The Clean Energy internship offers experience going through a complete proposal cycle from capture to submittal, including budgeting and technical design; experience managing field projects from the US, including research to support project strategy and communications with local business and NGO partners; and the opportunity to learn from thought leaders on energy and environment issues facing the developing world. Our focus countries include Nepal, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zambia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. Winrock International has a great track record of hiring interns for staff positions – for example, roles now occupied by previous interns include Senior Program Officer, based in the US; and Operations Director, based overseas. Located in a vibrant area of Crystal City, very close to the Metro stop, shops and restaurants.
With support from the Puget Sound-Columbia Basin Director, the Conservation Associate Director (“Associate Director”) will lead American Rivers’ river protection work in Washington state and hydropower work in both Washington and Oregon. The Associate Director will provide leadership in campaign strategy development and implementation, coalition building, and media and communications work to protect and defend the region’s wild rivers and public lands, with a primary focus on building broad-based support for new protective designations in Washington’s North Cascades. They will engage in hydropower licensing processes; coordinate efforts on public lands management planning; respond to serious threats to high-value rivers; and assist in other projects and campaigns.
The Associate Director will conduct grassroots and grasstops outreach; interface with elected officials, Native American tribes, federal and state agencies, other relevant stakeholders, and the media; assist with fundraising; organize events; and supervise interns and volunteers. A key member of the Puget Sound-Columbia Basin team, the Associate Director also will work with American Rivers staff based in other regions, participate on internal teams including our River Protection Community of Practice, and engage with our communications and government relations teams.
The Indian River Lakes Conservancy (IRLC) is hiring an Indian River Watershed Coordinator to maximize their effectiveness in supporting the implementation of New York State’s St. Lawrence River Watershed Revitalization Plan (SLWRP). The watershed coordinator will work with Indian River Lake associations, volunteer land stewardship teams, and high school age students through Protectors of Water and Habitat in the Indian River Lakes (Project WHIRL) to improve our water quality and habitat within the Indian River watershed – a major supporting watershed to the St. Lawrence River in northern New York.
The Program Coordinator is a key member of the Political Affairs team will be based in the St. Petersburg, FL office, which is scheduled to open in summer 2020. The position plays a critical supporting role in the development and execution of campaigns to advance priority goals of EDF’s Florida strategy. Independent judgement is important and required to plan, prioritize and organize workload within this busy program. Ideal candidates are driven self-starters with the ability to learn and implement workflow processes quickly and work well within a team. The Program Coordinator will report to the Florida Director.
A rainy day at the Lower Campus Move Out Station at Haskell Hall by Latin Way.
A Sudden Twist:
Gearing up for a March Move Out
Each year, the Office of Sustainability (OOS) runs a robust
donation collection program throughout the month of May, when students are
moving out, finals are done, the air is warm, and folks are gearing up for
their summer internships.
Student Move Out this year was anything but normal amidst
the COVID-19 pandemic. It came as a surprise to everyone when the University
announced on the evening of March 10th that all students would have
to move entirely out of their on-campus residence halls by 3:00 pm on March 16th.
The OOS’s annual donation program serves to divert good
items from the landfill and to instead provide them to students and community
members who will use them. Even in light of early Move-Out, we still wanted to
maintain our sustainability values and help the Tufts community and its
neighbors.
Due to the pandemic, the first step was to consult with a
health expert at Tufts about whether it would be safe to collect donations at
all and if so, what. There were select items that we could not collect this
year because we could not sanitize them or because they are not high demand and
there was limited time/capacity.
Still, our entire office—from staff to recycling interns to
communications interns—rallied together and made some magic happen. In the
first day after the Move-Out announcement was made, we quickly created a
donation station schedule, recruited and hired workers to help, rented
vehicles, planned donation rules and two donation collection stations, ordered
supplies, and secured a space for donation storage. Facilities quickly
requested open top dumpsters to be placed around campus to accommodate the
increased trash flow.
Early Move Out In-Action: New and Improved
Collaborations
We even tried something new: due to the short notice, we
were not able to get the trailers that we normally use to collect textiles.
