Environmental Conference Coordination **CLOSED**

People For Puget Sound seeks an intern to coordinate our Storming the Sound Environmental Conference. This internship is an exciting opportunity for a university student hoping to acquire hands-on, professional work experience.

The intern selected for this position will serve on the conference planning team and create a “Nuts & Bolts” Handbook for hosting this event - which will be the template for all Storming the Sound conferences around Puget Sound.

People For Puget Sound has been organizing this event for 10 plus years. BUT! The formula for it lives in our Education Director’s head. We need to produce a handbook for these influential annual conferences so that they can be implemented by our partners across the Sound.

We also need this intern to cast a fresh eye on our process for a critical analysis of our procedures. The goal of this internship is a valuable, well-defined product which will be a key resource for the professional staff of People For Puget Sound.

TASKS:

Participation
Become an active member of the organizing committee
Collect data on tasks, timelines, roles and responsibilities in real time
Handbook
Organize a million details into a comprehensive manual
Document each step and component of organizing Storming the Sound
Create multiple timelines integrating all the moving parts
Create a multi-use Storming the Sound manual which will translate to other conferences
Evaluation
Evaluate the efficiencies and deficiencies of our methods
Suggest improvements for future conferences
Environmental Education
Train the trainer – professional development for 500 educators (4 annual regional conferences) who in turn reach hundreds of thousands of students and adults

METHODS:

Network with an extensive cadre of Puget Sound professional environmental activists - including WA Department of Ecology, King Co. Dept of Natural Resources, WSU Extension, NW Aquatic and Marine Educators, and more

Experience hands-on involvement with the organizing committee of this complex environmental conference

Become familiar with current environmental and sustainability education initiativesthe methods and procedures of the committee

Question - ask "why do you do it this way?"

Practice leadership and project management

Interact with the professional staff at People For Puget Sound

Enjoy teamwork on a high-energy, fun project

Dissect, Evaluate and Construct the myriad moving parts of this challenging event

DATES: January 2012 – March/April 2012

HOURS: 8 hours per week

LOCATION: Downtown Seattle

To apply for this unpaid internship opportunity, please submit a cover letter and resume by January 10, 2012 to:  abutler@pugetsound.org