You’re required to have your lifeguard/lifesaving certification along with current CPR/AED.

If interested, please contact James Cart at jwc2@williams.edu

All currently enrolled Williams students are urged to apply for this unique opportunity. In order to obtain application materials, please see the most up to date version of this posting here:

http://student-life.williams.edu/student-involvement/leadership-development/leadership-and-community-development-internship/

Each student reports directly to one of the Museum’s staff members.  While internships have an educational focus, occasional office support is expected during staff vacation times.

Summer positions at WCMA last for 8 – 12 weeks during the 15-week period between the end of the spring semester and the start of the next academic year.  Exact beginning and end dates are negotiable.  The work week is 35 hours.

AVAILABLE POSITIONS:

1.  Education Interns:  THREE positions available to assist the Education Department and work with Sonnet Coggins, Associate Director of Academic and Public Engagement, and Amelia Wood, Coordinator of Education Programs. The Education Department designs interpretative programming, experiences, and materials to make exhibitions, collections, and the museum itself more relevant and meaningful to diverse audiences. Activities include developing strategies to engage audiences, creating opportunities for rich experiences with art, developing interpretative material. Interns will work on all aspects of audience engagement:  conducting research on exhibitions and collections; writing interpretative material; planning, implementing and evaluating programs; and teaching and sharing their passion for art with college students, K-12 students, teachers, and adult audiences.

2.  Mellon Intern:  ONE position available working closely with Maurita Poole, Mellon Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts.  The intern in this position would assist in conducting research about WCMA’s permanent collection for her upcoming exhibition.

3.  Preparator’s Intern:  ONE position available.  The candidate for this position will be working directly for Hideyo Okamura, Exhibition Designer and Chief Preparator, on day-to-day gallery operations.  He/she would be involved in working closely with the art handlers and learning all aspects of installation, art preparation, lighting design, and exhibition layout. This person will also be assisting in the installation of our new exhibition, Now Dig This!

4.  Registrarial Intern:  ONE position available.  Working closely with Rachel Tassone, the Associate Registrar, this internship will focus on organizing, preparing and packing 35mm slides for digitization. These slides represent an important visual archive of the museum’s exhibition and event program. The intern will assist with image file sequence and assign descriptive file names to groups. Each group will then be tagged and bundled for processing by a scanning service. All sequencing and file names will be recorded on an Excel spreadsheet prior to shipment. Assisting in a physical inventory of art objects in storage will also be expected. Strong organization skills and attention to detail is critical

To be considered for a WCMA summer position, please apply via e-mail to Amy Tatro, Assistant to the Director (amy.m.tatro@williams.edu) stating your interests as they relate to art and museum work, with a local reference listed.  Review of resumes will begin April 29th.  Decisions will be made as soon as possible thereafter.  Please call Amy Tatro (x3055) if you have any questions.

• Support the Career Center’s recruiting team by providing assistance to employers who are visiting campus for evening information sessions.  This means setting up the space for events, greeting employers and students, assisting employers with any technology needs as they prepare for their presentations and shutting down the space after the events.  This experience is a great way to strengthen your communication and event planning skills.  You’ll also have direct access to employers and while we make no promises, we can tell you that companies that recruit at Williams have hired all of the students that have held this role in the past.

• Get the first look at hot internships and job opportunities as they come into the Career Center.  About a third of your hours will be dedicated to entering jobs and internships into the Route 2 system.

• Assist with other Career Center events, including mock interview days and the Job & Internship Fair.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong communication skills and enthusiasm

• Experience planning or coordinating events

• Must be completely reliable and able to work independently

• Comfortable working with technology

• Attention to detail, keyboard speed and accuracy is a plus

• Must be available for evening hours

• Open to rising sophomores, juniors or seniors

TO APPLY:

Please submit a resume, and cover letter to Kristen McCormack (kmccorma@williams.edu), Assistant Director, Recruiting Program, by Friday, April 24, 2013.

• What tasks will you be performing as an intern in this organization?
• How would your internship relate to your academic interests?
• What personal objectives do you wish to achieve as a result of this internship?

Happy to meet with any students who would like to talk through any details of this opportunity.

Please contact Megan Bantle if interested.

