EMPLOYER: Wrangell Mountains Center JOB TITLE: Summer Internship REPORTS TO: Operations Manager STIPEND: Unpaid, though room and board provided. We have an excellent kitchen manager on staff who prepares amazing meals, mostly using veggies grown in our organic garden!
Please view our full job description at http://www.wrangells.org/employment/ The Wrangell Mountains Center (WMC) is seeking summer interns for our upcoming 2016 summer season. We are a small, off-the-grid, sustainable organization located in the exceptionally beautiful mountain community of McCarthy, Alaska. Our mission is to connect people with wildlands through art, science, and education in the Wrangell Mountains. The opportunities we provide "to connect" are vast and varied. Summer programming this year includes hosting a research team of ornithologists from Cornell, offering a weekly Summer Arts and Lecture series, hosting a McCarthy kids camp, and serving as the main staging area and classroom space for University of Alaska's glaciology summer school. We also manage a thriving artist in residence program. We run our programs out of two primary facilities. “The Old Hardware Store” was originally a general store for boomtown McCarthy during the copper mining period of the early 20th century. What was once a store and rooming house is now an active, rustic, educational center with libraries, seminar rooms, a workshop, a cooperatively-run kitchen and garden, and studio and office space. Porphyry Place is an Alaskan homestead cabin we acquired in 2012 and use for community programs including public lectures, yoga, youth programs and sometimes as a classroom. Interns have the opportunity to assist in all aspects of WMC operations over the summer. The diverse nature of Wrangell Mountains Center affords the opportunity to somewhat tailor each intern’s duties to their specific interests. Tasks include: - Helping to maintain organic garden - Ensuring a warm and well-organized environment for staff and program participants - Providing administrative support including program marketing - Orienting participants, guests, and students to the systems and customs of the WMC - Assist with start-up logistics and facility preparations in May and closing down in September - Routine maintenance of and improvements to WMC facilities To Apply: Please e-mail a current resume and a short cover letter detailing your motivations for applying; your training, educational, and outdoors background; and your available date range to j...@wrangells.org. Questions may also be directed to that address. Deadline: Our season runs mid-May through mid-September. Active recruitment occurs though June 1st. Full season commitment is preferred, though we also consider partial-season internships. Additionally, short-term work-trade agreements are negotiated throughout the summer.
