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Safe Water Intern

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NRDC is seeking a Safe Water Intern to work with our Safe Water Initiative (SWI), which works to ensure that everyone has access to safe, sufficient, and affordable drinking water.. The SWI is a multi-faceted, cross institutional campaign that is centered on addressing the legal, health, environmental justice, and governmental failures that compromise the safety of our water.

This intern will research public funding/financing options, draft white papers, and prepare comments for submission to administrative agencies. NRDC hires passionate students who possess the intelligence, skill, self-confidence, and maturity to take on substantial responsibility.  Our interns play an active role on the frontlines of the environmental movement. Over the course of a summer, an NRDC intern will typically work on a variety of projects and amass experience that he or she could not obtain anywhere else.

This is a full-time, paid internship for a 10 - 12 week summer term.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Research public financing and relevant policy issues in support of our SWI work in Michigan.
  • Draft, proofread, and edit documents (e.g., research memoranda, policy reports, etc.).
  • Contribute 40 hours a week for a 10 – 12 week summer term.
Skills/Experience: 
  • Public policy students preferred.
  • Knowledge of public finance concepts and water infrastructure projects preferred.
  • Outstanding academic record.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work hard, efficiently, and independently.
  • Ability to represent NRDC with maturity, judgment and professionalism.
  • Demonstrated interest in public service or social justice work.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work as a member of a team to build upon strengths of the program.

Organization Info

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1970
About Us
Mission: 

The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

We work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land and water -- and to defend endangered natural places.

We seek to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment.

We strive to protect nature in ways that advance the long-term welfare of present and future generations.

We work to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment. We seek to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Mar 22 2019
Active Until: 
Apr 22 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
industry: 
Nonprofit