About the Role
ACT is seeking a motivated intern to support our Healthcare Support Career Accelerator tutoring program during the Fall 2026 cohort. This role offers a valuable opportunity to gain hands-on experience in education and workforce development while building skills in program coordination, participant engagement, and community-based service delivery.
Responsibilities
- Assist the ESOL instructor during in-person HSCA classes (setup, materials, attendance).
- Provide weekly group and/or 1-on-1 tutoring for HSCA participants.
- Assist with administrative tasks as assigned.
Requirements
- Experience facilitating tutoring sessions for individuals and groups.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Proficiency in English is required.
- Excellent in-person, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Previous tutoring or ESOL teaching experience is highly preferred.
- Must have access to a working laptop.
- Proficiency in Google Suite, Microsoft Suite, and other common business software.
- Understanding of and passion for ACT’s mission and values.
- Positive, proactive, and solution-oriented team player.
- Excellent organizational skills with ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Comfort working with diverse, immigrant communities; multilingual a plus (e.g., French).
- Alignment with ACT’s mission and values.
- Must be available to come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays during class time.
Skills
- Program coordination
- Participant engagement
- Community-based service delivery
- Google Suite
- Microsoft Suite
Location
- NYC office
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Part-time Internship
- Up to 12 hours per week
Experience Level
- Internship
Salary/Compensations
- $22 per hour
About the Company
- African Communities Together (ACT) is an organization of African immigrants fighting for civil rights, opportunity, and a better life for our families here in the U.S. and worldwide.
- ACT works to support and empower African immigrants to integrate socially, advance economically, and engage civically.
- ACT connects African immigrants to services, empowers our members to develop as grassroot leaders, and leads campaigns for social change.
- ACT’s African immigrant membership comes from a diverse range of nationalities, cultures, and languages, and is religiously diverse, majority women, and predominantly working-class and low income.
