BSOS Paid GA Position: Web Content Developer/Coordinator (Drupal)

Title: Web Content Developer/Coordinator—Graduate Assistant

Division: College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Department: Office of External Relations

Work Hours: 20 Hours per week

The Communications and Marketing unit of the Office of External Relations within the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) seeks a creative and committed graduate student to fill the position of Web Content Developer/Coordinator. This Graduate Assistantship position will be responsible for developing and editing content for the College’s websites under the guidance of the Director of Communications and Marketing and the Associate Director of Communications and Marketing.

Job Description:

Supports the Communications and Marketing unit and the unit’s internal and external clients by:

·       Building customized models and pages within the Drupal framework to accommodate a wide range of content types;

·       Working with clients across the College to update/edit content for a variety of BSOS Drupal users and to help other Drupal users build content management skills;

·       Assisting with the regular updating of content on the College’s websites and coordinating applicable Web services to include the staging of graphics, text and embedded multimedia;

·       Assisting in the population of visual content using the Visix Digital Signage (video screen) platform—training will be provided;

·       Performing a limited number of administrative tasks and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

·       Experience with current versions of Drupal

·       Excellent interpersonal skills and comfort working in both a team environment and independently

·       Strong written and verbal communication skills

·       Ability to prioritize workload and respond appropriately to deadline pressures

Preferences:

·       Thorough knowledge of Drupal best practices and experience working on enterprise websites

·       Available to work a few hours every day M-W; alternative schedule of longer hours over fewer workdays can be determined as needed

Salary

·       Payment consistent with the regular University of Maryland graduate assistantship rate

·       Benefits of this appointment include: 10 Credits for Spring Semester, 10 Credits for Fall Semester, 8 Credits for Summer Term, 4 Credits for Winter Term, and participation in the employees’ health benefits program

Contact: Laura Ours, Director, Communications and Marketing, 301.405.0464, lours@umd.edu

War of 1812 Education & Interpretation Internship

Are you a student who enjoys American history?  Do you have an interest in developing educational or interpretive programs?  Are you excited about creating a program from scratch and working at a very grassroots level to bring history alive?  Then you might be the type of intern who would be a great fit with ATHA’s War of 1812/Battle of Bladensburg commemoration program.  

Anacostia Trails Heritage Area is a certified Maryland Heritage Area based in Hyattsville, MD.  Managed by ATHA Inc., this area covers an eighty five square mile region of Northern Prince George’s County.  Primarily responsible for working with a large variety of stakeholders to advance the goals of increased heritage tourism through historic preservation, natural resource protection and cultural arts support, the organization has taken the lead on developing a significant commemoration plan for the War of 1812/Battle of Bladensburg.  

General Responsibilities

Working with the Director and the Interpretive Programs Coordinator, you would help research and develop curricula for local schools, help write and lay out interpretive documents (brochures, tour guides, tour scripts, etc.). You would be responsible for doing research of historic documents and writing brief interpretive documents.  You might meet with local educators and seek to understand the state guidelines for educational programs.  You might meet with the War of 1812 Task Force or other local stakeholders to discuss your progress or to ask questions.

We are looking for an intern who can commit at least 15 hours a week, but we are flexible in terms of location for much of the work.  You would need to be in the office or at local based meetings at least once a week.  The position pay is negotiable.  We are located near the University of Maryland and Metro stops into and out of Washington.    The office is located on a major bus route from the West Hyattsville Station and the Prince George’s Plaza station.  Some reimbursements are available.  Intern would need to have access to wi-fi or network via their own computer/laptop. 

Aaron Marcavitch

Executive Director

ATHA Inc.

aaron@anacostiatrails.org

@atheritagearea

301-887-0777

Heritage Tourism Internship Opportunity

PROGRESSIVE CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISM INTERNSHIP
Conceive, design, and experiment with innovative methods for bringing the Maryland Indian Heritage Trail
to life and delivering its experience to the largest possible audience.
To apply, please forward a resume and cover letter to chris.newman@marylandindiantourism.org

BACKGROUND After two years of experiments in heritage tourism, MITA finally has a handle on its definition of Progressive Cultural Heritage Tourism. The next step is to develop and implement the PCHT program with the Maryland Indian Heritage Trail. This is where you come in.

