Summer time 2024 Local weather Faculty Internship Alternatives – State of the Planet

The Local weather Faculty is providing internship alternatives for numerous administration and communications roles with sustainability-related initiatives. Present full-time Columbia and Barnard college students (undergraduate, graduate, and PhD) are eligible to use. 

Summer time internships are paid at a price of $22/hour. The utmost attainable funding is for 260 hours (or 20 hours/week for 13 weeks) and the internship interval runs June 1 – August 31. College students should be out there to begin on or about June 1st. College students hires are required to be inside commuting distance throughout their summer time employment at Columbia and should make their very own housing preparations.

The appliance deadline is Sunday, April 7 at 11:30 pm ET. Selections might be made shortly after the deadline.

Learn the total place descriptions under rigorously for particular necessities for every place. To use, go to the utility right here. Whilst you might apply for a couple of place, you need to submit separate purposes for every. To use for a number of positions, return to the shape after you submit it to pick out one other place.

For every place utility, you have to to submit your cowl letter and resume mixed right into a single file.

Contact Yana Zeltser (yzeltser@local weather.columbia.edu) with questions.

The Summer time 2024 Internship positions embody:

1. Advancing Land Based mostly Funding Governance (undergraduate, graduate)
2. Local weather Faculty-WE ACT Thriving Neighborhood Technical Help Middle Program (undergraduate, graduate, PhD)
3. Speaking Local weather Science and Impacts of Environmental Stressors on Weak Ecosystems and Communities (graduate)
4. Coordinating Indigenous and NGO participation in local weather negotiations (undergraduate, graduate, PhD)
5. DEI + Sustainability Summer time Fellowship Venture (graduate)
6. Institutional Partnerships (undergraduate)

Internship Place Descriptions:

1. Venture Title: Advancing Land Based mostly Funding Governance
   Scholar kind desired: undergraduate, graduate
   Division/Program: Columbia Middle on Sustainable Funding
   
   Venture Targets:
   Beneath the Advancing Land Based mostly Funding Governance (ALIGN) consortium, CCSI and two accomplice organizations present responsive technical assist to governments, civil society, native communities and Indigenous Peoples in strengthening nationwide coverage on land-based investments. The venture responds to considerations that land-based investments (together with renewable vitality investments) are sometimes seen as vital to advancing sustainable growth although can also contribute to dispossession, environmental degradation, and battle. ALIGN actions are underneath manner in a number of international locations throughout Sub-Saharan African and the Asia-Pacific. Thematic foci embody land rights, local weather change, and vitality transition coverage.

   Anticipated Duties: 
   1) Monitoring internet and social media content material associated to ALIGN actions to assist responsiveness to dynamic authorized and coverage landscapes and inform ALIGN technique growth.
   2) Growing twitter and web site content material on ALIGN initiatives; social media content material has proved precious in reaching goal authorities and personal sector stakeholders.
   3) Supporting communication and effectivity throughout consortium and exterior accomplice organizations by means of creating and updating venture monitoring spreadsheets and note-taking in conferences.

   Proposed advantages of this venture to the intern:
   The intern may have the chance to study from exterior companions in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia in regards to the environmental and human rights considerations surrounding land-based investments, in addition to about public sector efforts to enhance funding governance. The intern will develop social media, written communication, stakeholder engagement and organizational abilities in addition to their consideration to element. They are going to study accountable land-based funding, funding governance, and group and Peoples’ rights within the context of useful resource investments, and cross-cutting areas together with the simply transition. Networking alternatives with CCSI workers and fellow interns might be out there.

   Expertise Required: 
   Robust consideration to element, glorious written communication abilities, robust organizational and interpersonal abilities, information or expertise of points referring to land-based funding governance, group and Peoples’ rights, local weather change, the vitality transition and cross-cutting themes can be most well-liked however just isn’t required. French is a plus.

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2. Venture Title: Local weather Faculty-WE ACT Thriving Neighborhood Technical Help Middle Program
   Scholar kind desired: undergraduate, graduate, PhD
   Division/Program: Columbia Local weather Faculty

Venture Targets:
Interns will assist the Columbia Local weather Faculty-WE ACT Thriving Neighborhood Technical Help Middle Program group. The Area 2: WE ACT TCTAC serves New York and New Jersey and goals to assist underserved communities acquire entry to grant and funding alternatives in order that they’re higher positioned to advance and tackle environmental, local weather, and vitality justice points. We (members of the TCTAC) provide coaching and technical help to construct capability for navigating grant utility programs, writing robust grant proposals, successfully managing grants, and fascinating in environmental and vitality justice decision-making. As a part of this group, the chosen particular person will assist the next administrative efforts

