THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES. Non-Local Internship Summer

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1 Update: March 7, 0 Non-Local Internship - 0 Summer * Remarks: CSR/ CM: Corporate Social Responsibility/ Corporate Management CSS: Community or Social Services PG: Politics and Governance RPA: Research and Policy Analysis RPA Center for Public Administration Research, Sun Yat-sen University To understand the Local Governance in Urban China - To work in state organizations or government departments at district level - To assist in daily office administration - To collect and compile administrative data - Proficiency in spoken Mandarin and Chinese CSS Chinese Information and Service Centre Providing direct services to Chinese Immigrant clients - Programme assessment - Intervention and development Seattle, U.S.A. - Must be bilingual 3 3 CSR/ CM CSR Asia (Beijing) Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Performance - To conduct research, data collection and simple data analysis Beijing, China - Proficiency in simplified characters and Mandarin 4 CSR/ CM CSR Asia (Singapore) Desk research into the role of CSR Professionals in Asia - Assimilation of online survey results - Analysis - Report writing - Liaising with designer in Hong Kong to produce final report Singapore - Proficiency in spoken Mandarin is an advantage

2 Update: March 7, 0 Non-Local Internship - 0 Summer 5 CSR/ CM Inno Community Development Organization Internship Training Project - To assist in English Translation - To assist in building and updating website - To assist in organizing events and activities - Proficient in written English and Chinese - Enthusiastic and innovative - Willing to challenge and work under pressure - Experienced in webpage design and updating is an advantage - Strong execution ability and good communication skills 6 CSS Jiangmen City Xinhui Children Welfare Home Enhancing Orphans' Welfare Through Interactive Activities and Innovative Education - To serve children with individual or small group homework assistance - To assist in planning and conducting activities to help the orphans develop cooperative skills, positive social communications and identity, or other enrichment activities Jiangmen City, Guangdong - To support the healthy development of local orphans through a) guidance b) helping them develop a positive attitude and communication skills c) helping them build social and leadership skills Province, China - Background in psychology, education or social work are preferable - Have cultural sensitivity - Proficiency in Mandarin - Committed to human service and education - Creative, resourceful, willing to learn and excellent interpersonal relations - Strong commitment to assisting and working with orphans 4 7 CSR/ CM KPMG (Shanghai) Corporate social responsibility - To coordinate employee volunteer programs and events in Shanghai - To conduct research on climate change and carbon trade related issues - To assist in preparing internal communication materials e.g. event announcement, internal news articles and etc - To develop an information tracking record for tools and templates - To assist in further developing of the internal CSR website - Other administration tasks as assigned, e.g. translation, data entry and etc Shanghai, China - Proficiency in spoken and written Chinese and English; spoken Mandarin - IT literacy - Knowledge of Chinese Wording Processing in both spoken and written - Good leadership skills - Self motivated 8 CSS Light for Children Grass-root Volunteering in Ghana (HIV/AIDS and more) - To work with the organization's HIV/AIDS project - To conduct learning and working at an orphanage or hospital Adum-Kumasi, Ghana - Open-minded and easy going 6

3 Update: March 7, 0 Non-Local Internship - 0 Summer 9 CSS To boost engagement with Burma and - To deliver intensive English-language summer to promote Burma advocacy course to the marginalized and disadvantaged Thai-Burma border May 30 - August, 0 - Commit to serve the marginalized and disadvantaged 0 0 CSS To boost engagement with Cambodia - To deliver intensive English-language summer and to promote concern about poverty course to the marginalized and disadvantaged in Cambodia and human security Cambodia June 6 - August 5, 0 - Commit to serve the marginalized and disadvantaged 0 CSS To boost engagement with China and to promote concern for the rural population - To deliver intensive English-language summer course to the marginalized and disadvantaged Anhui, China June 30 - August, 0 - Commit to serve the marginalized and disadvantaged 8 CSS To boost engagement with China and to promote concern for the rural population - To deliver intensive English-language summer course to the marginalized and disadvantaged Yunan, China July 7 - August 9, 0 - Commit to serve the marginalized and disadvantaged 8

