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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Date Posted: April 29, 04:44 AM
Description
| Read for the Record Internship--San Francisco | ||||
| Employer: | Jumpstart for Young Children | Function: | Read for the Record Internship--San Francisco | |
| Job type: | Internship | Country: | United States | |
| Industry: | Nonprofit, Children and Youth, Education and Academia | |||
| About Jumpstart Jumpstart is a national early education organization that works toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. Through extraordinary attention in yearlong one-to-one relationships, Jumpstart inspires children to learn, adults to teach, families to get involved and communities to progress together. Headquartered in Boston, Jumpstart pairs 3,500 trained adults one-to-one with preschool children in need of assistance. During the 2007-2008 program year, Jumpstart is serving 13,000 children across 20 states, in partnership with 300 early learning centers and nearly 70 universities and colleges throughout the country. Jumpstart’s national sponsors include American Eagle Outfitters, AmeriCorps, Pearson, Sodexho and Starbucks. Jumpstart has earned a four-star rating from Charity Navigator and is the recipient of the Fast Company/Monitor Social Capitalist Award (2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007) and the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy’s Directors Award. In 2006, the organization launched Jumpstart’s Read for the Record, an annual campaign to bring national attention to early education while setting a world record for the number of adults and children reading the same book in a single day. Position Overview In October 2008, Jumpstart will host the 3rd annual Read for the Record campaign to gather adults and children for the largest shared reading experience ever and to break our own world record for the number of children reading a single book with an adult in the same day. Designed to create awareness of the school readiness problem and engage America in the powerful learning experiences that Jumpstart models in its classrooms every day, Jumpstart’s Read for the Record campaign is an exciting opportunity to participate in a mobilization effort that will make history. Jumpstart’s Read for the Record Campaign Intern will gain broad exposure to non-profit management, traditional and grassroots marketing, and fundraising. The Campaign Intern will support one of Jumpstart’s Regional Offices to coordinate their local campaign activities, with a primary focus on events on the day of Jumpstart’s Read for the Record scheduled for October. We guarantee that an internship placement with Jumpstart will be challenging, fulfilling, rich with learning, and highly rewarding. Specific Responsibilities • Assist the Regional Program and Development teams to coordinate local Public Relations efforts • Compile and distribute marketing materials to publicize Jumpstart’s Read for the Record • Develop and maintain systems to manage and track deliverables for the period leading up to Jumpstart’s Read for the Record • Support campaign partners to prepare for local events • Coordinate, conduct and / or support volunteer activities • Manage distribution of books to corporations and / or preschools • Other administrative duties, as needed Qualifications • Highly organized with strong attention to detail • Ability to manage multiple projects • Strong oral and written communication skills • Familiar and comfortable with MS Office • Must work well on a team and independently • Flexible in a dynamic environment • Energetic, enthusiastic, and interested in learning within a fast-paced, fast-growing organization • Commitment to Jumpstart’s mission and values of quality, challenge, diversity, respect, and kindness Time Frame Summer 2008; Preference for candidates who can work until early October. Part-time in the fall especially can be accommodated for candidates (approx. 10 hours a week). Ad provided by Idealist.org |
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