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Internships Available with Lilly & Company

About Lilly & Company: Lilly & Company is a Republican grassroots political consulting firm with offices in Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Lilly & Company is headquartered in Austin and has a nationally known reputation of providing candidates with unprecedented resources and knowledge from the metropolitan areas of Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio to the more rural areas of East Texas, the High Plains, West Texas, and the Valley.

Internship Title: Account Assistant

Essential Job Responsibilities:

  • Assist President, Directors, and Account Executives with various fundraising, grassroots, and consulting projects.
  • Administrative duties include answering phones, filing, and other inter-office tasks.
  • Data-entry and database management.
  • Interaction and opportunities to work on both legislative and political agendas.
  • Event planning and facilitation.
  • Opportunity to interact and aid multiple statewide and Congressional elected officials and their campaigns.

Internship Requirements:

  • Professional attitude and appearance.
  • Organized leader, reliable, and advanced interpersonal skills a must.
  • Proficient in Windows, Office XP, and other programs. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel is beneficial but not mandatory.
  • Student working towards a Bachelors Degree in Communications, Government/Political Science, Business or related field.

Internship Location: This is an in-person internship with positions available in Austin, Dallas & Houston.

Hours: Flexible.

Compensation: Position is paid.

To apply: Please send resume and references (if available) to Vera Minter, vera@lillyandcompany.com

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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.

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Internships Available with E4 Youth

About E4 Youth

E4 Youth (https://e4youth.org/) uses the arts, sciences, and technology to help youth find and pursue pathways to successful careers in the creative economy through hands-on-training, active mentorship, and exposure to real world opportunities.

Internship Details & Application Process

Digital Apprentice E4 Youth provides professional level training and employment opportunities. As a Digital Apprentice you can work on your own creative projects, participate in the Austin Digital Heritage Project with our Digital Docents or train to lead one of our enrichment clubs as a Creative Mentor. As your portfolio improves, earn job shadowing, internship and employment opportunities with E4 Youth and its industry partners throughout the creative tech sectors.

Responsibilities:

• Attend weekly meetings with Digital Docents, Creative Mentors, and E4 Youth staff to report on their content development progress, improve their leadership skills, do career mapping, and develop their personal portfolios.

• Work to develop their creative and leadership skills so that they can advance to become a Creative Mentor and/or Digital Docents as openings become available.

• Use creative and technical skills in areas like immersive media production, audio/video production, visual design, journalism, photography, coding, web/application development, music composition and/or production, media production, writing, public speaking, and event planning to support E4VA.

• Collect and curate oral histories in the local community, creating content for the E4 Youth Virtual Archive.

• Music Legacy ATX students also participate in monthly mentor led workshops.

Unpaid position 10 hours a week that can lead to a paid position as a Digital Docent and/or Creative Mentor earning $12 – $20 an hour working part-time.

Interested applicants can apply at https://e4youth.org/digital-apprentice/.

Once we receive your application, we will invite you to an online group orientation so that you can learn more about E4 Youth and we can learn more about you. Then we will conduct a short interview with you via Google Meet to solidify your acceptance into our Creative Leadership Academy as a Digital Apprentice.

E4 Youth & COVID-19

We are currently planning to conduct our program remotely at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year because of the COVID-19 health crises. However, depending on how the universities and public schools respond will depend on whether or not we meet in person. Before the pandemic, we were meeting at the University of Texas Campus in the Jesse H. Jones building, and sometimes at Capital Factory, which is located in downtown Austin. Your safety is our priority so we will make those decisions as we move forward in the new school year.