Volunteering opportunities
Grant Writers, Translators & Tutors
Grant Writers: We are looking for volunteers who are experienced with grant writing (for U.S. or European grants) to share grant writing knowledge with our organization. If you are residing in Korea or visiting Seoul for a few weeks – contact us and share your skills with us!ย Email us if you are interested.
News Article Translators: PSCORE provides the latest news from North Korea to educate and inform North Koreans, South Koreans and the international community about current events and daily conditions in North Korea. We are in need of volunteers to translate news articles from Korean to English. This is a good opportunity for those who want to know more about the current state of North Korea and those interested in human rights. Volunteers can work from home.
Tutors: Students in our program have different backgrounds, are from different age groups, and have different skill levels. Tutors work 1:1 with students in order to best meet each student’s individual needs and learning goals. Our mentorship program seeks to enhance defectors’ abilities to negotiate better educational and employment opportunities for themselves.
Internship opportunities in Seoul
We are seeking interns who want to work with us in Seoul, South Korea. The ideal candidate is a current or recent undergraduate/graduate student pursuing law, political science, Asian/East Asian studies, sociology, economics, foreign policy, international relations, etc, and is interested in Corean* reunification and North Korean human rights. For most positions no Korean is required, and English will be the primary language of the internship. Commitment and dedication to the field of human rights is the most important thing to us.
Internships are unpaid, though we can provide internship credit for suitable candidates. Positions are offered both full time and part time. Full time interns commit to 5 days in the office weekly, while part time interns commit to at least 12 hours weekly in the office, depending on availability. Please indicate your availability in your application. We review applications on a rolling basis. Positions are open until filled.
If you are interested, contact us through the PSCORE contact form or send an email to [email protected].
Below is a list of our internship opportunities. Detailed information will appear by clicking on the different internship titles.
* Original spelling of Korea prior to the division of North and South Korea in 1948
We are seeking someone who can help develop and implement strategic marketing plans that will advance PSCOREโs brand and broaden awareness of its programs. Interns will have an exciting opportunity to work closely with a young, dynamic team to actively promote North Korean human rights.
Responsibilities:
- plan and carry out social media campaigns
- build relationships with local organizations
- ensure consistent and effective communication of PSCOREโs brand across all channels
- report activity on PSCOREโs website and various social networking services
- manage data collection and analysis of PSCOREโs events and campaigns
Qualifications:
- general knowledge of the following platforms:
- TikTok
- YouTube
- any Korean proficiency is a plus, but not required
We review applications on a rolling basis. Position is open until filled.
We are seeking someone who can assist in managing PSCOREโs education programs, including organizing one-on-one tutoring sessions and weekly conversational English classes for North Korean defectors. Teaching will not be required, but interns should have a strong interest in the field of education. The intern will have an exciting opportunity to work closely with a young, dynamic team, as well as communicate directly with North Korean defectors, to actively promote North Korean human rights.
Responsibilities:
- maintain and improve database of volunteer teachers and tutors
- contact students and volunteers regularly
- establish and maintain partnerships with volunteers and schools
- conduct interviews with North Korean defectors and volunteers
- manage matching process between students and volunteers
Qualifications:
- proficiency in Korean is necessary
- excellent phone, email and general communication skills
- strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- working knowledge of MS Suite
We review applications on a rolling basis. Position is open until filled.
ํ๋ถํ์ ๊ต์ก์ง์ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ ์ธํด ๋ชจ์ง
์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ฌ๋จ๋ฒ์ธ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธํต์ผ์๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋์ฌ๋๋ค(์ดํ ‘์ฑํต๋ง์ฌ’)์ ๋๋ค.
