THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Update: March 17, 2011 FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Non-Local Internship - 2011 Summer
* Remarks: CSR/ CM: Corporate Social Responsibility/ Corporate Management CSS: Community or Social Services PG: Politics and Governance RPA: Research and Policy Analysis
No. of places Category Name of Community Partner Internship Topic Tasks involved Location Internship Period Special requirements to interns offered
- To work in state organizations or government Center for Public Administration To understand the Local Governance departments at district level June 6 - July 29, 2011 1 RPA Guangzhou, China - Proficiency in spoken Mandarin and Chinese 2 Research, Sun Yat-sen University in Urban China - To assist in daily office administration (full-time, 5-day per week) - To collect and compile administrative data
Providing direct services to Chinese - Programme assessment June 6 - July 29, 2011 2 CSS Chinese Information and Service Centre Seattle, U.S.A. - Must be bilingual 3 Immigrant clients - Intervention and development (full-time, 5-day per week)
Corporate Social Responsibility and - To conduct research, data collection and simple June 6 - July 29, 2011 3 CSR/ CM CSR Asia (Beijing) Beijing, China - Proficiency in simplified characters and Mandarin 2 Economic Performance data analysis (full-time, 5-day per week)
- Assimilation of online survey results - Analysis Desk research into the role of CSR June 6 - July 29, 2011 - Proficiency in spoken and written English 4 CSR/ CM CSR Asia (Singapore) - Report writing Singapore 1 Professionals in Asia (full-time, 5-day per week) - Proficiency in spoken Mandarin is an advantage - Liaising with designer in Hong Kong to produce final report THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Update: March 17, 2011 FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Non-Local Internship - 2011 Summer
No. of places Category Name of Community Partner Internship Topic Tasks involved Location Internship Period Special requirements to interns offered
- Proficient in written English and Chinese - Enthusiastic and innovative - To assist in English Translation June 6 - July 29, 2011 - Willing to challenge and work under pressure 5 CSR/ CM Inno Community Development Organization Internship Training Project - To assist in building and updating website Guangzhou, China 2 (full-time, 5-day per week) - Experienced in webpage design and updating is an - To assist in organizing events and activities advantage - Strong execution ability and good communication skills
- To serve children with individual or small group homework assistance - To assist in planning and conducting activities to - Background in psychology, education or social work are help the orphans develop cooperative skills, preferable positive social communications and identity, or - Have cultural sensitivity Enhancing Orphans' Welfare Through Jiangmen City Xinhui Children Welfare other enrichment activities Jiangmen City, Guangdong June 6 - July 29, 2011 - Proficiency in Mandarin 6 CSS Interactive Activities and Innovative 4 Home - To support the healthy development of local Province, China (full-time, 5-day per week) - Committed to human service and education Education orphans through - Creative, resourceful, willing to learn and excellent a) guidance interpersonal relations b) helping them develop a positive attitude and - Strong commitment to assisting and working with orphans communication skills c) helping them build social and leadership skills
- To coordinate employee volunteer programs and events in Shanghai - To conduct research on climate change and carbon trade related issues - Proficiency in spoken and written Chinese and English; - To assist in preparing internal communication spoken Mandarin materials e.g. event announcement, internal news - IT literacy June 6 - July 29, 2011 7 CSR/ CM KPMG (Shanghai) Corporate social responsibility articles and etc Shanghai, China - Knowledge of Chinese Wording Processing 2 (full-time, 5-day per week) - To develop an information tracking record for - Good communication skills in both spoken and written tools and templates - Good leadership skills - To assist in further developing of the internal - Self motivated CSR website - Other administration tasks as assigned, e.g. translation , data entry and etc
- To work with the organization's HIV/AIDS project Grass-root Volunteering in Ghana June 6 - July 29, 2011 8 CSS Light for Children - To conduct learning and working at an Adum-Kumasi, Ghana - Open-minded and easy going 6 (HIV/AIDS and more) (full-time, 5-day per week) orphanage or hospital THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Update: March 17, 2011 FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Non-Local Internship - 2011 Summer
No. of places Category Name of Community Partner Internship Topic Tasks involved Location Internship Period Special requirements to interns offered
- To attend training for interactive teaching - Proficiency in spoken and written English Migrant Outreach Education Initiative To boost engagement with Burma and - To deliver intensive English-language summer May 30 - August 11, 2011 9 CSS Thai-Burma border - Commit to serve the marginalized and disadvantaged people 20 (MOEI) to promote Burma advocacy course to the marginalized and disadvantaged (full-time, 5-day per week) people
- To attend training for interactive teaching To boost engagement with Cambodia - Proficiency in spoken and written English Migrant Outreach Education Initiative - To deliver intensive English-language summer June 6 - August 5, 2011 10 CSS and to promote concern about poverty Cambodia - Commit to serve the marginalized and disadvantaged people 10 (MOEI) course to the marginalized and disadvantaged (full-time, 5-day per week) in Cambodia and human security people
- To attend training for interactive teaching To boost engagement with China and Migrant Outreach Education Initiative - To deliver intensive English-language summer June 30 - August 12, 2011 - Proficiency in spoken and written English 11 CSS to promote concern for the rural Anhui, China 8 (MOEI) course to the marginalized and disadvantaged (full-time, 5-day per week) - Commit to serve the marginalized and disadvantaged people population people
- To attend training for interactive teaching To boost engagement with China and Migrant Outreach Education Initiative - To deliver intensive English-language summer July 7 - August 19, 2011 - Proficiency in spoken and written English 12 CSS to promote concern for the rural Yunan, China 8 (MOEI) course to the marginalized and disadvantaged (full-time, 5-day per week) - Commit to serve the marginalized and disadvantaged people population people THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Update: March 17, 2011 FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Non-Local Internship - 2011 Summer
