If you have a heart for missions and would like to be a part of the incredible team that works behind the scenes to make the Global Encounters trips happen, we would love to have you join us! These are volunteer positions. The reward isn’t financial, but you can be a vital part of spreading the Gospel and gain some skills and experience that will look great on a job resume! Each of the positions includes a Life Purpose Planning component, including personalized assistance from Dewey Novotny (author of the Life Purpose Planning workbook) to help make the internship part of your springboard into future work and ministry. As an added plus, interns get great discounts on Global Encounters mission trips! Previous participation in Global Encounters trips is preferred. However, if you have other experience that you believe would qualify you for one of these positions, please apply.

Marketing Intern

Location: work from home
Status: position open
Time estimate: 10 hrs per week
Time commitment: at least 6 months, 9-12 months preferred
If this position interests you, please fill out an application.

Job responsibilities include:
-Assist with the Global Encounters newsletter.
-Work on getting Global Encounters positioned as a contributor to homeschool and other publications.
-Help prep for event-based marketing (making sure materials get there, possibly designing some displays).
-Help create short promo videos.
-Help design format and publications for churches and schools that want to schedule group trips with Global Encounters.
-Work with the PR intern on Facebook and Twitter content.
-Use various tools to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
-Participate in monthly marketing discussion groups.
-Will include books to read, videos to watch, and other projects to develop skills and knowledge.
-Requires either some knowledge in this area or the ability to learn. Need to be innovative and self-directed. Lots of freedom for creativity!
-At the end of the internship the intern will have a list of training completed, hard copies or digital copies of all marketing materials he/she helps develop, and stats that reflect the effectiveness of his/her work. Providing work is satisfactory, Global Encounters will be happy to provide a letter of recommendation and references.

Curriculum Development Intern

Location: work from home plus join the curriculum writing team in Florida for one week
Status: this position currently filled by Elyssa VanGilst
Time estimate: 10-15 hrs per week
Time commitment: at least 6 months, 9-12 months preferred
If this position interests you, please fill out an application.

Job responsibilities include:
-Participate in the curriculum-writing team (meets for one week in January).
-Take the curriculum writing team’s ideas and flesh them out with step-by-step instructions, illustrations, supply lists, etc.
-Go through previous years’ curriculum and prepare for publication.
-Research supplies.
-Learn to work with inventory and ordering and help coordinate supplies needed by summer mission teams.
-Coordinate adult Bible studies to go with kids’ curriculum (i.e. coordinating the efforts of our authors and translators and preparing for distribution).
-Adapt curriculum with schedules for other settings (camps, etc.).
-Work with translators to prepare the curriculum for use in multiple languages. (Doesn’t require any knowledge of foreign languages, just the ability to coordinate the work of the translators and prepare the final product for distribution.)
-Research new songs, games, crafts, etc. that can be used with the curriculum.
-Become familiar with copyright laws.
-Help distribute training videos to mission teams and team leaders.
-Look into publishing and marketing the curriculum.
-We would prefer someone who has experience working with children’s programs. International ministry experience is also a plus.
-Intern needs to have good writing skills (clarity more important than creativity), be organized, and able to work with a lot of simultaneous projects (or able to to learn this skill).
-At the end of the internship the intern will be given a copy of all curriculum he/she helped develop as well as pictures (and possibly videos) documenting it’s effectiveness in action. Providing work is satisfactory, Global Encounters will be happy to provide a letter of recommendation and references.

Public Relations Intern

Location: work from home with possibility of some projects in Greenville, SC
Status: this position currently filled by Mandy Graham
Time estimate: 10 hrs per week most of the year, 20 hrs per week during summer
Time commitment: 6 months +
If this position interests you, please fill out an application.

Job responsibilities include:
- Social media
- Blogging
- Coordinating recognition of team members
- Help team members with support letters
- Get prayer cards, videos, posters, t-shits, and other promo material out to team members before the trip.
- Coordinate getting testimonies from team members for newsletters and website.
- Put together photo books for returning teams
- Get training videos pulled together and posted for each team
- Maintain a “team page” on FB or GE website for each team and post relevant materials.
- Put together slideshows/videos for returning teams
- Send out DVDs of pictures