NOLS Curriculum & Research Internship
May-August, 2012

The NOLS Curriculum & Research Intern will support the NOLS Curriculum & Research Department with special projects, including:

• Act as research librarian in the NOLS Faculty Library for all instructor, educator, and semester courses and for the 700 NOLS field staff.
• Curriculum development: help research topics for current projects
• Help with research logistical support
• Interview students for the NOLS/ Summer Search research project
• Assist in internal website development
• Write articles for the internal school newsletter
• Help maintain the student book swap to make books available for the ~2,000 NOLS students who pass through Lander each year
• Assist with Faculty Summit (5/15-17) prep, execution, clean-up, and proceedings development
• Team up with the NOLS intern team, pitching in on other projects at NOLS and soliciting help from other interns to cover job responsibilities and broaden the team’s learning opportunities
• Assist with issuing and deissuing courses at the Rocky Mountain Branch on their busiest days
• Do other tasks based on need and your own talents

Position Location and Length: May-August, 2012

The position is based in Lander, Wyoming at NOLS headquarters, specifically in the NOLS Faculty Library in the Noble Hotel. It will run from early May through August, 2012 (start date is flexible).

Skills Development Opportunities: The Curriculum and Research intern will primarily get experience locating materials for wilderness educators when they are preparing classes to teach in the field. This will include books and files from the NOLS Faculty Library as well as online searches. This will expose the intern to a broad base of wilderness education materials and a diverse group of hundreds of wilderness educators.

Other potential opportunities at NOLS include:

• Attend NOLS school-wide meetings and trainings (as availability allows)
• Equipment rental (as availability allows)
• Exposure to a variety of skills and expertise needed to operate a large wilderness-based experiential education school

Other potential non-NOLS opportunities in Lander include:

• Recreate with like-minded interns in NOLS’s home base of the Wind River Range, including Sinks Canyon and Wild Iris. (This is unsupervised recreation on your own time and initiative).
• Participate in the International Climbers Festival in Lander July 11-14, 2012.

Preferred Skills:

• Education: Major completion of a bachelor’s degree is the minimum requirement. Graduate student status is preferred.
• Work ethic: Thorough, dependable, punctual, and organized
• Low maintenance: Self-directed, good sense of humor
• Communication skills: person must be reading, writing, and speaking at the college junior level
• Can-do attitude: Creative, self-directed, and solution-oriented
• Understanding and passion for the NOLS mission is essential. Being a NOLS graduate is helpful.

Adaptability: we will gladly align this internship with the intern system at your home school as long as this doesn’t create a huge administrative task load or cut into the above goals.

Criminal Background Check: A criminal background check is required of all NOLS employees.

NOLS participates in E-Verify

Compensation: A stipend of $100 per week is provided. This is taxable. Food and lodging are not provided.

Closing date: Send applications by February 21, 2012. We will make a decision by March 1, 2012.

Contact: Interested individuals should send a resume and cover letter to:

John Gookin, Ph.D.

NOLS Curriculum & Research Manager

John_gookin@nols.edu