Instead, we collaborated with the Office of Residential Life and Learning
(ORLL) to provide blue bags to students in residence hall lobbies, which they
could use to store their clothing donations and leave them in their rooms,
along with mini fridges labeled as donations. We also provided clear and black
liners that students could use to take their recycling and trash out to the
dumpsters and leave the space clean for the custodians.
Another pleasant surprise was a new collaboration with the
Tufts Food Rescue Collaborative (TFRC). The TFRC was working with multicultural
offices and Tufts Mutual Aid to create a food pantry available to the Tufts
community during this difficult time (and when many store shelves were empty!).
We collected almost 1,000 lbs of non-perishable food donations for the pantry.
Over the course of the week, we hired 30 student workers to
help during the day and evening. Most were students who lived off-campus, had
some free time due to extended spring break, and had discontinued jobs or
internships. The donations program would not have been possible without the
workers: they were patient, independent, and good-spirited (even in the cold!).
With their help, we were able to not only run the stations for long hours, but also to transport all donations to our storage space and sort them into categories there. Some of them even came with us to retrieve donations from the residence halls on the Health Sciences and SMFA campuses in Boston. We were lucky that we already had enough gloves and other PPE in storage before COVID-19, and that our workers were both social distancing warriors and heavy-lifting champions.
A Job Well Done (and a nap for all!)
Morning time at the Upper Campus Donation Station in the Carmichael Parking Lot.
In the end, we diverted 6.42 tons (12,833 lbs) of donations from the landfills during Early Move Out. These donations will be provided to FIRST Resource Center students, the general Tufts student body, and/or to local non-profits/charities.
The quick planning it took to make this happen was not
possible without collaboration from our office’s staff and interns, Facilities,
TUPD, Auxillary Services, The Office of Residential Life and Learning, the
FIRST Resource Center, the Tufts Food Rescue Collaborative, and campus’s
hardworking custodial staff.
Early Move Out by the Numbers
We collected 6.42 tons (12,833 lbs) during March, including:
303 lbs of sanitation/health items
3,291 lbs of food and kitchen items/appliances
1,786 lbs of home supplies such as vacuums, mirrors, lamps, and storage bins
5,683 lbs of clothes
881 lbs of furniture
50 lbs of miscellaneous items
Student workers hired: 30
Total student hours worked: 267.5
Total last-minute rentals: 1 U-Haul box-truck, 1
U-Haul van, 2 U-pods
Total last-minute purchases: 1 Facebook ad, 6 rolls
of packing tape, and granola bars!
Total acquisitions: We attained 6 sandbags—very handy
to put in the donation collection bins on windy/rainy days. (Thanks
Facilities!)
Total handy reuse strategies: We can’t forget about the 2 gaylords we had in storage from last year, or the 10 slim jims that we used as donation collection bins at the donation stations (we had attempted to order cardboard boxes for 1-day delivery, but they never arrived). We were also able to reuse donation items to organize our supplies and donations.
Total signs: We used or created 15 types of signs: 9 different
signs for each of the donation collection streams, 1 for U-Pods (students could
leave donations in there overnight), 1 yard sign for the upper campus donation
station, 1 for the lower, 1 yard sign directing folks to dumpsters, 1 banner
for recycling dumpsters, and 1 banner for trash dumpsters.
Total social media posts: 1 blog post, 2
Instagram/Twitter/FB posts, an Instagram story takeover, and a Move Out email
to students from ORLL.
And finally: 1 wild 70-hour work week from our Recycling Coordinator!
Specialty Recycling Intern turned Move Out worker collects donations from a student.
Update: May Move Out Day!
Despite Early Move-Out, some juniors and seniors stayed in their off campus apartments to finish off the academic year. As the end of May–and a lease-period–drew near, two of our interns, Serena and Elyssa, became aware of how many items they would have to put into trash dumpsters as they and their housemates moved out, especially with public donation venues closed due to the COVID-19.
At their initiative, we were able to organize a one-time May donation collection station for remaining students. The event was organized in just a day and announced online. A few dozen students came, masks and all, to donate their textbooks, fans, toaster ovens, excess cleaning supplies, entire dish-ware sets, storage units, and mini-fridges!
In just a 4-hour window, we collected an additional 894 lbs. We also collected 6,845 additional pounds of Move Out textile donations during May, bringing our 2020 Move Out total to 20,572.25 lbs and 10.29 tons!
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