Internship Opportunities

To explore internship possibilities:

• Search for internships through UST's new Community Engagement Network.
  
• Search for internships through UST's Career Development portal.
  

• Contact JPST community partners who have provided internships to our students in the past.

• Search the listing of community partners who have recently hosted internships through HECUA's MUST program.

• Arrange for an advising meeting with JPST's internship supervisor:

        Mike Klein
        Office: SCB 103
        (651) 962-5378 

Click here to download reporting forms for current students and their internship supervisors.

Current Internships: 

CityLabs Internship Opportunity

Priority application deadline: December 11, 2012; applications received after this date will be considered on a rolling basis through December 31, 2012.

About CityLabs
CityLabs is a yearlong partnership between ACTC’s member schools and one city in the metropolitan region that advances the city’s sustainability and livability goals. The City of Saint Paul is CityLabs’ partner for the 12-13 academic year. CityLabs’ goal is to put the academic resources of ACTC and the civic resources of the Twin Cities to work for each other—with an eye toward creating a more sustainable and livable future for all. Read more.

Internship Description
ACTC’s CityLabs Communications Intern will gain an in-depth understanding of the consortium’s current marketing and communications practices and will work with ACTC staff, including the CityLabs Program Director, to explore, evaluate, develop, improve, and implement communications efforts.

The CityLabs Communications Internship will provide experience in member communications, collaborative publicity and media relations, and news writing.

Possible tasks and responsibilities for spring 2013 include:

• Develop and generate feature content—both print and online—including weekly and monthly CityLabs updates, website copy, social media posts, press releases, campus communications, newsletters, and more.
• Collaborate with City of Saint Paul media relations to promote CityLabs and the city/consortium partnership.
• Monitor press on sustainability in higher education and other CityLabs-like programs.
• Explore ways to enhance CityLabs student and faculty outreach, including engagement with student publications and students/faculty currently working with CityLabs
• Maintain and broaden CityLabs’ social media outreach.
• Update and maintain the CityLabs website.
• Develop on-campus media and PR officer relationships.
• Build and maintain CityLabs communications database.
• Assist with development of ACTC’s master communications plan(s).
• Evaluate the effectiveness of ACTC marketing materials and suggest improvements.

Qualifications
Strong intern candidates will possess excellent written, listening, and spoken communication skills, insatiable curiosity, and strong organizational skills. Candidates must also enjoy solving problems, taking on new projects, and exploring new ideas.

Coursework and/or direct experience in publishing, public relations, publicity, marketing and/or communications is preferred.

Interns must be comfortable working with Macs and PCs, Google Apps, and Microsoft Office.

Eligibility
ACTC internship opportunities are available to current undergraduate students at Augsburg, Hamline, Macalester, St. Kate’s, and St. Thomas.

To Apply
To apply, email a cover letter, resume, and list of three references to intern@actc-mn.org.

The priority application deadline is December 11, 2012; applications received after this date will be considered on a rolling basis through December 31, 2012.

Application materials and questions may be addressed to Stephanie Zimmerman, ACTC Project Specialist.

For more information:  .
https://sites.google.com/a/actc-mn.org/actc/internships/citylabs

Face Forward Financial Development Internship (8-10 hrs/week)

Main Goal: Find funding for Face Forward through GRANT WRITING!

Learn about grant submissions and the technique of grant writing by working with our Face Forward Operations Director. You will draft several grant proposals throughout the semester and leave this internship with increased knowledge about grant submissions, grant writing, both of which are valuable and rare skills to have to be able to submit your own in the future! Those interested in working with nonprofit organizations or agencies will especially benefit from this internship.

IMPORTANT DATES:

January 1st - January 13th: Spring Internship application submission period

January 21st - 25th Interviews

January 30th: Notification of Application

February 12th: First Meeting

March 19th: Mid-Spring Session Evaluations

April 30th: Last meeting

WEEKLY MEETING TIMES & LOCATIONS:
Tuesdays from 5:30-7pm in Uptown, Minneapolis

Face Forward (www.faceforwardmn.com) is offering a variety of Spring internships that are directly relevant to the career goals and skill sets of young adults and aspiring professionals in the Twin Cities. A great opportunity to get hands on experience in the nonprofit local performing arts community, our interns are directly involved with a growing network of talent. See other internship positions on our website or on Idealist.org!
More / LessHow to apply

Email us (leaveck.amanda1@gmail.com) with a cover letter, resume, & indication of which internship you are interested in (you can choose more than one) to apply.

