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Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice Fall Internships

Undergraduate interns bring excitement and expanded capabilities to the Rapoport Center. Fall, spring, and summer internships are available for undergraduates who are interested in:

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

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 human rights 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 (through the Human Rights Student Advisory Council) and helping develop Center’s undergraduate outreach
  • Assisting Co-Directors, Assistant Director, Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Rights Scholars, graduate students, and affiliated faculty with other projects and tasks as assigned

This is an unpaid internship. Selected interns should be available at least 10 hours per week during the semester, and 15-20 hours per week during the summer.

View our current interns

Application

Required Qualifications

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

The following qualifications may be preferred in some candidates:

  • Demonstrated experience with publication, design, and website software (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite)
  • Proficiency in a foreign language
  • Experience with scholarly research and editing
  • Journalism experience

How to Apply

Qualified students should submit the following items individually in PDF format via email (subject: Undergraduate Internship) to humanrights@law.utexas.edu:

  • Cover letter (state why you are interested in the position; demonstrate basic knowledge of our programs and activities)
  • CV/Resume (indicate any relevant skills and foreign language proficiency)
  • Transcript (unofficial is acceptable; an official copy can be mailed 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)
  • Writing sample (3-5 pages; does not need to relate directly to human rights, although that is preferable)

Deadline

August 8, 2016

Contact

Contact us at humanrights@law.utexas.edu or 512-232-4857

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Outside the Box Dropout Prevention Fall Internships

Outside the Box Dropout Prevention, a charitable 501(c)(3) formed for the purpose of reducing Austin’s dropout rate, welcomes applicants for intern positions.

Minimum requirements:

Must be currently enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin An overall GPA of 2.85 or higher
Must be able to commit until the end of the semester project Bilingual (Spanish) preferred, but not required

Job Responsibilities:

Conduct one-to-one tutoring and mentoring to students in grades, K-10

Meet with students, parents and the on-site supervisor to review curriculum, correlate lessons and assignments and discuss successes and challenges

Prepare session activities, monitor and record student progress, assist in the preparation of learning environment, assist parents to complete applications and questionnaires and participate in student recruitment events

Qualifications:

Cohesive team member with the ability to relate to students with various learning styles, academic levels, needs, strengths and weaknesses

Effective interpersonal communication skills, ability to work with diverse groups of people from varying educational, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds

Excellent organizational skills, completes assignments in a timely manner, patient, reliable, adaptable to a fast-paced work environment

Site Location:

Montopolis Recreation Center, 1200 Montopolis Drive, 78741

Available Tutoring Times:

Monday – Thursday, 4-7 pm, Friday 4-6 pm
(Internship days/times will be scheduled with Dan Sifuentes)

Refer interest or questions to Dan Sifuentes, 512-300-5514, outsidetheboxdp@austin.rr.com

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3 Day Startup Fall Internships

The experience of entrepreneurship unlocks human potential in powerful and unique ways. 3DS programs train participants to start companies, an act of creation charged with hope, promise, and potential. This experience transforms both the budding entrepreneur and the people their new venture serves. For students, the practice of entrepreneurship instills confidence, motivation, and hustle. For communities, entrepreneurship grows economies, creates jobs, and brings people together to solve problems.

Over the last eight years, more than 11,000 students at 150 universities, colleges, and high schools have learned entrepreneurship the 3 Day Startup way: discovering customers and validating markets, iterating, prototyping, and learning-by-doing. 3DS continues to increase the scale, scope, and quality of immersive entrepreneurship education.

We are looking for 2 interns for the fall 2016 semester, a Branding Intern and a Research & Evaluation Intern. All candidates must be students located in the Austin area and available to come to the 3DS office downtown at Capital Factory at least12 – 15 hours/week. This is a paid opportunity.

BRANDING INTERN:

Qualifications

  • Working towards Bachelor’s degree in a field related to design, journalism, or communications.
  • Ability to work autonomously with strong focus and prioritization
  • Strong portfolio of past work creating and managing branding for different stakeholder groups
  • Excellent attention to detail and organization
  • Expertise with the Adobe Suite (primarily Ilustrator, Photoshop, Indesign)
  • Excitement about entrepreneurship, startups, and university-level education
  • Bonus: Experience with WordPress, video editing

Responsibilities

  • Work with 3DS team to identify ideal branding and prioritize design projects
  • Support the Brand Journalist in their role of telling the 3DS story
  • Update all 3 Day Startup branding to ensure consistency across all platforms. This includes, but is not limited to:
    • Logos and branding guide
    • Program materials
    • Website pages
    • Promotional materials
  • In addition to these projects, interns have the opportunity to lead or contribute to other projects and tasks and develop a personalized learning agenda around key skill sets that they seek to develop or expand

RESEARCH & EVALUATION INTERN:

Qualifications:

  • Upper level undergraduate student or first year grad student
  • Interest in the social sciences, specifically educational research and methodology
  • Flexible and adaptable; open to change, learning, and improvement
  • Ability to work autonomously with focus and prioritization
  • Highly motivated and detail oriented
  • Experience with data analytics program (SPSS, SAS, or STATA) preferred
  • Excitement about entrepreneurship, startups, and university-level education

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the collection and analysis of high quality data to inform programmatic decisions
  • Develop a metrics and evaluation performance dashboard for 3DS programs
  • Assist in the development of an academic conference for the 3DS network
  • Conduct literature reviews of the most current research in experiential youth entrepreneurship education
  • In addition to these projects, interns have the opportunity to lead or contribute to other projects and tasks and develop a personalized learning agenda around key skill sets that they seek to develop or expand