Mass Comm Internships

Organization:
Scenic Virginia is the sole statewide conservation organization dedicated to the preservation, protection and enhancement of the Commonwealth’s scenic beauty and community character. As advocates for Virginia’s scenic resources, we educate citizens, businesses, and elected officials about the economic and cultural benefits of preserving our extraordinary natural beauty. During the annual General Assembly Session, we monitor legislation for bills that might have an effect on Virginia’s visual environment. During the rest of the year, we execute projects, advise local groups, run programs, and work with government agencies and other conservation organizations to promote scenic conservation.

Intern Responsibilities:
Scenic Virginia seeks an unpaid intern for the Fall or Spring semester to assist with a project to educate Virginians about the importance of scenic and historic views. In an effort similar to the Chesapeake Bay Alliance’s “What’s Your Watershed?” project, Scenic Virginia will be asking “What’s Your Viewshed?” The point of this project is to sensitize the citizens of the Commonwealth to the economic, cultural, historic and scenic value of our most important viewsheds.

Supervised responsibilities include the following:
• Review Scenic Virginia’s website and offer recommendations for improving public perception of viewsheds.
• Work on positioning of Scenic Virginia in media.
• Create promotional materials for viewshed campaign.
• Research funding opportunities for viewshed project.
• Recommend methods for improving press relations.
• Develop a card catalog of Scenic Virginia’s resource materials.
• Assist in the development of a Scenic Toolkit.
• Assist in the development of a Scenic Resources Conference with the Department of Conservation & Recreation.

Applicant Qualifications: Interest in learning about the challenges and rewards of doing PR for a nonprofit organization. Familiarity with Office applications (Word, Access, Publisher, PowerPoint) is preferred. Strong writing skills, an interest in conservation, and a good sense of humor are a plus.

Location: Scenic Virginia headquarters are currently at 1904 Byrd Avenue, which is located between Broad Street and Monument Avenue, a block west of Willow Lawn Drive. We are negotiating a move to a new office in Monroe Ward.

Whom to Contact:
Leighton Powell, Executive Director,
Scenic Virginia
P. O. Box 17606 Richmond, Virginia 23226
804.282.5522 phone; 804.282.5506 fax; lpowell@scenicvirginia.org email

How to Contact: Applicants can respond via phone, mail or e-mail. Application should include cover letter, resume, reference or recommendation letters, and samples of work.

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Lifespring is a non-profit organization that heads a program called the X-Zone. The X-Zone’s goal is to provide a faith-based environment for youth, young adults and their families that is safe, fun and fulfilling for physical, emotional, social and spiritual well being with a focus on at risk youth who are home alone while their parents are at work.

The internship is to work with the X-Zone on a few projects; including a video that explains Lifespring, videos that are aimed to reach the youth in the program and helping youth involved in the X-Zone learn how to make short videos.

The internship is located in Chesterfield, Virginia (about 30 minuets away from campus) so reliable transportation is necessary.

This internship position is filled for the fall but may be available in the spring. For more information contact Steve Harper at (804) 778-7800

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In this role, you will work with the Virginia State Team and volunteers on communication activities to build AARP’s presence in Virginia. You will assist in preparing communication products, planning and executing special events, monitoring and maintaining web sites, as well as performing
other communications-related functions.

Requires: College/University graduate or undergrad student with excellent writing skills, strong work ethic and personal initiative. Ability to work independently, collaboratively, and provide excellent customer service.

Qualified candidates are invited to apply online at www.aarpjobs.com (see Internships).

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The Get A Nightlife LLC Internship program is a dynamic, fun, and unique opportunity for Advertising and Marketing majors to get hands on experience in the nightlife-advertising field. Interns will be working directly with the Executive Director and the Director of Operations of NightlifeVirginia.com.

