Business Operations Team Virtual/Remote Internship

Business Operations

The Business Operations department aids in developing products and services that Seaside Sustainability provides and facilitates partnership development. We are constantly working to create programs and steward partnerships with external stakeholders to serve our communities effectively. The team also collects and organizes information on Seaside by liaising with internal stakeholders. The department aids in maintaining data and relations for corporate and foundation donors and partners while working to pursue new opportunities in those areas.

Business Operations Teams

Development Team
The Development Team plays a crucial role in securing resources for Seaside Sustainability’s mission. This team is involved in all aspects of fundraising, including major gifts, corporate giving, grant writing, and government and institutional grants. Interns on this team will prospect new funding opportunities, prepare compelling grant proposals, solicit new funders, and steward ongoing relationships with current funders. This team collaborates closely with other departments to align fundraising efforts with Seaside's goals and objectives.

Green Scholars as a Business
The Green Scholars as a Business team works closely with the Green Scholars Department to launch Seaside’s Green Scholar curriculum program. This team is responsible for the business side of the program launch, including crowdfunding, stakeholder engagement/management, financials, website design, and overall program management. They collaborate with other departments and individuals involved in the Green Scholars program.

Core Business Operations
The Core Business Operations team is responsible for all aspects of business at Seaside. They work closely with other departments to support projects and programs throughout the organization. This team also manages any business operation tasks for Seaside as a whole. Business Operations holds responsibility for all the Events & Partnerships projects Seaside is involved in.
 

Market Research
The Market Research team manages the Market Research program at Seaside Sustainability. The program is designed to grow our nationwide Green Scholars and Sustainability Consulting network in schools. Interns work collectively to compile a database of educators focused on environmental improvement. This process is crucial to Seaside’s mission of bringing actionable change to the classroom. The Market Research team monitors and manages intern research weekly to ensure all Market Research requirements are being fulfilled.

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Supporting operational management of Seaside Sustainability.
• Coordinating revisions and updates to the Seaside Business Plan under the direction of the Executive Director and Board.
• Communicating with other teams to create the Seaside annual report.
• Organizing partner and donor data, creating partner outreach templates, and contacting potential external stakeholders to develop relationships.
• Managing relationships with current corporate donors and stakeholders.
• Collaborating with the Advancement team on corporate donor development through collecting information about prospective donors.
• Developing and maintaining organizational partnerships with other teams.
• Acting as advisors to new initiatives, including Green Scholars as a Business and Sustainability Consulting.
• Coordinating cross-functional teams requiring a business focus.
• Participating in weekly team meetings where current projects and assignments will be discussed.

Desired Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization, both in writing and verbally.
• Strong skills in business and strategic plan development.
• Basic research skills for collecting information on prospective partners and projects.
• Creative business strategies and outside-the-box thinking.
• Writing and copy editing for drafting internal and external documents.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Leadership ability and professionalism.
• Strong interpersonal skills and project management abilities.
• Experience in fundraising and development (for the Development Team role).

Desired Experience:

• Experience with outreach/business communication
• Experience with business/strategic planning
• Experience with new business ventures 
• Experience with event planning
• Experience with HubSpot or another CRM
• Experience with web builder tools such as Wix, Squarespace, Thinkific

“Sustainability, Education, Action”

What is Seaside: Seaside Sustainability is a nationally recognized, award-winning 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to community engagement, public education, and environmental conservation. Seaside aims to be a leader in environmental and STEM educational programs and recognition initiatives. We help by promoting public awareness about the importance of environmental health, providing resources to develop problem-solving skills, and chances to get engaged as part of a community to take action. We organize our works and initiatives around these areas: plastic mitigation, marine citizen science, sustainability education, and solar energy in the community.

Why Intern at Seaside: Seaside’s internship program is hands-down one of the best in the area! With its roots firmly seated in education and hands-on learning, there is no doubt that that is why we have more than 50 interns at any given point throughout the year. Our programs and initiatives encourage members of the community, young and old, to build and nurture a relationship with local land and seascapes. An internship at Seaside allows you to explore a myriad of internship opportunities, relevant to almost any future interest. Join Seaside Sustainability for any season, or during breaks in your school schedule. We are looking for part-time interns in high school, college, and beyond to work on a diverse and challenging array of projects and initiatives. We are accepting applications for unpaid internships, with hours available any day of the week and practically any time of day: weekdays, weekends, and evenings included. We prefer to have our local interns work in person at the office in Gloucester, and we also invite interns from all over the United States and internationally to apply. Seaside Sustainability provides interns with real and meaningful work, and internships are available in any season with flexible time schedules.

Mission: Seaside Sustainability's mission is to preserve and protect the world's oceans, seas, wetlands, and estuaries by motivating citizens to evaluate the critical issues facing the water environment, educating the public on best practices for sustainability, and providing guidance for taking effective action. Among our most important areas of focus are the elimination of consumer plastics and the creation of educational programs for students of all ages. By partnering with diverse stakeholders, including educational institutions, environmental groups, and other organizations across the public and private sectors, Seaside Sustainability is committed to building an informed citizenry to address the sustainability of water-based ecosystems in communities around the world.

Vision Statement: Seaside’s programs and initiatives encourage members of the community, of all ages, to build and nurture a relationship with local land and seascapes. We believe that environmental challenges can be overcome by instilling ethical and social responsibility into our existence. And we address these challenges by illuminating the heavy costs of environmental degradation by providing resources to develop skills, solutions, and community involvement.

