Internship Available at the Chesapeake Bay Trust
Spring Semester (part-time) and Summer (full-time)
Applications will begin to be reviewed on
December 4, 2013 and the position will remain open until filled.
The Chesapeake Bay Trust, a non-profit,
state-chartered grant-making organization
supported by the Treasure the Chesapeake (bay
plate) license plate program, seeks an intern
interested in gaining experience in the
non-profit environmental sector. The
participating intern will work at the Chesapeake
Bay Trust during the spring 2014 semester
(January through May) at a rate of $10 per hour,
with a minimum of four hours per week and a
maximum of 10 hours per week and will transition
in June to the Trusts full-time, ten-week summer
internship program that offers a $3,000
stipend. Duties at the Trust during the spring
semester include a variety of administrative
grant-related tasks on our portfolio of K-12
environmental education, on-the-ground watershed
and habitat restoration, and citizen engagement
projects, including K-12 environmental education
grant review. Duties at the Trust added during
the summer months include some field work to
assess proposed and completed restoration
projects and an independent project of the
students choosing related to watershed issues
and aligned with the Trusts
mission. Independent projects completed by
interns in the past have been adapted for
independent study credit through the students
university with university and professor
permission. Students gain a wide range of skills
for their resumes beyond traditional
environmental organization experience, including
grant management and general experience with
grant-making and grant-writing. Students also
gain knowledge of and experience with a subset of
the 300 non-profit grantees we engage every year.
Eligible applicants must be undergraduate or
graduate students attending a two- or four-year
college or university in Maryland with a GPA of
3.00 or higher. In addition, all undergraduate
applicants must be entering or continuing their
sophomore, junior, or senior year during the
spring 2014 semester. Students of all majors are welcome to apply.
Interested students should send to Tara Baker
(<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected],
410-974-2941 x102) a resume and cover letter that
addresses a) what the student hopes to gain from
the experience and how it fits in with his/her
career goals, and b) what skills and experiences
the student has that are relevant to Trust goals.
Jana Davis, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Chesapeake Bay Trust
60 West St. Suite 405
Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 974-2941 x100
[email protected]
