Do you enjoy working with youth of color in middle-school?

Looking for an opportunity to help shift the way young people are treated in school?

We are looking for you!

Blocks Together is looking for undergraduate and graduate students in the helping professions to support the implementation of Restorative Justice principles and practices at the Daniel Cameron Elementary School on Chicago’s West Side.

You will be aiding an innovative initiative to shift school culture into one that is more restorative and less punitive and promotes stronger communication and mutual accountability among the students and staff.

Duties include:

-Assist programming to support social-emotional skill development of the 6th-8th grade boys
-Ongoing mentoring of high-need students
-Engage students in Restorative Justice practices as needed (training provided)
-Working directly with the Dean of Restorative Justice and Male Student Development

Internship Details:
-Dates: March 2013-June 2013; Availability for August 2013-December 2013 a plus
-Flexible Days (availability during school hours 8-3pm required)
-Unpaid but we can work with you to meet class credit or community service requirements
-Looking for strong cultural competency with low-income African-American and Latino communities on Chicago’s West Side
-African-American and Latino males strongly encouraged to apply

Internship Title: Security and Life Safety Internship

Internship Department: Security & Life Safety

Objective: The intern will provide assistance in updating, developing, and implementing safety programs, conduct life safety inspections, audits, and coordinate safety training.

Responsibilities: 
• Conduct audits of safety programs in order to determine current practices and status of program compliance, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvements.
• Assist in updating, drafting, or creating OSHA compliance and emergency response programs and procedures.
• Assist in creating safety training plans and coordinating training.
• Assist in updating chemical safety programs. 
• Designing a safe storage solution for the facility chemical storage room and project managing installation of storage equipment.

Final Product(s): 
The intern may write and implement one or more of the following life safety programs and projects:
• Hazardous chemical communication program
• Material safety data sheet (MSDS) program 
• Hazardous chemical Inventory
• Chemical labeling program
• Chemical waste disposal program
• Redesigned chemical storage room
• Five year safety training plan
• Updated written safety programs

Desired Year in School: Enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program

Desired Majors: Operations Management, Chemistry, Biology, Criminal Justice, Management,

AOSSM, a professional medical association focused on education and research, is seeking a Corporate Development Intern to assist in securing financial support for programs, including new research initiatives and a growing youth sports safety campaign. This individual will collaborate with two directors to identify productive ways to research, identify and engage new corporate prospects (e.g., companies, foundations, other non-profits). The Intern will be responsible for utilizing existing data bases, and other resources to capture vital information about prospective donors. This information will be used to reach out to corporate prospects (primarily via email) to enlighten them about sports medicine initiatives, sports injury prevention, etc. A strong interest in marketing, sponsorships, writing, research and/or report generation is preferred.

Responsibilities:
-Collaborate with Corporate Directors to address respective needs for securing funding for the STOP Sports Injuries Campaign and AOSSM research and educational programs
-Organize existing prospect lists for more efficient utilization
-Help identify best sponsorship opportunities for select corporate prospects
-Contact corporate prospects to confirm and verify best contact information
-Enter all new data (full contact info) into spread sheets &/or designated data base
- Provide input and assist with revision of existing marketing and recognition materials
-Make recommendations for enhancing current AOSSM development practices, e.g., web site pages, print collateral, solicitations, social media, etc.

Skills and Experience:
-Current enrollment in a bachelor’s degree program concentrating in sports management,
communications, PR and/or marketing
-Strong project management skills
-Ability to demonstrate professionalism in their communications, e.g., in the office, via phone, in
writing, etc.
-Extremely detail-oriented and able to meet deadlines and work on several projects
simultaneously
-Proficiency is Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel and Outlook and other software as
needed such as IMIS
-Highly motivated, results-oriented and interest in the sports medicine profession

Job Title: Policy Intern

Department: Refugee Resettlement Services

Reports To: Housing and Policy Manager

Date: Mid-June 2013

The Policy Intern is responsible for assisting with all aspects of advocacy and policy, including engagement with ICIRR and The Golden Door Coalition, as well as RefugeeOne’s refugee and immigrant services.