์ฑํต๋ง์ฌ๋ ๋ถํ์ ์ธ๊ถ๊ฐ์ ๊ณผ ํ๋ฐ๋์ ํํ์ ํต์ผ์ ์ผ์ํ๋ ๋น์ ๋ถ ๋น์ ํ์ ์ธ ์๋ฏผ๋จ์ฒด๋ก์, ๊ตญ๋ด ๋ถํ์ธ๊ถ ๊ด๋ จ๋จ์ฒด ์ค ์ ์ผํ๊ฒ ์ ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฌํ์ด์ฌํ(UN ECOSOC)๋ก๋ถํฐ ํ์๊ธฐ๊ตฌ ์ง์๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ฌ ๋ฐ์ ์ญ๋ ์๋ ๋จ์ฒด์ ๋๋ค.
์ ํฌ ์ฑํต๋ง์ฌ์์๋ ํ๋ถ์ฒญ์๋ ๊ต์ก์ง์ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ๋ด๋นํ ์ธํด์ ๋ชจ์งํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ธํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์๋๋ฅผ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
๊ตญ๋ด ์ธํด ๋ชจ์ง
1. ์ฑ์ฉ๋ถ์ผ : ํ๋ถ์ฒญ์๋ ๊ต์ก์ง์ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ
- 1:1 ํํฐ๋ง ๋งค์นญ ๋ฐ ์ค๋ฆฌ์ํ ์ด์ ์งํ
- ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฉํ ๋ง์ฌ์ ๋ณด์กฐ
- ์์์์ด๊ต์ค ๋ณด์กฐ
- ๋ฌธํํ๋ ์งํ ๋ฐ ๋ณด์กฐ
2. ์ฑ์ฉ์ธ์ : 00๋ช
3. ๊ทผ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด
- ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๊ฐ : ์-๊ธ ์ค ์ฃผ 4ํ ์ด์ (10:00am – 5:00pm)
- ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ : ์ต์ 3๊ฐ์ ์ด์
- ๊ธ์ฌ์์ค : ๋ฌด๊ธ
4. ์๊ฒฉ ์กฐ๊ฑด ๋ฐ ์ฐ๋ ์ฌํญ
- ํ๊ตญ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ์ ์์ ์
- ์ฅ๊ธฐ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ ์ฐ๋
- ๋ถํ/์ธ๊ถ/ํต์ผ/๊ต์ก/NGO ๊ด๋ จ ์ ๊ณต์ ๋ฐ ํ๋ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ฐ๋
- ์์ ํ์ฉ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ ์ฐ๋
- ์์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ ์ฐ๋
5. ํํ
- ๋ด์ฌํ๋์ฆ๋ช ์ ๋ฐ๊ธ
- ์ธํด์ฆ๋ช ์ ๋ฐ๊ธ
- ํ๋ถ์ฒญ์๋ ๋ค๊ณผ์ ๊ต๋ฅ
- ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๊ณผ์ ๊ต๋ฅ (์ธํด์ 80% ์ด์์ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ํน์ ํ๊ตญ๊ณ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ)
- ์ธ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ตญ์ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ธํด ๋ฐ ๋ถํ์ธ๊ถ ๊ด๋ จ ๊ตญ๋ด์ธ ์ฃผ์์ธ์ฌ๋ค๊ณผ์ ๋ง๋จ ๊ธฐํ ์ ๊ณต
6. ์ฌ์ฌ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ ๋ฐ ์ผ์
- ์๋ฅ์ ํ : ๊ฐ๋ณํต๋ณด
- ๋ฉด์ ์ ํ : ๊ฐ๋ณํต๋ณด
7. ๊ณต๊ณ ๋ฐ ์์์ ์
- ์ ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ : ์์ ๋ชจ์ง
- ์ ์๋ฐฉ๋ฒ : ์ด๋ ฅ์๋ฅผ ์์ฑํ์ฌ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ([email protected])๋ก ์ ์
8. ์ ์ถ์๋ฅ
- ์ด๋ ฅ์
- ๊ธฐํ ์ดํ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ฆ๋ช ์, ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ฆ๋ช ์ (ํด๋น์์ ํํ์ฌ ์ ์ถ)
9. ์ ์์ฌํญ
- ์์์์ ๋ฑ์ ํ์๊ธฐ์ฌ ๋๋ ๊ธฐ์ฌ์ฐฉ์ค, ๊ตฌ๋น์๋ฅ ๋ฏธ์ ์ถ ๋ฑ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ๋ถ์ด์ต์ ์์์ ๋ณธ์ธ์ ์ฑ ์์ผ๋ก ํฉ๋๋ค.
