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Sustainability Program Intern Coordinator
Hours: 12 hours per week
Hourly Rate: $13/hour
Start Date: Jan 2024
Expectations for interns
- Self-motivated, prepared and on-time for all meetings and tasks related to the internship
- Dedicate 12 hours per week to the internship
- 5% attending weekly ECO meetings
- 70% supporting ongoing certification programs through research and outreach
- 25% assisting with GreenU events and communication efforts
Major Responsibilities
- Assist with the development of new programs related to sustainability on campus
- Green Office Certification
- Develop and implement a communication plan to raise awareness about the program, focusing on in person outreach on campus.
- Review existing certification and best practices at other universities, make recommendations for improvement
- Create informative materials, such as brochures or website content, to educate faculty, staff, and students about the certification process and benefits
- Green Lab Certification
- Develop and implement a communication plan to raise awareness about the program, focusing on in person outreach on campus.
- Review existing certification and best practices at other universities, make recommendations for improvement
- Create informative materials, such as brochures or website content, to educate faculty, staff, and students about the certification process and benefits
- Explore potential partnerships with on campus student organizations (STEM-related, most likely)
- Establish a system for collecting feedback from certified labs to continuously improve the program
- Green Event Certification
- Develop and implement a communication plan to raise awareness about the program, focusing on in person outreach on campus.
- Research and compile a list of eco-friendly vendors and assist in establishing partnerships
- Develop a method or tool for event organizers to calculate and reduce the carbon footprint of their events
- Create easy to read, informative guidelines and resources for event organizers to follow
- Develop a post-event evaluation system to assess the environmental impact of certified events
- Establish a recognition program for events that achieve green certification
- Assist with Office events and communication efforts through on campus outreach, social media, and website updates
- Meet with student groups to promote the Green Lab and Green Event programs, as well as other GreenU initiatives such as the Sustainability Scholar Program
- Reach out to professors to promote GreenU programs in classes
- Research best practices from other institutions and apply them to our Instagram and Facebook accounts
- Foster connections with other relevant on-campus accounts
Please send your resume and letter of motivation to greenu@miami.edu
Communication Intern Coordinator
The Office of Sustainability’s mission is to educate staff, faculty, students, alumni and the community at large about the benefits of adopting sustainable practices and behaviors across the institution.Candidates are typically graduate or undergraduate students from the School of Communication.
Hours: 14 hours per week
Hourly Rate: $20/hour
Start Date: TBC
Job Description: The Coordinator will
- Monitor, promote and enhance the programs offered by the Office of Sustainability.
- Design innovative strategies to achieve awareness and behavioral change for sustainability performance
- Film, edit, and promote short videos to highlight sustainable practices on campus
- Interview students, faculty, and staff who are sustainability role models at UM.
- Post reels and pictures on Green U’s social media accounts to engage and inform the university community and train the custodial staff.
- Review the OS website and Newsletter and offer the Sustainability manager a series of recommendations aligning with OS goals.
- Document Green U events on campus (Earth Day, World Water Day, Arbor Day, etc.)
- Engage students, faculty and staff to increase the monthly newsletter listserv, and followers on social media accounts.
- Tik Tok and Instagram account miantenance to bump up the number of UM followers
“This job has not only allowed me to practice and improve my environmental communication skills, but has given me the opportunity to make valuable connections within the UM community and beyond.” Adam Roberti, Exec. Director of the Cortada Foundation.
Job Requirements
Education:
- Graduate or Undergraduate Student in Communication
- Specializing in Filming, Social Media Strategy, Public Relations preferred
Knowledge, Skills:
- Utilize Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Suite and Adobe Premiere
- Good organizational skills, detail oriented, multi-tasker, flexible schedule, dependable
- Good communication skills both oral and written.
- Ability to work independently and/or in a collaborative environment
Please send your resume and letter of motivation to
greenu@miami.edu
Garden / Conservation Coordinator
Paid internship position
Hours: 12 hours per week
Hourly Rate: $13/hour
Start Date: Jan 2024
Job description:
Skills required:
- Must agree to help with some light physical work linked to event logistics and garden/composting duties.
