Sunday, September 15, 2013

Millenium Challenge Corporation's 2014 Overseas Summer Internship

It is my pleasure to present you Millennium Challenge Corporation’s 2014 Overseas Summer Internship Position Descriptions for dissemination to your students.  MCC countries participating next year are: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Indonesia, and Malawi.  Malawi is participating in the program for the first time.  Please note that there are two distinct intern positions being offered in Indonesia; if our candidate pool is as good as it has been in recent years, several countries hope to select more than one intern from a single PD.

MCC’s 2014 program will operate procedurally as in years past.  Important dates to note are the application deadline of Friday, October 18, 2013 and that students will be notified of acceptance starting on Friday, October 31; at that time students will have until December 13 to confirm their acceptance in our program.  It is our hope that by extending the deadline for the student to confirm acceptance that the student will have enough time to secure funding and make other necessary arrangements.


When applying for internships we ask that the student provide a resume and a cover letter; we have found that students who compose cover letters stipulating their experience, area of study, and general interest information about the country for which they are applying always fare better than those who do not.  Students are welcome to apply for as many intern opportunities as they wish; when applying for multiple positions we request that students provide separate cover letters for each opportunity but only one resume. Please instruct your students to label their resume files and cover letters in a manner which identifies them without having to open the file (i.e.: Smith resume).


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