Earth Island Institute Fellowship

Earth Island Institute's Brower Legacy Leaders Program (BLLP) is a paid internship opportunity for people entering the environmental field. The goals of the Brower Legacy Leaders Program are to train activists for careers in environmental advocacy and develop leadership skills, to assist EII projects with their staffing needs, and to prepare interns to assist the broader Bay Area community and national environmental movement. The program gives interns a chance to gain training and experience with environmental advocacy by working directly with a variety of Earth Island Institute (EII) projects.

In mid-September, BLLP trained and placed four interns with Earth Island Institute projects. They will assist with fundraising, special events, publications and foreign language translations during their three-month internships. Interns receive up to $1,000 a month in compensation; BLLP also offers two unpaid academic internships per cycle.

The Brower Legacy Leaders Program is currently recruiting candidates for Winter 1999 internships, running January 11-April 2; the application deadline is November 23, 1998. Copies of application materials are available by request and on the Earth Island Institute website.

Brower Legacy Leaders Program

Winter 1999 Internship Job Description: Program Coordination Intern Earth Island Institute Project: Center for Safe Energy Dates: January 11-April 2, 1999 Scheduled work hours per week: 20 hours Location: Berkeley, CA Supervisor: Deputy Director Center for Safe Energy collaborates with Russian environmental activists in the promotion of energy conservation and the development of alternative energy technologies.

Description: The Program Coordination Intern will work with the Deputy Director developing an anti-nuclear activist exchange between US and Russian activists, and will support the administrative reorganization of the Center for Safe Energy.

Tasks:

• Organize Russian delegation of nuclear activists to visit US; Communicate with Russian delegates by e-mail; Communicate with US environmental activists; Develop program design; Organize travel logistics: transportation, visas and accommodations
• Organize visit of CSE staff and US activists' delegation to Russia; Intensive email and phone communications with US delegates and Russian coordinator; Organize travel logistics: transportation, visas and accommodations
• Translations: Russian-English and English-Russian
• Data Entry/Conversion: Assist with database conversion, upgrade, and data entry using Russian and English sources.
• Administrative assistance: Correspondence, email, faxing, filing

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to speak, read and write Russian at advanced level
• Previous experience with Russians and Russian culture essential

Desired Qualifications:

• Computer skills: Knowledge of Filemaker, Eudora and Microsoft Word
• Excellent writing and communication skills * Self-motivation and independence

PLEASE NOTE The e-mail address--earthisland@earthisland.org--is the ONLY address that you should use to communicate with the Brower Legacy Leaders Program. We will respond to routine inquiries regarding the availability of positions, deadlines, schedules, etc. HOWEVER, inquiries regarding the status of individual applications WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Please refer to the application materials available on the website for information on the program schedule.

Application deadline: November 23, 1998.

Brower Legacy Leaders Program Earth Island Institute, 300 Broadway, Suite 28 San Francisco, CA 94133 USA

Phone: 415-788-3666 Fax: 415-788-7324 E-mail: earthisland@earthisland.org Webpage: http://www.earthisland.org/getinvolved/bllp.html

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