- Must have excellent people skills in order to build positive relationships with staff, students and stakeholders.
- Must have good leadership skills and lead by Example.
- Must be able to multi-task with strong prioritization, scheduling and delegation abilities.
- Has intermediate to advanced knowledge of data analysis and business software (to include: Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel).
- Horticulture knowledge is a plus
Other requirements:
- The student will agree to work 12 hours a week
- The student will need to confirm that she/he's able to do physical work for more than 2 hours, lift bags and use tools outdoor under hot and humid conditions.
Please send your resume and letter of motivation to greenu@miami.edu
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Green Athletics Intern Liaison
The UM Office of Sustainability is looking for an undergraduate student for the position of Green Athletics Liaison. Watch Lou Hedley (NFL Saints) talk about his experience as UM Green Athletics Liaison
This is a "for credit", unpaid position, 12 h/ week,
Starting Date: Jan 2024 for 1 semester.
Applicants need to be either a student athlete or a student in the Sports Administration Department (minor in any sustainability focused department is a plus).
- The Green Athletics Liaison will help establish, monitor and evaluate the Initiatives planned by the Office of Sustainability.
- The Green Athletics Liaison will be serving as the main liaison between different Departments, the Office of Sustainability, the Student Government ECO Agency, as well as the ACC Student Athletes for Sustainability in Sports.
- The GA Liaison will work with our Athletics Communication team to design a comprehensive Green Social-Media Strategy for the Fall.
- The GA Liaison will research some areas of Sustainability in Sports to identify projects that would benefit the Athletics Department, and the organization as a whole.
- The GA Liaison will collaborate with Faculty and students to create awareness events during the games, collaborating with ECO and Cat 5.
Skills required:
- The Applicant will need to work on projects, in a very independent way, with deadlines and deliverables in mind and strong organizational skills.
- Applicant need to be proficient in MS Office, Excel.
Other requirements:
- The student needs to be pursuing an undergraduate degree at UM (Sports Administration, Kinesiology, Student Athletes…)
- The student will agree to work 12 hours a week
- The student will need to confirm that her faculty advisor agreed to award academic credits for the internship.
Please send your resume and letter of motivation to greenu@miami.edu
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Interactive Media Intern
Unpaid “For Credit” or "Interactive Media Capstone project" internship position
Hours: 8 hours per week
Start Date: Jan 2024 for 1 semester.
- The office of Sustainability at UM launched a Virtual tour of our LEED certified building program in 2020. We would like to take the current platform that was made for Frost Music Studios, and use it as a framework for 2 new virtual tours of green buildings on campus: https://greenu.miami.edu/topics/green-buildings/leed-certified-buildings/index.html
- The tour will need to have 180 degree pictures of different floors areas (180 Camera provided by the office): desks (LED lighting, recycling bins , trash can less desk policy …); kitchen (no single use plastic, reusable mugs…); Copy rooms (FSC certified paper, toner recycling…); hallway (VOC free painting, Recycled flooring material, screens to avoid paper flyers…); Bathroom (low flow faucet, low flow toilets…); Outdoor areas (LED lighting, Building control system…) Landscaping (Native ecosystem, smart irrigation) and a special focus on the Cypress Pond located at the South tip of the building.
- Deliverable: an Adobe XD or Figma based virtual tour that will allow visitors to click on those features and learn more about them (Narrative and data will be provided by OS)
Skills required:
- The Applicant will need to work on the project in a very independent way, with deadlines and deliverables in mind and strong organizational skills.
- Applicant need to be proficient in Adobe XD or Figma.
Other requirements:
- The student needs to be pursuing an undergraduate degree at UM (Interactive Media - School of Communication)
- The student will agree to work 8 hours a week, and use it for credit or as a capstone project for an Interactive Media class.
Please send your resume and letter of motivation to greenu@miami.edu