Advocacy and Policy (70% of time)

Assist RefugeeOne’s advocacy work, involving staff and board (as needed) in engagement with outside organizations including other refugee groups. These include, but are not limited to:

-CWS, EMM, LIRS
-ICIRR and The Golden Door Coalition
-Engagement with other local service providers
-Representation of RefugeeOne at local, regional and national meetings and conferences 

Maintain and develop social media (Facebook and Twitter) sites for the Golden Door Coalition

Engage RefugeeOne’s Waukegan immigration office in policy and advocacy initiatives for Hispanic population

Compliance and Reporting (20% of time)

Assist with filing as needed

Create and maintain policy manual for agency use

Maintain accurate and adequate record of activities including meeting highlights and follow ups

Complete all required reporting accurately and on time

Administration (10% of time)

Return communications (phone, email, mail) to internal and external colleagues and partners within 48 hours

Attend and participate in department and agency meetings as assigned

Attend and participate in regular meetings with supervisor to assess progress in program and personal goals

Complete other duties and tasks as assigned

Competencies include:

-Knowledge of the political process, current political dynamic, humanitarian development, and immigration and refugee issues including local, state and national government
-Background in public policy, government and / or related fields
-Excellent communication skills and comfortable with public speaking
-Resourceful and able to take initiative
-Strong organizational and time management skills; able to juggle multiple priorities and responsibilities
-Respect for, and ability to successfully interact with, people from all races, cultures, religious and ethnic backgrounds
-Flexible in work schedule
-Passion for the mission and vision of RefugeeOne an ability to represent the agency professionally
-Familiarity with refugee and immigration issues is a plus

Tribune Media Services is looking for a Web Design Intern who wants to gain experience in the marketing and new product operations function for a global content agency. In this role, you’ll work directly with the Director of Marketing, Product Manager, and Senior Web Strategist to support a variety of design function areas for marketing and new product prototypes. If you are looking for “real world” experience in design, SEO/SEM, or email marketing, you’ll love this internship!



We’re looking for someone for the summer months who can work about 40 hours a week at the Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago, IL. 


Tribune Media Services (TMS News & Features, LLC) is the entrepreneurial content agency of Chicago Tribune Media Group, syndicating products of more than 200 premium publisher brands and authors to media companies and marketers worldwide. It is a premier provider of political and cultural commentary and advice, as well as special-interest content in a variety of topic areas, including health, travel, consumer finance, dining, technology, careers, style and real estate, along with news and informational stories and visual content from partner McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT). Tribune Media Services also supports digital media platforms by developing products for content marketers and consumers through best-selling eMagazines and eBooks.

For more information about Tribune Media Services and its products and services, visit www.tmsfeatures.com.




Responsibilities:

In this role, you’ll be responsible for the following:

Help populate new online catalog and perform a series of publishing/design tasks devoted to the new site.
Code HTML marketing emails and landing pages.
Work within email marketing system to set up email campaigns and email reports.
Assist with listing building and responsible for distribution of HTML communiqués.
Work with Sr. Web Marketing Strategist to implement SEO strategies.
Assist in the application of the new logo treatment to a variety of online and print materials.
Assist with implementation of online consumer ads for eBooks/eMags.
Creation of mockups and product requirement samples (e.g. the headers on the hosted site, or other page mockups).
Assist in the planning and production of the ebook publishing program: compiling and formatting the Word docs and PDF copies for reviewers, making changes to the HTML in the EPUB file.

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The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest professional association of physicians, has a dynamic opportunity for the right individual in a very fast paced, IT environment. If you want to apply what you are learning in the classroom and through related experiences, we would love to hear from you. The intern position is part-time, approximately 15 hours per week in the AMA IT Application Development Department. This position will be responsible for assisting with development, unit testing, documentation, and special projects/other responsibilities as assigned.