What Interns Do at Seaside Sustainability: Our interns are not limited to just one role; we encourage each intern to take advantage of the opportunity to explore a variety of roles and responsibilities. Our interns are never bored as they’re always given real and meaningful work that is essential to the day-to-day operation of the company. As an intern with Seaside Sustainability, you will be asked to perform a myriad of tasks, most of which can also be found at https://www.seasidesustainability.org/intern-details. 

Market Research Weekly Work: In order to fulfill our mission, we need to communicate with educators who are passionate about sustainability. To meet our weekly goals of outreach to these educators, all interns are required to spend no more than 2-hours a week collecting this critical and game changing information. When you are researching these educators, you are literally selecting the people who will be changing the lives of their students by taking part in our programs. This role is one of the most important parts of working here at Seaside. You will gain so many useful skills such as how to be a more effective researcher and how to remain organized all while playing a key role in expanding the size and scale of Seaside. As Interns join Seaside’s leadership, they take on increasing responsibilities and are not required to do weekly information collection.

Course Credit: Students may receive course credit for this internship. Staff will work with the intern’s school/advisor on achieving desired learning outcomes and completing all necessary paperwork.

Requirements: Seaside Sustainability requires interns to work at least 15 hours per week.  

President’s Volunteer Service Award: Seaside Sustainability is now certified to give out the “President’s Volunteer Service Award” to eligible interns. This award was created to, “recognize the important role of volunteers in America’s strength and national identity. This award honors individuals whose service positively impacts communities in every corner of the nation and inspires those around them to take action, too.” This is a great achievement to put on your resume! What are the requirements for this award?

1. Must be a citizen of the United States or a lawful permanent resident
2. All hours must be completed within a 12-month period to be counted towards the final total
3. All hours must be tracked in Seaside’s weekly shift report to be counted

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement: Seaside recognizes that environmental issues are human issues, and therefore everyone has a right to be a part of the solution. Seaside is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment that welcomes all participants irrespective of their gender, race, sexuality, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or socioeconomic status. The demographics of our internship program directly reflects the composition of our national outreach while the composition of our board more reflects the local composition of our communities. With the understanding that Environmental Issues disproportionately affect low income communities, minority communities, and communities of color, we are actively seeking to ensure that our environmental work, our projects, and programs are crafted in a way that both reflects and aids in combating the plight of minorities, of people of color, of economically challenged, and other disadvantaged individuals.

General Skills Needed:

• Passionate and dedicated to making a difference in the environment
• Good virtual communication skills                       
• Comfortable working in teams 
• Good time management skills
• Willingness to learn and work outside of their comfort zone 
• Basic knowledge of communication technology (G-Suite, Zoom, Email) 
• Leadership skills

Management Roles

Project Managers

Seaside Sustainability’s rapid growth is requiring the organization to look for enthusiastic students who wish to take their passion for the environment to the next level. To promote this, Seaside will provide Project Managers with a professionally guided internship that assists with intern management strategies and supports their aspirations for career development. PMs take the lead on more than 20 Seaside projects ranging from 2-10 team members working virtually. Being a Project Manager is truly a win-win situation: the environment benefits, interns benefit, and project managers gain invaluable experience. We are actively seeking to recruit college students, graduate students, and those with leadership experience to fulfill the role of a project manager. Interns at Seaside Sustainability may be promoted to the position of a project manager by exemplifying the characteristics of a model intern. Skills Needed: Project development, Task delegation, Superior organizational and communication skills

Management Fellows

Similar to the Project Manager position described above, a Fellow exemplifies organization, leadership, and communication skills and has the opportunity to lead a team of 3-10 interns in one of the teams above throughout their internship. This position is more demanding and requires someone with the ability to check emails and make phone calls outside of their regular working hours. The duties of this position include: interviewing applicants, onboarding new interns, meeting with interns 1:1 every other week, reporting to the Executive Director, and lastly, ensuring intern and project success. Skills Needed: Project development, Task delegation, Superior organizational and communication skills

Intern Directors

Seaside Sustainability’s internship program has been growing steadily since its creation, and now has the capacity to offer another management position to exceptional interns. Similar to the Project Manager position described above, a Fellow exemplifies organization, leadership, and communication skills and has the opportunity to lead a team of 3-10 interns in one of the teams above throughout their internship. This position is more demanding and requires someone with the ability to check emails and make phone calls outside of their regular working hours. The duties of this position include: interviewing applicants, onboarding new interns, meeting with interns 1:1 every other week, reporting to the Executive Director, and lastly, ensuring intern and project success. Skills Needed: Project development, Task delegation, Superior organizational and communication skills.

Advisors

Seaside Sustainability’s Community Advisory Team members work directly with our Executive Director, Eric Magers, and work alongside Board members, Intern Directors, Management Fellows, other Community Advisors and a large cadre of interns organized in teams to further advance the organization’s goals. Common Advisor duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Leading implementation of new management and organizational processes and procedures across the program. Delegating tasks to appropriate team members. Working closely with the Human Resources team to manage and oversee recruitment for future internship sessions. Collecting and analyzing feedback from interns throughout the program to gauge satisfaction and success. Skills Needed: Good communication with people of all walks of life, Leadership skills, Experience coordinating groups of people, A strong desire to facilitate a positive, hands-on internship experience.

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And remember to check out our partner organization National STEM Honor Society www.nstem.org for another great internship opportunity!