Nightlife Virginia is the most comprehensive, one-stop, online nightlife resource guide for Virginia. Throughout the state, tens of thousands of consumers utilize NightlifeVirginia.com to find out which bars, clubs, concert venues, and restaurants are most popular from night to night. In addition, NightlifeVirginia.com provides useful information including hours of operation, directions, food/drink specials and on-location photo albums.

Intern Responsibilities:
Interns are expected to assist in a wide range of duties from planning and consulting for advertising accounts, researching the effectiveness of marketing and advertising strategies, designing and planning marketing and advertising strategies, increasing brand awareness for both the website and individual accounts, to standard office duties such as answering phones, data entry, billing, and maintaining project files.

Intern Qualifications:
Intern applicants must be 21 years old, be very familiar with the use of computers, have excellent people skills, be highly motivated, and want to have fun while learning!

Other:
These internships are available year round and Get A Nightlife LLC will pay all expenses incurred by interns as a result of internship duties. The Get A Nightlife LLC office is located approximately 7 miles from the VCU campus.

Who to Contact:
All applicants should familiarize themselves with NightlifeVirginia.com and please email a resume and a brief description of you to:
JR Hall
Executive Director
JR@nightlifevirginia.com

All applications will be reviewed and candidates will be contacted by telephone to schedule interviews.

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work:
• Website construction
create web pages for an already-designed website
• Website design
create website from scratch
• Product photography
• Advertising
engineer smart ways to drive traffic to the sites (without spending
any money)
• General business
data entry, strategy development, solving problems

This is a hands-on opportunity to learn and do. Attitude and initiative are important; we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. Reliability and resourcefulness are key attributes.

If you don’t have experience, we can train you.

more specifics:
These are 150-hour internships for the Fall 07 semester. The internship is unpaid, but the experience will be priceless. If a wage is needed, let’s discuss it. Most of the work can be done virtually; and any location work is close to VCU in the Fan. The company is Lotsa Neat Stuff, an online version of a retail store that sells unique home accessories, gifts, and jewelry.

respond:
If interested, please submit an email outlining:
• how you are perfect for the position
• when you’ll be available to work
• your contact info

Send it to Scott Sherman at Scott@LotsaNeatStuff.com.

Thanks!

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Description of Organization:
The Randolph-Macon Athletic Department is a NCAA Division III member and sponsors 15 intercollegiate sports which compete in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC). Founded in 1830, and located in historic Ashland, Virginia, just north of Richmond, Randolph-Macon College is a selective, co-educational, national liberal arts and sciences college with a mission of “developing the minds and character of its students.” The college achieves this mission through a combination of personal interaction and academic rigor.

General Job Description for Sports Broadcasting Internship(s)
• Serve as the main play-by-play or color analyst for R-MC’s nationally ranked women’s basketball program.
• Organize and execute quality internet broadcasts for all home games and possibly some selected road games.
• In addition to game play-by-play, intern(s) will have opportunity to organize pre and post game interviews as well as a pre and post game segment should they see fit.
• Work with R-MC sports information director and opponent’s sports information directors to gather information necessary for each broadcast.

Qualities Applicants Should Possess:
• Candidate should have working knowledge of how to produce a quality and professional broadcast as well as a working knowledge of college basketball.
• Ability to set up, break down and use internet broadcasting equipment.
• Strong interpersonal skills in dealing with coaches, players and school administrators for both R-MC and opponents.
• Ability to work in a professional athletic atmosphere.

This internship(s) is offered from October to the end of the season which is end of February or beginning of March. This is an unpaid internship. Applicants should have reliable transportation.

Internship Training Includes
• Serving as lead broadcasters for games which are heard by alumni, fans and parents all over the nation.
• Working with and building relationships with college athletic administration, coaches and student-athletes.

Applicants should mail resume, references and any resume tapes to:
Chris Kilcoyne, Sports Information Director
Randolph-Macon College
103 E. Patrick St.
Ashland, Va. 23005
or by e-mail at christopherkilcoyne@rmc.edu
If any questions, please call 804-752-7387
www.rmc.edu

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