Responsibilities
•Create or modify user interfaces and/or backend components including unit testing for new or existing web applications supported by the AMA Application Development team
•Actively participate in an Agile software development methodology including creation of user stories, development of wireframes and implementation of features through multiple software releases
•Attend all Application Development meetings related to software releases

Assist with all aspects of Planning Division. Under supervision from Planner, will:

•Assist in the updating of design and planning procedures and guidelines.
•Assist with general planning and bidding processes; gathering data, writing reports, recommending goals, policies and programs
•Assist with the conducting of field inspections of projects under construction.
•Maintain drawing archive.
•Assist with inventory of existing parks and facilities.
•May perform other related duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Support College & Career Readiness efforts within the center including:
-Working with students to clarify career goals
-Assisting high-school seniors with the college 
application process
-Hosting College and Career Readiness workshops 
for parents and youth.
-Co-Facilitate the TLD Teen Council Meetings

2. Monitoring the agency-wide College Bound Mentoring Program (EDYC Intern only).
-Providing ongoing match support to Mentors and CCR 
events and activities
-Inviting matches to CCR events and activities.
-Assisting with recruitment of new mentors and for 
following year enrollment.

3. Provide homework help, teach study skills, assist with PREP ME software, provide academic enrichment to strengthen young people’s abilities in critical subjects such as math, writing, and reading, and provide standardized test preparation for the ACT and ISAT.

4. Providing outreach to alumni CCR Scholars to ensure smooth transition to college.

5. Work with a small group of youth to provide more one-on-one attention, guidance, and support.

6. Assist with creating a physically appealing environment in the CCR Resource Library/Area, such as updating bulletin boards, creating college information boards, etc…

7. Serve as a positive role model and mentor to the youth.

** MUST BE INVOLVED IN AN INTERNSHIP/PRACTICUM PROGRAM**

Primary responsibility is to support the Water Policy Advocate in developing and implementing Great Lakes advocacy and policy initiatives through state and federal legislation and agency action. The Intern’s objectives will be to advance an agenda of water resource advocacy and protection among many diverse local, state and region-wide groups, and to provide support to the Marketing Director for volunteer advocate development.


Specific tasks will include:
• Monitor state and federal legislation during the legislative season.
• Prepare and/or assist in the preparation of legislative reports.
• Help provide coordination for advocacy collaboration with other organizations.
• Assist with the planning, research, and review of legislation or changes to proposed legislation (if necessary).
• Help provide follow-up to volunteer advocates.
• Prepare and/or assist in at least 1 policy project
• Conduct administrative/office tasks as needed.

CHICAGO TIME MACHINE DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY INTERNSHIP
WTTW is currently producing an 80-minute local historical documentary and website called
“Chicago Time Machine.” Host Geoffrey Baer will travel to places around the Chicago region
and step into a virtual time machine to show viewers what stood at that place or happened there
in years past. This production will be complete and broadcast by November 2013.
DEPARTMENT
Local TV Production
REQUIREMENTS
We are currently seeking interns for the Summer 2013 session. Interns should have excellent research, writing, communication, and computer skills, be resourceful, mature, and professional. An interest and education in the area of history, specifically Public History, is key. Knowledge of TV production is helpful, but not required. We prefer interns currently in school or recently graduated to be available at least 20 hours per week during the summer. It is also helpful if the intern has a car or driver’s license. This is an unpaid internship. Students may receive educational credit from their college or university for their internship with WTTW.
DESCRIPTION
Learning opportunities include:
• Assist in the pre-production research of content for writing of scripts.
• Assist with the gathering, maintaining, and recording of archival images for use in the production of the program.
• Assist with fact-checking of historical and current information related to the architectural content of the program.
• Communicate with historians, institutions, and organizations providing information or content to the production.
• Assist the producers on local field production shoots.
• Provide administrative office assistance as needed.

Most work will take place at WTTW studios located on the northwest side of Chicago, however interns may need to visit libraries or other institutions as part of their research assignments. Interns may also accompany and assist the production team on local field shoots.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Interested students or recent graduates, within 11 months of graduation, should email their resume and cover letter expressing their qualifications and interest in the internship to: cschmidt@wttw.com . Please reference “Time Machine Documentary/History Internship” in the subject line of all correspondence to ensure proper routing. Please submit your cover letters and resumes for consideration by April 30, 2013.

Candidates may also mail to:
Attn: Carmen Schmidt, Internship Coordinator
WTTW
5400 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60625
Upon consideration of the cover letters and resumes, candidates who are believed to be a good match will then be invited to come in for an interview.