Graduate Intern, International Labor Standards-Summer 2011

The Walt Disney Company

Work Location: Burbank, CA

The Position:

We are seeking candidates for a Graduate Intern position within the International Labor Standards Group at The Walt Disney Company for the summer 2011.  The Graduate Intern will report to the Senior Project Analyst and will assist with administering the execution, actions, measurement and communication of a wide range of activities relating to International Labor Standards projects. This includes assisting in developing tools to track issues, interfacing with internal and external parties to initiate or obtain updates on actions, researching and identifying new techniques and resources, providing regular updates on project status, preparing data and presentations on activity and general research and analysis on labor standards issues. 

The Department:

The International Labor Standards Group at The Walt Disney Company is committed to the promotion and maintenance of responsible international labor practices in its licensing and direct sourcing operations throughout the world. Disney maintains a wide-ranging International Labor Standards program that includes policies, practices and protocols designed to protect the interests of workers engaged in the manufacture of Disney merchandise, whether for licensees or for direct sale at Disney properties.

The Ideal Candidate:

Only students who are actively enrolled in a college or university and working towards a Masters or MBA degree will be considered for this opportunity. The ideal candidate has the following skills, experience and abilities:

• Qualified candidates will be enrolled in a graduate program majoring in Business Administration, Marketing, Social Entrepreneurship, Economics, International Business, International Relations, Public Policy or other related international policy or business major. 
• Prior work experience should include corporate social responsibility, policy initiatives, corporate communications or public relations.
• Prior international-related work experience or education is preferred.
• Candidates must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment.
• Project management experience and strong demonstrated research, writing, and analysis skills. 
• Exceptional organizational skills, attention-to-detail, and a flexible approach to shifting priorities on multiple assignments.
• Demonstrated computer presentation skills (PowerPoint), analytics, and spreadsheet experience is a must.
• Ability to work 40 hours per week during the summer 2011 with a possible extension of 15-20 hours per week during the academic year.

The Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, interactive media and consumer products. Disney is a Dow 30 company with revenues of nearly $38 billion in its most recent fiscal year.

The Compensation

We offer an attractive and competitive pay rate. 

How to Apply

Apply online at DisneyCareers.com

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Please note: this position will be posted until a candidate is selected/hired, or until the expiration date listed on this posting (whichever occurs first).

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Social Media Intern at St. Vincent Meals on Wheels

St. Vincent Meals on Wheels (SVMOW) uses a traditional model of fundraising from distinct constituents which include:

• Direct Mail Donors
• Foundations
• Corporations
• Planned Gifts
• Events

SVMOW wishes to augment these efforts by developing its capabilities to use social media as a means of a) brining new, younger donors to the organization, and b) understanding how these tools can strengthen existing relationships. The ultimate goal is to advance SVMOW’s mission, increase volunteerism, and increase revenues.

Intern Responsibilities

• Segment “market” of a) prospective donors and b) prospective volunteers, and develop individual messaging goals for each audience “slice”.
• Identify near-term and long-term opportunities to employ social media tools to further SVMOW objectives for a) attracting new constituents, and b) increasing the marketing leverage from existing relationships.
• Develop implementation plan (e.g. tactics), including resources required and timelines.

o   Identify the specific action plan(s) that can be implemented during the internship. This requires an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of both the intern and SVMOW in-house resources.

o   Identify tracking mechanisms for ROI measurement.

o   Recognize the available resources

• Develop and maintain job description for social media

Requirements

• Minimum time commitment of 5 hours per week.
• Weekly review with Executive Director Daryl Twerdahl and/or Advisory Board member Greg Stone.
• Depending on progress, will have the opportunity to present updates and results to the full SVMOW Advisory Board
• Fluency with social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter.
• Competency with Powerpoint or other presentation software.
• Self-starter. Must be comfortable with unstructured tasks and encouraging others (SVMOW staff) to work collaboratively.
• Must have own laptop.

If interested, e-mail cover letter & resume to Greg Stone (GStone@blackfordcapital.com)

Fact Sheet

St. Vincent Meals on Wheels

2131 West Third Street, Los Angeles, CA  90057

(213) 484-7112; stvincentmow.org

Vision

A community where all vulnerable adults, regardless of their age, illness, disability, religion, or ability to pay, can choose to live independently with dignity in their own homes because they have access to nutritious and appetizing meals and contact with caring individuals on a daily basis.

