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Seaside Sustainability Environmental Business & Website Development Entrepreneurial Internship

Seaside Sustainability, Inc.
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Seaside Sustainability, Inc. Internship

https://www.seasidesustainability.org/internships/

Our programs and initiatives encourage members of the community young and old to build and nurture a relationship with local land and seascapes. Join Seaside Sustainability for any season, or during breaks in your school schedule, to explore myriad internship opportunities, relevant to almost any future interest.

We are looking for part-time interns in high school, college, and beyond to work 6-20 hours a week on a diverse and challenging array of projects and initiatives. Our interns engage in focused learning experiences where they receive guidance and resources to apply knowledge and skills to their emerging professional lives.  We are accepting applications for unpaid internships, with hours available any day of the week and practically any time of day: weekdays, weekends, and evenings included.  We prefer to have our local interns work in person at the office in Rockport, and we also invite interns from all over the United States and internationally to apply.  

As an intern with Seaside Sustainability, you will be asked to perform a myriad of tasks that may include:

  • ADVENTURE EDUCATION

  • For people who want to plan and execute local outdoor adventure programs. The focus of this task is planning the activities, locations, and structure of outdoor ed programs. Finding leaders to carry out the program, and advertising the trip to the local population are the main tasks after the program has been planned. Programs Seaside is planning include canoeing, rock climbing, and yoga.

  • MARINE SCIENCES

  • Participate in local citizen science efforts such as water quality testing, marine debris trawls, mudflat acidification testing, and invasive species mitigation efforts. Construct containers for monofilament fishing line recycling and cigarette butt recycling. This task is focused on involving local people in scientific research on Cape Ann and working with local and national organizations in these research efforts.

  • GRANT WRITING

  • Help projects of Seaside receive funding by describing the projects in a convincing and persuasive way that appeals to funding organizations.  

  • CLIMATE JUSTICE

  • Research climate change effects on Cape Ann and how climate justice can be done here. Research and create a comprehensive carbon calculator for local people and organizations. Consult with schools to make their behaviors more sustainable. Design materials and tools to give to schools in order for them to take their sustainable practices into their own hands.

  • EVENTS AND FUNDRAISING

  • Spread the word of sustainability at local events by designing information tables and booths. Market Seaside to local organizations in order to build partnerships and raise funds. Plan and host local and engaging events for Seaside such as boat tours of the Gloucester harbor.

  • GREEN SCHOLARS

  • Build and design tools to be used by students across the country in sustainability projects. Research, write, and design resource packages for a project based learning curriculum in sustainability and leadership. This curriculum will be developed into a national program and interns will have a large part in its development.

  • LOCAL BANS

  • The city of Gloucester has banned the use of single use plastic items, which will take effect in January 2019. Seaside partnered with many local organizations in order to complete this project. This effort will expand into other cities and towns on Cape Ann in order to create more sustainable cities and towns. These efforts will develop activities around minimizing waste and plastic usage.

  • MARKETING

  • Seaside is a growing organization with local and national initiatives. As our national initiatives grow and participation increases, interns will manage the marketing campaigns for these initiatives.

  • WEBSITE DESIGN

  • The consulting programs we will create need websites that are separate from the Seaside Sustainability site in order to make use easier for companies seeking consulting. The websites will be created using wordpress, and a background in computer science is helpful but not needed for this task.

Seaside Sustainability provides interns with real and meaningful work in these areas, and others. Internships are available in any season and time schedules are flexible. For more information visit www.seasidesustainability.org/internships.