Saturday, July 2, 2011

Seeking Summer Intern: COMMUNITY MANAGER - Stories of Sustainability

InnovatingSMART.org is a public-benefit all-volunteer service, offering a digestible stream of "Stories of Sustainability for Tomorrow's Innovators". Our stories come from our own interviews with sustainability-driven innovators, plus our observations and blog posts. In the future, we hope to extend this content to include self-posted stories of sustainability-related innovation, self-posted sustainability-related capstone projects, and more.

We have created the bones of a potentially powerful service, which informs and inspires sustainability-driven innovation in an open, participatory and human-centered way. We are very proud of what we've created.

WE NEED YOUR HELP --
We need an energetic COMMUNITY MANAGER to help us bring our valuable free service out from under-the-radar, and into an interactive presence in the larger social-media-based communities. In particular, we need someone who will:

- actively recruit subscribers to our free service
- cross-post our content to related social media sites, and refer their relevant content back to ours
- create engaging interactions on our (currently nominal) Facebook and Twitter Pages
- invite specific types of interaction/contribution to targeted communities
- build out our connections to on-line and on-the-ground groups such as: NetImpact and Green Drinks

By the end of summer 2011, we would like to grow our little community by an order of magnitude, and be on our way to becoming a widely heard Voice.


WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU --
Though this internship program is unpaid, we seek to provide you a flexible, professional-quality-expected work experience, which will inform your career, enhance your resume, and enhance your portfolio. Best of all, we can give you hands-on experience for building out your Community Management skills.

Specific benefits include:
- opportunity to experiment with and build out your Community Management skills
- professional/pre-professional experience for your resume
- a performance review, and a Letter of Recommendation based on your performance
plus:
- up-close exposure to sustainability-driven innovation and the innovation process
- opportunity to promote active sustainability-driven innovation in all fields


APPLICATION --
A ten-hour/week commitment is requested. Start and end dates are flexible, which you design to fit best with your other plans and commitments. Your work will be conducted through a combination of independent effort, and in-person or Skype- based meetings with the InnovatingSMART Director or team. We ask you to please provide your own computer and network access. Thank you!

To apply, please email a brief cover letter and your resume to slebeck@innovatingSMART.org. Please use the subject "InnovatingSMART Internship". Thank you! for your interest in InnovatingSMART.
Thank you and good bye.

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