Job Posting Date: October 17, 2008
Title: Winter '08/Spring '09 Internship
Location: Washington, DC
Status: Part-Time, 2+ days/week, 10+hours/week
Salary & Benefits Unpaid, Metro Stipend

Job Description and Duties:

Thank you for your interest in volunteering your time for Wildlife Alliance's direct protection programs. We invite you to apply for a seasonal internship to join our tight-knit office in downtown Washington, DC. Applications are accepted year-round for our Internship Programs.

Join our tight-knit office to collaborate on new development and communications projects.

Duties:

Assisting with editing grant and field update reports, event planning, press releases, publication requests, corporate/media, celebrity/major donor research, and data entry.

Basic Requirements: Pursuing or completed Bachelor's Degree, excellent verbal and written communications skills. Excellent word processing skills. Ability to learn quickly and work well within a team as well as independently. Interest in wildlife conservation.

Preferred Computer Skills (will train if necessary): Convio/Get Active, DonorPerfect, Web 2.0 applications.

Wildlife Alliance's field programs in Cambodia, Thailand and the Russian Far East do not happen to offer on-site internship or volunteer opportunities for international travelers or temporary residents of Cambodia and Thailand. Visitors, however, are always welcome at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center, just 40km south of Phnom Penh in Cambodia.

Tour our website and Web 2.0 sites for more information on our projects, staff, and field offices in Southeast Asia and the Russian Far East. 

Wildlife Alliance is an international environmental non-profit organization whose mission is to protect and preserve wildlife, forests and oceans. We are continuing a seven-year history of field operations, formerly carried out under the name WildAid, to train and equip park rangers to fight crimes against nature, and prevent poaching and illegal habitat destruction in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Russia and the Western Pacific through collaboration with governments and communities.

How to Apply:

Please provide a cover letter, resume, schedule of availability and references to:

careers@wildlifealliance.org

or address your package to:

Wildlife Alliance: Internship Program
1600 K Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20006

Contact Email: careers@wildlifealliance.org

Web Site: http://wildlifealliance.org/