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Fall Internships with HealthStart – Deadline 8/25

Non-profit HealthStart is seeking two interns for the fall semester: one intern will focus on fundraising, public relations and communications; the other will focus on educational programming.

About HealthStart:

HealthStart’s primary purpose is to improve child health. HealthStart’s vision is that all children will learn how to be healthy from a young age. Our mission is to create healthy communities by teaching young children good health basics before they are old enough to develop bad habits that lead to poor health and conditions like obesity.

HealthStart has developed a comprehensive, robust health and science curriculum, Health Education for Youngsters! that includes 9 teachers guides, resource materials, parent information and more. The curriculum will be taught in 27 preschool and elementary schools in Central and South Texas to about 800 kids in the 2013-14 school year. HealthStart hopes to increase our organizational sustainability and put a communications road map in place with your help.

Communications Intern

Health Start is currently seeking a part-time Fall 2013 intern with highly developed communications/ public relations skills who can work about 12-15 hours per week. You will be part of a team shaping HealthStart’s message through social media including daily Facebook and Twitter posts, quarterly newsletter production, donor correspondence and management and related tasks. All of these experiences should be highly transferable to a professional communications work environment.

Job responsibilities will include:

  • Press Releases and helping raise HealthStart’s profile within our community
  • Helping develop a media and communications plan
  • Working directly with HealthStart’s Development Committee on Social media posts and updates
  • Writing HealthStart’s Spring Newsletter
  • Assisting with Fundraising and event planning and promotions
  • Donor Management and Correspondence
  • Other communications and public relations related tasks as assigned

Qualifications:
Candidates for the position must have experience with basic design, marketing, advertisement, social media, website development, or related activity. Employment experience or a strong interest in social entrepreneurship, social marketing, health and wellness or early childhood education is preferred. Experience with website maintenance a plus. Must be familiar with basic computer operations including MS WORD, EXCEL, and the Internet specifically social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MyEmma, etc. In addition, candidates should have some or all of the following skills:

  • A willingness to learn new things or new ways of doing things
  • Ability to meet deadlines with little or no daily onsite supervision
  • Attention to detail
  • Excellent verbal and communication skills
  • Enthusiasm about making a difference

Compensation:
Salary: Paid – Stipend $250/month

Application Instructions:
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter (required) by email to Robin Herskowitz, Founder by noon on August 25, 2013. at robin@healthstartfoundation.org. Two references required. Candidates must be able to begin work no later than September 3 and they must be able to participate weekly Friday 2:30p staff meetings.  Phone: 512-782-4355, Fax: 877-585-6513

Education Intern

HealthStart is currently seeking a part-time Fall intern with an interest in education, nutrition, kinesiology or child health and the ability to think creatively and work 15 hours a week. You will be part of a team working to ensure that HealthStart meets its mission by helping develop abbreviated versions of our curriculum, collect evaluative data, and maintain contact with our teachers and education site administrators. You may help ensure that HealthStart’s Health Education For Youngsters! (HEY!) is aligned with Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the National Association for the Education for Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation standards. All of these experiences should be highly transferable to any professional work environment.

Job responsibilities may include:

  • Work closely with Education Director and Executive Director
  • Research TEA and NAEYC accreditation standards.
  • Ensure all materials are copy written
  • Adapting curriculum materials to be used in alternative settings such as doctors offices and after school programs
  • Write materials to educate and engage families to make changes that positively impact their health.
  • Assist with grant application submission.
  • Research evaluation and other tools to measure parent engagement.
  • Other related tasks as assigned.

Qualifications:
Candidates for the position must have education or work experience writing technical documents, conducting research, or related activity. YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE FRIDAYS FROM 2:30P TO 4P FOR A WEEKLY STAFF MEETING. Employment experience or a strong interest in health and wellness or early childhood education is preferred. Must be familiar with basic computer operations including MS WORD, EXCEL and the Internet. In addition, candidates should have some or all of the following skills:

  • Quick study
  • A willingness to learn new things or new ways of doing things
  • Attention to detail
  • Excellent verbal and communication skills
  • Enthusiasm about making a difference
  • Creative and innovative thinking
  • Ability to meet deadlines with little or no daily onsite supervision

Compensation:
This position may come with a nominal stipend. The availability and amount of the stipend depends on the availability of funding.

Application Instructions:
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter (required) by email to Robin Herskowitz, Founder by noon on August 25, 2013 at robin@healthstartfoundation.org. Two references required. Candidates must be able to begin work no later than September 3 and they must be able to participate in weekly Friday staff meetings from 2:30p -4p.  Phone: 512-782-4355, Fax: 877-585-6513

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Refugee Services of Texas Internships Available – Deadline 8/30

Refugee Services of Texas, Inc. is a not-for-profit social service agency guided by principles of human compassion and dignity committed to providing quality services for refugees, asylees, and victims of trafficking. The five RST offices throughout the state provide resettlement services and programs designed for the local communities we serve. Working in partnership with faith-based communities, businesses and volunteers, we provide our clients with resources, referrals, education and guidance to ensure their successful and self-sufficient lives in Texas.

Marketing/PR Intern
Outreach and communications are both important aspects of establishing presence within a community. RST has been working on rebranding and redirecting our marketing efforts over the past year, and you can help us continue those efforts. This position will include: establishing our social media presence, outreach, branding, marketing materials, and writing stories/taking photos for our new website.

Communications/Event Planning Intern
The Communications Intern will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience in the field of nonprofit communications and outreach.  The position will develop outreach materials to disseminate via email and social media as well as write compelling stories and/or articles for the agency’s website. The position will fill a critical and supportive role in assisting the office as it prepares for a fundraiser through identifying volunteers, soliciting sponsors and vendors, tracking donations, and other fundraiser duties as needed.  The Communications Intern will be under the direct supervision of the Area Director and will work closely with the program managers and volunteer coordinator on a full- or part-time basis.

