Dates of
Internship: Negotiable between April
and September 2014
Hours: 10
hours per week for 12 weeks; flexible and can be worked around your school
schedule.
Location: Work
from home as well as option of working in Lansing office
Internship
Responsibilities
You will be directly assisting Sierra Club Michigan Chapter staff in protecting the environment and our water resources by helping us with communication strategies including social media and video projects.
You will be directly assisting Sierra Club Michigan Chapter staff in protecting the environment and our water resources by helping us with communication strategies including social media and video projects.
Responsibilities include:
- Coordinate sustainable agriculture video testimonial
project:
·
Help develop at least two consumer and two
farmer videos to launch the project--identify consumers/farmers willing to
testify for sustainable agriculture on camera, develop script/talking points
and record videos
·
Identify places such as farmers markets to get consumer
and farmer video testimonials throughout summer; Recruit volunteers and set
schedule to record videos at identified locations
·
Help promote project on social media
- Assist Chapter communications committee with projects
as needed
- Other duties available such as data entry, research and
event tabling upon occasion
Qualifications
The ideal applicant will have course work or a major in environmental communications or policy and experience with video and social media, and good writing and research skills as well as a knowledge or interest in environmental issues and factory farm issues in particular, and proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. Ability to work independently. Strongly self-motivated.
The ideal applicant will have course work or a major in environmental communications or policy and experience with video and social media, and good writing and research skills as well as a knowledge or interest in environmental issues and factory farm issues in particular, and proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. Ability to work independently. Strongly self-motivated.
Compensation: Internship comes with a stipend.
Contact: Gail Philbin, gail.philbin@sierraclub.org
, 312-493-2384