understanding between people of different countries through educational and cultural exchanges. Since its creation, it has granted more than 400,000 scholarships for study and research to citizens of the United States and 165 other countries. Many alumni have gone on to win Nobel Prizes and the Pulitzer Prize. The intern could work in Marketing and Writing.

Structural Engineering Consultancy

The Structural Engineering Consultancy takes on the challenge of transforming the construction industry in Iberian America. For 11 years, clients from different countries have put their trust in this firm due to the their values and high-quality work. With their technical solvency and innovative approach, they pride themselves on being protagonists in the structural design industry in the region and providing solutions tailored to the needs of their clients. They focus on analyzing problems through the perspectives of all parties involved to provide creative solutions that complete the greater objectives of each project rather than only the minimal structural requirements.

Industry: Engineering & Operations
Sector: For-profit company
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

Possible Intern Roles:

Research and analysis intern

The intern will be tasks with researching how incorporate artificial intelligence into the operations of the organization and the larger scale ramifications to the industry.

Suggested Spanish level: Advanced Spanish
Candidate requirements: The intern should have an academic background in computer science, computational engineering or artificial intelligence. Experience in artificial intelligence is preferred, strong research skills are a must.

GRAPHIC AND WEB DESIGN INTERN

To achieve the company’s goal of further enhancing its marketing efforts, the intern will design and launch the website/virtual materials in coordination with the marketing department’s plan.

Suggested Spanish level: Advanced Spanish
Candidate requirements: The intern should have prior experience in and/or be studying web design and communications.

Robotic Seed Planting Company

The Robotic Seed Planting Company designs and builds robots for the commercial planting of seeds, utilizing their own hardware, software, and firmware programmed to resolve the problems of horticultural, floral, and forestry producers. The intern will work on projects in business development.

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