Founded in 1993, College Summit is a nationally-recognized nonprofit increasing community-wide college enrollment rates of low-income students. College Summit's innovative and scalable model helps build a college-going culture in schools from within - by tapping influential students, and providing high schools and colleges with the tools to ensure that every student who can make it in college makes it to college. To date, College Summit has served more than 41,000 low-income students, nationally.
Every summer on college campuses across the country, College Summit trains 40-50 high-potential rising seniors, called Peer Leaders, at four-day Summer Workshops to navigate the college admissions process and build a college-going culture in their high schools. These Peer Leaders will learn effective ways to finance their college education, skills and techniques to positively influence their peers, and methods to overcome the challenges they will face as they work to enroll in college.
Most students arrive on campus assuming that college is out of their reach. Four days later, they leave confident that college is a real option for them.
The organization was founded in 1993 by J.B. Schramm, while directing a teen center in the basement of a low-income housing project in Washington, DC.J.B. is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Public Service from Regis University, serves as a 2010 Class of Aspen-New Schools Fellow, and as a member of the Kennedy School of Government’s Executive Session on Transforming Cities Through Civic Entrepreneurship. He is a graduate of Denver Public Schools, Yale University and Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Washington, DC.
The Internship:
This opportunity is available in San Francisco, California.
The College Summit Regional Summer Intern position offers a great opportunity to learn and develop a wide array of professional skills while supporting a leading U.S. social entrepreneur organization. Regional Summer Interns will be trained to provide community relations support in a College Summit Regional Office for 3 months during the summer (approximately May 1st – August 1st ).
The Regional Summer Intern will play a critical role working alongside College Summit regional staff to support Northern California partner schools before and during our peer leader workshop season. The Regional Summer Intern will also assist in creating a in depth testimonial and photo library of workshop experiences of peer leaders, volunteers and Core Staff. If the Intern is an Alumni of our workshops they will have the opportunity to be an Alumni Leader, if desired, at least once.
Key Responsibilities (Workshops):
• Communications directly with Peer Leaders prior to the workshop (reminders, meeting place, chaperone information, answer any student and parent questions).
• Permission Packet tracking, scanning, and transferring to disks (data entry, data integrity, and updates to regional staff regarding progress).
• Assist with school and parent communications & meetings.
• Assist Executive Director in managing community / media relations and site visits to workshops / workshop banquets.
Key Responsibilities (Marketing & Communications):
• Assist Executive Director with marketing and communications regarding 2010 workshops.
• Design process for gathering, documenting and housing testimonials form workshop attendees.
• Assist in general office needs.
Qualifications and Experience:
• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree
• A resourceful, detail-oriented self-starter
• Very strong time management and organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience working with diverse populations
• A desire and ability to work inside a passionate, entrepreneurial
organization dedicated to social change that may require more time than an
average work week.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word,
Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Customer service experience a plus
Stipend:
• Payment: semi-monthly stipend of $583 after taxes (for a total of up to
$3,500 for the full 3 month internship period)
• Payment Procedures: the stipend will be paid on the 15th and last day
of each month
• Time Commitment: approximately May 1 to August 1, 2010
To Apply:
Interested candidates should e-mail a resume and 1-page essay detailing why you should be chosen as a College Summit Regional Summer Intern to:
• San Francisco, CA: Diedra Barber, dbarber(@)collegesummit.org
Please write in the subject line: “Regional Summer Intern Position.”
(Emails without this subject line may be deleted). Attachments should be in Word, PDF or RTF format.
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