Summer 2025 Land Conservation Intern

Natural Resources Defense Council

United States, D.C., Washington

1152 15th Street Northwest (Show on map)

Dec 16, 2024

Summer 2025 Land Conservation Intern

Job ID

2024-5666

# of Openings

Group

Nature

Overview

NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization. We use law, science, and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today, our team of more than 700 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy advocates, communications experts, and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Bozeman, Montana; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington, D.C.

NRDC is seeking a Summer intern to work with the Land Conservation team associated with our Washington, D.C. office.

Position Summary

NRDC's Land Conservation team works to protect sensitive landscapes, endangered species habitat, communities, and natural resources. As part of the team, the Summer Intern will conduct research, attend meetings, analyze government policies, and compile data and other relevant information related to NRDC's advocacy objectives. The Summer Intern will work with the Land Conservation team on a range of issues to help NRDC's efforts to advocate for and defend policies that protect our nation's communities and our rich natural heritage from industrial threats including fossil fuel development and other stressors. The intern will also help the team to advance solutions including renewable energy that support the institution's commitment to combat climate change.

Responsibilities

* Participate in the development of strategies to challenge policies to expand fossil fuels and other harmful industries such as mining and to support responsible renewable energy development on federal lands.

* Conduct research necessary to support legislative and administrative advocacy campaigns to fight dirty energy and support responsible clean energy development.

* Cover multiple projects over the summer to help different members of the team working on a range of issues.

Qualifications

Summer intern will be familiar with basic computer skills and the use of Word and Excel.

Summer intern will have experience conducting research.
Summer intern will have excellent writing skills.

Required

Commitment to NRDC's mission and values.
Must be enrolled in an accredited undergrad program
Strong research and writing skills.

Preferred

Located in Washington, D.C. and able to participate in a hybrid work model.

NRDC is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our work and in our workplace. We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planet's most pressing environmental problems, and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the environmental movement.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of 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 federal, state, or local law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position is a paid internship with a paid stipend from 6,6000 and will seek an undergrad student.

Our offices are open and we are operating in a hybrid model. We offer NRDCers flexibility, and we ask them to come into the office and spend meaningful time there in collaboration with their colleagues. We call this purposeful presence.

As a science-based organization, NRDC aims to do our part to help contain the COVID-19 public health crisis. For the sake of health, safety, and equity, we ask that people be vaccinated unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation or other exemption in accordance with state and local law. We consider a person to be vaccinated two weeks after receiving one full course of a CDC-approved vaccine. In accordance with state or local law, new hires will be asked to attest to vaccination, those wishing to do so may request medical or religious accommodations or other exemptions via NRDC Employee Relations. NRDC treats all vaccine-related data confidentially, in keeping with local, state, and federal laws.

If you experience technical problems while applying or if you are a person with a disability and need assistance applying online, please reach out to iCIMS Customer Care at 1-800-889-4422.

For more about NRDC, visit www.nrdc.org.

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