Intern at the Center

The Center for Rural Affairs currently has two intern openings (last updated 09-23-2008).

The Center for Rural Affairs has openings for two interns to help build our online presence, improve our communications, and increase our outreach. Our interns are given actual responsibilities that allow them to make significant contributions to our work. You will fill a vital role in our organizational structure, and we will treat you accordingly. Respective duties for the two positions are outlined below.

Communications: The Center for Rural Affairs publishes a variety of reports, newsletters, website content and press releases. Help us turn turn out top-notch content, especially for our website. A good applicant will have excellent writing skills including knowledge of what it takes to write and format material for online environments. Basic HTML knowledge is helpful, but not required.

Website Design: The Center for Rural Affairs is always looking for ways to improve our website and online capabilities. We are seeking a website intern well versed in some combination of CSS, PHP, and MySQL. Knowledge of Drupal and CiviCRM are also helpful, but not necessary. Activities will include CSS and PHP based design and development of interactive action alert sections of our Drupal run website. This is a great opportunity to be involved in the ground level construction of a website using some of the latest, most popular, and open source website tools in the nonprofit world.

Time Commitment: Flexible
Timeline: Flexible, open until filled
Location: Lyons, Nebraska strongly preferred. Some flexibility for the right person.
Compensation: Yes. Dependent upon experience and term of availability. Academic credit can also be arranged.