Summary of the Position
To understand the job, it’s best to start by discarding notions of a traditional tour of duty in heritage tourism. You will not be performing the duties of a tour guide, museum docent, or park ranger. Instead, think of yourself as a scientist working in a lab. MITA is the laboratory, and your goal is to plan and conduct experiments to bring the Maryland Indian Heritage Trail to life. Your experiments will be geared toward accomplishing the following goals:

Goals of the Position
-Develop and implement strategies for reaching non-traditional audiences with the trail.
-Conceive and plan trail events to maximize potential audiences, with particular emphasis on non-traditional audiences.
-Complete “discovery missions” to reveal general tourism destinations that offer a hook – however small – into Indian tourism.
Course of the Position
-The internship will begin with introductory courses on MITA mission/history/vision/values, the evolution of Eastern Indigenous cultures, Progressive Cultural Heritage Tourism, and the Maryland Indian Heritage Trail.
-Armed with information from the introduction, you will be unleashed to apply your creativity and energy to the development of the Maryland Indian Heritage Trail, constrained only by our core values and your imagination.

PROFILE OF WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Character
Creative, inquisitive, team player, experimentalist, critical thinker, self-managed
Education
Field of study is irrelevant, though background (formal or otherwise) in cultural anthropology can help
Skills
Required: Internet research, Writing, and Oral Presentation. Desired: Project Management, Event Planning
Availability
Summer 2012, location is flexible. You will be working from home and in the field
Requirements
Must be able to provide for own transportation throughout southern Maryland and Washington, D.C.

ABOUT MITA
We are on a mission to advance the understanding of Eastern Indigenous cultures as living, breathing, evolving entities with a past, present, and future. We do this because we believe the word will benefit enormously from Eastern Indigenous perspectives on the core issues of humanity: conflict, economics, education, family, health, history, leisure, morality, spirituality, and sustainability. MITA is a 501c(3) non-profit organization that’s as tiny as it is relentlessly enthusiastic.

Paid Internship with the Smithsonsian

Colleagues,

We are recruiting for the Goldman Sachs Interns & Fellows Office (IFO) Multicultural Junior Fellows program. This internship has a stipend of $6000 for the selected student (10 weeks full-time or 20 weeks part-time). Please send to your best students! The internship will start in January 2013 (some flexibility on the specific start date).

There is a quick turnaround! Please have them email Noriko Sanefuji, (sanefujin@si.edu) with their résumé and cc: me – eatonmo@si.edu. Deadline will be Friday November 30, 2012 @11:59pm.

Here is the project description:

Research & Collection/Asian-Pacific American - The Sweet & Sour: A Look at the History of Chinese Food in the United States showcase opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on March 17, 2011. The showcase will be developed into a traveling exhibition through the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in 2014. The showcase represents a milestone within an ongoing initiative by the National Museum of American History to focus on its Chinese American history and culture collections. The project called for collecting a variety of Chinese restaurant-related objects ranging from menus to restaurant signs to cooking implements, which would provide a glimpse into the long history of Chinese immigration, exclusion, exoticism, and perseverance. The “O Say Can You See?” blog was developed in May 2010 to accompany the showcase and features blog posts on a variety of topics, including the origin of the fortune cookie and traditional Chinese New Year cuisine. For the proposed internship project, the candidate will aide with research, blogging, and collecting oral histories of local D.C. Chinese restaurants for the Sweet & Sour traveling exhibition. The candidate will assist with building a database on Asian Pacific American artifacts at the National Museum of American History (NMAH). In addition, he/she will be involved with the collection and caring of objects.

My contact is below if you have any questions or concerns!

Omar A. Eaton-Martínez, M.Ed.
Intern & Fellows Program Manager
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History
14th St. & Constitution Ave., NW
MRC 605 P.O. Box 37012
Washington DC 20013-7012
Room 5303
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/getinvolved/internprog.cfm
eatonmo@si.edu
202-633-3556 (office)
202-281-8601 (cell)

Westat’s 2012 Summer Internship Opportunities!

Westat’s 2012 Summer Internship Opportunities in Applied Social Science for Underserved and Underrepresented Minority Students who are African American, Hispanic/Latino American, and Native American/Alaskan Native.

The program started out in Westat’s Behavioral Health Group (BHG) and has now branched out to other groups including the Environmental Health Group, the Health Studies Group, Human Services Study Area, the Health Communications Group, and the Education Group. It’s a chance for graduate students to work with Westat researchers who can expose them to research that goes beyond theory and into the real world. The program provides the interns with an opportunity to be in a mentoring relationship with seasoned researchers at Westat.

Applicants must have completed their baccalaureate degree prior to June 1, 2012 to be considered. Applications will be accepted beginning now through February 28th 2012. For more information, contact:
Donna Durant Atkinson, Ph.D., Co-Coordinator, 240.453.2761
Craig Love, Ph.D., Co-Coordinator, 240.314.2443

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