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.
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.
Holistic Educational Nonprofit
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.
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.
Community Development Organization Argentina
The civil society organization seeks to overcome the situation of poverty for millions of people living in popular settlements, through the joint action of their inhabitants and the young volunteers who work with the organization in 19 countries in Latin America. In Argentina, the organization works in nine states and has a powerful leadership team of young professionals who are making a big impact. The intern could work in Research and Analysis and/or Monitoring and Evaluation.
Non-Profit Advocating for Sustainable Policies
This non-profit was founded in 1985. They aim to collectively construct a democratic and participatory society and advocate for public policies in favor of sustainable development. The NGO strives to achieve this goal through advocacy in the political, institutional, and social sectors of the public agenda. Their values are intellectual honesty, transparency, collaboration, an academic foundation of opinions in the framework of interdisciplinary and innovative work, responsible human development, preventive and precautionary actions, institutionalism, and rule of law. They are dedicated to promoting access to public information and justice.. The intern could work in Communications and Social Media and/or Fundraising.
Sustainable Development Center
The Sustainable Development Center is a collaborative and multidisciplinary space within the Secretariat of University Extension of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, which promotes a process of integral transformation through sustainability as a model of economic, social and environmental development. The intern could work in Graphic & Web Design; Communications & Social Media; Marketing & Writing; and/or Research & Analysis.
Sustainable Human Development Nonprofit
The Sustainable Human Development Nonprofit works locally and regionally in Latin America and the Caribbean. It gathers a community of independent professionals with a multidisciplinary profile, shared values and common vision. The nonprofit specializes in capacity building, technical assistance and strategic coordination between actors to promote comprehensive and sustainable development. The intern could work in Research & Analysis and/or Graphic & Web Design.
Meal Delivery Service
The meal delivery service is a company operating in Argentina and Mexico that provides healthy, nutritious, homemade meals ready in under 15 minutes right to the customers doorstep. The company delivers a superior selection of more than 100 available meals for the consumer to have in their freezer. The products are prepared with quick frozen technology and vacuum-packed techniques that make it possible to offer the convenience of frozen plus outstanding quality by bringing the freshness of the farm to the table. Customers discover a new easy way to eat fresher and healthier food as well as save time, money and reduce waste. The intern could work in Research & Analysis; Marketing & Writing, and/or Business Development.
Public Policy Think Tank
International Language Training Company
The International Language Training Company is a 140-year old business, leader in the ESL and language-teaching market worldwide. Its core business is focused on teaching languages, raising cultural awareness and catering for other businesses´ communicational needs. The intern could work as an English Instructor.
Leather Goods Company
Argentine Wine Distributor
The Argentine Wine Distributor is one of the leading wineries in Argentina with more than 110 years of history and a solid track record in the local and international market. Since 1998 it has been part of a renowned wine group from Portugal, distinguished in 2015 as the best world producer of wines by the Association of writers and journalists of wines and spirits (WAWWJ). The Group owns wineries and vineyards in the main wine-growing regions of Portugal, Spain, New Zealand, Chile and Argentina. Supported by specialized clients and own distributors in the USA, UK, Portugal, Brazil, Asia and Africa, the Argentine Wine Distributor exports to more than 60 countries around the world. Based on strong work on its vineyards, the Wine Distributor inaugurated a new stage in which it is committed to positioning itself in the Premium segments and as a leading company in the industry. The intern could work as an Area Manager Assistant and/or in Business Development.
Boutique Tutoring Firm
The boutique tutoring firm is dedicated to private, personalized test prep with master tutors for the U.S. admissions tests (SAT, ACT, GMAT & more). The tutors have at least 5 years’ teaching experience and create curricula fully customized to students’ in-lesson needs. The boutique tutoring firm’s combination of master tutors, official materials, and individualized curricula has led their students to average 180-220+ point gains on the SAT and 4-6+ point increases on the ACT. They work with students based in the U.S., Argentina, and over a dozen other countries. The intern could work in Business Development, Communications and Social Media, and/or Monitoring and Evlauation.
Innovative Construction Company
This is a construction company with four satellite business units related to construction. They focus on innovation and continuous improvement. They believe in Lean Construction and use Building Information Models in every project they lead. The team always shares knowledge and are assiduous learners. The intern could work in Business Development and/or Research and Analysis.
Technologies Training Company
This company carries out training in Excel, one of the most required tools in the professional world. Their mission is to show that work can be simplified and good decisions can be made by knowing how to use Excel. Their vision is to become the benchmark for Excel online training. The intern could work in Research & Analysis.