Green Contest Intern (Paid)

America’s #1 conservation service organization seeks a well-organized intern at our National Headquarters in Charlestown NH. This internship will support the day-to-day tasks of running the SCA/NBC Green Your School Contest.  The Green Your School Contest is a national competition to stimulate and /or identify conservation service projects designed by high school students that improve, restore, beautify or conserve their school environment.  Please visit www.thesca.org/green-your-school to learn more about the contest.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Managing contest submissions
• Coordinate contest judging
• Answering all questions from submitters or prospective submitters
• Help promote the contest through social networking and other sites
• Manage the post-event toolkit
• Implementing other Green Your School Contest tasks as need arises

Qualifications:

• Strong interest in SCA’s mission to provide hands-on conservation opportunities for young people
• Excellent technical skills, including proficiency in MS Office
• Comfortable with electronic communication and web
• Creative thinker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter
• Highly-organized
• Sense of humor is always a plus

Internship Dates: August through December, 2009. Dates flexible to accommodate academic schedule.

Hours: 15/week

Compensation: $10/hour plus reimbursement for gas to/from Charlestown