Leadership in Sustainable Development Remote Internships
Internships that focus on Leadership Skills, Personal Development, Hands-on Experience, Service Learning and Ecologically-Minded Sustainable Enterprise
Self-Paced Remote Internship
Join us for a one-of-a-kind virtual leadership internship! We offer one-on-one coaching and mentoring with our entrepreneurial founders. Experience our customized leadership curriculum tailored to you professionally and personally.
Our internship provides hands-on experience that will make you grow into an influential leader that can empower teams. If you are willing to do the self-work required to become a leader who influences our world, sign up here!
Leadership in Sustainable Development Certification Description:
About Us: The Red Road Foundation is located in rural Kampot, Cambodia. It’s an initiative that promotes and manages sustainable development/leadership education and circular economy dynamics in the countryside. This project started with the rise of a free education center dedicated to teaching english and sustainability to local children.
Mission:
In addition to being an educational center, we have become an ecologically- minded, sustainable farm. We produce natural products on-site, such as moringa powder, tea, jam and other organic health & wellness products. We are also dedicated to developing our permaculture initiatives and developing further social enterprises such as bamboo straws, and up-cycled ashtrays and glasses.
Created 10+ years ago, our foundation is focused on supporting higher educational levels and opportunities for long-term sustainable success to remote children. Through English tutoring with volunteers and opportunities to engage with international interns in sustainable development initiatives, they gain first-hand experiences in the business world. We are dedicated to offering various opportunities for collaboration, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
Areas Of Interest:
Communication: Internal communication, social media, website, press relations, content management & creation, and video editing.
Sustainable Development:Understand the environment, settle & manage ecological projects with help of students and local community
Sales & Marketing: Define market, develop assets (website, commercial brochures), operational model and delivery model, widen our social network
Business Development: Understand and optimize business models, define targeting strategy, prospection, creating business plans for social enterprises with our leadership class
Eco-Building Engineers: Design & build structures using recycled and natural materials
We hope this can lead to an in-person internship where you join our team on-site! There, all Areas of Interest will be shared with and alongside our Level Four Leadership Class.
Education is deeply rooted in this internship. Teaching your skills to Red Road students and to the staff develops our sustainability efforts.
This experience is a life-changing opportunity for students to implement their business studies, leadership skills and sustainable development initiatives with community-based projects. Students who are passionate about making a difference while collaborating with individuals from diverses backgrounds are welcome to apply within various aspects of the Red Road initiatives.
Logistics: The foundation is based in the countryside, 30 minutes from Kampot. As we promote community living, all the team live in the colored eco-lodge located on-site at the foundation. The accommodation is composed with a natural shared bathroom, common area, shared kitchen and dormitory.
We have a wonderful cook living on-site with our team, who offers Khmer food specialities. This is a good opportunity to eat with families, to learn more about the Cambodian culture and share good moments with all the team.
Cultural Integration & True Sustainability:
The Red Road Foundation serves a diverse population.
- Local Khmer children who benefit from free education and will have the opportunity to apply for this internship.
- Local families who learn more about sustainable development and environmental health. They also recieve opportunities to work directly with us and generate income for their families.
- International and Khmer interns who can get hands-on experience in leadership and sustainable development through volunteering with us.
- The local Khmer and expat population who are interested in taking part in circular economy initiatives.
“Empowering the next generation for a sustainable future. Arrive as a friend, leave as family.”
– Ellie Brister 23 Nathan Billingham 25 (3rd year volunteer)
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Remote & Virtual Internship
In this course, you will study influential leaders, get an understanding of social enterprise organization and leadership theory, as well as, real-life application in the context of sustainability. Acquire a critical understanding of yourself in order to effectively empower and manage a team. Our internship/course has three parts, studying what makes a good leader, finding/identifying and utilizing strengths of self/team, and initiating your own contribution to the Red Road focused on your personal skill set that is guided and implemented with the founders.
This course/internship is designed to help you become the best leader that you can be and gain a unique one-of-kind experience that is completely tailored to you. This is a customized course that will allow you to work at your own pace, receive one-to-one coaching, and be tailored to your passions and skillset.
Leadership & Sustainability
Sustainability in leadership is one of the most important trends that we are seeing in the business world right now. As you will see in Daniella Papi Thorton’s TedTalk, there is a steep upward trend in young entrepreneur’s desire to take social and environmental responsibility into account when measuring success. As we have all been going through a major rebalancing of priorities in 2020, we have the opportunity to aid the shift in the mindset of a select few gaining more power and wealth at the expense of the whole.
Being a part of sustainable leadership is the willingness to be aware of the beliefs that we have been indoctrinated into so that we may create a life based on what we really value as truth. We must first look at what we have been taught and take an inventory of our fundamental beliefs. Do our actions and words truly match with our values?
Through challenging our own beliefs and aligning our vision with our personal truth, we become able to challenge the status quo and lead others to do the same. These changes need to be made for us to thrive as One, start with personal choice, personal responsibility, and personal awareness. In some cultures, it is not until the whole tribe’s needs are met that we anyone succeeds.
To live in a world where each person’s skills, talents, abilities, and passions are honored and have a place is a society in which equality and sustainability can heal the toxic beliefs that our society has been taught. We have been taught that others have to lose for us to win. In sustainable development, there is a place for everyone’s strengths, and an effective leader can see how all can contribute to the big picture.
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Social Networking & Experience Learning
As we work in a team, we can see how we can utilize each other’s strengths and how we can work together as a cohesive force. In doing this, our self-awareness grows, and we harness the strength of each member for the benefit of the whole. To us, this is sustainable leadership. This is about creating an environment where all parties benefit and all member’s needs are met. Through having the buy-in of all involved through mutual success, we achieve a lifestyle that values all and ensures cohesiveness of the whole.
This content will get you more deeply grounded on this journey of becoming the best leader you can be, which will be a lifetime process. 😉 Our course is laid out in essay format. You will take time to reflect and think about what this content means to you. At the end of each section, you will have personalized coaching and counseling on becoming the best leader you can be, in complete unison with what you stand for and your personal value system. We will share about our personal journeys in areas that pertain to your mission and help you to dissect and understand what the recurrent themes in your course essays are.
Holistic E-learning
The roles that Science and Spirituality play in Leadership are at the core of being influential. In my life, it has been incredibly important to better understand myself and my role in this life to maintain and develop the self-confidence, and self-discipline that we will face through adversity as a leader. A leader is someone who takes things in a new direction and that can be intimidating as a new leader. This is why it is so important to take the time to truly know the self and our mission. So what are you waiting for?
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