Climate Interactive Internship
Organization: Climate Interactive
Location: Asheville, NC
Paid: $15/hr
Website: www.climateinteractive.org
Description
Climate Interactive is an organization that creates, shares, and uses credible models, accessible simulations, and related media in order to improve the way leaders and citizens around the world think about the climate. Our purpose is to get these sims and insights into the world as accessible products so they can be tweaked, enhanced, translated, distributed, and used to power change around the world. Our C-ROADS simulation is currently being used in the US State Department, China, and at UNFCCC meetings. Climate Interactive is a project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization registered in the United States.
Climate Interactive is seeking an Intern who can work ~20 hours a week to assist with media, administrative, and research tasks.
Key responsibilities of this position include:
Media (40%):
• Maintaining and updating website, blog, and twitter content and posts
• Creating and editing video and images
• Creating content for online communications and electronic newsletters
Administration (50%):
• Data entry
• Spreadsheet work
• Organizing staff travel – researching hotels and flights
• Miscellaneous computer tasks and responding to short term needs for help from staff
• Organizing and reviewing expense reports
• Responding to email inquiries from external partners
• Creating user accounts and managing contact database
• Note-taking at meetings
Research (10%):
• Gathering relevant information on climate policies and proposals as directed by staff
Qualifications, skills & core competencies required:
• Self-motivated and independent
• Preferably a recent graduate seeking professional experience in the environmental sector
• Excellent writing and editing skills with a strong attention to detail
• Well-organized, self-motivated, and able to manage deadlines
• Team player willing to perform a variety of tasks
• Strong computer skills, including knowledge of MS Office
• Proficient in website maintenance, blogging and social media
• Able to quickly master new technology systems
• Competent at video and image editing would a plus
• Experienced in system dynamics, systems thinking, and organizational learning would be a plus
The internship will run for 6 months with a 30 day review period, to ensure an adequate fit for both Climate Interactive and the Intern. There will be two stages to the six month internship – a three month period of intensive training under our Project Specialist, and then a period of working more independently for the remaining three months.
The Intern will work on CI staff as a contractor to CI, not a W-2 employee. Compensation for the internship will be $15/hour. The Intern will provide his/her computer equipment and software.
CI has no central physical office (its 6 person staff is spread across Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and North Carolina, with its fiscal home in Washington DC), so the Intern will be able to work from whatever setting she or he prefers, although the Intern must be local to the Asheville, NC region and able to attend meetings as needed.
This position offers the chance to contribute significantly to the mission of the organization.
How To Apply
Hiring process: Applicants should fill out and submit an application form as part of the first round of the hiring process. Applicants reaching the second round will receive an email and be asked to submit their resume. Applicants reaching the third round will be invited to an in-person interview. Due to application volume, please do not submit any other materials or contact CI staff during the first round. We will do our best to reply to all applications, but if you do not hear from us, assume it means we appreciated your application but you did not advance to the next round.
