Employment

 

INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT: Prometheus hiring three interns!

Internship Descriptions:

(1) STATION SURVEY INTERN

Exactly how many community radio stations are there right now in the US?  How many are low-power FM (LPFM) stations?  What are they broadcasting?  The purpose of this internship is to get a comprehensive look at LPFMs currently in operation in the US, and whether they are religious, faux commercial, or community stations. This information will help us make policy recommendations to benefit LPFMs, conduct outreach for future LPFM windows, identify who are our constituent stations and, assist in building connections between proximate stations to foster mutual support between LPFMs.

We are looking for an intern for the summer to work explicitly on a survey of LPFMs, potentially expanding to any other non-commercial community radio stations.  All of this information would be integrated into our database by the intern to be used for future policy, outreach, and station support.  In addition to integrating the information into our database, and will also be integrated into a google map (with some outside assistance). 

Requirements:

  • Ability to work independently and complete projects
  • Interest in media justice organizing
  • Ability to organize lots of information into spreadsheets
  • Extremely detail oriented
  • Experience working with databases
  • Experience with research and comfortable with cold calling

Preferred Skills/Experience:

    • Experience with community organizing or social justice work
    • Interest in media policy
    • Proficiency in Spanish

(2) STATION SUPPORT INTERN

Our Station Support team communicates with the thousands of people that want to start a community radio station, as well as the hundreds of existing stations that look to Prometheus for support and connection to the community radio movement.  The Station Support intern will help provide support to community radio stations through the following:

- Create station profiles of some of the stations we work with for our website

- Research and write an article on the role that stations can play in emergency response

- Create packet for stations to use when requesting emergency response funding from their local governments,

- Research the status of applications for new stations filed in 2007 and 2010

- Enter information into our database to better track stations and to maintain contact with organizations

- Provide support for our upcoming radio "barnraising" in Hudson, NY (for more info, check out here: http://prometheusradio.org/barnraisings). 

Requirements:

  • Ability to work independently and complete projects
  • Interest in media justice organizing
  • Strong research skills
  • Extremely detail oriented
  • Strong writing and editing skills
  • Ability to make cold calls to stations

Preferred Skills/Experience:

    • Previous experience in the administrative side of a radio station
    • Experience with community organizing or social justice work
    • Previous fundraising experience
    • Proficiency in Spanish

(3) PRESS AND COMMUNICATIONS INTERN

The Press and Communication Intern will help Prometheus stay in touch with our constituents, and keep our supporters informed about what's happening in community radio and the media justice movement. The Press Intern will be responsible for checking our daily Google alerts for relevant articles, maintaining Prometheus's facebook page, and updating the press section of our website. The Press Intern will also update press contacts and upload articles to our database, and assist in developing a Prometheus press archive and table of contents. Depending on the level of interest, the Press Intern may pitch or write articles and/or assist with writing and editing press releases.

Requirements:

  • Ability to work independently and complete projects
  • Interest in communications and community radio
  • Comfortable using Web 2.0 Tools
  • Attention to detail
  • Strong writing and editing skills
  • Ability to archive and organize back-press

Preferred Skills/Experience:

    • Basic web editing experience
    • Experience with communications
    • Experience using databases

 OTHER DETAILS // HOW TO APPLY

For all positions:

Intern must be willing to live in Philadelphia, and work out of our office. Hours are flexible and can be worked out with Prometheus staff. The ideal candidate will be able to work 20-40 hours per week, and will be available during general office hours. Internship start and end date are also flexible, but ideally will be June - August. All internships are unpaid, although we're certainly able provide any documentation in order to receive school credit.

The Prometheus Radio Project respects and values people of all backgrounds and considers applicants for positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, creed, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any legally protected status.  As we work in collaboration with many communities that have been marginalized from media access, we also hope to employ members of these communities at the Prometheus Radio Project.

To apply, please send one writing sample, a cover letter, and a resume to jobs@prometheusradio.org.  Applicants may also send questions to this address. Please be sure to include the name of the internship to which you are applying in the subject line. The deadline to apply is Sunday, May 30 at midnight.

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