Middle East Programs - Fall 2025 Young Global Professionals Program

The Atlantic Council seeks a creative, motivated, and hard-working Young Global Professional to support the administrative and programmatic activities in a fast-paced environment of the Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs. The Young Global Professional will work across the Center’s multiple thematic and regional teams including regional security, advancing accountability for human rights violations and atrocity crimes, economic empowerment, climate change, regional integration, Iran, Syria, Iraq and North Africa.

The ideal candidate will be remarkably well organized, detail-oriented and have experience in administration, communication and event execution and logistics. We encourage our Young Global Professionals to actively engage with events, publications, and strategies of the center. This position will expose the candidate to the writing and editing process for publications and articles, logistical elements of event planning, and the creation of strategic initiatives within a think tank. Young Global Professionals are also highly encouraged to pursue their own research projects, write and publish their own policy briefs or blog posts.

The ideal candidate for the position is at least a college junior, graduate student or recent graduate in good standing, studying international relations, politics, foreign policy or related field. Demonstrable interest in the Middle East and North Africa, international relations, foreign policy, building peace and regional security, and unlocking the region’s human potential though classwork and/or experience are strongly preferred. Successful candidates will have a passion for the work, an entrepreneurial ethos, a collegial spirit and superior communication skills.

This position is fully on-site at our Washington, DC headquarters. Interns will be compensated at a rate of $18.00 per hour.

Responsibilities 

• Support the planning and execution of program events, roundtables and webinars
  • Draft formal correspondence to government officials, decisionmakers and stakeholders and invitations for events
  • Draft supporting documents for public events, such as speaker memos, participants lists and agendas
  • Take notes and photos at Council roundtables and strategy sessions for program archives
  • Write event recaps following public events to be posted on the Council’s website
  • Staff in-person events, meetings and roundtables
• Assist the centers’ communications team with promoting publications, events and media mentions
  • Draft social media content for X, Instagram and LinkedIn
  • Draft newsletters and email marketing
  • Track media mentions and press clips
• Help with the program’s general administrative work
  • Updated the program’s contacts database
  • Manage center files and platforms
  • Support business development research
  • Other supporting tasks as needed 
• Participate in weekly center-wide meetings, biweekly initiative meetings and monthly Atlantic Council meetings
• Conduct research to support the activities of the Center
• Conduct personal research and writing

• Must be at least a college junior in good standing, a graduate student, or a recent graduate
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written) are required
• Excellent analytical, planning, time management, and organizational skills are required
• Excellent organizational, logistical, and administrative skills are required
• Ability to represent the Atlantic Council to external constituencies, such as senior officials, board members, donors, and individual and corporate members
• Experience with social media campaigns, website maintenance, and email marketing is a bonus
• Experience supporting the planning and execution of events is a bonus
• Experience living, studying, or working in the Middle East is a bonus
• Proficiency in a regional language such as Arabic, Persian, French, Kurdish, or Hebrew is a bonus
• The ability to work full-time (40 hrs/week) is strongly preferred

Applications close Sunday, June 8, 2025, at 11:59 pm ET (4:59 am GMT) and require a resume and cover letter. Due to the large volume of applications, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.