Here's a sweet deal, an internship, that is being offered by the Sierra Club. It's sweet because it's an unpaid internship, although the leftist environmental group does mention a "modest travel reimbursement" and "modest scholarship" for students and possible academic credit in its Craig's List ad for this job.
Take a peek at the job responsibilities--they are modestly asking a lot from this intern.
From that ad:
Sierra Club Media Team Internship:
Chicago -- Sierra Club IL Chapter Office
Are you wondering if a career in public relations, journalism, field organizing, or progressive politics is for you? This internship will offer you a chance to learn about crafting communications strategy, working with reporters, and winning advocacy campaigns.
The Sierra Club's Media Team is seeking an intern for a national campaign based out of our Chicago office. This is a great opportunity to learn more about communications in the non-profit field, while making an impact on critical environmental issues like climate change, fossil fuels and clean energy, and conservation.
While projects vary depending on the time of year, most interns gain exposure to:
• Pitching stories to the news media
• Writing and editing press materials, reports, and presentations
• Monitoring and compiling Sierra Club media coverage
• Assisting in data analysis and research projects
• Preparing and distributing media props and materials
• Answering media inquiries and responding to the field requests
• Social media and blog outreach
• Building press lists
• Helping design, set up and present media skills trainings
• Brainstorming media opportunities, media strategy, talking points/messaging
• Attending events and hearings
• Providing general support for the Communications team
• Other public relations and communications tasks and individual projects as assigned
The ideal candidate for an internship with Sierra Club is self-motivated, energetic, flexible and a strategic thinker with very strong writing abilities, good organizational skills, understanding of the political system, and a passion for the environment and social justice. Responsibilities will be tailored to personal skills and areas of interest to the best of our ability.
Other qualifications: Current college student or recent college graduate. If you are foreign student, we cannot review your application unless you are part of a program that arranges your paperwork for you -- we cannot arrange an H1B visa.
Media Team Internships are 3-6 months in length, with interns working a minimum 20 hours per week, scheduled at their discretion. Internships are unpaid, although we do offer a modest local travel reimbursement. Current students are eligible for a modest scholarship, and academic credit may be available (we are willing to provide any documentation necessary to help students get credit at their college or university).
I hope that this position remains unfilled, partly because of the Sierra Club's borderline Luddite anti-fossil fuels energy policies that I oppose, but also because it will send a message to these anti-prosperity busy-bodies that if they expect to hire a superstar, they should at least pay that person something for their efforts.
Assuming Sierra finds someone to take on these tasks for gratis, do they hire someone else after three to six months?
Indefinitely?
It's called lack-of-wage slavery. Circumstances very, but the Obama economy has created many instances of intern exploitation. Do they lean something? Sometimes. But many cast-off interns are waiting tables in their next job, while worrying about those student loans.
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