Hours per week: Flexible, average 20, including weekend outreach events
Duration of internship: Flexible, April 2018 – August 2018. Ideal candidate will live in the region and be able to plan and execute 1-2 Creek Critters events per week on average throughout spring and summer.
Intern Supervisor: Gregg Trilling, Creek Critters Program Manager
Salary and Benefits: This internship is paid at the rate of $11.50/hr. Benefits include:
- Free ANS membership for one year
- 20% discount for ANS adult programs.
- If space is available, free participation in ANS adult programs.
- 20% discount at Sanctuary Shop.
- Opportunity to participate in staff and committee meetings
- Opportunity to interview the ANS Executive Director and other staff
Responsibilities: The Creek Critters Outreach Intern will work with the Creek Critters Program Manager to plan, run, and evaluate community-based stream monitoring events with partner organizations.
Qualifications:
Required qualifications include:
- fast learner and excited to learn skills quickly
- an interest in and commitment to environmental protection and/or science
- good people skills and ability to relate to and speak in front of a wide variety of audiences
- facility with technology such as smartphone apps, databases, blogs, social media
- Acess to a car.
- Must have own iOS or Android smartphone
Desired qualifications include, in any combination:
- aquatic macroinvertebrate identification
- database programming and data/chart visualization of a Salesforce database
- knowledge of any of the following: stream ecology and/or hydrology, watershed health, green infrastructure, stormwater management.
- social media marketing and/or blogging
- photo or video editing skills
- knowledge of communities in DC, Montgomery, Prince George’s, and/or Fairfax counties
Location and Transportation Woodend Nature Sanctuary – 8940 Jones Mill Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Send resume and short cover letter to gregg.trilling@anshome.org
