City Year National Event: Build Your Skills Through a Service Year!
Are you passionate about service? Are you looking to pursue a gap year in the 2022-2023 school year? If that’s you, then you won’t want to miss our City Year information session on December 2. During this session you will learn all about the City Year AmeriCorps member position, the full-time responsibilities, and benefits. Serving as a City Year AmeriCorps member is a great way to build your toolkit, gain the professional and leadership experience needed for your future endeavors! This session will also be an opportunity to get your questions answered by a City Year Recruiter! We hope to see you there!
WHEN: Thursday, December 2nd 2021
TIME: 4:00 pm EST-5:00 pm EST
Hot Social Impact Internships & Jobs in Handshake
Here are some opportunities in Handshake that I wanted to share:
International Division InternJSI Research and Training Institute, Inc.Boston, Massachusetts, United States -DEADLINE TONIGHT 11/15 at 11:55PM!! |
Hear about machine learning and climate at Myst AI with Ellery Berk ’14, Business Operations Manager at Myst AI in the latest MIDDVantage Episode.
MIDDVantage is a collaborative series developed by the Center for Careers and Internships and Middlebury in DC, in collaboration with the Midd Climate Action Capacity, and Midd Sustainability. See the full series at go/MiddVantage.
Privilege and Poverty summer internships now available
The Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster offers summer internship opportunities locally in Addison County and nationally.
You can make a difference, while working in law, immigration, health, food and nutrition, housing and more!
Read more below or click HERE to apply on Handshake.
Local summer internships are available at the following organizations:
- WomenSafe – Interns provide support and direct services to individuals impacted by family violence
- John Graham Housing and Services – Interns support individuals and families working toward stable housing
- HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) – Interns support the food shelf and assist clients with accessing the network of human services in the county
- Open Door Clinic – Interns provide medical translation for Spanish-speaking clients and their health-care providers
- Charter House Coalition – Interns work with emergency housing shelter staff to provide safe housing and food to community members who are unhoused
- Addison Central Teens – Interns help to plan and deliver summer programming for the teen center camps and daily programs
- Addison County Restorative Justice Services – This placement will work with ACRJS and community organizations to coordinate community responses beyond law enforcement.
- Addison County Public Defender/ ACRJS – This position will split time between the Public Defender’s office and ACRJS, working with clients who are encountering the criminal justice system. For the Public Defender, the intern will work with the client and attorney to help prepare their case for the court process. With ACRJS, the intern will work with clients through the restorative justice process.
- P&P research and analysis – working with P&P faculty and staff to support current, community-connected research and analysis on economic inequality.
National internships are coordinated through our participation in the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty summer internship program, and are located in urban and rural settings throughout the United States with agencies that serve in educational, healthcare, immigration, legal, housing, social and economic capacities for the needs of individuals and their communities.
Climate Tech consulting firm – info session on November 15
Ascend Analytics is a “climate tech” software and consulting firm focused on the energy analytics transforming the electric grid to renewables. We are growing rapidly and seek students with strong quantitative analytic skills and/or software development skills, a passion for energy, and a genuine desire to be part of the momentous effort to decarbonize our grid.
We welcome students from any discipline, but economics, math, computer science, physics, and energy or environment majors are particularly relevant. If this is you, please come learn more from a panel of Ascend employees, including Middlebury alumnus, Jonah Simon, ’18, two Middlebury language school grads, and Ascend co-founder and SVP of Development, Vena Kostroun.
Monday, November 15 from 6-7 pm online. Click here to register in Handshake and get the zoom link.
Sharing Steps Five and Six to Develop Your Career During COVID-19 (For National Career Development Month).
STEP FIVE: Networking skills are the competencies you need to have to maintain professional or social contacts. Networking is a great way to explore careers and can give you specifics about the opportunities you are pursuing.
The fifth step is understanding that networking involves building and maintaining relationships with individuals who can share information and offer advice. Networking for professional purposes is tapping into the knowledge, information, and connections that others have to offer you in terms of your career goals. Talking to someone who has experience can help you determine if an industry, job function, or organization truly interests you.
Did you know you share a connection to Middlebury with 4,500+ alumni career volunteers on Midd2Midd? They want to hear from you about your career aspirations and challenges. They also want to know what’s happening on campus, so you’ve got something to offer them as well.
Download the CCI Networking Guide at go.middlebury.edu/CareerNetworking and peruse Midd2Midd’s three programs: MiddConnect, MiddMentors and MiddGroups. Each offers distinct features and benefits along with tools, useful features, and ample support. MiddConnect is designed to make networking and outreach easy. Set up your Midd2Midd profile and run your search. When you find someone you want contact, simply hit “connect” and compose your message.
