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September 30, 2020, Filed Under: Internship

Spring Internship available with BigCommerce

Overview

BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast- growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores to support every stage of their growth.

BigCommerce, named a “Best Place to Work” in Austin in 2020, is looking for a Winter Legal Intern to join our lean, top-notch Legal team in our Austin Four Points (Headquarters) office. As a key member of the team, you will work closely with our in-house attorneys to provide support and guidance on legal initiatives. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication and organization skills, be able to work at a fast pace and have strong attention to detail. This role is ideal for a candidate that is in Undergraduate or Pre Law and is interested in getting their feet wet in pursuit of a legal career.

What You’ll Do

Assist with developing and maintaining repositories of legal responses and creating legal resources for use/reference by applicable teams within the organization
Draft routine letters and other legal correspondence
Assist with developing best practice policies, playbooks and automation across various contract lifecycles
Support BigCommerce’s contracting process by tracking authorizations and correspondence
Monitor and maintain data quality within BigCommerce’s contract management system
Handle miscellaneous administrative tasks including managing contract files and templates for the Legal team, locating agreements, uploading and organizing fully executed copies of legal documents, etc.
Assist attorneys and other teams with ad hoc research and projects as necessary

Who You Are

Strong interest in the legal field and/or in pursuit of a career in legal
Fast learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail
Comfortable working with Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Google Apps (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, etc.)
Familiarity with DocuSign is a plus, but not required
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to think ahead and anticipate issues before they arise
Takes ownership of work and sees projects through to completion
Ability to work in a confidential manner due to access to information of a sensitive nature
Excellent time management, organizational and prioritization skills. Works efficiently and can be flexible and switch gears quickly if projects need to be set aside for high priority escalations and urgent matters
Team player
Capable of working independently and seeking assistance when needed
Maintains a positive attitude and good sense of humor even while working under pressure

Diversity & Inclusion at BigCommerce

We have the opportunity to build not only a great business, but a great company, with soul. Our beliefs and commitment to diversity and inclusion are a central part of achieving that.

Our dedication to diversity and inclusion is grounded in two things: a moral belief in the dignity, value, and potential of every individual, and a practical belief that diverse, inclusive teams will create the best outcomes for our customers, partners, employees, and company. We welcome everyone to be a part of our journey.

To apply

Please visit our website to submit an application.

August 4, 2020, Filed Under: Internship

Remote Internships Available through the Wye River Group

Texas Alliance on Health Internship

The Texas Alliance for Health Care was created as a resource to lawmakers in anticipation of changes in the Affordable Care Act. We are a diversified group of stakeholders from private and public sectors representing hospitals, health plans, philanthropy, community clinics, providers, business, and public health. Our goal is to provide well thought out research that will inform and offer guidance as to the impact of proposed changes in the finance and delivery of health care in Texas. Learn more at our website at http://www.wrgh.org/TLR_Health.asp.

We are seeking an intern to support our current project Texas Advisory on Public Health Infrastructure. The intern(s) will support our research including the creation of guiding principles and legislative recommendations to be presented to Texas policy makers.

Overview:

Texas Advisory on Public Health Infrastructure is using the process described below to manage the creation of a set of consensus recommendations and principles.

Our objective is to provide Texas leadership with thoughtful recommendations for addressing unexpected public health crisis. We want to ensure our state policies and practices are optimally informed and that we have in place the necessary tools for addressing the three R’s: our readiness to respond, our response itself and our recovery tools.

We have selected three areas within public health to focus on: workforce, surveillance, and public health infrastructure. These are suggested areas and we welcome your ideas.

The process we will use is designed to minimize taxing your time and maximizing the application of your expertise, through supporting your input electronically or on scheduled calls.

We are engaging with two well-seasoned Texas health policy professionals to conduct base line research to capture existing best practices learned from the current COVID experience and from previous episodes across the globe in the three key areas identified above: workplace, public health infrastructure and surveillance. This

The project is currently underway and will be ongoing through June 2021. You will report directly to Jon Comola, Founder of WRG. Communication will be remote through conference calls and internet. This is a non-paid position.

Texas Water Roundtable Internship

We are seeking an intern to support our current project focused on research and a report on the importance of coordination of surface and groundwater in Texas. This work is in coordination with Chairman Larson. The intern(s) will support the creation of a report that includes legislative recommendations to be presented to Texas policy makers.

