Communications, Engagement, and Research Intern

World Resources Institute

Feb 28, 2024

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Summer Internship
Marketing
Research & Development
Washington, DC

Requirements

Pursuing or recently completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree.
Interest and enthusiasm about cities, sustainability, and environmental issues.
Strong written communication skills – experience writing blogs, reports, social media, and communications products is a plus.
Research skills – some experience developing case studies and/or project narratives. Ability to analyze diverse sources of information to understand the bigger picture of a project.
Experience working with Microsoft Office products; experience with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Sharepoint is a plus.
Experience supporting activities related to communications, research, and engagement.
Good inter-personal communication skills, including the ability to work well in a team and with international colleagues and interfacing with senior staff.
Good time management skills, flexibility, and willingness to take on diverse tasks as the team’s needs evolve.
Comfortable executing assigned tasks independently as well as part of a close-knit team.

Responsibilities

The WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities team is seeking an intern to support communications, research, and engagement activities for the fourth cycle of the Prize for Cities, the premier global award for sustainable city projects. The ideal candidate is a current university student with an interest in cities, sustainability, and climate. In this role the intern will provide communications, research, and administrative support for the Prize team in the summer of 2024 as the team promotes the five finalist projects of the fourth cycle. The intern will also work with the team to prepare for Prize’s awards ceremony and learning roundtable events. The intern will take on a diverse range of tasks, ranging from writing blogs and social media posts, to working on the Prize’s research agenda and project database, to supporting the design and planning of high-profile events. This internship is a special opportunity to enhance your skills in a number of areas including writing, communication, research, and project support. You’ll get the chance to gain knowledge of transformative and inspiring city projects around the world and work with changemakers leading these efforts. You will report to the Prize for Cities team.

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Mission & Purpose

WRI's mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. We organize our work around six critical goals that the world must achieve this decade in order to secure a sustainable future: Climate: Protect communities and natural ecosystems from damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and generate opportunities for people by catalyzing a global transition to a low-carbon economy. Energy: Drive the scale-up of clean, affordable power systems throughout the world to deliver sustainable socio-economic development. Food: Ensure the world’s food systems reduce their impact on the environment, drive economic opportunity, and sustainably feed 9.6 billion people by 2050. Forests: Alleviate poverty, enhance food security, conserve biodiversity, and mitigate climate change by reducing forest loss and restoring productivity to degraded, deforested lands. Water: Achieve a water-secure future by mapping, measuring, and mitigating global water risks. Cities and Transport: Improve quality of life in cities by developing and scaling environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable urban and transport solutions. We design solutions for and analyze these six critical goals through the lenses of our three Centers of Excellence which focus on Governance, Business and Finance.