Anticipated Duties: 
1) Coordinating Technical Help requests; Observe participant information; Collate information to offer program progress stories.
2) Determine and meet with potential technical help suppliers.
3) The intern may also assist TCTAC Steering Committee Conferences and dealing teams together with a) Arrange assembly agendas, b) Be aware-taking, c) Coordinate observe up.
4) The intern will may additionally present logistical assist with a) In-person and digital trainings, b) Neighborhood excursions by means of our NY and NJ, c) WE ACT TCTAC cohort occasions

Examples of key features throughout placement might embody: Supporting strategic partnership growth, Assessing the affect of WE ACT TCTAC on deprived communities, and
Serving to to develop content material for inner and exterior outreach efforts.

Advantages of this venture to the intern:
The intern will acquire expertise working with environmental justice and community-based organizations, strengthen information assortment and organizational abilities, and work collaboratively with a venture group of members from numerous backgrounds (college workers, NGOs, CBOs, and so on.)
Expertise Required:  Glorious organizational abilities, good folks abilities, some information of and curiosity in environmental or local weather justice (ideally programs taken or earlier work expertise). College students who’re passionate and fascinated about environmental justice.

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• Venture Title: Speaking Local weather Science and Impacts of Environmental Stressors on Weak Ecosystems and Communities
  Scholar kind desired: graduate
  Division/Program: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

  Venture Targets:
  1) Enhance understanding on how local weather change stressors (sea degree rise, growing temperature, eutrophication, hypoxia) affect ecological processes in susceptible coastal environments, and talk outcomes to coastal communities, together with underserved populations.
  2)  Enhance understanding on impacts of utmost occasions (intense storms, floods, droughts) on coastal ecosystems, habitat, and communities.
  3) Enhance understanding on why local weather change is an environmental justice concern.
  4) Seize and combine enter from native communities into our analysis.
  5) Bridge and translate science to coverage, resolution makers, and the general public.
  6) Study human-ecosystem interactions in city coastal programs.

  Anticipated Duties: 
  1) Develop internet content material related to this venture
  2) Develop social media content material
  3) Write blogs and essays
  4) Interview venture individuals, collaborators and stakeholders concerned on this venture
  5) Help with growth of quick movies/recordings

  Advantages of this venture to the intern:

By means of this venture, the intern will study in regards to the affect of local weather change and excessive occasions on coastal ecological processes and ecosystem stressors. By means of involvement in all phases of the venture, the intern may have the chance to broaden the information obtained in programs, change into conversant in present literature on local weather change and impacts on coastal ecology, biodiversity, coastal communities and water sources, and develop abilities in communication of findings. They may also acquire expertise in working each independently and cooperatively with a various group of individuals, and understanding and making use of writing/communications strategies, ethics and conduct guidelines.
Expertise Required: 

Creativity; Important pondering and problem-solving; Initiative; Organizational Expertise; Robust background and curiosity in local weather change, environmental sciences and social science; Efficient oral and written communication abilities (e.g., essays, blogs, interviews); Expertise with numerous social media and communication platforms (e.g., YouTube, Instagram); Expertise with internet content material growth (e.g., story maps); Teamwork and collaboration abilities

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• Venture Title: Coordinating Indigenous and NGO participation in local weather negotiations
  Scholar kind desired: undergraduate, graduate, PhD
  Division/Program: Columbia Local weather Faculty

  Venture Targets:
  This venture seeks to increase the participation of Indigenous Peoples with two teams concerned within the UNFCCC negotiations: an NGO, the Worldwide Cryosphere Local weather Initiative (iccinet.org), and a high-level group of countries, Ambition on Melting Ice (ambitionmeltingice.org), which incorporates numerous international locations (Nepal, Chile, Peru, Tanzania) with substantial Indigenous populations. These two organizations press for local weather motion to handle ice loss and sea degree rise; although there may be some Indigenous involvement by means of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (inuitcircumpolar.org) round sea ice, Indigenous engagement might be drastically expanded in areas of mountain glaciers and permafrost.

  Anticipated Duties: 

1) The intern will coordinate with Indigenous organizations, such because the Native Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (lcipp.unfccc.int) and nationwide organizations, in addition to with the 2 teams above.

2) They are going to monitor actions round cryosphere, mountain and permafrost points inside the UNFCCC processes and Indigenous Peoples organizations.

3) They are going to assemble case research of efficient adaptation and mitigation actions that contain full simply partnerships between Indigenous Peoples and different organizations.

4) They are going to help in making ready notes and paperwork main as much as COP29 in Azerbaijan, and assist the event of the Worldwide 12 months of Glacier Protextion (2025) introduced by UNESCO, and can put together posts on this efforts for the GlacierHub inside the Local weather Faculty web site State of the Planet (information.local weather.columbia.edu/options/GlacierHub).

