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, Filed Under: Internship

January 5th Deadline for Spring: Spring and Summer 2025: Internships with Whole Communities – Whole Health

 

General Description

Whole Communities-Whole Health (WCWH) is a grand challenges in research at UT Austin. Our challenge is to change the way science helps society thrive. To do this, we are conducting a 5-year community-engaged cohort study in SE Austin and surrounding areas with families who have children under 5 years old. The goals of this study are to:

  • Study how individual and environmental health determinants impact young children and their families. By studying factors of health across physical, mental, environmental health and more, we hope to learn more about how these sectors influence each other and the health of the child and family.
  • Create an effective implementation model for multi-disciplinary family research processes.
  • Include families who have historically been excluded from research.
  • Provide opportunities for participants and community members to engage in the research process, ultimately improving the usefulness of the data.
  • Test new technologies for data collection.
  • Return study results to study participants.

WCWH is looking for two interns for the spring of 2025; one to support our study team and one to support community engagement and returning data to participants.

Study Intern responsibilities include the following:

  • Prepare data collection materials for visits with participants
  • Conduct home visits with participants (you will always be accompanied by a staff member)
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Be available to work 8-10 hours per week
  • Spanish speaking is a plus

Community Engagement Intern responsibilities include the following:

  • Assist with the creation and sending of reports to return study results to study participants
  • Support social media and newsletter by developing content
  • Help plan and execute our biggest annual event, the Community Resource Day
  • Assist with coordination of the Community Strategy Team, working with community members who give guidance on the study
  • Be available to work 8-10 hours per week
  • Spanish speaking is a plus

To Apply:

Email your resume and a letter of interest, to Shirene Garcia, Sr. Outreach Program Coordinator for WCWH, at shirene.garcia@austin.utexas.edu.

Please note the deadline of January 5th for applications for the spring.

NOTE: This is an unpaid position but can be used for a BDP Connecting Experience.

, Filed Under: Internship

Spring 2025: Kids Tooth Team Outreach

 

Internship Opportunity

Title: Marketing Intern

Reports to: Executive Director

Location:Flexible

Website: www.kidstoothteamoutreach.org       

Internship Goal:

The Marketing Internship is a critical component to achieving the Kids Tooth Team Outreach Foundation Strategic Goals. The role reports directly to the Executive Director and is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating KTT Outreach’s fund development plan. This is a marketing position that is entertaining, exciting, and challenging.  Several previous interns have achieved amazing results, helping to secure funding necessary to provide free dental care to hundreds of children in their community.

The Intern is responsible for articulating the case for support and funding needs while fostering robust relationships between donors and leadership. Initiative, coupled with a sense of competitive drive, and the ability to stay focused on results despite changing conditions, is the key to achieving the performance objectives of this job. Because environmental and organizational conditions change rapidly, the work involves innovation and creativity in generating ideas for quick response. KTT Outreach’s fund development elements include: new donor acquisition, lapsed donor mailings, annual giving, major gifts from individuals, planned giving, corporations, foundations, religious institutions, civic groups, and the execution of annual fundraising events.

Goals: 

  1. Raise $100,000
    1. Develop list of largest funders to cultivate
    2. Develop funding path for renewals and prospects; and build relationships with local individuals, corporations and foundations to support KTT Outreach with major gifts.
    3. With the support of KTT Outreach’s Board Fundraising Committee, plan and execute the 2022 KTT Outreach annual fundraiser
    4. Plan and lead tours, working with the Executive Director to prepare for funder and prospect visits to school clinics.
    5. Work with Texas Predental Society to create grassroots fundraising development within University of Texas Alumni
  2. Identify 5 new grant opportunities and complete applications
  3. Build a sustainable coalition of Austin donors with a strong belief in KTT Outreach’s mission and willingness to advocate on behalf of KTT Outreach.
    1. Champion board and community partnerships and provide appropriate level of detail, preparation, and context for Executive Director to support cultivation and continued engagement.
    2. Set strategic goals around the number of new, lapsed and upgraded donors to create a healthy, sustainable donor base long-term
    3. Develop and execute long-term plan to get in front of high net worth Austin leaders to begin building relationships for future asks
  4. We look for team members who embody the following values and characteristics: 
  • Believes and is committed to the KTT Outreach mission and being an agent of change: that all children deserve to see their futures clearly
  • Demonstrates effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
  • Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
  • Works with urgency and purpose to drive outcomes
  • Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
  • Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
  • Works through silos and forges strong relationships in order to achieve outcomes
  • Believes that all humans have a right to quality health care and to be treated with integrity.

