Welcome back from break! For those of you looking for education opportunities for jobs or internships, there is lots to find on Handshake this week related to K-12 teaching/admin positions, summer experiential positions in policy change and education access, too. Pay particular attention to the CCI-Sponsored summer internships working with the Vermont Department of Education. These are paid 10-week positions and include summer housing either in Burlington or Middlebury.
Hot Social Impact Handshake Internships, Jobs & Fellowships
This week (w/o 3/27-4/3) in Handshake there are over 300 internship (133), job (169) and fellowship (20) opportunities in areas considered social impact expiring between now and Sunday, April 3, 2022–too many to list here! If you’re interested in seeing them and applying before the deadline, check them out HERE.
Don’t forget to pay particular attention to the 37 CCI-Sponsored internships (check them out HERE) that are expiring soon! These are all paid and many that are Vermont-based include a fee-based housing option. Vermont i the summertime is AMAZING!!
BIG TIP: Get your application in as soon as you can and don’t wait for the deadline to apply. Employers are reviewing applications as they receive them, and making offers before the posted deadlines! Therefore get your application materials ready for submission by stopping by Quick Questions and having a CCI PCA (Peer Career Advisor) review your resume and cover letter.
GIS & Data Analytics Applied to International Development
WHEN: Friday, April 1, 2022
TIME: 12:30-1:30 pm
LOCATION: In-Person, Bicentennial Hall Room 216
Join us to hear from Carmen Tedesco ’02, Director Analytics at Fraym, who will be on campus to speak with students about her career applying her geospatial expertise providing thought leadership on data systems issues in the international development space. She has international development sector experience in climate change/climate services, WASH, youth development, agriculture/food security, and infectious disease epidemiology and has worked in: Armenia, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Bhutan, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Thailand, Tunisia, Russia, Uruguay, and Vietnam.
Come hear about her experiences applying GIS and data analytics methods in the career space, her pathway from Midd to career, and her career advice for students.
Register in Handshake for the Event
Carmen will also hold office hours in Room 331 Bi Hall after the session if you would like to review your resume and GIS data analysis career interests with her. You can register for these 20-minute one-on-one sessions with Carmen in Handshake.
Hot Social Impact Handshake Internships & Jobs
Don’t forget to check out all the internships and jobs being added to Handshake daily. Set up a “Job Alert” to save your searches and be alerted to new ones as they get posted daily or weekly. Below are some of the opportunities that showed up from my Saved Searches this week:
Sustainability/Conservation/Renewable Energy/Climate Change Impact
International Affairs/Policy/Development
Political Affairs InternThe Humane Society of the United StatesGaithersburg, Maryland, United States |
MiddWorks for Vermont Summer Internship Program/CCI-Sponsored/VT Innovation Summer
Interested in Learning More About Social Impact Investing?
RuralWorks Impact Partners (RuralWorks) is the investment manager of a $100 million social impact fund (Fund) established to provide greatly needed equity capital to growth-oriented and transitioning businesses committed to creating quality jobs and community wealth in rural America. The Fund’s strategy of partnering with local economic and community development entities to deliver capital Access, employee Empowerment and community Advancement supports the Fund’s goals of increasing economic mobility, generating community wealth, and building a more equitable and resilient rural economy. The Fund will target an appropriate risk-adjusted return to investors. The Fund expects to be licensed by the USDA to operate as a “Rural Business Investment Company” (RBIC) and to partner with LP investors committed to the success of rural America.
They are looking for a 2022 Social Media and Marketing Spring Term Intern, and you will have the chance to learn the ins and outs of starting a social impact investment fund.
Looking for a Summer Internship with a Focus on Education-Check Out these Opportunities!
Here is a curated link for K-12 Education internships sorted by application deadline – don’t wait, apply now!
A few MiddWorks for Vermont, the exciting new paid internship program that CCI launched for this summer includes quite a few internships focused on education/teaching, early childhood development and policy initiates. Housing here in Vermont will be available either in Burlington or Middlebury, too. Apply before the deadline to secure your summer plans!
- MiddWorks for Vermont: Vermont Afterschool Inc., Intern
- MiddWorks for Vermont: Data Project Management and Data Governance Internship – Agency of Education
- MiddWorks for Vermont: Shelburne Farms Education Intern
- MiddWorks for Vermont: Federal Education Programs Intern
- MiddWorks for Vermont: Let’s Grow Kids Fundraising and Engagement Intern
- MiddWorks for Vermont: Vermont Agency of Education Licensing Research Intern
- MiddWorks for Vermont: ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Internship
- MiddWorks for Vermont: Early Childhood Learning Partnership
Want to Excite Kids Teaching Them About Growing & Cooking? 3 Weeks Left to Apply to FoodCorps!