Advantages of this venture to the intern:
The intern will acquire information and expertise of worldwide local weather negotiations, study the challenges and alternatives of selling engagement of marginalized communities, and develop abilities in finding and analyzing evaluation and coverage paperwork. The intern may also produce posts for State of the Planet which may have their byline and everlasting URLs.

Expertise Required: 
Familiarity with local weather coverage, local weather science and impacts, and local weather justice; Robust abilities in managing paperwork and references; Writing abilities for drafting paperwork and stories; Expertise in associated areas of local weather justice most well-liked; Worldwide expertise most well-liked.

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• Venture Title: DEI + Sustainability Summer time Fellowship Venture
  Scholar kind desired: graduate
  Division/Program: SUMA & Columbia Local weather Faculty

  Venture Targets:
  This venture goals to strengthen DEI efforts and initiatives inside the Sustainability graduate applications and Local weather Faculty accomplice applications. College students will interact in quite a lot of actions and work that highlights the shut connectivity of DEI and Sustainability. This venture will contain creating curriculum and programming that deliver equity-centered views on sustainability, combine environmental justice information, and allow college students to deeply interact with social justice points. At the side of workplaces and folks all through the community, this venture will present fellows with a high-level overview of technique, planning, and growth in DEI + Sustainability areas.
  
  Anticipated Duties: 
  This venture goals to middle DEI developments with scholar suggestions and growth, EMPHASIS ON STUDENTS. College students will assist develop workshops, abilities seminars, course curriculum, and future DEI Initiatives for the Sustainability Packages, accomplice applications, and past. College students will brainstorm and construct relationships with program administrations, Local weather Faculty & SPS leaders, and entities throughout the Columbia community. College students may also interact within the broadness of DEI + Sustainability, working individually and collectively, to craft displays and sources to assist in advertising and recruitment for the applications. College students may also contribute to web site and social media updates.

  Advantages of this venture to the intern:
  Scholar will acquire abilities and competencies in DEI planning. Scholar will accomplice with SUMA directors, school, and different campus leaders on their DEI efforts. College students will acquire a greater understanding of the technique and growth behind DEI Programming. College students may also acquire precious expertise in working in increased training administration and management. College students will develop transferable abilities that might be precious, regardless of the specified profession path. College students will present assist for initiatives of the Sustainability Graduate Packages and on broader fairness efforts at Columbia and within the surrounding group.
  
  Expertise Required: 
  Curiosity in DEI work; Curiosity in Greater Schooling Administration; Sustainability Emphasis; Laptop Expertise; Public Talking and Presentation Expertise; Neighborhood Engagement; Be Out there for In-Particular person & Digital.

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• Venture Title: Institutional Partnerships
  Scholar kind desired: undergraduate
  Division/Program: Columbia Local weather Faculty, Workplace of Improvement

  Venture Targets:
  The Summer time Intern will contribute to the next summer time initiatives:
  1) Proceed to develop and refine the Local weather Faculty’s first growth database of institutional funders and prospects.
  2) Put together Supplies for Technique Classes and Pipeline Conferences
  3) Prospect Analysis

  Anticipated Duties: 
  Selecting up the place our earlier intern left off, the brand new summer time intern will proceed to construct and refine the event database. They are going to supply and compile publicly out there contact info on prospects and funders to the Faculty to assist the creation of an actionable database. The intern may also work carefully to assist the group within the preparation of presentation supplies (slide decks, abstract paperwork, agendas); take assembly notes after which synthesize and distribute them to assembly individuals. Lastly, they may contribute to the event of prospect briefings for Local weather Faculty.

  Advantages of this venture to the intern:
  The scholar will get an inside view of how the Local weather Faculty raises funding from the local weather philanthropy sector, primarily foundations and firms. The scholar will study key international funding priorities for the local weather sector and the way the Columbia Local weather Faculty’s training, analysis, and affect goals match to those areas of giving. The scholar will uplevel their skill to make use of AI to effectively and successfully accomplish routine duties corresponding to prospect briefings and create compelling PPTs.

  Expertise Required: 
  Intern ought to have robust English language writing and venture administration abilities; facility with Microsoft 365 platform, Google workspace, and LinkedIn. A familiarity with buyer relationship administration (CRM) databases is most well-liked, however not important. Prior expertise utilizing ChatGPT, BardAI, or different generative AI fashions is most welcome. The intern ought to possess a curiosity for what drives philanthropic engagement within the local weather sector, particularly in direction of an instructional establishment just like the Columbia Local weather Faculty.