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Client: Winyah Rivers Alliance
Podcast Production and Science Communications Intern
Podcast lovers unite! Winyah Rivers Alliance is searching for an intern with a background in environmental science, digital communications, and/or storytelling to create and launch a podcast for our organization. We hope that this podcast will not only increase public engagement with our work in conservation, water quality, and public health, but enable our intern to develop professional experience and technical skills working for an environmental nonprofit. This internship is best suited for someone with a research background (science and/or humanities) and a willingness to develop new skillsets through experiential learning.
Project Location: Remote
Project Level: Entry Level
Project Type
Internship
Skills Desired
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong organization and time management skills
- Background in environmental science or studies, history, English, or communications
- Audio engineering, PremierePro, iMovie, Canva, or WordPress
- Independent, self-starter who proactively communicates their need for autonomy or structure to hit their deliverables
Intern Responsibilities
- Research existing science communication podcasts to explore themes, narrative structures, and unique modes of storytelling that successfully engage listeners. Pitch themes for 2 long-form podcast episodes for Winyah Rivers Alliance that spark the intern’s curiosity and align with our mission.
- Create 2 long-form podcast episodes for Winyah Rivers Alliance. These episodes could feature members of our staff, interviews with community members, or deep dives into important issues in conservation, water quality, and public health along our NC and SC rivers. Our intern will be asked to investigate how to publish these podcasts on Spotify, Apple Music, and our website.
- Design compelling infographics and social media posts to accompany and promote the podcasts on our social media platforms.
- Check-in call with staff mentor (Avalon and/or Debra) once a week. This meeting time can be decided amongst the three of us to fit everyone’s schedules.
- Virtually attend weekly staff calls on Monday mornings from 11-12:30 PM. There is flexibility in attendance to these as the student may have class during this period.
Project Deliverables
- 2 long-form podcast episodes that are ready for promotion on all our social media platforms.
- 2 presentations/podcast pitches to staff mentors during a weekly meeting. This pitch will include the desired topic, sources used to produce high quality research, and the intended narrative structure or strategy.
- Polished infographics to support podcast promotion (i.e. thumbnail for the podcast episode, social media posts to accompany the launch of the podcast episodes).
Unpaid internship
Comments:
We work in North and South Carolina. Our office is based in Conway, SC so this work will be completely remote.
Contact Information
For more information about this project, please contact:
Avalon Rosenberger
waterqualityfs@winyahrivers.org
About this Organization
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The Molchanov Scholars Program is an endowed internship program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute for the Environment. The program is a partnership between the UNC Institute for the Environment and environmentally-focused small businesses, non-profit organizations and government institutions in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Each summer undergraduate students are matched with an environmental internship where they gain hands-on, professional training. Each Molchanov Scholar receives a $5,000 stipend to support their summer experience.
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For questions, please reach out to 1789hub@innovate.unc.edu
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