The Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development

By Cari Shimkus

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The Earth Institute is looking for an intern to paint with the Office of Academic and Research Programs, normally assisting the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development (UPSD). The program, which incorporates a chief and a unique awareness, teaches students to deal with the essential difficulty of circulating closer to a trajectory of sustainability to allow future generations to pursue further development in human nicely-being without causing irreparable harm to the planet. The intern will divide their time between software administration for UPSD and outreach and advertising for the Earth Institute’s graduate applications. Support will also be sought for the Earth Institute’s professional development and alums sports. The ideal candidate may have reveled in communications, occasion coordination, and operating in a particularly expert environment on various tasks.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities will encompass, however, will now not be confined to updating and producing web content material, contributing to social media approach, occasion planning and staffing, drafting and editing articles/profiles, updating application materials, managing large touch databases, and bloodless-calling for outreach for unique programs.

Skills Required:

Applicants should be distinctly encouraged, element-orientated, and possess sturdy written and verbal communique skills.
Experience with social media, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, MailChimp (elective), and MS Office equipment, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, is needed.
The best candidate will be personable, seasoned-active, and able to paint in a quick-paced surrounding while finally prepared and specific.
A strong interest in the surroundings and sustainable development is preferred but no longer required.

Type of Student preferred:

Graduate or undergraduate growing junior or senior. Students enrolled in or plan to declare the sustainable improvement predominant/unique concentration are not eligible to apply.

Compensation:

$sixteen/hour, 15-25 hours/week. Position to start as soon as feasible, with the option to retain element-time thru the fall.

To Apply:

Applicants must submit a resume and cowl letter mentioning their interest and qualifications to Cari Shimkus cshimkus@ei.Columbia.Edu. Applications are being commonplace on a rolling foundation till May thirty-first. Please place “Summer Internship with UPSD” within the problem line of the e-mail.

Only contemporary students of Columbia University and Barnard College are eligible to apply. Declared college students in the sustainable development program aren’t qualified to use.

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