ABOUT

We are art advocates because we are people advocates. We advocate the spread of arts experience across barriers, cultural or otherwise, because when we share our art, we share our humanity Face Forward supports the community by supporting local artists.

Face Forward supports local artists by ….

1) Engaging them in a socially conscious community
2) Providing unique performance opportunities
3) Exposing their work via online promotion and photo/video production
4) Compensating them for shows
5) Creating growth and networking opportunities

Face Forward strives to achieve its mission by partnering with community-based organizations in the Twin Cities metro, booking customized shows in non-traditional locations, hiring exclusively local talent, and creating high-quality media that showcases local performing arts.

HISTORY

Founded in October 2009, Face Forward has planned, promoted, and hosted a wide array of multidisciplinary performing arts shows in the Twin Cities. Using small, intimate settings of shoe stores, office spaces, and coffee shops to large spaces in venues like First Ave, Patrick's Cabaret, and the Old Arizona Theater, Face Forward has worked with local performing artists to book high quality performing arts for the organizations they work with.

We have raised money, awareness, and donations for international and local organizations: Global Fund for Women The CAVE trust fund in India Brian Coyle Community Center Youth Farm and Marketing Project Sharing and Caring Hands Minnesota Food Share Toys for Tots People Serving People Canvas Youth Center

We have booked shows/artists for: Summerset Music Festival, Project Earth Festival, East Side Arts Council, CAPI USA, Kidventure, Corepower Yoga, Holiday Inn University of Saint Thomas, We International Inc., Macalester College, Linden Hills Farmers Market. 

Alliance for Peacebuilding Internships

Dear AfP Members,

AfP is seeking interns to fill several positions starting this fall:
• Communications Internship
• Mapping Project Internship
• 3P Human Security Internship
• Fundraising Internship
• Presidential Internship
• Evaluation Internship
• Strategic Communications Internship
Please note that all internships (part-time or full-time) will accommodate a flexible schedule. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and will be located at our Washington, DC headquarters. The Alliance for Peacebuilding is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes resumes from all qualified applicants, particularly women and minorities. AfP does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, or persons with disabilities.

Emily A. Mallozzi
Membership & Operations Manager | Alliance for Peacebuilding
1320 19th Street, NW Suite 410 | Washington, DC |20036
202.822.2047 x 114 | emily@allianceforpeacebuilding.org
www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org | Facebook | Twitter

Check out our "Refer a Friend" link within your member profile options. Here you can paste in the email addresses of friends or colleagues who might like to join AfP!

Help build sustainable peace and security worldwide.

Alliance for Peacebuilding
1320 19th Street, NW Suite 410
Washington, DC 20036

SCHOLARSHIPS

The Dispute Resolution Center supports the efforts of people from diverse backgrounds who want to obtain mediation training in order to volunteer as a mediator to provide conflict-resolution services to under-served segments of the East Metro area of the Twin Cities community.

Those wishing to apply for a full or partial scholarship should:

* demonstrate their high motivation and commitment to offering mediation services to people currently under-served in our society (e.g., economically disadvantaged, and/or culturally and racially diverse communities);

* be from culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds or have experience working with diverse communities (e.g. proficiency in a second language) in order to encourage a diversity of mediators in the field;

* demonstrate financial need;

* have previously demonstrated actions and experiences that are consistent with peacekeeping and providing services to under-served segments
of our society;

* have flexible schedules and occasional daytime availability for volunteer mediations;

*  live or work in the East Metro Area of the Twin Cities; and

* not have completed other similar training programs in mediation.

To apply for a scholarship, please e-mail, fax, or mail a one-page description of your background, goals, and desired training along with your registration form to  the Dispute Resolution Center, 91 East Arch Street, Saint Paul, MN 55130-4301.  651 292 7791;  651 292 6065 fax,

drc-mediation@drc-mn.org<mailto:drc-mediation@drc-mn.org>,  www.disputeresolutioncenter.org<UrlBlockedError.aspx>

Human Rights Accompaniers Needed in Guatemala

Next training: January 2013 in Bay Area, CA
Application Deadline: October 31, 2012

For more information and an application, please visit our website: www.nisgua.org

Six-month minimum commitment required

The role of human rights accompaniers:
Accompaniers work as human rights observers, providing an international presence to Guatemalans organizing in defense of their rights in a variety of contexts, including precedent-setting genocide cases and local opposition to mega-projects. Accompaniers work in pairs, travel between the capital and an assigned region, share in rural life, observe and report on conditions, monitor the human rights situation and provide a link to the international community. NISGUA trains volunteers and matches them with groups in the U.S. that support the accompanier’s stay both financially and personally.

