Talent Pool Intern - Fall / Q4 2022

Title: Talent Pool Intern - Fall/Q4 2022

Position Type: Full-Time Paid Internship (3 months - mid-September to mid-December)

Location: Washington, DC

What we do and offer our team

AGU is a global community of 118,000 Earth and space scientists, advocates, and experts. As the Talent Pool Intern, you will be part of a dynamic association that publishes peer-reviewed journals and scientific books and convenes the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. Through our initiatives, such as mentoring, professional development and awards, AGU upholds and fosters an inclusive and diverse scientific community.

AGU offers our employees great benefits, including flexible work schedules, retirement savings options, as well as health, dental, life and disability insurance. AGU also provides exciting opportunities for professional development and tuition support.

AGUs Workplace Values

We believe in accountability and ownership of work, by taking responsibility for decisions and results. We believe in member and customer service, and that they come first through providing high quality service.

We believe in excellence and giving it our all, through striving to be outstanding. We believe in integrity by doing the right thing, we achieve this by being honest and fair.

Our teams believe that with teamwork together we achieve more, we achieve this through collaboration. We believe in respect, that you earn it and give it, by open communication and collaboration.

The Talent Pool team (part of the Affiliation & Engagement group) manages programs related to mentoring, students, and careers. AGUs Talent Pool team works to build the next generation of Earth and space scientists while also increasing our understanding of the barriers to gender and ethnic diversity and involvement within these scientific fields.

What the Talent Pool Intern does

• The internship provides an opportunity to learn some of the behind-the-scenes processes of planning events at large scientific conferences, communicate to the membership via monthly newsletters, provide customer service to various stakeholders, and gain knowledge about current geoscience education, diversity, equity and inclusion, and career issues along with program management experience.
• The intern performs data entry and analysis of Talent Pool programs, including mentoring programs, fall meeting related student and faculty programs, and other programs. Tasks will include quality control of the data as well as database management. Ability to apply basic statistical analysis and present data to internal staff is also expected.
• The intern assists in communication activities such as social media engagement, blog posts, marketing efforts of programs and events as needed.
• The intern helps to manage program email inboxes and respond to stakeholders on a daily basis.
• Other duties as assigned.