Anti-Trafficking Online Monitoring Internship

Program Dates: June 1 - July 31, 2025

Application Deadline: March 31, 2025

About Us: Love Justice International (LJI) is a Christian nonprofit organization compelled by God’s love to fight the world’s greatest injustices. We fight injustice in two primary ways: through our expanding anti-human trafficking work and by caring for orphaned and abandoned children. We currently work throughout Asia and Africa.

Love Justice International is a certified Best Christian Workplace in 2021 - 2024. Click here for more information about us.

Position Type: Full Time (Internship); Support-Raised*; Overseas (South Africa)

If hired, the intern will be required to raise financial support to cover all expenses related to the internship, including housing, transportation, food, and other relevant costs. Raising support is a key example of the body of Christ supporting its members and joining in the fight against injustice. LJI will provide administrative and prayer support throughout the process, as well as guidance and resources to build up a support base.

Program and Position Overview: LJI's anti-human trafficking model focuses on transit monitoring. We identify, intercept, and assist trafficking victims as they are being transported—when victims and traffickers are the most visible and open to detection—and before they reach the destination where victims will be sold, hidden, and abused. Because the crime of trafficking has already commenced, we have access to actionable intelligence which can be used to assist police in the apprehension of suspects and to better understand trafficking methods. To date, we have intercepted over 50,000 individuals to prevent them from being trafficked. More than 1,300 arrests have stemmed from our anti-trafficking work with 34% of closed cases resulting in convictions.

In South Africa, the Love Justice team fights human trafficking with a different strategy than other teams use—catching traffickers online, educating vulnerable communities, and assisting with job verification. They call it the “Freedom Project.” Similar to the transit monitoring model, a group of monitors work mostly on Facebook and other social media to identify suspicious adverts for jobs, study opportunities, migration, relationships that are too good to be true and systematically reach out to people who comment on the posts offering to help them verify the risky opportunities they are pursuing and walk with them through the decision making process if it shows signs of human trafficking. Online monitoring is proving to be a new strategy that is showing significant impact in preventing human trafficking. As an Anti-Trafficking Online Monitoring Intern, you will have the opportunity to work with the team to gain valuable experience in identifying human trafficking online, liaising with potential victims and developing data collection and entry skills.

This internship period is from June 1 - July 31, 2025, is based in Ballito, South Africa, and reports to the Director of Anti-Trafficking. We are open to considering two interns for this position.

Primary Duties and Responsiblities:

Online Monitoring and Identification: Monitor social media platforms, like Facebook, for suspicious posts related to potential human trafficking, developing skills to recognize warning signs.
Outreach and Assistance: Reach out to individuals engaging with suspicious posts, providing information about the Freedom Project and referring cases for follow-up to the monitoring team.
Data Collection and Entry: Collect and record information about potential victims, social media posts and detailing case narratives, maintaining a comprehensive data record of human trafficking data.

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

A Mature Christian faith;
At least two years of undergraduate study in social work, psychology, communications, sociology, education, or a related discipline;
Strong communication skills, proficiency in online research and social media, attention to detail for data entry, ability to work well in a cross-cultural team and capacity to work independently.

Application Process: We will continue to invite applications for this position until a new Intern has been hired. We welcome applications continuously, as we actively seek exceptional candidates for this position. Candidates will submit a letter of interest and CV when they submit their application here. Nominations, inquiries, and questions concerning this search may be directed to careers@lovejustice.ngo.

Please allow us 1-2 weeks to process your application. Thank you for your interest!