Office of Sustainability Internships
The Office of Sustainability is excited to host a cohort of student interns for the 2026-2027 academic year. These internships are a unique opportunity for students to develop valuable professional experience and skills in the sustainability field during their time at UMD. The 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 will are open until Friday, February 27th at 11:59 pm.
2026-2027 Positions:
Content Writing Intern
Position: Content Writing Intern
Description: The Content Writing Intern will help strengthen the Office of Sustainability’s digital presence and tell the story of SustainableUMD 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 and execute a comprehensive communications strategy. Responsibilities 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 other special content such as email campaigns, social media listicles, or website pages. This position will work closely with the Visual Media Intern to coordinate content creation across SustainableUMD platforms.
Outreach & Events Intern
Position: Outreach & Events Intern
Description: The Outreach and Events Intern will help create fun activities and demonstrations to encourage students to participate in sustainability. In addition, the intern will support attending large campus events (such as EarthFest and the UMD Farmers Market) and identify new opportunities to partner with student organizations and campus departments. The Outreach and Events Intern will play a key role in building excitement around sustainability and making sustainability visible, accessible, and exciting to more students on campus. This intern will be responsible for planning and facilitating Office of Sustainability run events such as a Campus Sustainability Month Celebration in October.
The Outreach and Events Intern also helps manage the SustainableUMD Outreach Bike. The SustainableUMD Outreach Bike aims to serve as an iconic, creative, visible, and tangible representation of sustainability for our campus community.
Staff Engagement Intern
Position: Staff Engagement Intern
Description: The Office of Sustainability revamped its staff engagement programs with the launch of the Sustainability Badge and Green Workspace in fall 2023. The Staff Engagement Intern will play a pivotal role in marketing, promoting, and tracking engagement with the Sustainability Badge as well as ideate, organize, and facilitate engagement activities such as campus events, presentations, and webinars. The Staff Engagement Intern will also support the administration of the Green Workspace Program including scheduling, emailing, and creation of promotional materials. This intern will work alongside the Sustainability Coordinator in building a robust outreach and engagement program that excites, educates, and motivates University of Maryland staff and faculty to participate in sustainability initiatives on campus.
Visual Media Intern
Position: Visual Media Intern
Description: The Visual Media Intern will enhance the Office of Sustainability’s (OS) digital presence and promote campus sustainability through high quality photographs, videos, and graphic designs to be shared on the SustainableUMD Instagram and other digital platforms. Responsibilities include pitching and executing ideas for engaging social media content; creating graphic designs to promote OS events and initiatives; producing video content and conducting interviews for Instagram Reels; monitoring social media trends and adjusting strategy accordingly; tracking account metrics and providing semesterly trend reports; and maintaining a consistent schedule of content creation and posting. We are looking for someone with a creative eye, technical expertise in photography and film, experience creating visual media products for a target audience, and an interest in applying their design skills to tell the stories of SustainableUMD.
This position will collaborate closely with other interns, particularly the Content Writing Intern, to plan and coordinate content creation and publishing across SustainableUMD platforms, including websites, newsletters, and social media.
Office of Environmental Affairs Internships
The Office of Environmental Affairs, with support from the Office of Sustainability, is excited to host two Environmental Sustainability Interns for the 2026-2027 academic year. These internships are a unique opportunity for students to develop valuable professional experience and skills in the environmental sustainability and management field during their time at UMD. These interns will play a critical role in campus pollution prevention and expanding the pilot Green Labs program.
The application for these positions are open until Friday, February 27th at 11:59 pm.
2026-2027 Positions:
Environmental Sustainability Interns (Two Roles Available)
Position: Environmental Sustainability Interns (Two Interns Being Hired)
Description: The Environmental Sustainability Interns will focus on supporting the Office of
Environmental Affairs (OEA) Pollution Prevention Programs and the Office of Sustainability
including the new Green Labs program. The interns will help plan, execute and monitor the
expansion of the Green Labs program from an initial pilot to a larger effort. This will include
meeting with laboratory staff currently in the program and those who will be added to this
expanding effort. The interns will provide educational outreach and instruction to the
laboratory participants, obtain information about program challenges and advise on the
need to modify program elements. Further, the interns will support other OEA pollution
prevention efforts including inspections of campus sites involving potential “illicit
discharges” to stormwater as well as oil storage locations. The interns will support OEA’s data
collection and analysis requirements to meet requirements. We are looking for someone who
is interested in learning more about the field of environmental sustainability, has an interest
in environmental protection, can work on technical environmental matters, and enjoys
writing and presenting scientific and technical information for a broad, public audience. This
intern may receive direction and collaborate closely with the Environmental Sustainability
Associate. Other OEA professional staff, as well as staff within the Offices of Sustainability and
Research Safety will also provide direction, mentoring and support. The interns will be
provided professional development opportunities within OEA and the Office of Sustainability.
These internship positions were made possible by the University Sustainability Fund.