Mission

To promote the health and well being of homebound adults with limited incomes and/or those with mobility and frailty issues who are at risk to hunger, malnutrition, disease, and social isolation.

Values

• Respect. We serve our customers with dignity, compassion, and a smile.
• Timeliness. We follow up promptly on our customers’ requests for information and referrals because social isolation can be scary and life threatening.
• Diversity. We value the opportunity to serve customers with a range of cultures, opinions, and special diet and nutrition and medical needs.
• Protection of the environment. We seek ways to reduce energy, waster in our operations.
• Appreciation. We value the diverse contributions of our staff, volunteers, referral agencies, and donors.

Advocacy and Education

Our organization publishes Breadbasket, a quarterly newsletter distributed to 45,000 individuals and organizations in Los Angeles County.  We focus on the areas of adult hunger and barriers to independent living.

Services

We prepare daily meals and distribute them using our fleet of vans.  We assist our customers in securing utility bill discounts and in-home services through Los Angeles County.  We link adults in crisis to assisted living, essential hygiene supplies, visiting nurses and social workers.  We also provide blankets, birthday cakes, and small holiday gift baskets.

Geographic Area

The core service area is a 43-square mile of central Los Angeles roughly bounded by Eagle Rock in the City of Los Angeles on the north, Compton on the south, Pico Rivera and Rosemead on the east, and Beverly Hills on the west and other municipalities as necessary.  Our busiest route is downtown Los Angeles where we serve a concentration of adults living in Single Room Occupancy Hotels.

Clients

We have no eligibility requirements for individuals to participate in our nutrition program.  We serve anyone in need, regardless of age, illness, disability, race, religion, or ability to pay.  Priority is given to homebound seniors.

Clients range from those who depend upon the service long-term to those who need the service temporarily as they recover from a hospital stay, injury, and illness, or homelessness.  Referrals for our services come from social service agencies, neighbors of current customers, family members, churches and synagogues, van advertisements, and hospital social workers.

Several cities and nonprofits contract with our organization to provide meals to congregate dining sites in Huntington Park, Inglewood, and Glendale.

Distinguishing Features

• Largest privately funded nutrition program in the nation providing more than 18 million meals.
• Specialize in catering to people with special diets, nutritional, and medical needs requiring low sodium, low potassium, renal, diabetic, soft, puree, as well as those who have preferences for Kosher and vegetarian diets.
• Reporter of elder and neglect abuse.
• Participate in group purchasing programs in the areas of medical insurance, vehicle insurance and food.
• Commit to green initiatives to reduce our carbon footprint.  To date, we have replaced all Styrofoam cups and plates and disposable plastic utensils with biodegradable recycled paper products.  Staff members and volunteers use their own reusable cups.

2010 Accomplishments

• Cost to prepare and deliver a nourishing hot meal: $6.98
• Over one million nutritious hot meals and cold suppers annually averaging 4,700 meals a day
• 57,536 frozen meals weekly for customers who receive dialysis treatments who can manage microwave ovens
• 300 volunteers donating  the equivalent of $543,000 (based on value of volunteer hours as determined by US Government)
• 37 delivery cars and vans serving 32 routes covering 634 miles and totaling 231,410 miles

2010 Budget

Our operations budget is $8,300,000 of which one quarter comes from contributions from meal customers and the remaining funds came from private sources including individuals, foundations, corporations, and service clubs.  The top three expense areas are salaries and employee benefits ($3,339,854 or 54%), supplies including food ($1,966,306 or 32%), and travel and transportation ($238,148 or 4%).  Our organization employs 92 people.

Community Kitchen

Our full-service 16,500 sf commercial kitchen is equipped to provide up to 5,000 meals per day.  It currently operates from 4 AM to 4 PM daily.  The kitchen provides culinary job training to adults living at low-incomes to prepare them for careers in the food service industry.

Governance and Staffing

Sister Alice Marie Quinn, a registered dietitian, is the founder and Executive Director of St. Vincent Meals on Wheels.  Daryl T. Twerdahl is Executive Director of the St. Vincent Meals on Wheels Foundation, which raises financial support for program operations and capital equipment.  A 10-person Board of Directors governs the Foundation.

Volunteers

Our volunteers support the organization by preparing and delivering meals and providing with administrative support.  Our volunteers speak Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Tagalog, and Korean.

