Internship

November 22, 2021, Filed Under: Internship

Internship with the Children’s Defense Fund Texas – Spring 2022

Overview

Through the years, CDF-Texas has been honored to welcome dozens of gifted college and graduate-level students as interns to advance our mission to ensure children across Texas a Healthy Start, a Safe Start, a Fair Start, a Head Start and a Moral Start to life.

We are proud to house an intentional, structured internship program where students get firsthand experience with professional advocacy, affecting policy change, working with young people, and more, while being connected with one of the most powerful networks in the nonprofit world. Interns are vital to CDF-Texas’s work, and we are pleased to play a role in supporting the next generation of change-makers.

Our Internships

For spring 2022, we are thrilled to offer the following internship:

Immigration Policy Internship

This internship is based in Austin (remote during the pandemic) and provides general support to the CDF-TX Immigration team. The intern works between 10 to 20 hours/week and provides substantive research, compiles reports, monitors legislative committees, and helps with the execution of advocacy-related activities, including story collection, public education, legislator visits, legislative briefings, special event planning, and social media work.

For more information, please view the full Immigration Policy Internship Position Description.

Internship Details

Timeframe: Spring term, Mid-January through Mid-May
Compensation: $15/hour for up to 20 hours/week
Deadlines: Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis, with a final deadline of December 15 at 11:59pm.
Location: All internships will be virtual through spring 2022.

Application Components

To apply, please visit our website. You’ll be asked to submit the following:
- Application form
- Resume
- Cover letter
- Finalists will be asked to interview and submit a professional writing sample.

November 22, 2021, Filed Under: Internship

Internships with West Chelsea Contemporary – Spring & Summer 2022

About West Chelsea Contemporary

West Chelsea Contemporary (WCC) is the premier contemporary art gallery in Austin, TX, offering world-class art in a dynamic, interactive setting. We create museum-scale exhibitions and WOW experiences that make incredible art accessible to both seasoned and aspiring collectors. We are passionate about the life enhancing value of art for our collectors, our artists, our team, and our community.

WCC is seeking highly motivated, proactive interns with a passion to learn about the world of modern and contemporary art. Interns should be prepared to work in a fast-paced team environment and will finish the internship having made impactful contributions to gallery projects.

The benefits to the intern are exciting and important. They include working with a great team of art professionals who care deeply about producing quality work, learning the ins and outs of art gallery and exhibition management, and helping produce an incredible art experience for the Austin contemporary art collector community.

Duties and Responsibilities (All Interns)

Provide project support to gallery executives, including but not limited to research, documentation, and presentation
Support for exhibits, opening receptions, educational programs, special events, and private rentals
Rotates through our divisions of responsibility and provides ideas to grow and improve the business.
Accepts designated, business-focus projects to research, propose ideas and solutions, and present a final project during the internship.

Internship Hours

Fall/Spring Internships: 10-15 hours per week
Summer Internships: ~ 30 hours per week
Internships are in-person and unpaid (but may be taken for academic credit)

Requirements

Excellent communication skills
Attention to detail
Ability to work independently and see tasks through to completion
A strong interest in fine art.

To Apply:

Internship candidates must apply through the following application form: https://forms.gle/WDatmbEHYsAiJtSBA

Please contact Carmel Evangelista (Marketing Director) at carmel@wcc.art with any questions about the WCC Internship program.

Internship Divisions:

Marketing

Social Media:
- Assist in creating and scheduling social media content according to the marketing editorial and social media content calendar, under the direction of the marketing director
- Conduct research with the goal of gathering data to form actionable insights that help improve the gallery’s social media presence
- Engage with followers and potential customers by communicating and answering frequently asked questions through the company’s social pages
Content Marketing:
- Contribute to writing and editing evergreen marketing content, including but not limited to blog posts, website landing pages, and email newsletters, under the direction of the marketing director
- Conduct research with the goal of providing recommendations to improve the gallery’s website content and search engine performance.
- Keep gallery web properties and pages technically optimized for SEO; Conduct keyword and category research to support efforts.
- Experience with WordPress and MailChimp a huge plus

