Social Inequality Health & Policy

Application Due Date: 12/15/2019

Internship Start Date: 1/21/2020

Health Promotion Intern

Health Promotion Interns will use their talents and health/nutrition knowledge to help change the world for the better through our What are YOU Feeding? Nutrition awareness program, Community Health Education Workshops (CHEWs), community outreach, implementing our marketing/public relations strategy planning and executing fundraising events. In addition, the selected intern(s) may have an opportunity to participate in hands on activities with children, data collection, and tasks that help us evaluate our effectiveness.

RESPONSIBILITIES

HealthStart seeks a part-time Health Promotion intern with highly developed organizational skills, ability to manage their time, and creative talents. Interns work 15 hours per week under the supervision of our Outreach Coordinator.

You will be part of a team implementing and evaluating HealthStart’s health promotion programs and related tasks. All of these experiences should be highly transferrable to a professional public health, nutrition, or health promotion work environment.

Job responsibilities will include:

• Assisting in organizing the development of a 10-week series of Community Health Education Workshops
• Attending and executing a 10-week series of bi-weekly CHEWS at three local Housing Authority of City of Austin locations
• Attending and assisting with Health Promotion activities, community wellness fairs, and other events that educate and raise our profile within our community
• Assisting with What are YOU Feeding? Program Implementation and Menu Analysis
• Working directly with HealthStart’s Scientific Committee
• Contributing Health and Nutrition related articles for HealthStart’s Monthly Newsletter, press releases, articles for parenting and health magazines, and a blog
• Other health promotion related tasks as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates for the position must have experience with or a strong interest in public health, health promotion, health communications, event planning, nonprofit development or related activity. Employment experience or a strong interest in social entrepreneurship, social marketing, health and wellness or early childhood education is preferred. Must be familiar with basic computer operations including MS WORD, EXCEL, and the Internet specifically social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, email clients, etc.

In addition, candidates should have some or all of the following skills:

• A willingness to learn new things or new ways of doing things
• Ability to meet deadlines with little or no daily onsite supervision
• Attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Enthusiasm about making a difference
• BILINGUAL PREFERRED

To Apply

Interested candidates should submit a resume, cover letter (required), and portfolio, if appropriate, by email to Sharon Burley at sharon@healthstartfoundation.org on or before December 15, 2019. Two references required. Candidates must be able to begin work no later than January 21, 2020.

Public Relations / Communications Intern

The Public Relations & Communications Interns will help with a variety of tasks that may include media and community outreach, implementing our marketing/public relations strategy, and planning and executing fundraising events.

RESPONSIBILITIES

HealthStart seeks a part-time Public Relations and Communications intern with highly developed organizational skills, ability to manage their time, and creative talents. Interns work 12-15 hours per week under the supervision of our Outreach Coordinator.

You will be part of a team shaping HealthStart’s message through social media that may include daily Facebook and Twitter posts, monthly newsletter production, donor correspondence and management, marketing campaigns designed to inform and attract education partners and related tasks. Additionally, you will help with the marketing of one of our premier fundraising events, Austin Gives Miles​. All of these experiences should be highly transferrable to a professional work environment.

Job responsibilities will include:

• Raising HealthStart’s profile within our community
• Executing a media and public relations plan
• Working directly with HealthStart’s Board and Director
• Helping write HealthStart’s Monthly Newsletter
• Other public relations and communications related tasks as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates for the position must have experience/familiarity with public relations, communications, event planning, nonprofit development or related activities. Employment experience or a strong interest in social entrepreneurship, social marketing, health and wellness or early childhood education is preferred. Experience with digital arts or graphic design is a plus. Must be familiar with basic computer operations including MS WORD, EXCEL, and the Internet specifically social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, email clients, etc.

In addition, candidates should have some or all of the following skills:

• A willingness to learn new things or new ways of doing things
• Ability to meet deadlines with little or no daily onsite supervision
• Attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Enthusiasm about making a difference
• Bilingual Preferred

To Apply

Interested candidates should submit a resume, cover letter (required), and portfolio, if appropriate, by email to Sharon Burley at sharon@healthstartfoundation.org on or before December 15th, 2019. Two references required. Candidates must be able to begin work no later than January 21th, 2020.

Game Programmer Intern

Interns will use their creative talents to help change the world for the better through creation of a health education mobile game that will be used to teach core concepts from HealthStart’s nine-part curriculum.

RESPONSIBILITIES

HealthStart seeks a part-time Interactive Game Development intern with highly developed organizational skills, ability to manage their time, and creative talents. Interns work 12-15 hours per week under the supervision of our Curriculum Coordinator.

The intern will work in a team environment to help program Monstralia: A Healthy Life For Your Little Monster app from written design documents and wireframes. The intern will participate in user testing which involves identifying ease of play, level of engagement, efficacy in conveying health messages, and opportunities for improving game play. The intern will work with the team to fix design flaws and bugs identified during user testing.

In addition to programming tasks, the intern also may be involved in actual design of the art, backgrounds, and animation related to the game if their skills and interests enable them to do so.

Required tasks/skills include:​

• Ability to organize and adjust Monstralia Unity Organizer
• Proficiency using C# in Unity
• Ability to work with existing code
• Other tasks as assigned

Additional desired skills:

• Experience with the Adobe Creative Suite
• Animation and/or illustration experience a plus
• Experience creating illustrations using drawing tablet in Photoshop a plus
• Bilingual

QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates for the position must have educational or work experience programming in C# and game development. Employment experience or a strong interest in health and wellness or early childhood education is preferred. Candidate must have experience with the Unity game engine. All candidates must have basic computer operations skills including MS WORD, EXCEL, the Internet, and HTML. If interested in creating game art assets candidates should have experience with the Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, InDesign, and/or Illustrator.

In addition, candidates should have the following skills:

• Ability to communicate quickly and effectively
• Ability to stay organized and up to date with the various tasks and assignments.

To Apply

Interested candidates should submit a resume, cover letter (required), and portfolio, if appropriate, by email to Jeremy Follin at jeremy@healthstartfoundation.org on or before December 15, 2019. Three references required. Candidates must be able to begin work no later than January 21, ​​2020.

HealthStart is seeking an intern interested in using their creative talents to help change the world for the better. Our primary purpose is to improve child health. HealthStart’s mission is to help kids build strong brains and bodies through early, science-based health education.​ ​We are doing this with a health education curriculum for children 3-6 years of age, an elementary school cafeteria-based nutrition education program, and a digital app grounded in the concepts found in our curriculum and nutrition education program.