The Nature Conservancy’s GLOBE (Growing Leaders on Behalf of the Environment) summer internship program hires undergraduate students, graduate students, or recent college graduates (2016, 2017, and 2018) to fill paid internship positions during a 10-week summer internship. Our mission is to provide a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between academics and the real-world conservation work that contributes to the health and sustainability of our world. The GLOBE Program recruits individuals from a variety of backgrounds and experiences who are interested in contributing to our conservation goals in various fields. The GLOBE Program offers a structured orientation, professional training, network opportunities, mentoring program, and real work experience.
The Ohio Technology GLOBE Intern will help take inventory of what is on the servers; then starting with NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices, work to clean-up; remove duplicate and unneeded files. The intern will also move files to appropriate folders, and locations, sorting and moving files to BOX, our cloud based backup location, from some of our NAS devices. Additionally, the GLOBE intern will work with backups to ensure all users backups are correctly configured and going to the correct location.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCOPE
- Responsible for helping to clean up and manage the local data stored on our servers
- Assist with backups for individual staff, ensuring backups are done correctly and managed well, and that the data on the server is free of duplicates, and is manageable.
- With the assistance of the Supervisor; clean up and sort the data appropriately and archive what needs to be archived and move to BOX accordingly
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Completion of The Nature Conservancy’s LEAF Internship Program
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience to self-start, take imitative, and confidence to ask questions and seek input
- Strong organizational skills
- Experience to manage time and diverse activities under deadlines while delivering quality results
ELIGIBILITY
The Nature Conservancy's GLOBE Program candidate should demonstrate at least one of the following:
- Contribution to diversity of The Nature Conservancy. Applicant has circumstances, experiences, skills or talents that would benefit others and would enhance the diversity of the organization.
- Understanding of communities and skills that aid in the trust building process essential for collaborative efforts with urban communities, organizations and leaders—ability to cross boundaries, find common ground and work together across differences
- Commitment to diversity. Applicant has shown and can demonstrate a deep and active commitment to the issues of conservation and human diversity.
- Commitment to equity. Applicant shows an understanding of inequity and its context and has experience with engagement and inclusion of those from disadvantaged and/or underserved communities
- $12.50/per hour (undergrads) and $14.50/per hour (graduate and recently graduated level students)
- This is a full-time, temporary internship position with a 10-week term of June 4 – August 10, 2018.
- Vehicle may be needed for travel to and from work; public transportation is limited
INTERN SELECTION PROCESS
- Applications will be screened for eligibility, qualifications and experience level related to the project;
- Applicants will be notified of next steps in the process (within 3 weeks after the posting date ends)
- 2-3 telephone interviews will be conducted for selected applicants;
- Additional information may be required before making a final decision;
- All applicants will be notified of final selection by late-March