More mutually beneficial partnership work…

We run a part time internship programme each year in partnership with NCL+. Placements last four or five months for a minimum of half a day a week.

What are the benefits? It is a great opportunity for Newcastle University students to work in a fast-moving, creative environment geared towards making sustainable change happen on the campus. And the Sustainability Team gets high quality meaningful project work completed. Without the interns this work would have to wait until the resources became available.

Interns are allocated to one of the sustainability team’s areas of work and occasionally we recruit interns to work on specific project work also.

We love our interns, they are a crucial part of the team and vital in helping us achieve our aims. We make their time with us stimulating and rewarding. We fully encourage them to become part of the team contributing to meaningful work, attending meetings, brainstorms, events, and generally get all of the experience required to make a head start in the sustainability businesses.

All interns have regular meetings with a dedicated line manager to discuss their personal development and progress.

We’re proud of our interns and we hope that they go on to change the world.

We have 7 interns working for us this year and we also have other students picking up smaller one off projects.

Temp intern positions

The Waste Management Intern, works to improve recycling and reduce the amount of waste produced on campus.

We have two analyst interns. One working on energy use and the other on waste production. They are tasked with setting up systems to monitor, record, analyse and interpret the energy used and waste produced on campus, leading to higher efficiencies and cost savings.

We also have two EMS interns. The University is in the process of implementing EcoCampus, an Environmental Management System (EMS). The interns are developing University environmental objectives, targets and procedures. This role suits graduates who know that they want to work in environmental management and auditing.

The Student Engagement Intern- helps to develop communication campaigns and networks to encourage students to take responsibility for their actions towards energy, waste travel and water issues.

The Environmental coordinator intern stimulates action on sustainability issues across the University by helping to support the objectives of the EC network. The volunteer would assist in the development of communication plans for energy and recycling, developing initiatives, organising events, developing and designing publicity literature.

It is not all glamour though and they have to muck in sometimes doing the boring stuff like preparing meetings or data entry, but they don’t get stuck doing anything boring for very long.

What we’re looking for
If you want to work with us to make the campus sustainable then you need to have an interest in it what we do. You should be studying towards a sustainability/environmental/marketing Degree or Masters and be able to show us that you are involved or interested in sustainable development and have a desire to create change.

For starters you’ll have read our webpage and various communications and you’ll have seen our blog and our twitter and have friended us on FB. You will probably also be part of our Green Student Network.

We are recruiting for interns for next year so please send a covering letter explaining why you want to be an intern and CV to hannah.munro@ncl.ac.uk

The next blog post will be written by our current Student Engagement Intern….