HR-Finance intern – ILF Retour vers les opportunités

• Location: Tunis, Tunisia
• Application Deadline: 02/08/2020
• Classification : unpaid internship (2 months)
• Start Date : ASAP 

ABOUT THE ILF

The International Legal Foundation (the ILF), an international not-for-profit organization was created in 2001, for the purpose of assisting post-conflict and transitional countries in developing effective legal aid systems.  (www.theilf.org). Driven by the belief that every person accused of a crime, no matter their ability to pay, deserves to be represented by a well-trained lawyer the ILF has legal aid programs in Afghanistan, Nepal, Tunisia, Palestineand Myanmar. In addition to its ground up work establishing the right to defense, the ILF also performs high-level world-wide advocacy, pushing countries, international institutions, and donors to prioritize legal aid as a fundamental human right.

The goal of the ILF’s program in Tunisia is to mentor Tunisian lawyers to provide quality, effective criminal defense services to poor people charged with crimes. The International Legal Foundation office in Tunis, Tunisia is looking for an intern interested in a career in Human Resources, Finance or Operations.  This is an unpaid internship for a currently enrolled university student or a student that graduated in the last semester.

Essential Functions include :

Working closely with our HR-Finance-Office Administration, the intern will:

• Learn about financial operations, such as payment of taxes, monthly reconciliation of accounts, bill payment….

• Learn about human resources operations, such as recruitment, management of employee files, training of staff and registering of contracts

• Learn about administration operations such as upkeep of an office, recording of physical assets, hotel and meeting arrangements, and other operational aspects of an organization

• Learn about non-profit specific aspects of an organization such as reports to donors

• Work on projects such as:
  • Collection of specs on hotels and event space
  • updating of inventory 
  • updating of personnel database

To be considered for an internship, applicants:

• Currently be enrolled in university or have just graduated in the previous semester
• Strong English and French language skills
• Good attention to detail
• Good organizational skills