Overview:

Texas is at a crossroads in how we manage our water resources. Texans have been engaged for decades in water planning in a variety of ways at the state, regional, and local levels. These efforts have been extensive and valuable in many respects, but basic questions about how we manage our water and to what ends still await answers. A statewide consensus about how best to manage our water resources has not yet been reached.

Today this diverse group of thought leaders has produced a consensus building on the creation of shared principles and recommendations endorsed by more than 35 organizations. To review the abbreviated recommendations with endorser and for more detailed review, please visit http://www.wrgh.org/TLR_Water.asp.

The recommendations focus on key issues:

Surface Water and Groundwater Management
Data Gaps and Research Needs
New Technologies
Optimizing the State Water Plan
Environmental Flows
Conservation and Drought Response
Land and Watershed Stewardship
Education and Public Outreach

The project is currently underway and will be ongoing through December 2020. You will report directly to Jon Comola, Founder of WRG. Communication will be remote through conference calls and internet. This is a non-paid position.

Internship: Neuroscience & Law Enforcement Performance

Overview:

This internship is designed to help improve law enforcement performance through the use of sophisticated neuro-science application. In times of stress (whether individual, at work, or universally, as is being experienced in the current COVID and racial tension climate in the USA) those learning strategies and coping mechanisms that work well most time, don’t work well when the emotional brain takes over and in some cases of extreme stress, severely hinder the functioning of the frontal cortex/thinking brain. New technologies have emerged that can measure these drivers and as such, can predict likely areas of reactivity and re-map thinking to prevent any negative outcomes in the future.

“Psychologists usually try to help people use insight and understanding to manage their behavior. However, neuroscience research shows that very few psychological problems are the result of defects in understanding. [Including what is learned from behavioral interventions or even self-study.] Most originate in pressures from deeper regions in the brain that drive our perception and attention. When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you’re in danger no amount of insight will silence it.” The Body Keeps the Score, Dr B. van der Kolk [comment in italics added.]

In recent (and past) events negatively impacting law enforcement, it has been our observation that perhaps certain levels of root source, reactive brain-mapping is existent in those officers (as well as military, medical, or any other such professionals) involved and when in extreme stress, they have no control over their behavior. By comparison, those officers who manage stress well and do not over-react, have different, healthier root source drivers in place. Another key competency – that of emotional resilience/recover – is also at play, with any number of performance driver combinations. The point being that this is measurable and rectifiable, long before an individual finds themselves in such a situation.

Interns responsibilities:

The intern(s) working on this project will research articles and studies to create a paper that will inventory the neuro-science used to measure performance and the tools used to correct unwanted behavior.

If interested in any of the positions listed above, please contact Jon Comola, Founder of WRG, by email at jrcomola@wrgh.org.

July 28, 2020, Filed Under: Internship, Uncategorized

Immigration Case Management Internship Available with the Equal Justice Center

Organization Profile:

The Equal Justice Center (EJC) is a non-profit law firm and social justice organization which empowers the immigrant community by providing free legal services throughout the state of Texas. We advocate for systemic reforms that strengthen immigration rights and work towards securing permanent immigration solutions for Dreamers. Through assistance of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program we are able to serve a large and vastly unrepresented community.

We have ongoing internships for: Fall semester (15 weeks), spring semester (15 weeks), and summer semester (12 weeks).

Internship:

Qualifications: Spanish fluency preferred.

Time Commitment: 10 hours per week.

Job Description:

Conduct detailed telephone interviews with numerous potential clients who contact the EJC seeking immigration legal assistance,
Open new matters and update existing cases in the EJC’s case management system,
Collect, upload and review client documents,
Prepare case files and assist with client applications,
Sort and record mail and government correspondence,
Assist in virtual community outreach efforts and virtual legal clinic preparation,
Research and assist with writing organizational public comments to proposed rule changes,
Other tasks and duties assigned.

Learning Opportunities: Interns are not required, but are invited to attend the virtual intensive course, alongside UT Law clinic students and other law student interns, to learn the basics of the substantive law and practice methods employed by EJC. The internship will also provide on-the-job training in handling confidential client information, community outreach, social media management and various immigration processes.

Academic Credit: Academic credit toward your major is likely available; please inquire with your college/university.

Cycle Deadlines: Applications are accepted on a rolling admission basis, but we recommend you consider the following deadlines. Fall: August 15 | Spring: December 15 | Summer: April 30

Apply: Fill out the application on our website (www.equaljusticecenter.org) and submit a one page cover letter, letter of recommendation and your resume by email to: phernandez@equaljusticecenter.org