Volunteer and Interpreter Coordination
Volunteers play an integral role in supporting the mission of RST through their many efforts. This position would be supporting the volunteer coordinator through: development of volunteer materials, planning volunteer appreciation, and volunteer outreach. RST also relies on interpreter support for all of our programs. This position would be helping to coordinate this system and making it more efficient and manageable for the office as a whole. You will not only be scheduling and managing interpreters but reaching out to communities within Austin who speak needed languages and building our interpreter base. This is an excellent opportunity for someone to learn more about the administrative aspects of non-profits.

Nonprofit Operations Intern
Refugee Services of Texas, Inc. is seeking a reliable, hard-working intern to join its dynamic team either full or part-time in its Austin office. Through the internship, the intern will gain broad experience in the non-profit sector and local operations of the organization. As a refugee resettlement agency, cross-communication skills will grow immensely as the intern interacts with individuals and families from various countries and with diverse language abilities. The intern will expand his/her skills in projects and activities that are vital to any non-profit, such as donation management, outreach initiatives, data entry, filing, and compliance management. The intern must have proficient computer skills including Microsoft Excel, and fluency in Spanish is preferred.

Employment Intern
Our employment program helps refugees build their resumes, apply for jobs, and trains them in American job etiquette. The intern will help with in-takes to the program, filling out applications for clients, and take on one or two case managements for themselves. The Employment Supervisor is seeking a part-time intern for the fall.

Contact Information
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter to austin@refugeeservicesoftexas.org stating the position that they are applying for. The deadline for all of the positions is August 30th. Interns will start as soon as the semester begins. All of the internships are offered on a part-time basis with the possibility of full-time.

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LLILAS Seeks Fall Interns with Digital Media Skills – 8/30 Deadline

The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), a multidisciplinary institute that integrates several centers and programs devoted to promote interest in the region, is the oldest Latin American Studies program in the United States and one of the best worldwide.

LLILAS is currently recruiting interns who are interested in digital arts and media for the Fall 2012 semester. The internship is open to undergraduate students enrolled in any UT college or school who may be interested in pursuing graduate degrees or working on Latin American issues and/or digital arts and media. Interns must be available to work about 6-10 hours a week during the semester. Several positions are available; please apply as soon as possible.

Multimedia and Video Production
This internship position will help us to enhance our multimedia resources (videos and audio podcasts), and interns will gain the opportunity to showcase their work through our website and social media outlets. Interns will be in charge of filming our events and producing a series of short clips featuring our scholarly activities, including interviews with faculty, visiting professors, or students, highlights of public programs, etc.
Duties include filming and video production (video and/or audio editing, preparation of graphics, titles, translation subtitles, music, and photos) plus audio podcast editing and mixing. Hours are flexible, but applicants should be willing to work during some evenings. Candidates should have access to all the necessary equipment including cameras, mikes, and appropriate software. Applicants should submit a cover letter, résumé, and online portfolio with sample of videos produced. To see samples of videos produced by our students, visit 2012 Fulbright Visiting Professor in Environmental Sciences and Policy and Haiti: Between Destruction and Hope.

Website Development for Faculty Pages
Are you interested in helping our faculty members showcase their work more effectively? Do you have experience with basic web development? This could be the position for you. We are seeking interns who can work closely with Latin Americanist faculty to design their non-UT-affiliated web pages. Here faculty can publish information about their research, publications, teaching, and social media activities. Depending on faculty needs, the assignments may involve working with free basic web templates or developing more sophisticated web designs. Once the design is completed, interns should be able to train faculty to update their page content. In addition to a cover letter and résumé, applicants should show proof of their web development experience by submitting an online portfolio. To see a sample developed by a former LLILAS intern, visit the page of Dr. Leticia Marteleto.

Photography
We are recruiting students who are passionate about photography. The intern would provide photographic coverage of selected LLILAS public events and other LLILAS programs as needed. This internship represents a great opportunity for broadening your experience: selected photos can be posted on our website and our social media sites or used in our publications (work will be credited). Successful candidates should have experience taking high-resolution digital photographs and should have access to a high-quality digital camera. Access to other photographic equipment, such as a variety of lenses, tripod, and flash, is a plus. The candidate should also have basic experience with photo editing. Hours are flexible, but applicants should be willing to work during some evenings.

Digital Archives
AILLA is a digital archive of recordings, texts, and other data in or about indigenous languages of Latin America. The heart of the collection is recordings, both audio and video, in a wide range of genres such as narratives, chants, oration, conversations, songs, and more. Many recordings are transcribed and translated into Spanish, English or Portuguese.
Interns will process and catalog linguistic and anthropological data and to archive these data at AILLA. The multi-media data (texts, audio recordings, video recordings) might be in digital or analog format, or a combination of the two. When working with analog media, interns will learn to create digital files for archiving. As part of the language archiving process, interns learn about language documentation, data analysis and synthesis, data preservation, and best-practices for research record-keeping. Applicants must be able to read, write and understand spoken Spanish, and have basic computer skills. Students from any field are welcome to work on this project, though it may be of particular interest to students in linguistics, anthropology.

To apply: Please e-mail all application materials to Paloma Diaz by August 30, 2013 (early applications encouraged). The application package should include: (1) a résumé indicating language and computer skills; (2) a cover letter stating why you are interested in the position or positions (including research topics or disciplines of interest); (3) information about your fall schedule and available hours; and (4) the name and contact information of at least two UT faculty members or previous employers who are willing to provide us with references. Please see above internship position descriptions for additional application instructions.