The Network Assistant is a hands-on position. This position is responsible primarily for installing network hardware at various locations across campus.

Qualifications & Expectations:

• Good technical understanding
• Good mechanical aptitude
• Capable of working in cramped and awkward spaces, working on ladders and in ceiling areas
• Good organizational skills
• Good communications skills
• Must have 35-40 hours available between 8:00am and 4:30pm Monday through Friday.  Some weekend work may be needed.
• A commitment of the full summer session in this position is required.
• Some Heavy lifting required.

Job Functions include but are not limited to:

• Assist network technicians in all aspects of installing, troubleshooting and maintaining the campus’ networking infrastructure.
• Pulling and terminating voice and data cabling
• Telephone installations
• Test Ethernet connections
• Emergency phone testing
• Configuring Cisco networking equipment, Ubiquity wireless bridges, and UPS units.
• Hardware deployment.
• Assist other Networks & Systems staff as needed.

Position Level:

Intermediate- On the job training will be provided by the Networks & Systems full-time staff.

Hours:

• Must have 35-40 hours available between 8:00am and 4:30pm Monday through Friday.  Some weekend work may be needed.

Work Area:

Jesup Hall Room 112 and various other locations

Reports to:

Todd Gould, Sr, Networks & Systems Administrator. If interested, please contact Todd at todd.m.gould@williams.edu

Additional Information:

It is the responsibility of this position and individual, as a Williams College employee, to ensure the security and confidentiality of all information acquired in this summer role.  For additional information, please email todd.m.gould@williams.edu

Work and learn with our highly dedicated and motivated staff as well as our famously loyal alumni volunteers. The Alumni Relations Student Intern position offers the opportunity to help strengthen relationships between the Society of Alumni and undergraduates. The student intern will assist in advertising the events and the services provided by the Alumni Relations office and, through outreach to undergraduates, provide information to peers who may not be aware of the benefits of the Society of Alumni.  Specifically, the intern coordinates plans for a number of undergraduate events hosted by the Office of Alumni Relations including the Senior Trivia Night at the Log and the Senior Welcome. Applicants should have an interest in event planning and be outgoing, creative and detail oriented. Similarly, applicants must have enthusiasm to engage as a liaison with the greater campus. Qualifications include strong technology, communications, and interpersonal skills. Comfort posting to social media platforms, specifically Twitter and Facebook, is a must. Candidate must be completely reliable and able to remain committed to intern obligations throughout the year. This is a one academic year position beginning in September 2013. A minimum commitment of 6 hours/week is required, with the understanding that the intern may support occasional events on nights and weekends.

If interested, please complete this application. If you have any questions, please contact Ashley Weeks Cart, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations at awc2@williams.edu. Please submit by Friday, April 26th.

Summer Housing Assistants will attend a training meeting with the Assistant Director of Student Involvement – Residential Programs to prepare them for the responsibilities listed below.

Summer Housing Assistants will be hired from June 10, 2013 through August 17, 2013, and housing will be provided.  This is a part-time position (3-4 hours per week) and is open to students who will already be staying on campus for the summer for an approved reason including: other summer job, summer research, or other approved reason to stay on campus for Summer 2013.

For more information and an application, please contact Patricia Leahey-Hays at pah2@williams.edu.

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To act community facilitator and enhance the community development within the hall to which they are assigned during the summer months.  Summer Housing Assistants will do this through:
  • Social programming
  • Hall Decorations – door decorations/bulletin boards/welcome signs
  • Articulation of the College and Departmental mission
  • Act as liaison and relay communication to summer residents from Office of Student Life, Facilities as well as work with the Office of Campus Safety and Security
  • Meet once a week with Assistant Director of Student Involvement – Residential Programs to review building issues, resident issues and programming
  • Walk through buildings with Assistant Director twice over the course of the summer noting condition and needs of buildings (bulletin boards, building conditions, common space amenities, etc)
  • Problem solve and mediate summer resident issues and concerns (will do so under supervision of Assistant Director)
  • Report problems and concerns regarding summer buildings and summer residents to the Assistant Director
  • All other duties as assigned pertaining to the Summer Housing program

This posting also appears on WSO.