Candidates should have:
o  The ability to document and analyze events and conditions in order to produce quality written reports and educational materials
o  Cultural sensitivity; excellent judgment skills; physical stamina; ability to work flexibly in dynamic, changing situations; resourceful in self-care and relational dynamics
o  A high level of verbal and written Spanish or the ability to develop it with six weeks of intensive study
o  A familiarity with the history of Central America/U.S. relations, the current situation in Guatemala, and a basic understanding of human rights/accompaniment
o  Previous experience in Latin America (especially rural areas) strongly preferred
o  Awareness of security issues, willingness to work in a situation which might involve risk, interest in individual and team analysis

Benefits include:
Accommodation and food covered by a small monthly stipend; health insurance, a re-entry stipend, and a contribution toward international airfare also provided.

About GAP:
The Guatemala Accompaniment Project (GAP) of the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) trains and places qualified candidates as human rights accompaniers. NISGUA is one of many organizations around the world that employs accompaniment as a vital tool in the global struggle for the respect of human rights.  In the Guatemalan context, accompaniment is one tool used in response to the threats, harassment, and violence faced by survivors of Guatemala's 36-year-long civil war, grassroots organizations working for justice, and indigenous communities combating destructive mega-development projects on their land.

http://www.nisgua.org/get_involved/join_gap/



Graduate or Undergraduate Summer or Fall Internship
2012 Campus Election Engagement Project

This amazing opportunity will give students who are interested in increasing the student vote nationwide, a powerful opportunity to do so—reaching out to schools in their states or other states through the Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP). Founded by award-winning Soul of a Citizen author Paul Loeb, the non-partisan CEEP works through the state affiliates of the major national service learning network, Campus Compact to help schools use their extensive resources to assist their students in registering to vote, getting educated on the issues, volunteering in the campaigns, and showing up at the polls. 

Participating students would work under the supervision of their local Compact affiliate or other partner organization. They'd reach out to college and university administrators, faculty and staff, building on the strong and ongoing relationships that their local state Compacts have with colleges and universities in their states. They’ll be coached, mentored, and trained by the excellent Compact staff and project staff on how to engage schools using CEEP-created resource lists of effective ways schools can engage their students. They’ll then build on these resources and relationships to help schools implement powerful engagement approaches like:

• Distributing templates for student IDs that pass the requirements of draconian new voter laws, enabling students to register and vote without needing to purchase a state ID;
• Ensuring that new students get registered at first-year orientation;
• Broadcasting voter registration and election information links via QR codes on the Jumbotron at    football games;
• Including links to Rock the Vote’s registration tool in online event ticketing and course registration systems, and having IT departments distribute a new election information Smartphone app
• Collaborating with campus newspaper advisors to help student newspapers distribute nonpartisan voter guides.
• For residential campuses, encouraging “dorm storms,” where Residence Life works with Student Activities and Campus Safety to temporarily relax normal security rules so student groups can register students door to door in the dorms.

Internship Benefits include:

• Helping fellow students make a major difference by turning out to vote;
• Being supervised provided by excellent Campus Compact staff;
• Participating in conference calls and being coached and mentored by Paul Loeb and associate coordinator Jonathan Romm (who helped run North Carolina Compact’s CEEP efforts in 2008);
• The chance to learn valuable skills from the lessons and examples of a high-functioning team.
The application process is straightforward. Interested students should contact the project at campuselect@gmail.com and include their resume or other description of their background, including any community outreach projects in which they have been involved.

This is a powerful opportunity for students to gain valuable skills and make a major difference. So we’d love your help in identifying and reaching out to students who are ready for a rich and challenging project, where they’ll assume a leadership role in helping their 20 million fellow students participate in the fall elections. With this in mind, please look at these Desired Qualifications, think about who would be a good fit, and do your best to encourage them to contact the project if interested.
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Desired Qualifications for a Summer or Fall Intern:

• Motivated self-starter who is comfortable working via online and email formats and with telephone outreach--including with college and university faculty and senior administrators and professional staff
• Excellent organization, written and oral communication skills
• Effective time management skills;
• And passion for social justice, service, and civic engagement.

If you want to be a contact to help engage your school, please do sign up on our new Google mapping tool at www.campusvotemap.info