- ์ ์ถํ ์๋ฅ๋ ์ผ์ฒด ๋ฐํํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์ฌ์ฌํญ์ ์์ ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
- ์์์์๋ ๊ฐ์ข ์ฆ๋ช ์์ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ด์ฉ์ด ์ฌ์ค๊ณผ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ํฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ทจ์ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
- ์ ์ฒญ์ธ์์ด ์ฑ์ฉ์ธ์๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ๋๋ผ๋ ์ ๊ฒฉ์๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์ ๋ฐํ์ง ์์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
10. ๋ฌธ์์ฌํญ
- ์ ํ : 02)6497-5035
- FAX : 02)6497-5037
- ์ด๋ฉ์ผ : [email protected]
- ํํ์ด์ง : www.pscore.org
We are seeking an exceptional intern who can develop and manage PSCOREโs website, offering technical support and reporting on website traffic. Interns will have an exciting opportunity to work closely with a young, dynamic team to actively promote North Korean human rights.
Responsibilities:
- develop and improve web page infrastructure (WordPress)
- analyze web usage and conduct search engine optimization (SEO)
- manage and organize web content
- integrate social media platforms with website to enhance public engagement
Qualifications:
- technically savvy self-starter with strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- working knowledge of web programming languages and content management system (CMS) programs
- familiarity with WordPress, Google Console and Google Ads is a plus; but not required
- fluency in Korean is a plus, but not required
We review applications on a rolling basis. Position is open until filled.
We are seeking a talented intern who can create creative designs for PSCORE. Interns will have an exciting opportunity to work closely with a young, dynamic team to actively promote North Korean human rights.
Responsibilities:
- design and create illustrations for publications and promotion materials
- work closely with social media interns to build PSCORE’s public brand
- contribute original design proposals and assist in building brand strategies
- improve website layout with engaging graphic designs including, but not limited to: photos, banners, icons, and infographics
Qualifications:
- self-starter with strong attention to detail
- working knowledge of design software such as:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Canva
- familiarity with film editing software is a plus; but not required
- proficiency in Korean is a plus; but not required
We review applications on a rolling basis. Position is open until filled.
We are seeking an exceptional intern who can conduct research on human rights abuses in the DPRK for our reports, publications, grant applications and financial reports. Interns will have an exciting opportunity to work closely with a young, dynamic team to actively promote North Korean human rights.
Responsibilities:
- support research duties and prepare reports for upcoming UN events
- monitor and document human rights abuses in DPRK from a wide variety of sources including, but not limited to: UN documents, governments, local media, NGOs, diplomats, and scholars in the field
- collect and analyze data from testimonies and other information to support ongoing projects
- prepare advocacy materials, policy briefs, communication messages, position statements relevant to on-going campaigns
- assist with researching, submitting, and fulfilling grant applications
Qualifications:
- self-starter with strong interpersonal and organizational skills
- exceptional writing skills and attention to detail
- working knowledge of MS Suite
- proficiency in Korean is a plus, but not required
We review applications on a rolling basis. Position is open until filled.
We are looking for an intern who can film and edit videos for PSCOREโs YouTube channel (and other social media platforms) that will advance awareness of key issues regarding North Korean human rights, Korean relations, and potential reunification. Interns will have an exciting opportunity to work closely with a young, dynamic team to actively promote North Korean human rights.
Responsibilities:
- filming, editing, and uploading videos
- work with the team to come up with new ideas and plan videos
- manage video campaigns
- reach out to potential interviewees/video candidates
- work with the social media team to optimize video Search Engine Optimization
Qualifications:
- experience with video editing software
- general knowledge of social media trends
- filming and editing equipment is a plus; but not required
- proficiency in Korean is a plus; but not required
We review applications on a rolling basis. Position is open until filled.
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