4 Update: March 7, 0 Non-Local Internship - 0 Summer 3 CSS MOSAIC Arts and Graphic Design for Settlement Services Marketing Materials - Review current settlement services marketing materials, including pamphlets, brochures and websites - Update settlement services marketing materials by talking and working with program managers and coordinators - Design or redesign consistent corporate image and format for settlement services marketing materials which can better reach the needy immigrants and refugees - Suggest marketing strategies to reach immigrants and refugees Vancouver, Canada - Understanding of social services - Experience and knowledge in computer arts and graphic design - Creativity with marketing mind 4 CSR/ CM New World Shunde Hotel Guest Complaint Handling - Problem Solving Technique - How to communicate with the guest and concerned department 5 CSR/ CM New World Shunde Hotel Revenue Management - Introduction of Revenue Management - How to increase the hotel's overall revenues and maximize profitability by using different reports - How to get marketing intelligence 6 CSS Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities (NICEM) Advice and support to Victims of Racial Harassment and support to Migrant Workers - To provide advice and guidance to victims and / or migrant workers - To follow up cases from victims of racial harassment or migrant workers (subject to approval of advisor) - To support administration support to the advisor Belfast, United Kingdom - Good listen - Commitment to help and support (Training and guidance will be provided) 3

5 Update: March 7, 0 Non-Local Internship - 0 Summer 7 CSS Qi Chuang Social Work Service Center Community Services - To coordinate with local residents - To familiar with the local community - To assist in organizing events, activities and programme review - Proficient in spoken Cantonese and Mandarin - Enthusiastic in the development of community services - Experienced in Social Services 8 RPA Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto Chinese Diasporas experience in Toronto - To obtain materials and information from field trips, visits to Chinese community organizations and interviews with representative community members from Hong Kong - A 0 pages report in Chinese and English, which may turn into newspaper articles or script for radio or TV programs / An exhibition on the internship topic. - Good knowledge of the history of Chinese Canadians - Excellent organization skills and experience in exhibition - Familiar with tools in digital preservation and online resources development - Experience in content analysis and classification - Comfortable with working in an academic library environment 9 RPA Social Policy Research Center, National Taiwan University Social policies responsive after economic tsunami in Taiwan: Responsive or irresponsive? - Learning major social policy and social care schemes in Taiwan after financial tsunami - Leaning the methodology of policy analysis - Working on the project and developing a research-oriented report on a certain social policy Taipei, Taiwan - Proficiency in spoken Mandarin 0 CSS Transient Workers Count Too (TWC) - Comparative research on the legal rights, trade union representation, - Carry out a literature review of the situation of labour relations, and pay and migrant workers in Hong Kong and conduct a conditions Hong Kong and Singapore comparison with Singapore - Archive search for all Chinese - Do a library archive search of Chinese newspaper reporting on migrant newspapers labour and migration issues since Jan 003 Singapore - Proficiency in spoken and written Chinese and English; spoken Mandarin - Fairly independent and enjoy meeting - Strong Research skills CSS Chinese Canadian National Council (National office) - Outreach to seniors - Outreach to international students - Tibetan Chinese Youth Dialogue - organizing events - Self-directed Project - Outreach to communities, newcomers, seniors and youth - Updating and redesigning our websites - Researching Chinese Canadian history and current public issues - Compiling and updating data records and our resource library - Organizing meetings and events - Other related duties - The student MUST be willing to do some administrative work answering phones, data entry, etc - about day a week

6 Update: March 7, 0 Non-Local Internship - 0 Summer CSS Chinese Canadian National Council (Toronto Chapter) - Workers rights and employment standards (current project) - Health literacy (proposed research project) - Seniors social service programming (with CIN?) (proposed research project) Must willling to do some administrative work answering phones, data entry, etc - about day a week 3 CSS Vision Youth Youth Leadership Program - Help run sessions on Social issues awareness. i.e. Homeless, poverty, mental illness. - Assist in Sandwich run for Toronto downtown homeless, pre-event briefing and post-event debriefing. - Guide the Community Service Projects (CSP) organized by our participants. 6 to 7 participants in a group will research and identify the need in our community. Each group will then try to perform the service to help with the issue. Past CSPs included: Buying Grocery for handicapped seniors, Promote the Chinese Mental Health Network in Toronto, Promote Heart health education to public school students, provide outdoors training to youth with Developmental Disability... - Help review and document our program in detail. Improve on content delivery and debriefing. - Assist in site visit on the topic of understanding the multiculturalism in Toronto. We visit Muslim Mosque, Japanese Cultural Centre, Multicultural History society of Ontario... - Assist in running the City Mosaic event within Vision Youth to understand the diversity of Toronto - Activities are mainly on weekends and some evenings - Expect the students to work in flexible hours. - Students with Education and/or Social work background preferred

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