Corporate Fundraising Intern At Open Cultural Center

Are you interested in making a career in the migration field? Do you want to learn about fundraising in the social and private sector? Open Cultural Center (OCC) is a non-profit organisation (NGO) based in Spain and Greece that works towards the inclusion of refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers by offering activities to both host-country nationals and third-country nationals.

For a period of 6 to 12 months, we are offering an internship position as Corporate Fundraising Assistant within the Fundraising and Communication department of OCC Spain.

Main tasks

• Support the corporate fundraising team to track the impact metrics of the different education for employment programs at OCC (e.g. MigraCode, INCO, CodeWomen and YouthForAll);
• Support the creation of an alumni network with more than 200 graduates;
• Support with identifying brand ambassadors among the alumni, volunteers and partner network;
• Support the creation of impact infographics and other promo materials to be sent to current and potential donors in collaboration with the comms team;
• Support the identification of success stories to feature the success of each program;
• Support the corporate fundraising team to identify and track grants calls aligned to our mission;
• Support the overall activities of the corporate fundraising team;
• Support the rest of the team and participate actively in the organisation’s activities.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Go getter and proactive mindset;
• Advanced LinkedIn user who is comfortable with starting conversations;
• Experience in impact measurement will be highly appreciated;
• Experience or interest in photography, video-making, graphic design, and related software (Photoshop, InDesign, etc.) will be considered a plus;
• Strong interest in working in the nonprofit/social sector and basic to advanced knowledge of the migration context of Europe. Higher education in social sciences will be considered a plus;
• Able to speak and write in English and Spanish. Knowledge of other languages will be considered a plus;
• Easy-going and loving an intercultural environment;
• A motivated, proactive, open-minded, tolerant, creative, and self-reliant person.

Important: we only receive Erasmus+ sponsored internships at the moment. You can find more information about that here – please note you need to apply for this grant yourself, and we recommend applying for the grant before applying to our organisation.