The mission of this B-certified consulting firm is to accompany organizations through processes of improving their triple bottom line. Since 2006, they have helped organizations and companies receive B-corp certifications which have in turn enabled them to have a positive impact on people, planet and profit. They achieve this through strategic planning, aligned collaboration and sustainability-centric processes. The intern could work in Business Development, Graphic & Web Design or Communications & Social Media.
Risk Management and Cyber-Security Company
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
Holistic Educational Nonprofit
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
Global Organization for Social Entrepreneurs
This is a global organization with more than 40 years of experience in entrepreneurship and innovation with a social impact. They proudly recognize their network of social entrepreneurs as the largest in the world with more than 3,700 members in 95 countries. Their network strives to create conditions in which every individual can maximize their abilities and knowledge and are given the necessary tools to become agents of change. The intern will work on coordination and service projects.