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, Filed Under: Research

Pediatric Coping & Language Lab seeks Research Assistants

Pediatric Coping & Language Lab

Undergraduate Research Assistant Position for Community-based study

Brief overview of the research study: This community-based participatory research study seeks to collaborate with both members of the Latino community in Austin as well as those who serve the Latino community, to gain a better sense of stressors currently impacting Latino teens. This research will then inform later intervention utilizing community member feedback and partnership. 

Primary role/responsibilities:

  • Transcribing qualitative interviews (both English and Spanish interviews).
  • Potentially conducting qualitative interviews with community members within the surrounding Latino community.
  • Assisting with outreach in the Latino community.
  • One year minimum commitment and can work a minimum of 8 hours a week, with occasional weekend availability.

Required qualifications:

  • Must have interest in gaining experience in psychology/community-based research.
  • Minimum 3.0 GPA and sophomore standing.
  • Familiarity with Excel.
  • Must be highly motivated and a self-starter.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Proficiency in spoken and written Spanish
  • Experience working with Latino teens/families
  • Familiarity with qualitative research
  • Major in psychology, social work, or related field

If interested, please submit cover letter with relevant experiences and how this project relates to your interest/future goals. Also feel free to contact if you have any questions.

**Course credit available**

Contact Lauren Smith: laurentsmith@utexas.edu

 

, Filed Under: Internship

Internship Opportunities with Home Makers

 

Company:

Home Makers

Location:

Austin, TX

Reports To:

CEO

About the Company:

We are Home Makers, an Austin-based startup company that helps people save time and effort with all of their household chores and upkeep tasks.

Our platform simplifies and expedites the process of booking a variety of home upkeep and convenience services and drives more business to local professionals and establishments.

Position:

Marketing Intern

Description:

We’re seeking an engaged, ambitious learner with a strong work ethic to dive into all things Marketing and Market Research, providing support to and learning directly from the CEO. This is a rare opportunity to apply your creative and problem solving abilities to 1) conduct market research to learn directly about and from potential consumers, and 2) conceptualize, plan, and execute your own guerrilla marketing campaign for a real B2C brand and service.

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with the necessary tenacity to get things done, including figuring out how to get those things done, regardless of the circumstances.

While the hours may be flexible, a commitment of at least 10 hours per week for a minimum of 12 weeks is desired.

If you have interest in entrepreneurship, (real, unglamorized) startup culture, small business operations, or any form of highly autonomous employment, this is a great opportunity to learn from professionals that have experience with a multitude of facets thereof.

Responsibilities

  • Design Instrument or Method for Soliciting Consumer Input and Conducting Market Research
  • Developing and Managing a Guerrilla Marketing Campaign – both to promote conversion and to

    perpetually learn about and from consumers

  • Design and Production of Marketing Resources and Collateral for the Marketing Campaign
  • Execution of the Marketing Campaign
  • Meeting Attendance (including active participation)
  • Wearing of Various Hats as Fitted by the CEO
  • Completion of additional, meaningful Independent Project(s) and/or Independent Research as Proposed

    by the Intern and Approved By the CEO

Required Qualifications:

  • Resolute Initiative and Hustle
  • Can-Do Disposition
  • Genuine Interest in Learning and Application of Learning

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Holding or Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Marketing or Any Relevant Field

• Excellent Organization, Communication, and Computer Skills (MS Office, Gmail, etc.)

Compensation:

This internship is unpaid and is intended as a hands-on educational opportunity. This internship will enable the successful candidate to obtain valuable, specialized learning and work experience in a broad range of disciplines within Marketing.

The internship may satisfy requirements for earning college credit dependent upon the specific college’s requirements and determined on a case-by-case basis.

The internship may result in a strong employment reference and recommendation and/or job offer, though neither is in any way guaranteed.

To Apply:

Please submit a resume to hr@tryhomemakers.com along with a letter of interest, including specific reasons you are interested in the opportunity.

Position:

Operations Intern

Description:

We’re seeking an engaged, ambitious learner with a strong work ethic to dive into all things Operations and Administration, providing support to and learning directly from the CEO. This is a rare opportunity for involvement with a broad breadth of roles, duties, and domains in an early startup environment.

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with the necessary tenacity to get things done, including figuring out how to get those things done, regardless of the circumstances.

