UIP: Environmental and Animal Outreach (Fall 26/Spring 27)

The Internship
Leadership & Community Engagement has multiple internships that will provide service with the community through mutually beneficial relationships. These opportunities will allow interns to experience hands-on aspects of organizing volunteer/service opportunities for students through the lens of active community membership.This internship will work with a variety of organizations in the local community. Past students in this role have served with organizations such as The Park CDC, Innovation Barn, and Keep Charlotte beautiful.This internship will also provide an opportunity to lead a team of 3 members of the SERVE (Students Engaging in Rewarding Volunteer Experiences) team as a student director. This team helps with the communication, marketing, and planning of environment and animal service opportunities.Responsibilities include: Participate with a dynamic team of other interns, graduate assistants and the Program Coordinator of Leadership & Community Engagement to develop opportunities for community service. Plan and implement opportunities for community engagement that focus on the environment including animals, tree planting, recycling efforts, stream clean-up, storm drain designations, etc.Plan, guide, and hold meetings for SERVE team committee members.Research and stay up to date with the demographics and nature of the Charlotte community. Remain in constant, good communication with community partners. This includes email communication, phone calls, and sometimes in-person meetings.Lead groups of students who attend service events in meaningful reflection.Recruit student participants for planned opportunities through tabling, posting on various social media platforms and investigating new ways to publicize. Provide information to marketing interns who will help publicize events. Review program offerings from other universities in order to obtain new ideas. Complete required waiver prior to the event and evaluations post events. Become van certified in order to assist with transporting students to service events. Complete 10 office hours per week. Complete 10 office hours per week. This includes and is not limited to a meeting with your direct supervisor, a meeting with your committee or organization general body, and a professional development meeting each week. Leadership & Community Engagement has multiple community engagement internships. It is not necessary to apply for all in order to be considered for all. Please rank your choices of the internships in your letter of application. You should rank only those internships for which you are interested in being considered.

Learning Experience
Event planning, volunteer management, non-profit management and community engagement experience.

Outcomes
Problem Solving: Analyze issues, think critically, make decisions, and overcome challenges. Obtain, interpret, and use knowledge, facts and data to make decisions, Communications: Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively and efficiently, using verbal, non-verbal, digital and written methods, Teamwork: Build collaborative relationships by valuing others and taking responsibility for your role within a team., Leadership: Use interpersonal skills to coach, motivate and develop others, recognizing their strengths to achieve common goals/shared vision., Professionalism: Demonstrate responsible work habits (i.e. punctuality, accountability, workload management) while displaying integrity and ethical behavior (i.e. acknowledge and learn from mistakes)., Self-Awareness: Understand one's skills, strengths, experiences and areas for improvement in order to explore career options, take the steps necessary to pursue opportunities and understand how to advocate for personal and professional success., Global/Intercultural Awareness: Value, respect, and learn from a variety of identities, characteristics and experiences On-Campus Employment (UNC Charlotte Departments Only) UNC Charlotte Career Center