Finance and Travel
OSI-New York

Application Deadline: June 6, 2008

The Open Society Institute works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve its mission, OSI seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI builds alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. OSI places a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of marginalized people and communities.

Investor and philanthropist George Soros in 1993 created OSI as a private operating and grantmaking foundation to support his foundations in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Those foundations were established, starting in 1984, to help countries make the transition from communism. OSI has expanded the activities of the Soros foundations network to encompass the United States and more than 60 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Each Soros foundation relies on the expertise of boards composed of eminent citizens who determine individual agendas based on local priorities.

Position Summary Description

The Travel/Finance Assistant position will be an on-going opportunity for a student enrolled in undergraduate studies in Hospitality. The assistant/intern will be responsible for starting up and maintaining during the initial period an internal wiki on OSI intranet pages. The focus of the wiki is going to be on exchanging travel-related recommendations among OSI travelers (think of it as "OSI travel advisor"). The intern will help to create a user-friendly structure of the wiki and will be responsible for its contents. Initially we will expect the intern to approach our travelers and ask them for their opinions about the hotels they stayed at, their advice to those who may travel to that location in the future and other travel experiences that may be useful to others. The intern will also introduce OSI staff to the travel wiki and encourage travelers to use it.

Supervisors

• Manager, Financial Administration and Compliance
• Manager, Meeting and Consultant Compliance

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop an internal wiki on OSI intranet
• Assist in creating a user-friendly structure of the wiki
• Responsible for tracking contents of travel wiki
• Survey OSI travelers and develop intranet resource for staff
• The intern will also introduce OSI staff to the travel wiki and encourage travelers to use it
• Other responsibilities and special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Some knowledge of the travel industry and international travel
• Proven good writing skills
• Good communication skills
• Proven ability to work independently
• Proven ability to develop a project; i.e., ability to collect, evaluate, analyze and organize and present data
• Previous experience in using web social networking applications is a plus

Compensation: hourly rate and lunch provided.

To Apply:

Email resume, cover letter and salary requirements, before May 30, 2008

humanresources@sorosny.org. Include job code in subject line: TravINT.

OR

Open Society Institute
Human Resources – Code TravINT
400 West 59th Street
New York, New York 10019

*No phone calls, please. The Open Society Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer.