Call for Applications – Internship with Hive Poetry Collective: Communications & Events Intern, Spring 2024
Application Deadline: March 3, 2024
The Humanities Division is excited to announce an experiential learning opportunity for Humanities undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz to work with The Hive Poetry Collective. Internships connect Humanities majors and minors to projects in the community, with the aim of mutually benefiting students and organizations. Students gain practical experience, professional training, and learn about positions outside of the university that build on their studies in the Humanities. At the same time, community organizations benefit from students’ assistance and academic expertise.
About Hive Poetry Collective:
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Hive Poetry Collective’s mission is to bring a diverse community together in appreciation of all kinds of poetry by all kinds of people. We believe that poetry, through its beauty and craft, changes people’s minds, opens them to fresh ideas, self-reflection, and self-inquiry. In so doing, poetry has the power to inspire social change. Pursuing a vision of equity, diversity, and inclusion, we resolve to create a space which honors diversity across all lines of difference, including age, economic circumstance, ethnicity, sex, race, range of ability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, and poetic styles. The Collective aims to challenge beliefs and assumptions about our differences and explore new, uncharted areas in our programming. Given that inclusion and openness is an evolving process, we recognize we will always have room for growth, but we pledge to consider various perspectives in order to make real, lasting, and equitable change. |
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Position Description
Under the guidance of the Hive Poetry Collective’s Intern Liaison, the Hive intern will assist with a variety of tasks to support the Hive’s programming for both the weekly poetry podcast and the bi-monthly live poetry events in Santa Cruz. Meeting at least four times per quarter with the liaison, these tasks involve The Hive’s website, Hive Live! events, promotional materials, and social media updates
RESPONSIBILITIES AND EXPECTATIONS
- Communications (75%):
- Updating web page (hivepoetry.org) as needed (WordPress).
- Preparing newsletter copy for the Hive’s quarterly newsletter
- Entering new newsletter subscribers to Mail Chimp.
- Creating graphics and copy for event promotion (Canva).
- Using already-created press releases, prepare promotional materials as needed for various media outlets.
- Increasing and maintaining The Hive’s social media presence (especially on Instagram and Facebook)
- Events (25%):
- attending all Hive Live! events (second Tuesday, every other month, 7 p.m.)
- setting up Bookshop readings for Hive Live! events (and at any other locations)
- striking Bookshop Hive Live! events
You are the right candidate if…
- You are a declared major or minor in a department in the Humanities Division, and you are in good academic standing. [required]
- You are able to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- You are able to synthesize information and ask for clarification
- You are comfortable engaging with the public
- You have knowledge of WordPress, Canva, and social media platforms (or you learn quickly)
- You are capable of moving mobile bookshelves and setting up chairs and tables for readings.
Internship Term: Spring Quarter 2024
Hours: 10 hours/week
Compensation: $20/hour depending
Location: Communications to be done remotely. Events will be on-site, typically at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Pacific Avenue in Downtown Santa Cruz. Flexible schedule with the exception of event support.
Reports to: The Hive’s Intern Liaison, Julia Chiapella
How To Apply
Apply by submitting your resume and a short cover letter (no more than one page) answering these questions: Why this job? Why you? Why now?
- COVER LETTER TIP: consider how this position will further your undergraduate studies as well as your professional career once you have completed your education.
- REVIEW these resume and cover letter resources to ensure that you are a strong candidate!
Please address your cover letter to The Hive’s Intern Liaison Julia Chiapella.
- A tip for writing this cover letter is to consider how this position will further your undergraduate studies as well as your professional career once you have completed your education.
- Review these resume and cover letter resources to ensure that you are a strong candidate.
Once the application window closes on March 3 , there will be a virtual interview process with top candidates. A candidate will be selected,and the hiring process will begin by March 22, 2024. This position is expected to begin the week of April 1, 2024 (Week 1 of Spring Quarter).
Please contact Experiential Learning Coordinator Kylie Rachwalski at hum-experiential-learning@ucsc.edu with any questions.
NOTE: This internship is compensated through either student employment with UCSC or through a scholarship award. If you’re a financial aid applicant, the scholarship award option would be incorporated into your aid offer to meet your budgeted cost of attendance. A student must have room in their financial aid package to receive an experiential learning scholarship award. In most cases the award will fill any gap between your aid and budget, or the award will reduce your loan obligation. Once factored into your aid offer, the award is paid through to your UC Santa Cruz student account. If you owe fees for the term in which the award is applied, the award will apply to those fees first. Any remaining funds will be issued to you via direct deposit or by check, depending on how you are signed up to receive refunds. A student must have room in their financial aid package to get a department award. If the scholarship award is for summer, you need to be enrolled in 6+ units.
If you have questions about how this award would affect your current aid, please contact the Financial Aidand Scholarship Office at finaid@ucsc.edu or 831-459-2963.
This undergraduate internship is generously supported by The Mellon Foundation.
