Office of Sustainability Internships
The Office of Sustainability is excited to host a cohort of student interns for the 2025-2026 academic year. The Office of Sustainability is hiring for three roles and two previous interns are returning. These internships are a unique opportunity for students to develop valuable professional experience and skills in the sustainability field during their time at UMD. These interns will play a critical role in connecting students, staff, and faculty with campus sustainability resources and encouraging the campus community to take action towards a more sustainable future.
The application for these positions are open from March 3rd to March 14th, 2025.
2025-2026 Positions:
Position: Green Chapter Intern
Description: The Green Chapter Intern plays a critical role in running, maintaining, and improving the Green Chapter program and incorporating sustainability into all facets of Fraternity & Sorority Life (FSL). This intern will work with the FSL Sustainability Graduate Assistant to co-run the Green Chapter program. The intern will organize and facilitate semesterly training sessions for Sustainability Chairs, lead monthly Chair meetings, support chapters in completing Green Chapter certification, and manage the day-to-day administration of the Green Chapter Program. The Green Chapter Intern will also support other FSL sustainability initiatives including composting, council-level sustainability policies, and more. This intern will help increase participation in FSL sustainability initiatives and contribute ideas for new opportunities, initiatives, and special projects.
Priority will be given to students who have previously served as Sustainability Chairs for their chapter. An understanding of all four councils (Interfraternity Council (IFC), Multicultural Greek Council (MGC), National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), and Panhellenic Association (PHA)) is also preferred.
Position: Content Writing Intern
Description: The Content Writing Intern will help strengthen the Office of Sustainability’s digital presence by planning, writing, and publishing written communications. This internship is essential for increasing awareness about campus sustainability efforts, promoting key Office of Sustainability (OS) programs like the Sustainability Fund, and helping OS develop a comprehensive communications strategy. Responsibilities may include publishing monthly SustainableUMD newsletters, conducting interviews to spotlight Sustainability Fund recipients, writing articles for the SustainableUMD Progress Hub, documenting campus sustainability news and events through written summaries, analyzing article and website engagement metrics, and creating special content such as email campaigns or website pages as assigned. This position will work closely with the Social Media Intern to coordinate content creation across SustainableUMD platforms (OS websites, newsletters, social media, etc.) and to take photos for OS publications.
Position: Digital and Social Media Intern
Description: The Digital and Social Media Intern will help enhance the Office of Sustainability (OS)’s digital presence and promote campus sustainability efforts through our SustainableUMD social media accounts, namely Instagram and X. We are looking for someone with a creative eye, someone that is comfortable and excited about being the student face and voice of @SustainableUMD, and someone who has specific experience managing an organizational social media account(s). Responsibilities may include pitching and executing ideas for engaging social media content, creating graphic designs for promoting OS events, producing video content and conducting interviews for Instagram Reels, monitoring and incorporating content trends across various social media platforms, interacting with account followers, tracking account metrics and providing semesterly trend reports, photographing new projects and events, and managing a schedule of content creation. This intern will collaborate closely with the Content Writing Intern to plan and coordinate content creation across SustainableUMD platforms (OS websites, newsletters, social media, etc.) and to take photos for OS publications.
Position: Clean Energy Education Intern
Description: The Clean Energy Education Intern will focus on improving resources, outreach and digital content to engage the campus community in clean energy planning and progress at UMD. The intern will help plan and execute public events, create digital content and media, and design and test new outreach activities to promote clean energy efforts at UMD. We are looking for someone who enjoys writing and presenting scientific and technical information for a broad, public audience. Responsibilities may include pitching and ideas for and creating educational campaigns for social media, creating new web pages using Drupal, organizing a lunch & learn for faculty and staff, writing clean energy focused articles, planning one public event per semester in collaboration with university units that are part of the SustainableUMD network, partnering with professors to deliver class presentations, and/or organizing webinars or speaker series, and/or creating educational campaigns for social media. This intern may collaborate closely with other interns who are working on various aspects of sustainability with OS, the School of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Department of Facilities Management.
These internship positions were made possible by the University Sustainability Fund.