The Green Roundtable offers unpaid internships at our NEXUS Green Building Resource Center on a semester basis. We ask for a commitment of 16-20 hours per week for at least three months. NEXUS is currently looking for interns to join us from May/June to August 2009.
Interns are instrumental in helping to develop NEXUS educational resources for our audiences of building professionals and the general public interested in green building and sustainable design. Interns may also have responsibilities with ongoing tasks such as helping to staff the front desk, assisting with events, various administrative tasks, and helping with the Samples Library, Reference Library, Exhibitor Showcase, Sponsorships, Marketing and Events. In exchange, interns expand their knowledge of the rapidly growing green building industry, network with industry professionals, attend roundtables and other NEXUS educational sessions for free, and gain valuable professional experiences and skills to add to their resume.
To apply, please send resume, cover letter, your area of interest (see below), and your availability (how many hours per week and which months you could intern) to Annie Cardinaux at annie@greenroundtable.org by April 3, 2009. After reviewing applications, we will contact you if we would like to set up an interview time. In the meantime, you can visit NEXUS during our drop-in hours (no appointment necessary) or call 617 374-3740 x100 to speak with Annie Cardinaux with questions about the Internship. Again, thank you for your interest in interning with The Green Roundtable.
Internship Areas of Focus - Summer 2009
Materials and Resources Intern
The Materials and Resources Intern will work closely with the Resource Coordinator to improve, expand, and organize the green building resources available at NEXUS.
Projects may include:
• Outreach: Calling and e-mailing with product manufacturers and publishers to solicit new product samples, books and other materials for inclusion in the NEXUS libraries.
• Intake and labeling of materials and products in the samples library in line with NEXUS' sustainability criteria.
• Maintaining and developing samples database.
• Developing a database of locally-sourced green products.
• Ongoing organization and improvement of the samples and resource libraries to make them more inviting and user-friendly resources.
• Compiling and organizing information from past LEED projects and related documentation.
• Developing educational information and fact sheets for specific events and web pages.
• Ongoing vetting, approval and posting of new submissions to the web-based NEXUS/ GRT Green Service Provider Directory
Skills and Experience:
Excellent written and oral communication skills, including professional phone manner;
Highly organized and detail-oriented;
Knowledge of or strong interest in library systems and/or green building materials;
Familiarity with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Publisher, Outlook, and Access; experience with graphic design or layout preferred but not required.
Passion for green building and sustainability.
Visitor Relations and Exhibits Intern
The Visitor Relations and Exhibits Intern will work closely with the Resource Coordinator and Exhibits and Sponsorship Coordinator to collect, analyze, and report visitor data, develop interactive and educational green building displays, and to improve education toolkits and tracking systems for NEXUS.
Projects may include:
• Outreach: Following up with visitors to collect information on their experience at NEXUS and identify areas of improvement for exhibits, resources, and visitor relations.
• Maintaining visitor data, tracking, and feedback system.
• Assisting with development of interactive, educational green kitchen and building envelope exhibits at NEXUS.
• Developing educational toolkits for workshops and exhibits.
• Creating reports and analyzing visitor data to inform future projects, grants, and program development.
• Researching and contacting potential sponsors and product exhibitors at NEXUS.
Skills and Experience:
Excellent written and oral communication skills;
Experience in customer service;
Highly organized and detail-oriented;
Knowledge of or strong interest in exhibit creation and maintenance, psychology of behavioral choices and change, research and data collection/analysis, and/or green building materials;
Familiarity with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Publisher, Outlook, and Access as well as Survey Monkey;
Passion for green building and sustainability.
Marketing Intern
The Marketing Intern will work closely with the NEXUS Events and Marketing Coordinator to increase the exposure of NEXUS and attendance of Green Roundtable events.
Projects may include:
• Events Outreach: Calling, flyering and other direct marketing tactics for educational, social networking and NEXUS resource events. Tracking and evaluating the results of current marketing strategies.
• Marketing materials development and coordination: Creating press releases, flyers and other direct marketing material templates for events, trade shows and at NEXUS.
• Measuring success: Develop project profiles to inform the public of GRT news, success stories and measurable accomplishments (e.g. profile the amount of carbon offset from a project).
• Newsletter: format monthly e-newsletter and monthly events mailer.
• Educational programming: further developing branding and language about GRT's educational events, trainings and other resources.
• Compilation and organization of marketing contacts of GRT staff for Outreach purposes.
• Management of continuing projects including Speakers' Bureau, GRT in the Media and creating marketing flyers.
Skills and Experience:
Excellent written and oral communication skills;
Experience with design and layout of documents in Publisher, In-Design, or similar graphic layout program;
Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Publisher, Outlook, and Access;
Interest and ability to learn the vocabulary of green building;
Excellent Internet research skills;
Skilled in visual and spatial layout and design ;
Strong interest in marketing, outreach and design;
Passion for green building and sustainability.
Preference will be given to individuals currently studying or with professional background in marketing.
Website and Systems Intern
The Website and Systems Intern will work closely with the Education Coordinator to enhance and revitalize the NEXUS website and technological systems.
Projects may include:
• General website development
• Formatting and posting website content with web-based Content Management System
• Enhancing website w/ CSS modifications, widgets, RSS feeds, etc.
• Creating or enhancing automated systems for tour management, visitor tracking, Help Desk tracking, and other database-driven tools;
• Preparing existing databases for integration into new database and web systems;
• Developing system for reporting on website use;
• Routine troubleshooting & maintenance of website, including vetting of existing links/content;
• Assisting GRT staff members with technical aspects of presentations and project development;
• Investigating potential new systems for constituent relations management, knowledge management, and donation and grants tracking.
Skills and Experience:
Excellent written and oral communication skills;
Highly organized and detail-oriented;
Knowledge of HTML, web-based CMS's or other website tools and systems;
Knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Access, Excel and PowerPoint;
General knowledge of systems hardware and back-end infrastructure;
Knowledge of SQL and DBMS highly desired;
Knowledge of, or strong interest in, web technology and knowledge management systems highly desired;
Knowledge of and passion for green building and sustainability highly desired.