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About the Role
This is a 10-week summer internship opportunity within NRDC's International team, focusing on the planetGOLD program. The intern will contribute to a global knowledge management and communications project aimed at controlling mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale mining (ASGM) by promoting safer, mercury-free methods.
Responsibilities
- Carry out research and synthesize existing information and examples on a key ASGM topic.
- Research, collate, and document available information relevant to chosen ASGM topics.
- Produce at least one white paper/research paper on the chosen topic(s) for the planetGOLD website.
- Participate in planetGOLD knowledge exchange events (webinars/meetings) as time permits.
Requirements
- Currently a graduate student from Fordham's IPED program.
- Experience with research from formal peer-review literature, "grey" literature, and interviews.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Self-motivation and ability to work efficiently and meet deadlines with limited supervision.
- High proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word and Outlook.
Skills
- Research
- Writing
- Self-motivation
- Time management
- Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook)
- Spanish (a plus)
- French (a plus)
Location
- Washington, D.C.
- New York office
- Hybrid (required to come into the office 2 days/week)
Work Type
- 10-week summer internship
- Paid internship
- Hybrid work model
Experience Level
- Graduate student
Education Level
- Graduate student from Fordham's IPED program
Salary/Compensations
- Stipend equivalent to $10,000.00 paid bi-weekly over the course of the assignment
About the Company
- NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth, its people, plants, animals, and natural systems.
- Combines over 3 million members and online activists with 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts.
- Confronts the climate crisis, protects nature, and ensures rights to clean air, water, and healthy communities.
- International nonprofit environmental organization addressing urgent environmental challenges with innovative, science-based solutions.
- Founded in 1970, helped craft foundational environmental laws like the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act.
- Leads in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at local, state, federal, and international levels, and through the marketplace.
- Team works across the United States and globally from offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Beijing, and New Delhi.
- Drives impactful solutions to confront the climate crisis, defend nature, and safeguard public health across Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
- Believes lasting change happens when talent, passion, and expertise unite for a common purpose: to build a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient world.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in work and workplace.
- Believes celebrating diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving environmental problems.
- Encourages applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the environmental movement.
- Equal opportunity employer; does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.