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Internship Opportunities
Bay Area Green Tours Inc. (BAGT) seeks a few passionate and dedicated individuals to intern and/or volunteer to assist BAGT in furthering its mission of inspiring and educating tour participants in sustainability. Learn about Bay Area sustainable businesses and farms while building up your resume! Hours and location for these internships are flexible (min. 5hr/wk and up); duties can be done from home or from BAGT office. Please contact Beth Gelfand at (510) 704-0379 or beth@bayareagreentours.org for more information.
Research Associate
Help to grow a world-class library of inspiring and trail-blazing organizations and businesses located in the Bay Area for future green tours.
- Research new businesses, organizations, and individuals who are front-runners in sustainability
- Create detailed and organized catalogue of businesses & organizations withing Salesforce
- Create personal connections with prospective tours stops & gather information about their preferences & tour logistics
- Assist with tour crafting process, organization & production
- Maintain detailed and organized record of communications within Salesforce
- Provide professional communications with tours stops & gather information about their preferences & tour logistics
- Research new businesses, organizations, and individuals who are frontrunners in sustainability
- Marketing & publicity for tours via press releases, blogging & posting on community calendars
- Research & refine marketing efforts, including social media partnerships (Groupon, etc.)
- Comprehensive screening of incoming groups through Moscone Center
- Attend tours as photographer and/or videographer and document tour stops and attendee experience
- Create specific and accessible organization of photos from tours and events (utilizing existing organization systems of Flickr & Picasa and possibly researching better systems)
- Photo organization & film editing software (e.g. Flickr, Picasa)
- Skilled at photo & video editing
- Graphic Design for promotional flyers, ads, updating existing materials
- Update database with new contacts on ongoing basis
- Administrative tasks as needed
Tour Development
Marketing/PR
Multi-Media
Graphics
Office Support
These positions not only provide on-the-job experience and networking opportunities, but the nature of the work we do puts you directly in contact with some of the most inspiring sustainable businesses and entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. While these are unpaid positions, they do provide substantial professional benefits including:
- Experience working with a local environmental non-profit organization
- Experience researching and connecting with innovative and pioneering leaders in sustainability
- Improved research and communication skills and experience
- Letter of recommendation/professional reference based on performance
We look forward to hearing from you!