FoodCorps is looking for our next class of service members. Are you or someone you know planning to apply? The application deadline is March 31 and interviews are already underway. We encourage you to submit your application soon! What does it mean to serve with FoodCorps? FoodCorps service members get kids excited about growing, cooking, and eating food. This full-time, paid position is ideal for anyone who’s passionate about making a difference in their community through teaching, gardening, and food justice. Learn more here. If you’re not applying but know someone who might be interested, help us spread the word by forwarding this announcement! |
HOT Social Impact Handshake Internships & Jobs
Here is a sampling of a few of the internships and jobs showing up in Handshake. Don’t wait to apply!
POLiCY/RESEARCH/SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT:
PUBLIC INTEREST:
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION/OUTDOORS EDUCATION:
CLIMATE/RENEWABLE ENERGY:
DC Week: Explore Careers in International Development and Environmental Policy
The Center for Advising and Career Services at the graduate school at MIIS has generously invited Middlebury undergraduate students to participate in the virtual information sessions scheduled during the week of March 21. This is during spring break, but you can log in from where ever you are. There are 20+ events scheduled. Check out the list here in Handshake.
Select employers include:
- 3/21: Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) – a USAID implementing partner nonprofit NGO working on international development projects focused on agriculture, livestock, and general ag/livelihoods and food security programming around the world.
- 3/21: Cisco Systems, International Trade & Energy Policy
- 3/21: Search for Common Ground – the largest peace-building NGO in the world, celebrating over 35 years.
- 3/21: The World Bank – an introduction to the World Bank Translation and Interpretation Unit. This is strictly a language session.
- 3/22: World Wildlife Fund – Join Senior Director, Large Initiatives and Infrastructure, Evan Freund (MIDD alum), and other MIDD alumni as they discuss WWF’s organizational structure, projects, and potential career paths.
- 3/22: Ploughshares Fund – a public grant-making foundation that supports initiatives to prevent the spread and use of nuclear weapons, and to prevent conflicts that could lead to their use.
- 3/22: Integra LLC – Integra delivers international social and economic development solutions to promote self-reliance in emerging economies through analytical tools and private sector engagement.
- 3/23: TechnoServe – an international nonprofit that promotes business solutions to poverty in the developing world by linking people to information, capital and markets.
- 3/23: Environmental Incentives – a small business that supports USAID and implementing partners to practice adaptive management and improve the outcomes of environment and development programs through systematic learning and performance-driven approaches.
- 3/23: USAID / OIG – is the lead U.S. Government agency working to end extreme global poverty and enable democratic societies. The Mission of USAID‚ Office of Inspector General is to safeguard and strengthen U.S. foreign assistance through timely, relevant, and impactful oversight.
- 3/24: OCEANA – discuss OCEANA’s mission, career paths, current projects, and potential career opportunities. OCEANA – Protecting the World’s Oceans.
Special note: if you do take advantage of these opportunities and sign up, please take the commitment seriously and make sure you show up at the Zoom meeting, dress professionally, listen and learn and be ready to ask prepared questions as appropriate.
Civil Society Innovation Project Internship
Rights CoLab advances human rights by fostering collaboration among experts across the fields of civil society, technology, business, and finance. Together we build new ways of organizing civic engagement and leveraging markets to improve the impact, resilience, and sustainability of human rights initiatives.
Rights CoLab is looking for two interns to assist in work on Mapping Civil Society Innovation to Advance Human Rights project. The interns will be advised and supervised by program officer Eleonora Davidyan, a Russian human rights lawyer who is supporting Civil Society programs at Rights CoLab, as well as by co-founder of Rights CoLab Edwin Rekosh, who has taught Human Rights Law and Development for 20 years at Columbia Law School.
Responsibilities include:
Desk research, analysis, and writing:
- Identify potential content providers;
- Identify initiatives for case studies;
- Draft selected case studies according to an existing template.
Contribution to other program initiatives is encouraged.
Work remotely.
Qualifications: Interns should be familiar with Human Rights concepts and the work of NGOs. Graduate students preferred.
Time commitment: The internship requires a part-time commitment of 120 hours. The internship starts ASAP and lasts 12 weeks or longer.
Compensation: Those eligible to work in the US will be compensated at $15 per hour. Other applicants will be considered if they are eligible for academic credit.
Application process: Please submit your Resume/CV and a cover letter explaining your interest in this internship to info@rightscolab.org with the subject heading “Internship, Civil Society Innovation.”
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and will be accepted until the position is filled.