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July 20, 2020, Filed Under: Internship, Uncategorized

Remote Internships Available with Refugee Services of Texas

OUR MISSION

Guided by the principles of human compassion and dignity, Refugee Services of Texas welcomes refugees, immigrants, and other displaced peoples and supports them in integrating and thriving in their new communities.

WE WORK ACROSS TEXAS

Founded in 1978, Refugee Services of Texas (RST) is a social-service agency dedicated to providing assistance to refugees and other displaced persons fleeing persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group – as well as to the communities that welcome them. RST provides services to hundreds of refugees, asylees, survivors of human trafficking, and related vulnerable populations from over 30 different countries of origin each year. Originating in Dallas, RST now has service centers in Amarillo, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and Rio Grande Valley.

MARKING & FUNDRASING INTERNSHIP – FALL 2020

RST’s development team, including development interns, is responsible for raising support, awareness and funding for the agency and those we serve through the creation of meaningful, mission-focused content. Internships are meant to be individualized, challenging, and rewarding.

Essential skills:

Demonstrated interest in issues pertaining to refugees, human trafficking, displaced populations, and/or human rights;
Positive attitude;
Ability to work as a team, and also to take initiative by generating new ideas and running with them;
Great communication skills, including ability to give and receive constructive feedback; and
Attention to detail.

After developing foundational knowledge on relevant immigration and human rights issues, development interns may assist RST staff members in the following areas:

Assist with the development of the agency-wide Speakers Bureau by conducting interviews, organizing into narratives able to be used for marketing, and identifying prospective Speakers Bureau members;
Contribute to virtual event planning through seeking sponsorships and raffle prizes from corporations, foundations and community organizations;
Promote events by identifying free and low-cost advertising outlets and posting accordingly;
Facilitate the creation of community partnerships through prospecting potential partners and connecting relevant team members; and
Gather information and make recommendations related to RST’s monitoring and evaluation practices.

Additional information:

We expect interns to work 10 – 15 hours a week, but we are flexible.
Internships are unpaid.
To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume to Ashley Faye, RST Development Director, at afaye@rstx.org.

July 14, 2020, Filed Under: Internship, Uncategorized

Internships Available at the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center

About the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center

We are a biological resource collection of about one million non-living, dried plant specimens that document plant diversity. Our coverage is global, but our emphasis is on the southern U.S. and Mexico. Our oldest specimens date back to the 1760s and we annually accession 8000-10000 new ones. These specimens act as documentation for scientific studies by faculty, students, biologists at other agencies and organizations, and citizen scientists. They also are the starting point for various kinds of collections-based research. Note that this kind of collection has a very minimal public exhibit component and mostly serves to support research and education opportunities for its community. For more information, please visit https://biodiversity.utexas.edu/collections/plants.

Internship Details

Interns learn the various tasks involved in running our facility, including specimen handling and preparation, records-keeping, shipping and receiving, label transcription into our database, and imaging, among other things. Then the internship focuses on a specific activity (project) for the remainder of the semester.

We would expect 10-12 hours per week to total about 160 hours for the semester.

We can pay our students $9.50/hour ($9.90 for seniors).

The internship does not require prerequisite classes in biology (or even a biology major), but it does require attention to detail and the ability to perform repetitive tasks accurately.

COVID-19 Information

It should be noted that this internship has to be in-person and cannot be performed remotely because of the hands-on nature of the activities. To that extent, scheduling will be needed to minimize the number of persons in our facility at any given time during the pandemic.

Application Process

To apply, please email your resume to Dr. George Yatskievych, the Center Curator, at george.yatskievych@austin.utexas.edu.

If this is your first employment at UT Austin, new employee paperwork involves an I-9 certification. This requires an in-person visit to the Office of Human Resources to submit your citizenship or visa documents. Intern must also agree to a standard background check.