No. of places Category Name of Community Partner Internship Topic Tasks involved Location Internship Period Special requirements to interns offered
- Review current settlement services marketing materials, including pamphlets, brochures and websites - Update settlement services marketing materials - Proficiency in spoken and written English by talking and working with program managers Arts and Graphic Design for - Understanding of social services and coordinators June 6 - July 29, 2011 13 CSS MOSAIC Settlement Services Marketing Vancouver, Canada - Experience and knowledge in computer arts and graphic 1 - Design or redesign consistent corporate image (full-time, 5-day per week) Materials design and format for settlement services marketing - Creativity with marketing mind materials which can better reach the needy immigrants and refugees - Suggest marketing strategies to reach immigrants and refugees
- Problem Solving Technique June 6 - July 29, 2011 - Proficiency in spoken and written English 14 CSR/ CM New World Shunde Hotel Guest Complaint Handling - How to communicate with the guest and Guangzhou, China 1 (full-time, 5-day per week) - Good communication skills concerned department
- Introduction of Revenue Management - How to increase the hotel's overall revenues and June 6 - July 29, 2011 - Proficiency in spoken and written English 15 CSR/ CM New World Shunde Hotel Revenue Management Guangzhou, China 1 maximize profitability by using different reports (full-time, 5-day per week) - Good communication skills - How to get marketing intelligence
- To provide advice and guidance to victims and / or migrant workers - Good communication skills Advice and support to Victims of Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic - To follow up cases from victims of racial Belfast, June 6 - July 29, 2011 - Good listen 16 CSS Racial Harassment and support to 3 Minorities (NICEM) harassment or migrant workers (subject to United Kingdom (full-time, 5-day per week) - Commitment to help and support people Migrant Workers approval of advisor) (Training and guidance will be provided) - To support administration support to the advisor THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Update: March 17, 2011 FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Non-Local Internship - 2011 Summer
No. of places Category Name of Community Partner Internship Topic Tasks involved Location Internship Period Special requirements to interns offered
- To coordinate with local residents - Proficient in spoken Cantonese and Mandarin - To familiar with the local community June 6 - July 29, 2011 - Enthusiastic in the development of community services 17 CSS Qi Chuang Social Work Service Center Community Services Guangzhou, China 2 - To assist in organizing events, activities and (full-time, 5-day per week) - Good communication skills programme review - Experienced in Social Services
- To obtain materials and information from field trips, visits to Chinese community organizations - Good knowledge of the history of Chinese Canadians and interviews with representative community - Excellent organization skills and experience in exhibition Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Chinese Diasporas experience in members from Hong Kong June 6 - July 29, 2011 - Familiar with tools in digital preservation and online resources 18 RPA Toronto, Canada 2 Library, University of Toronto Toronto - A 10 pages report in Chinese and English, which (full-time, 5-day per week) development may turn into newspaper articles or script for radio - Experience in content analysis and classification or TV programs / An exhibition on the internship - Comfortable with working in an academic library environment topic.
- Learning major social policy and social care Social policies responsive after schemes in Taiwan after financial tsunami Social Policy Research Center, June 6 - July 29, 2011 19 RPA economic tsunami in Taiwan: - Leaning the methodology of policy analysis Taipei, Taiwan - Proficiency in spoken Mandarin 2 National Taiwan University (full-time, 5-day per week) Responsive or irresponsive? - Working on the project and developing a research-oriented report on a certain social policy
- Comparative research on the legal rights, trade union representation, - Carry out a literature review of the situation of labour relations, and pay and - Proficiency in spoken and written Chinese and English; migrant workers in Hong Kong and conduct a conditions Hong Kong and Singapore June 6 - July 29, 2011 spoken Mandarin 20 CSS Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) comparison with Singapore Singapore 2 - Archive search for all Chinese (full-time, 5-day per week) - Fairly independent and enjoy meeting people - Do a library archive search of Chinese newspaper reporting on migrant - Strong Research skills newspapers labour and migration issues since Jan 2003
- Outreach to communities, newcomers, seniors and youth - Outreach to seniors - Updating and redesigning our websites - Outreach to international students - Researching Chinese Canadian history and Chinese Canadian National Council June 6 - July 29, 2011 - The student MUST be willing to do some administrative work 21 CSS - Tibetan Chinese Youth Dialogue - current public issues Toronto, Canada 1 (National office) (full-time, 5-day per week) – answering phones, data entry, etc - about 1 day a week organizing events - Compiling and updating data records and our - Self-directed Project resource library - Organizing meetings and events - Other related duties THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Update: March 17, 2011 FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Non-Local Internship - 2011 Summer
No. of places Category Name of Community Partner Internship Topic Tasks involved Location Internship Period Special requirements to interns offered
- Workers’ rights and employment standards (current project) - Health literacy (proposed research Must willling to do some administrative work – Chinese Canadian National Council June 6 - July 29, 2011 22 CSS project) answering phones, data entry, etc - about 1 day a Toronto, Canada - Proficiency in spoken and written English 2 (Toronto Chapter) (full-time, 5-day per week) - Seniors social service programming week (with CIN?) (proposed research project)
- 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 - Activities are mainly on weekends and some included: Buying Grocery for handicapped seniors, evenings Promote the June 6 - July 29, 2011 23 CSS Vision Youth Youth Leadership Program Toronto, Canada - Expect the students to work in flexible hours. 2 Chinese Mental Health Network in Toronto, (full-time, 5-day per week) - Students with Education and/or Social work background Promote Heart health education to public school preferred 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