Chesapeake Bay Trust
Grant Intern (paid) – Spring Semester (p/t) and Summer (f/t) - apply ASAP
Applications will begin to be reviewed upon receipt.
The Chesapeake Bay Trust, a non-profit, state-chartered
grant-making organization supported by the Treasure the Chesapeake (Bay plate)
license plate program, seeks an intern interested in gaining experience in the
non-profit sector. The intern will work at the
Chesapeake Bay Trust January through May at a
rate of $10 per hour, with a minimum of four hours per week and a maximum of 10
hours per week and will transition in June to the Trust’s full-time, ten-week
summer internship program that offers a $3,400 stipend.
Duties at
the Trust during the spring semester include a variety of administrative
grant-related tasks on our portfolio of K-12 environmental education,
on-the-ground watershed and habitat restoration, and citizen engagement
projects, including K-12 environmental education grant review.
Duties at the
Trust added during the summer months include some field work to assess proposed
and completed restoration projects and an independent project of the student’s
choosing related to watershed issues and aligned with the Trust’s
mission. Independent projects completed by interns in the past have been
adapted for independent study credit through the student’s university with
university and professor permission.
Students gain a wide range of skills
for their resumes beyond traditional environmental organization experience,
including grant management and general experience with grant-making and
grant-writing. Students also gain knowledge of and experience with a
subset of the 300 non-profit grantees we engage every year.
Eligible applicants must be undergraduate or graduate
students attending a two- or four-year college or university in Maryland with a
GPA of 3.00 or higher. In addition, all undergraduate applicants must be
entering or continuing their sophomore, junior, or senior year during the
spring 2016 semester. Students of all majors are welcome to apply.
Interested students should send to Emily Stransky
(estransky@cbtrust.org, 410-974-2941 x112) a resume and cover letter that
addresses a) what the student hopes to gain from the experience and how it fits
in with his/her career goals, and b) what skills and experiences the student
has that are relevant to Trust goals.