Internships Asia - Providing Practical Experience for Community Development Workers

Want to reward your best employees and volunteers; help them to develop professionally and academically?  Have you always wanted to more skills for your staff, but you don’t know where to start?  We have a solution for you. 

We all know the key to the success of our programs are its people.  We also know the best people are always looking for new challenges and opportunities for personal development.  So, how do you ensure the continued development of your programs while ensuring you keep your most qualified, dedicated, and hard-working individuals?  Easy – invest in them and their futures.

People thrive on learning something new; something that makes them do their job more effectively; to a higher standard and with less stress and frustration.  With the right experience, staff will feel more confident, satisfied, self-reliant and communicate more effectively.  Introducing and implementing opportunities for personal development can have a ripple effect throughout an organization - improving morale, retention, efficiency and productivity. 

Our Regional Internship Program offers you this type of development for staff – and we offer it in the form of internships with one or more of our partner organizations around the region.  Internships are a valuable way to develop the skills and knowledge you need for the success of your programs though placements lasting from three to six months.  

General benefits from professional development for your employees and volunteers

• Increased job satisfaction and morale among employees
• Increased employee motivation
• Increased efficiencies in processes, resulting in financial gain
• Increased capacity to adopt new technologies and methods
• Increased innovation in strategies and products
• Reduced employee turnover
• Opportunities for developing new organizational partnerships