Position Status: 35 hours per week with flexibility
Term: 12 weeks, Mid-May – August (flexible)
Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday, with some evenings required
Reports to: Director of Marketing and Communications
Compensation: $16/hour, paid holidays (Memorial Day, Juneteenth, July 4), 2 days of sick leave, $100/month travel stipend totaling $300

About the Columbia Land Conservancy:
The Columbia Land Conservancy brings people together to conserve, appreciate, and enjoy land. For nearly 40 years, CLC has collaborated with individuals, communities,
and partners to ensure Columbia County is a beautiful, livable, resilient place. Columbia County is located on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the
Indigenous peoples of this land.

This internship is supported by the Paden Legacy Fund for Advancing Conservation and Education (PLACE). This fund was established to honor CLC’s Executive Director
Emeritus, Peter Paden, for his decades of dedicated service as a Trustee and Executive Director. The PLACE Fund celebrates Peter’s enduring legacy by educating the next
generation of conservationists, creating a coalition of dedicated land stewards, and calling upon all of us to protect this land we love.

The Columbia Land Conservancy is open to people of all ideas and backgrounds. We value diverse viewpoints and experiences. We strive to build a healthy workplace,
provide equitable access to and meaningful connections with the land, and strengthen our community. Our values that guide decision-making include incorporating many
voices and perspectives, learning from the past while preparing for the future, and that everyone deserves access to land.

Position Summary
The Outreach and Education Intern works to further CLC’s mission as it relates to engaging our community through digital and in-person outreach. This position supports
CLC’s Communications and Education teams.

Learning Goals

• Collaboratively practice outdoor interpretation skills
• Build Intern’s proficiency in digital and in-person outreach.
• Learn best practices for partnership and collaboration with other organizations to deliver programming. Program evaluation.
• Provide Intern regular feedback toward meeting workplace expectations.
• Help Intern access professional role models and mentors.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with communications program
     o Take photos at public events
     o Create social media graphics and posts
     o Publicize events through posting on community calendars and writing press releases
     o Create short-form videos and StoryMaps for use on social media and CLC website
• Assist with education programs
     o Attend programs and summer camps as support
     o If interested, there is an opportunity to lead a program in an area of interest
• Represent CLC at community events while sharing information about programs offered and answering questions
• Other tasks as your interests and passions allow! CLC believes internships are learning experiences and will work with the selected candidate to ensure that both professional and organizational goals are achieved.  

Qualifications
Qualifications required to excel in this position can come from professional and lived experience. Below we describe what we believe to be important qualifications for a
candidate while remaining open to diverse backgrounds that can lead to these skill sets. Position descriptions are often presented in a way that leaves qualified candidates,
particularly women, people of working-class backgrounds, people of color, and LGBTQIA applicants, feeling unwelcome, intimidated, uncomfortable, and/or unqualified to apply. Recognizing that, we strongly encourage anyone who feels passionate about this work and believes they have what it takes to thrive in this role to apply.

Essential Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Comfortable working in the office and in the field.
• Ability to maintain composure and a positive attitude in the face of sometimes disgruntled members of the public.
• Weekday, weekend, and evening availability as needed.
• Eagerness to learn the basic best practices of communications and outreach, including website maintenance, social media, graphic design, and education.
• Excitement to pursue CLC’s mission. 

Physical Demands & Work Environment
Position will require mobility to work in office and outdoor settings and use office equipment including a computer, camera, and/or smartphone, strength to lift and carry
materials weighing up to 10 pounds, vision to view computer screen, and hearing and speech to communicate in person and over the telephone. Work environment will depend on the interests of the intern, but will likely be approximately half indoor and half outdoor. Outdoor conditions may involve hikes on CLC trails which occasionally consist of steep terrain.