Join Our Volunteer Team

Volunteer Positions

Join YPFP's leadership laboratory, where you will gain unprecedented opportunities to develop and apply your leadership and management skills with a dynamic network of passionate, talented, and high-achieving foreign policy professionals. Our volunteers are responsible for YPFP's success, and see their contributions make an impact every day.

  • Build your resume!
  • Develop valuable professional skills!
  • Expand your professional and personal networks!

To apply for any of the following volunteer positions, please email a cover letter and your up-to-date résumé to recruiting@ypfp.org, and reference the position title in the subject of the email.

Please note that all YPFP team positions are unpaid and on a volunteer basis. You must be a dues-paying member to be offered a volunteer position.

Events and Programming Team

Communications Team

Membership Team 

Want to get involved but don't see a role that encompasses your skills? Send us your resume with a brief description of what skills you can bring to the team and how you can make the YPFP NY team better! Email sepideh.behzadpour@ypfp.org.

Discussion Group Program

Will Folmer

YPFP DC

“Volunteering as an event manager with YPFP provided me with an opportunity to work on a broad range of topics of my interest, beyond what I was able to do at just my day job. During the Foreign Service examination and interview process I cited my experiences with YPFP on multiple occasions in order to demonstrate my passion for working on foreign policy went beyond my 9 to 5 job and how it provided me with a additional skill-sets not otherwise found on my resume."

Beth Scott

YPFP DC

“It's difficult to convey all the benefits I've received from my participation with YPFP. I've been a member for over 5 years and during that time, I've made great professional connections, forged strong and lasting friendships, engaged with professionals from all over the world, and learned skills and knowledge that I couldn't have gotten elsewhere. I sincerely believe that my Program Manager experience with the Intelligence Module was a key reason I was offered my current position as a Project Manager at a strategic communication firm, as it jump-started my experience and skills in that field.”