While the hours may be flexible, a commitment of at least 10 hours per week for a minimum of 12 weeks is desired.

If you have interest in entrepreneurship, (real, unglamorized) startup culture, small business operations, or any form of highly autonomous employment, this is a great opportunity to learn from professionals that have experience with a multitude of facets thereof.

Responsibilities

• Operations and Logistics
  • Business Development and Account Management
  • Marketing Execution
  • Meeting Attendance (including active participation)
  • Wearing of Various Hats as Fitted by the CEO
  • Completion of additional, meaningful Independent Project(s) and/or Independent Research as Proposed

    by the Intern and Approved By the CEO

Required Qualifications:

  • Resolute Initiative and Hustle
  • Can-Do Disposition
  • Genuine Interest in Learning and Application of Learning

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Holding or Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business Administration or Any Relevant Field

• Excellent Organization, Communication, and Computer Skills (MS Office, Gmail, etc.)

Compensation:

This internship is unpaid and is intended as a hands-on educational opportunity. This internship will enable the successful candidate to obtain valuable, specialized learning and work experience in a broad range of disciplines within Operations and Administration.

The internship may satisfy requirements for earning college credit dependent upon the specific college’s requirements and determined on a case-by-case basis.

The internship may result in a strong employment reference and recommendation and/or job offer, though neither is in any way guaranteed.

To Apply:

Please submit a resume to hr@tryhomemakers.com along with a letter of interest, including specific reasons you are interested in the opportunity.

Position:

Design Intern

Description:

We’re seeking an engaged, ambitious learner with a strong work ethic to dive into all things design, providing support to and learning directly from the CTO. This is a rare opportunity to explore your interest in visual/graphic, UX, and/or UI design and to work on a real, consumer-facing product.

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with the necessary tenacity to get things done, including figuring out how to get those things done, regardless of the circumstances.

While the hours may be flexible, a commitment of at least 10 hours per week for a minimum of 12 weeks is desired.

If you have interest in entrepreneurship, (real, unglamorized) startup culture, small business operations, or any form of highly autonomous employment, this is a great opportunity to learn from professionals that have experience with a multitude of facets thereof.

Responsibilities
• Art Direction

  • Concept Development
  • Design Execution (Graphic and Web)
  • Meeting Attendance (including active participation)
  • Wearing of Various Hats as Fitted by the CEO
  • Completion of additional, meaningful Independent Project(s) and/or Independent Research as Proposed

    by the Intern and Approved By the CEO

Required Qualifications:

  • Resolute Initiative and Hustle
  • Can-Do Disposition
  • Genuine Interest in Learning and Application of Learning

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Holding or Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Any Design Related Field

• Excellent Organization, Communication, and Computer Skills (MS Office, Gmail, etc.)

Compensation:

This internship is unpaid and is intended as a hands-on educational opportunity. This internship will enable the successful candidate to obtain valuable, specialized learning and work experience in a broad range of disciplines within Design.

The internship may satisfy requirements for earning college credit dependent upon the specific college’s requirements and determined on a case-by-case basis.

The internship may result in a strong employment reference and recommendation and/or job offer, though neither is in any way guaranteed.

To Apply:

Please submit a resume to hr@tryhomemakers.com along with a letter of interest, including specific reasons you are interested in the opportunity.

Thanks! We look forward to hearing from you!

, Filed Under: Internship

Internships with Charity Charge

Social Media Internship with Charity Charge

Making a positive impact is deeply rooted in the DNA of our company. Charity Charge is a Public Benefit Corporation, meaning we pledged to meet higher standards of corporate purpose, sustainability, transparency and accountability.

Our mission is to help people give back in a simple, easy, everyday way, to charities of THEIR choice. We are creating a credit card that donates the reward points

to any registered 501(c)(3) charity, religious organization and K-12 school in the United States. Give back with your cash back.

Last South by Southwest, IBM

selected Charity Charge as one of the top five social impact startups in the US. Watch our pitch video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM8DcvJUA1w

We are a startup, we are young & fun and are putting a positive dent in the universe which is priceless.

Join us!

The social media intern (will not be treated like an intern), should be entrepreneurial, honest, self motivated, organized and reliable.  The primary focus wouldbe to manage the content distribution for one or more social channels.  A secondary component of the role would be using our social handles to get into conversations which exist outside our community.

