Coming from across the University and representing all levels of academic study, CID's student ambassadors are leaders of the international development community at Harvard.
CID's Student Ambassador Program offers Harvard graduate and undergraduate students an opportunity to contribute to and embody CID’s mission of building a thriving world for all.
Student Ambassadors are selected annually based on their commitment to help drive international development research and programming, organize and lead fellow students, and represent CID internally at Harvard and externally with leading practitioners and researchers.
Student Ambassadors represent CID’s Harvard-wide and global reach and help CID create programming, build community, and deploy talent across the university and beyond. A CID Student Ambassador is passionate about solving the world’s most pressing development problems. They are leaders and doers, proactively leaning in to help CID build, convene, and deploy talent here in Cambridge, MA and around the world. Ambassadors serve for nine-month terms from September to May each academic year. They bring diverse experiences and come from a variety of disciplines and schools across the university.
A CID Student Ambassador is...
- An actively enrolled Harvard student located in the Cambridge, MA area throughout the duration of the academic year.
- A representative of a student organization, a Harvard School or degree program or a specified cohort of students
- Pursuing or is interested in pursuing a career in international development.
- Willing to commit ~3-5 hours/week to organize, support, and lead CID activities.
- Able to represent and connect CID with interested student groups, schools, and alumni from across the university.
- A self-starter and leader who can self-organize Harvard students to advance CID’s mission.
- Someone with strong interpersonal skills, attention to detail, and who can represent the center confidently and appropriately.
- Someone who wants to challenge themselves to think critically about international development and their role as future leaders.
CID Student Ambassadors benefit from:
- Community: being part of an inclusive and engaging CID community of faculty, programs, fellows, staff, and alumni
- Leadership: Student Ambassadors represent the next generation of development professionals and contribute to co-creating CID’s strategic goals for the future of international development at Harvard and globally
- Professional Development: building critical skills and a network of development professionals across the university
What are the responsibilities of a CID Student Ambassador?
- Ambassadors are the face of CID with students across Harvard University.
- Ambassadors work closely with CID staff to support the center’s strategic goals for the year and bring the voice and interest of students to the forefront of the center’s work.
- Ambassadors work together to co-create CID programming across the entire Harvard community. Each ambassador will organize events in their home school or program, or co-sponsor an event with their student group. Each ambassador will be expected to organize 1 event per year or work to co-sponsor events or conferences with CID.
- Ambassadors will moderate one CID Speaker Series or Road to GEM event
- Ambassadors will contribute to at least one blog post, social media post, or podcast.
- Ambassadors will suggest ways to engage with alumni in their program.
- Some specific roles may include:
- Events/Social Lead who organizes semester social events for the CID student community.
- Communications Lead who organizes student contributions to CID Voices.
- Podcast Lead who works with other Student Ambassadors to create, plan, and execute the CID podcast.
- Events/Social Lead who organizes semester social events for the CID student community.
- Note that this is an unpaid volunteer position.
CID Student Ambassador applications are closed.