Curation / Acquisitions

Curation (reports to Director of Curation & Acquisitions):
- Assist with layout of exhibitions and art fair booths through the artplacer platform
- Research on artists and artworks in our collection that will be added to our artwork database
- Sending out catalogs to artists for each exhibition
- Looking to become a curator? This internship will teach you the varying ways artworks are researched/selected for shows
Acquisitions (reports to Director of Curation & Acquisitions):
- Secondary market research including auctions and private sales
- Maintaining the auction tracker spreadsheet that covers top 4 auction houses (Sothebys, Christies, Phillips, Bonhams) and others
- Building a glossary of auction terms
- Looking for a career in auctions? This internship will build your vocabulary and prepare you to apply for roles at a top auction house
Exhibitions & Events (reports to Exhibitions & Events Manager):
- Assist in designing the visual activations for each show
- Work with the EEM to create engaging environments for all programming
- Event coordination with vendors under direction of the EEM
- Conceptualizing wall designs to painted/applied underneath artworks for each show
- Interested in a career in exhibition planning or events management? This internship will give you the opportunity to be instrumental in their creation/execution

Gallery Director Intern

Gallery Director Support
- Daily check-ins with the Gallery Director for organizational, curatorial, and research support
- 1:1 development about a career in contemporary art
- Special project assignments
Art Market Research
- Researching current events in the contemporary art market for Austin & Internationally
- Researching current artists in our collection, auction records, exhibitions, and literature.
Client Relationship Support
- Supporting our client database for upcoming exhibitions, artist talks, and RSVP management
Data Entry
- Gallery mailing list sign-ups, artist fact sheets, and graphics/copy for email marketing
Gallery Operations
- Maintaining gallery signage, art labels, and exhibition layout
- Client file management and organization
- Supplies and restocking
- Back of house operations
Exhibitions & Events
- Attendance management, check ins, and real-time exhibition opening support
- Run of show support
- Templates/copy design for client-facing marketing from the sales team

November 11, 2021, Filed Under: Internship

The Barbara Harlow Internship in Human Rights & Social Justice – Spring 2022

The Barbara Harlow Internship in Human Rights & Social Justice honors the life and work of Barbara Harlow (1948-2017), who was the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at the University of Texas. She was a committed colleague, friend, and mentor to countless students, activists, and intellectuals. As a collaboration between the Rapoport Center and the Bridging Disciplines Programs (BDP), the internship aims to introduce BDP students to Harlow’s scholarship and activism, and to encourage them to imagine future trajectories for her work.

This internship is chosen to honor Barbara Harlow because it was largely through her efforts that the Rapoport Center and the BDP partnered to create the Human Rights & Social Justice BDP certificate in 2009. Harlow chaired the faculty panel for the certificate from its inception until 2017. While the internship is open to all BDP students, regardless of which certificate they are pursuing, it is meant for students who are working on issues of social justice.

Barbara Harlow’s intellectual praxis crossed continents and encompassed diverse agendas: resistance, translation, political engagement and solidarity, human rights, and pedagogy. She contributed greatly to the University of Texas at Austin, not only through the English department, the Rapoport Center, and the BDP, but through several area studies programs and centers, including African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Studies. To learn more about her life and work, please visit the Rapoport Center’s tribute page and the website for our 2017 conference, Barbara Harlow: The Sequel.

Fall, spring, and summer internships are available for undergraduates who are interested in:

Working on human rights and social justice research and advocacy projects
Learning how an academic center functions
Engaging in human rights scholarship
Gaining practical experience
Collaborating with faculty, staff, and students

The internship is made possible by seed money that Harlow gifted to the Rapoport Center and the BDP. Though the internship is similar to the Rapoport Center’s standard undergraduate internship, it offers a higher stipend and requires three additional components:

In the cover letter, students should reflect (in one paragraph) on how Harlow’s scholarship and activism might influence their work with the Rapoport Center and their pursuit of human rights and social justice more broadly.
During the internship, each recipient will write a piece for our Human Rights Commentary page, which either engages directly with Harlow’s work or uses her work as a lens through which to engage critically with a topic.
After the internship, each recipient will create a poster to reflect on the internship, taking into account Harlow’s impact on their experience, and present it at the Annual BDP poster session in April. (Fall and Summer interns will submit at the end of their respective term, and then present in April.)