STEP SIX: Attend virtual and in-person alumni one-on-one meetings. Meet one-on-one with alumni to ask any questions you’d like in a no-pressure setting and discuss your business career and leadership aspirations. Receive feedback on your résumé and helpful advice for future interviews.
Networking with alumni and employers at companies you wish you work for will give you people to reach out to once you’re ready to look for a new job, or they may remember you when they or someone they know has an open position.
One-on-ones are also an opportunity to ask questions and have them review your resume for feedback and help on future interviews. They may share ideas for other skills you can develop and ways to build those skills. For example, maybe the alumni landed their last promotion partly by strengthening their project management skills, and they can tell you what course they took. Or maybe you’ll encounter someone at the Field Guide alumni career panel who you admire for their public speaking. You can ask them for tips or if they used anything in particular to become a stronger speaker.
AFC and CCI partner to provide an overview of career related resources available to students – Wednesday, November 10
Get To Know the Center for Careers and Internships!
Curious about the resources that the Center for Careers and Internships (CCI) has to offer? Learn more at these upcoming informational sessions!
Join Zoey Ellis ‘22, of the CCI’s Peer Career Advisor team, as she provides a general overview of the center’s resources and opportunities. From learning about platforms, like Handshake and Midd2Midd, to discovering resources for your future career and major options, these sessions will be a student-focused exploration of the CCI.
Snacks Provided!
Location: Anderson Freemen Center (AFC)
Date: Wednesday, November 10
Click on the above hyperlinks to RSVP in handshake!
Apply to attend DPMI over J-Term: The Root Change Program in Design, Partnering, Management, and Innovation (DPMI)
RSVP Deadline: December 1st
Program will be held for 3 weeks January 2022.
DPMI/Sitka was designed to answer this question: “What do social justice activists need to know to successfully promote high-impact, sustainable initiatives that address local priorities?”
The program includes training on local systems mapping; appreciative interviewing; tools to analyze a local context; stakeholder analysis; participatory theory of change development; proposal writing; and more! Participants are tasked with designing or redesigning a social change initiative that meets the needs of a specific community. They also produce a proposal that can generate financial support for a community priority while meeting funder requirements.
This is a 3-week virtual program. You will work closely with local leadership to strengthen two projects sponsored by the Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s Cultural Resources, Education and Employment Department. Visit this link to apply by December 1. The program fee is $1,000; participants are welcome to apply for funding by contacting CCI’s Tracy Himmel Isham (thimmeli@middlebury.edu) to help cover the costs of the program. For further questions contact Beryl Levinger at blevinger@rootchange.org.
Cross Cultural Community Engagement Grant Funding Available – Deadline 12/1
Applications are open for Center for Community Engagement’s Cross Cultural Community Engagement Grants! Application and more information at go/crosscultural. This grant program supports intercultural service-learning and community-building internships and/or related volunteer service opportunities. This is a great way funding source to help cover project expenses if students are considering a J-Term internship or self-designed project beyond campus. The grant can project expenses for in-person or virtual experiences.
For January Term 2022 projects, the priority deadline for applications is December 1, 2021.
Optional info session on Zoom: November 10th 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. register here to participate
These community-engaged internships and service initiatives may be student-designed. Preference is given to those opportunities in a culture distinctly different from the applicant’s background, usually outside of the U.S., and projects that are mutually-beneficial for the applicant and the communities who the applicant is engaging with. Funds are available throughout the academic year and for summer experiences. Cross-Cultural Community Engagement grants can also be used to attend conferences or events (e.g., travel, registration fees, etc.) with an intercultural theme in the U.S.
Funding is available to current, returning undergraduates. Graduating seniors are not eligible to apply for funding for activities that occur after graduation.
Read this blog post to hear from recent students about their funded experiences.
Feel free to reach out with any questions!
Hot Social Impact Jobs and Internships in Handshake
Here are just a few that have come across my email. If you’re interested in setting up your own job alerts, reach out to me at thimmeli@middlebury.edu and I’ll personally show you how to have them land in YOUR mailbox to!!
ENVIRONMENTAL/SUSTAINABILITY:
Workforce Development Internship Colorado Springs UtilitiesColorado Springs, Colorado, United States |
INTERNATIONAL TRADE & DEVELOPMENT:
EDUCATION/POLICY:
Early and Elementary Education Internship New AmericaWashington, District of Columbia, United States |
PUBLIC AFFAIRS/POLICY:
WINTER TERM Internships (for credit, if you need it!)…There are 8 J-term internships in Handshake TODAY!