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Boston Museum of Science

Submitted by Lauren E. Berger on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 13:00

Bio:

The Museum of Science Internship Program hosts over 200 interns each year throughout Summer, Fall & Spring semesters in a variety of departments. Our goal is to provide exceptional work-learn experiences: interns gain essential professional skills while assisting with the Mission and operation of the Museum through meaningful, authentic projects and tasks.

Additional Info:

The Museum of Science seeks to recruit, hire, develop, promote, and retain individuals from racially and culturally diverse backgrounds and persons with disabilities. We strive to create and sustain a more affirming environment for all staff, interns, volunteers, trustees and overseers. We value expertise gained at the Museum and encourage professional development and career growth.

Our internship program offers internships in trimesters: fall, spring, and summer. Interns work throughout the Museum on a wide variety of projects and tasks, from science education to behind-the-scenes work. An internship at the Museum of Science is an excellent way to gain a hands-on, work-learn experience in a specific area of interest or field of study.

Hours:

Depends on the Internship

Girls’ LEAP Self-Defense

Submitted by Lauren E. Berger on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 10:31

Bio:

Girls' LEAP (Lifetime Empowerment & Awareness Program) trains at-risk girls aged 8-18 in verbal and physical safety skills and self-awareness. Girls’ LEAP helps girls develop a diverse set of responses to violence, beyond the extremes of passivity and escalation.
Girls’ LEAP's physical skills techniques maximize girls' options and help girls to make safe decisions in spite of fear. The self-reflective skills strengthen girls' ability to say "no" in difficult situations, to create safe and constructive boundaries, and to identify and trust their own feelings.

Additional Info:

General Information:
• Girls’ LEAP has 3 positions available for full-time (35 hours/week) summer interns
• Opportunity is available for undergraduate or post-graduate women
• Placement: June 10 – August 19, 2010 (dates to be confirmed)
• Training: 16 hours of training required if new to Girls’ LEAP. Dates to be set as needed.

Responsibilities:
• Complete internship training
• Work with Girls’ LEAP staff to support and implement girls’ self-defense and empowerment programs in underserved communities within Greater Boston
• Act as an assistant teacher (“Teaching Woman”) in summer Girls’ LEAP Standard programs
• Supervise a small team of teens who are enrolled in Girls’ LEAP’s Teen Mentor Summer Program
• Complete an individual multi-media project
• Assist with one-time workshops and outreach events for local youth-serving agencies in Greater Boston
• Work with Girls’ LEAP staff on discrete projects such as development, program evaluation, research on a particular issue, community impact, etc.

Qualifications:
• BA or current undergraduate student
• Experience working with youth
• Openness, willingness and enthusiasm to work with urban girls ages 8-18
• Comfort with physical movement
• Ability to communicate clearly and work in teams
• Comprehensive MS Office / computer skills, college level writing and research skills
• Positive attitude, enthusiasm and a sense of humor
• Commitment to Girls’ LEAP values of female empowerment, intergenerational teamwork, strength-based instruction, honesty, creativity and personal dedication to mission
• Previous experience mentoring urban youth a plus
• Bilingual applicants encouraged to apply

Hours:

35 hours per week

Green Corps Internship

Submitted by Lauren E. Berger on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 03:35

Bio:

Green Corps was launched by U.S. PIRG in 1992. The mission of Green Corps is to train organizers, provide field support for today’s critical environmental campaigns, and graduate activists who possess the skills, temperament, and commitment to fight and win tomorrow’s environmental battles. Since our founding in 1992, Green Corps has partnered with more than 75 environmental organizations, provided critical field support to 100 campaigns, and secured dozens of significant victories in conservation, corporate accountability, and public health. Over the last fifteen years, Green Corps has graduated 200 emerging environmental leaders from our yearlong Environmental Leadership Training Program, with eighty-five percent of our graduates continuing their careers in the environmental and social change field. Today, our graduates work as field directors, campaigners, advocates and grassroots organizers with leading regional and national groups such as National Wildlife Federation, Friends of the Earth, Natural Resources Defense Council, Defenders of Wildlife, Clean Water Action, Environment America, Sierra Club and Greenpeace.

Internship Description:

Event Planning: The interns will coordinate the planning of Green Corps’ 2nd Round Interview weekends with an expected attendance of 300 candidates. This includes duties such as VIP outreach for invited guests and major donors, weekend locations and logistics, travel and housing arrangements for candidates and materials creation and duplication.

Online Outreach: The interns will coordinate our online recruitment campaign to raise the visibility of Green Corps’ Field School for Environmental Organizing. This will include planning and implementing targeted outreach to websites, job boards, blogs, and social-networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.

Career Center and Campus Outreach: Interns will contact career centers across the country to coordinate recruitment, visibility events and on-campus interviews. Interns will also recruit top student leaders for the Green Corps program with campus outreach.

Additional Info:

We are looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, have a desire to strengthen and grow the environmental movement, and have demonstrated leadership experience.

Hours:

20 - 40 hours per week