Research Intern – Middle East and North Africa

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🗣️🇸🇦 Arabic Required

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Free the Slaves

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2000

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Social Impact

Free the Slaves is a global non-profit organization dedicated to ending modern slavery and human trafficking. With a focus on advocacy, policy change, and community engagement, the organization works to influence policymakers, empower vulnerable communities, and support survivor networks to dismantle the conditions that enable slavery. Free the Slaves operates internationally, including in Africa, the Americas, Arab states, and Asia and the Pacific, utilizing research-based strategies and survivor experiences to inform their initiatives. They conduct training, build coalitions, and engage in movement building to amplify the fight against slavery, aiming for systemic changes to protect human and labor rights globally.

📋 Description

• Support programming in the Middle East and North Africa region through research. • Collect secondary research on the state of modern slavery in the Middle East and North Africa region, focusing on prevalence, challenges, gaps, and opportunities to strengthen the response in the region. • Create databases hosting secondary data and clean and organize the data collected. • Analyze secondary data into relevant themes and identify key recommendations and reflections. • Design tools for the organization and visualization of research findings. • Write literature reviews, concept notes, blog posts, or other outputs. • Present research findings to the Research Program Coordinator and the MENA Regional Manager. • Participate in brainstorming sessions with members of the team.

🎯 Requirements

• Be either currently enrolled in, or a recent graduate of, an accredited college or university as a degree-seeking student. • Have a demonstrated history of excellence in their studies and will be in pursuit of, or a recipient of, a degree within the following fields: law, public policy, international relations or affairs, international development, human rights or another relevant field. • Be fluent in English and Arabic, both written and spoken. • Have a demonstrated history of interest and/or involvement in the anti-slavery or human rights movement. • Be familiar with and possess prior experience engaging with research methodologies, particularly collecting, analyzing, and consolidating secondary data. • Possess excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as a functioning knowledge of word processing with Microsoft Word. • Be well organized, self-motivated, and reliable and should be able to work well both independently and as a part of a team. • Successful candidates will demonstrate a history of accepting direction, taking initiative, and working well with both supervisors and peers. • Demonstrate an ability to engage cross-culturally and collaborate with global staff at a professional level.

🏖️ Benefits

• Interns are provided with a one-time stipend after the end of their internship.

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