Are you a college student looking for a part-time job during the school year? Wildsight is looking for a Communications Intern to work with us from September to April in the Kimberley/Cranbrook area.
You’ll be working with our communications team, and the rest of the Wildsight team in Kimberley and throughout the Kootenays, to help spread Wildsight’s message and fundraise to support our work. The work will be varied and depends somewhat on the skills you bring to the job. You can expect to help with local events, work in our database, help with fundraising and communicating with donors, generally help out in our office, and more. Other work could include social media and website, writing, editing and proofreading, video editing or graphic design, depending on the skills or experience you bring to the table. You’ll also have a chance to learn about some of the many areas in which Wildsight works to protect wild places, get our kids learning in the wild and inspire youth to tackle climate change.
While your work will require you to work in our Kimberley office from time to time (or more frequently if you like), we are happy for you to work from home and fit the work into your class schedule as you see fit. We understand that sometimes studying for your exams is more important than your job.
You should:
- Be enrolled in a full-time post-secondary program for 2024/25
- Be self-motivated, independent, and able to work on multiple projects
- Pay attention to detail
- Have a passion for the wild
Ideally, you:
- Have a knowledge of environmental issues in British Columbia and in the Kootenays
- Have good language skills including editing, proofreading and writing
- Have social media, graphic design or video experience
Hours: an average of about 8 hours per week for the school year (September to April), with flexibility to work more or less at different times.
Wage: $20/hour
Job Location: Kimberley or Cranbrook, BC
Please send your resume and a sample of your work that would be relevant to communications (writing, graphic design, social media content, video, etc) to lars@wildsight.ca. We will conduct rolling interviews until the position is filled.
Our local Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook branch is also hiring for a similar position. For the right candidate, it would be possible to combine these to make a more substantial job of about 12 hours per week. If you’d like to apply for both, please check out their job description and then send one application by email to lars@wildsight.ca and kimcran@wildsight.ca.
Wildsight is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our hiring processes and work environment and we encourage women, people of colour, people of Indigenous ancestry and LGBTQ2+ individuals to apply.