Knowledge and Skills: 

  • Ability to synthesize multiple facts, data points, and stories into compelling narrative explaining KTT Outreach’s aspiration to transform vision care services for children in poverty to others.
  • Superior writing ability and attention to detail.
  • Comfort and confidence engaging with individuals from all backgrounds within the Austin community in order to explain the KTT Outreach story and vision.
  • Knowledge of the Central Texas philanthropic landscape including various philanthropic organizations and business development organizations.
  • Communication- ability to explain KTT Outreach’s story, program, vision and accomplishments with a diverse group of constituents, prospects, and funders.

Additional Information: Kids Tooth Team Brochure

Please direct applications to totto@kidstoothteam.com

 

, Filed Under: Internship

Summer 2025: Travis County Public Defender’s Office

Key Information

  • Summer 2025 Internship starting May 28th, 2025
  • The deadline to apply is Friday, February 14th, 2025
  • This is an unpaid internship

Organization Overview

Travis County Public Defender’s Office Officially opening our doors in January 2021, TCPDO provides high-quality holistic defense representation to indigent people accused of crimes in Travis County. Our interdisciplinary team-based model features criminal defense attorneys, Padilla immigration attorneys, social workers, civil paralegals, investigators, and legal secretaries working together to serve clients’ expressed goals and needs related to the criminal charges, and to combat the harmful collateral consequences/enmeshed penalties they trigger.

Born out of a desire to see improved outcomes for people coming through the County’s criminal legal system, all TCPDO advocates are guided by the community-shaped goals set out in our foundational documents: ( 1) promoting a client-centered culture that values and respects client dignity; (2) serving as a strong, independent, institutional voice for public defense; (3) providing a training ground that produces excellent defenders; (4) raising the quality of criminal representation for all people charged with crimes in Travis County who cannot afford an attorney; and (5) being resourceful and responsive to the evolving needs of the community.

Internship Description 

Investigative Interns

PDO Investigators are a critical part of the defense team as they work in concert with public defender attorneys to investigate allegations of suspected violations of criminal statutes and possible legal defenses to and mitigation against those allegations and use their findings to provide information to help guide the course and outcome of client representation. As an investigative intern, you will work closely with PDO investigators in planning and conducting complete investigations of criminal allegations and circumstances of clients’ lived experiences. This may include but is not limited to: taking photographs and measurements; collecting and evaluating physical and testimonial evidence; serving subpoenas; present orally and in writing findings of investigation; and preparation of demonstrative evidence for use in proceedings related to the allegations.

Please note in your application if you are fluent in Spanish.

How To Apply

Please send a resume and statement of interest to TCPDOInternProgram@traviscountytx.gov.

Preferred Qualifications for this position include:

• Mission-aligned experience (work or lived) advocating on behalf of people/communities directly impacted by the criminal/immigration/indigent civil legal systems

• Skill in building rapport and communicating effectively across lines of difference with others

• Ability to bring a trauma-informed approach to communicating with people in crisis

• Ability to use active listening and demonstrate empathy

• Attention to detail and attunement to surroundings

• High level of organization; ability to take and maintain accurate records and write concisely

• Ability to conduct fact investigations

• Flexibility and adaptability

• Ability to drive preferred

• Ability to speak Spanish preferred

TCPDO is committed to inclusive hiring and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. The PDO strongly encourages candidates of all identities, experiences, abilities, and communities to apply. All applicants should be dedicated to working in and sustaining an environment that enables staff and clients to feel empowered, valued, respected, and safe. In considering applicants, TCPDO values an applicant’s experience and/or thoughtfulness in working with people from communities that experience marginalization.