Manage Content

– Be the voice of Charity Charge. Help cultivate a community through our topics and messaging

– Find news and articles that are relevant and are aligned with Charity Charge.  This would include but is not limited to topics like Philanthropy, Fundraising,

Charities, Socially Responsible Companies, 1 for 1 Companies, etc.

– Build and schedule content distribution for your assigned channel(s)

Community Management

– Engage with community, answering questions, and showing attention to all mentions

– Explore ideas for how to engage and expand the community through campaigns or posts with a request for action

Social Listening & Outreach

– Engage with users and companies outside of our community.  Outside of our own channels, and outside of people mentioning Charity Charge, there are conversations

that we need to be in.

– The social media intern will need to explore keywords and hashtags to discover relevant discussions to be a part of.

If interested in joining Charity Charge email:

stephen@charitychargecard.com

Follow us @gocharitycharge

Charitychargecard.com

PR Internship with Charity Charge

Making a positive impact is deeply rooted in the DNA of our company. Charity Charge is a Public Benefit Corporation, meaning we pledged to meet higher standards of corporate purpose, sustainability, transparency and accountability.

Our mission is to help people give back in a simple, easy, everyday way, to charities of THEIR choice. We are creating a credit card that donates the reward points to any registered 501(c)(3) charity, religious organization and K-12 school in the United States. Give back with your cash back.

Last South by Southwest, IBM

selected Charity Charge as one of the top five social impact startups in the US. Watch our pitch video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM8DcvJUA1w

We are a startup, we are young & fun and are putting a positive dent in the universe which is priceless.

Join us!

The public relations intern (will not be treated like an intern), should be entrepreneurial,

honest, self motivated, organized and reliable.

Duties include: help with business development to define, build, and manage the alliance program and outreach

PR + Media Outreach

– Find relative key influencers and bloggers on web and document

– Find and document key media and publishers contact information

– Reach out to the press and influencers along with a follow up

– Write press releases

Content

– Help create content strategy and editorial calendar for company blog

– Create a content repository for ideas concerning blog posts and social assets  

Business Development

– Identify top prospects (Non profits, for profit social impact companies)

– Create plan of action for strategic alliance

– Compile contact information and setup initial key alliance meetings

– Follow-up with alliance partners to execute respective plan of actions

If interested in joining Charity Charge email:

stephen@charitychargecard.com

Follow us @gocharitycharge

Charitychargecard.com

Digital Media & Content Strategy Internship with Charity Charge

Making a positive impact is deeply rooted in the DNA of our company. Charity Charge is a Public Benefit Corporation, meaning we pledged to meet higher standards of corporate purpose, sustainability, transparency and accountability.

Our mission is to help people give back in a simple, easy, everyday way, to charities of THEIR choice. We are creating a credit card that donates the reward points to any registered 501(c)(3) charity, religious organization and K-12 school in the United States. Give back with your cash back.

Last South by Southwest, IBM

selected Charity Charge as one of the top five social impact startups in the US. Watch our pitch video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM8DcvJUA1w

We are a startup, we are young & fun and are putting a positive dent in the universe which is priceless.

Join us!

The content strategy intern (will not be treated like an intern), should be entrepreneurial, honest, self motivated, organized and reliable.  The primary focus would be to create a content strategy for online company assets such as blog and social properties.  A secondary component of the role is would be finding new topics to write about and attracting guest bloggers.

Content Discovery

– Help create content strategy and editorial calendar for company blog

– Create a content repository for ideas concerning blog posts and social assets  

– Find news and articles that are relevant and are aligned with Charity Charge.  This would include but is not limited to topics like Philanthropy, Fundraising,

Charities, Socially Responsible Companies, 1 for 1 Companies, etc.

Innovation

– Explore new ways to reach out and appeal to the Charity Charge community through innovative

content

– Examples of future projects would include a weekly show hosted on YouTube or Google Hangout,

guest interviews, etc.

– Find and manage relationships with guest bloggers who align with our messaging

– Create e-mail newsletter subscription list

– Create e-mail newsletter copy and layout

If interested in joining Charity Charge email:

stephen@charitychargecard.com

Follow us @gocharitycharge

Charitychargecard.com