History

Our organization was established in 1977 as the St. Vincent Senior Citizen Nutrition Program at Precious Blood Church Parish Hall at 437 S. Occidental Street serving 75 seniors.  Over the years our private nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization has evolved into a community nutrition provider affiliated with Meals on Wheels.

Plans in Progress

• Reduce vehicle miles traveled by finding efficient delivery routes.  Encourage transit and carpools by employees and volunteers.
• Expand the number of our volunteers and provide regular training and development opportunities.
• Develop and conduct community outreach events to raise awareness about aging in place and how to support homebound adults to live independently and with dignity.
• Prepare and implement a comprehensive energy management plan to improve the efficiency of food storage, refrigeration, preparation, and disposal.
• Reduce the carbon footprint of food purchased such as reducing red meat and buying local products

Future Plans

• Improve the fuel efficiency of our delivery vehicles.
• Identify new food sources to help reduce the escalating food costs.
• Add a second kitchen shift to double the production of daily meals to meet the growing number of homebound adults in need of daily nutritious meals.
• Increase the number of staff and volunteers who can provide linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
• Develop a model for and implement case management services for our long-term customers.
• Expand our job-training program for culinary arts students.
• Strengthen collaborations with community partners to coordinate and provide related services such as medical alert devices, pet wellness, home fitness, mental health, visiting nurses, spiritual services, peer-to-peer learning, nutrition education and counseling, lifestyle renovations, home retrofit projects, and maintenance and repairs.
• Publish and sell a cookbook for people with special diet needs to generate income to support our program operations.

AltaTerra maintains a highly selective internship program, partly in partnership with top-tier universities and environmental nonprofits. The Business Research Intern will be responsible for conducting publishable industry and market research on business issues in fields such as:

Enterprise environmental strategy

Commercial green products and markets

Sustainable operations and solutions

Successful candidates will also spend 20 percent of their time developing direct business experience, assisting with administrative, marketing and other company responsibilities.

Candidates must have an excellent academic record from a highly-rated college or university, and demonstrate strong quantitative and/or analytical skills. They must be interested in participating in a collaborative work environment. They will share with their potential co-workers the traits of curiosity, enthusiasm, personal integrity and intellectual agility.

We are currently looking for interns for to start in January or February. Interns must commit to 12 to 20 hours per week for ten to twenty weeks for a school term. During the school year, little to no travel is generally required. Intern roles are volunteer positions, with no salary and no expenses paid. University credit may be possible through school field study programs.

How to Apply

If you believe you have the work ethic, the cooperative spirit and the analytical prowess to be selected as an AltaTerra intern, please send your resume with an email message introducing yourself no later than Friday, December 17 to:

• Mr. Eric Paul
• Email: intern (at AltaTerra dot net)
• Subject: Business research internship application

While the deadline for applications for internships starting in January and February of 2011 is December 17, 2010, potential interns starting in the spring and summer of 2010 are welcome to submit applications on a rolling basis. We recommend writing soon.

Testimonial

“Through the internship at AltaTerra I gained valuable experience learning better methods for research while working to find out what companies are doing to be environmentally sustainable. I’ve gotten to work independently, but with a good amount of guidance that gave me experience working in a business environment and meeting deadlines.” Michelle Thomas, Business Management Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz

The opportunity for free travel is being extended to the individual who will lead a group of ten of their peers on one of our programs this summer.  If this opportunity is something that you would like to learn more about, please contact Alex Berg to schedule a time to meet and discuss this opportunity in more detail.  Thanks!

Alex Berg

California Regional Director

International Student Volunteers

(310)722-8835

alexb@isvonline.org www.isvonline.org

Posted: November 8, 2010

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Attending Net Impact Night

EDF CLIMATE CORPS FELLOWSHIP

Summer 2011 Fellow Job Description

Title Climate Corps Fellow

Duration 10-12 weeks during summer 2011

Training 3 days in Mid-May 2011; attendance is mandatory

Type Paid Fellowship – $1,250/week for 10-12 weeks

Location Varies based on host company match

Hours Full-time; exact work schedule depends on host company

Deadline to apply Early Decision: January 11, 2011; Regular Decision: February 17, 2011

About EDF and Corporate Partnerships

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a leading national nonprofit organization, creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. EDF links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships. For more information, visit edf.org. Read our blog at blogs.edf.org/innovation. Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/EDFix.