Interns play an important role at the Rapoport Center and support various initiatives depending on their background, interest, and the needs of the Center. Primary duties include:

Assisting with research and advocacy projects
Supporting the coordination and publicity of events and programs
Expanding the Center’s social media outreach
Providing administrative support for Center programs
Contributing written work for press releases, website, and Annual Review publications
Serving as liaison to UT undergraduate community and helping develop Center’s undergraduate outreach
Writing and editing articles, designing layout, and working extensively with the software program InDesign for the Center’s Annual Review publication
Assisting Co-Directors, Assistant Director, Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Rights Scholars, graduate students, and affiliated faculty with other projects and tasks as assigned

Selected interns should be available at least 10 hours per week during the semester, and 20 hours per week during the summer. Depending on funding, between one and three internships will be offered per year. Students who are not selected for the Barbara Harlow Internship may be considered for our standard undergraduate internship.

We are pleased to honor Harlow’s legacy in this way, and we look forward to continuing our support of undergraduate students in her name. Please scroll down for application information.

Former Recipients

Summer 2021: Angelina Ramirez

Spring 2021: Sanika Nayak

Summer 2020: Jacob Blas

Spring 2020: Bianca (Nieves) Vázquez

Fall 2019: Carol-Armelle Ze-Noah

Spring 2019: Carlos Pinon

Fall 2018: Christina Cho

Summer 2018: Mehdia Mrabet

Spring 2018: Xavier Durham

Read Xavier’s Human Rights Commentary, titled “Marielle Franco and the Brazilian Necropolis: Assassination and After Lives”

Please note: This internship is only open to BDP students. If you are not a BDP student, please consider our standard undergraduate internship.

Application

The internship will begin on January 18, 2022 and will run until the end of the Spring 2022 semester.

Preferred Qualifications & Interests

For Spring 2022, we are particularly interested in interns who can help us with continued project-related follow-up to our 2021 Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality.” The project focuses on exploring pressing questions around the future of work addressing diverse themes such as care work, essential work, automation, and the global dimensions of worker precarity.

Projects may include the following:

Maintaining the website for the Rapoport Center’s Pop-Up Institute “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” and other project-related follow-up.
Engage in human rights research and writing
Expand the Center’s social media outreach
Serve as liaison to UT undergraduate community and help develop Center’s undergraduate outreach

Required Qualifications

Commitment to working on issues of human rights and justice
Excellent writing and editing ability
Individual initiative and flexibility
Strong organizational and time management skills
Professional demeanor

The following qualifications may be preferred in some candidates:

Priority:

Website development experience (including the curation and organization of public-facing digital material)
Demonstrated expertise with videography, podcasts, and/or webisode production
Demonstrated expertise with publication and graphic design software (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite)
Demonstrated interest in themes such as care work, essential work, automation, and the global dimensions of worker precarity

Also:

Proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese
Experience with scholarly research and editing
Journalism experience

How to Apply

Qualified students should submit the following items through our online application system.

Cover letter
State why you are interested in the position; demonstrate basic knowledge of our programs and activities. Reflect (in one paragraph) on how Barbara Harlow’s scholarship and activism might influence your work with the Rapoport Center and your pursuit of human rights and social justice more broadly.
CV/Resume
Indicate any relevant skills and foreign language proficiency
Transcript
Unofficial is acceptable; an official copy can be mailed or emailed if needed, to arrive by the application due date
List of three references
At least two must be UT faculty; include name, title, and contact information; full letters not required
Writing sample
3-5 pages; does not need to relate directly to human rights, although that is preferable

Deadline

November 19, 2021

Contact

Contact Rapoport Center Administrative Associate at sabrina.barton@austin.utexas.edu