Kiva Volunteer Program Intern
Position: Kiva Volunteer Program Intern
Location: San Francisco, CA – Downtown/Mission District
Job Type: Volunteer, 3 days / week (minimum)
Term: 4-6 months
Next Start Date: as soon as possible
The Company...
Founded in 2005, Kiva is on a roll! Featured in Forbes, Inc., Time, CNN, Fox (to name just a few) & most recently on TV's Good Morning America, Kiva's mission is to alleviate world poverty. We're the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. To make this happen, Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions.
Kiva provides a data-rich, transparent lending platform. We are constantly working to make the system more transparent to show how money flows throughout the entire cycle, & what effect it has on the people & institutions that lend, borrow, & manage it along the way. Our technology enables one-to-one interpersonal connections & lending at the lowest possible cost.
Job Description:
Kiva is looking for a motivated intern to work with the Portfolio Team under Kiva’s Microfinance Partnerships Division to improve document data storage, organize and rename documents, complete needed data entry, and assist the team with maximizing use of Salesforce.
Core Tasks:
- Ensuring all partner documents are organized and named according to Kiva Naming Convention
- Extracting and entering partner statistics from key reports into Salesforce
- Uploading contact information from business cards into Salesforce
- Assisting Portfolio Team field staff with data entry into Salesforce
- Scanning documents received from partners in hard copy
Ideal Core Skills and Experience:
- Ability to work independently in a flexible work environment
- Quick learner
- Knowledge of Salesforce is a huge plus
Benefits
- Office experience including practice with Salesforce
- Opportunity to understand how Kiva’s partnerships team functions and learn about microfinance
- Casual work environment
- References gladly given for successful participants
If interested...
- Send email to iwanttovolunteer@kiva.org including the subject line "Partnerships"
- Include resume and brief cover letter explaining why you are interested and qualified
- Due to the high numbers of applicants for this position, we regret that we can only respond to candidates that we would like to interview.
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