EDF is a global leader in partnering with leading companies to improve environmental and business performance. We have a 20-year track record helping the world’s largest corporations unleash environmental innovation while demonstrating that good environmental strategy is good business strategy. For more information, visit innovation.edf.org.

Job Description

Commercial buildings consume about 25% of the electricity in the U.S. and are responsible for 18% of the nation’s greenhouse gas pollution.  Office buildings alone account for about 200 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually, the equivalent of 43 coal-fired power plants. By 2020 the U.S. could reduce its annual energy consumption by 23% from business as usual if we implement energy efficiency practices today.  However, corporate organizational barriers like lack of bandwidth and expertise, competing business priorities, and disincentives for working across departmental boundaries are preventing us from doing so.

EDF Climate Corps (CC) seeks to overcome these barriers and cut greenhouse gas emissions today while training tomorrow’s business leaders to create environmental value. Focusing on commercial buildings, CC fellows deliver a compelling business case for energy efficiency, and move companies toward cutting energy consumption, capturing savings, and reducing emissions.

As an CC fellow, you will be matched with a leading company to serve as an energy efficiency change agent. It is an ideal opportunity for students interested in sustainability, CSR, operations or consulting who are looking for an on-the-ground internship experience driving environmental change within a large organization.

EDF provides the following training and resources throughout your summer:

• 3-day training in energy efficiency strategies for commercial office buildings and data centers.
• Climate Corps Handbook
• Summer Call series with experts on topics relevant to fellow workplans.
• Fellow check-in calls facilitated by EDF to share best practices
• Access to online forums, collaboration tools, EDF experts, and up-to-date energy efficiency resources

Participating companies will be at different points along the path of developing an overall greenhouse gas and energy management strategy; some will require strategic guidance about long-term carbon management and meeting voluntary obligations in addition to an energy efficiency investment plan for one or more of their building(s).

Past host companies include Accenture, Bloomberg, Citizen’s Bank, eBay Inc., Grubb Properties, Houston Rockets/Toyota Center, PepsiCo, REI, Target, Verizon, and Yahoo!.

In the first three years of the program, Climate Corps fellows uncovered efficiencies that can

• Save $439 million in net operational costs over the project lifetimes
• Cut the equivalent of 958 million kWh of annual energy use — enough to power 85,000 homes
• Avoid over 557,000 metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions — equivalent to taking more than 86,000 SUVs off the road.

Companies report that they are implementing upgrades representing 84% of the energy savings recommended by the fellows.

Each year brings new validation of our hypothesis that a smart and resourceful young leader – armed with analytical skills, relevant training, and a single-minded focus on energy efficiency – can overcome institutional barriers to energy efficiency.

Join us in summer 2011!

Selected duties may include:

• Gathering detailed data about partner company’s existing energy usage through interviews with key employees, observation, outside vendors and professional energy audits
• Modeling financial impact of energy efficiency investments in lighting, office equipment, and HVAC
• Presenting the business case for energy efficiency investments to senior management
• Advising on overall greenhouse gas management strategies

Learn more

• Watch our video, “Faces of Climate Corps” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaCqgujNW_U
• Hear from the fellows themselves on EDF’s Innovation Exchange Blog and our Success Stories page.
• Visit EDF’s website to learn about the summer experience results and participating companies.

Selection Criteria

Minimum qualifications

• Superior oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
• Self-starter with strong project management experience
• Graduate-level background in financial analysis
• Consulting, corporate advisory or large company experience
• Eligibility to work in the United States during the summer of 2011
• Resourcefulness and ability to work both independently and on cross-functional teams

Preferred qualifications

• MBA candidate and/or graduate
• Engineering background
• Demonstrated experience working on energy efficiency, energy or sustainability projects or initiatives
• Familiarity with climate change and energy issues
• Environmental passion

Questions
Read more on www.edfclimatecorps.org and if you still have questions, please email smody@edf.org.

Keep yourself in the conversation by joining the EDF Climate Corps LinkedIn group, becoming a fan on Facebook and following us on Twitter.

To Apply

The application for summer 2011 will be available on November 1, 2010.

In the meantime, please sign up to receive updated application materials and a schedule of recruiting events.

The application will consist of the following:

• Resume (highlight qualifications above)
• Short answer questions
• Contact information for three professional references

Early Decision applications are due on January 11, 2011. Regular Decision applications are due on February 17, 2011. Read more about the program details here.

Posted: November 7, 2010