Intern, Zeta Charter Schools - *REMOTE*

Title: Family Outreach and Enrollment Intern

Type: Part-time 

Location: Remote

Pay: $16.50/hr

Zeta Summer Interns will have a strong work ethic, be extremely dependable, and be able to manage multiple tasks at once in a strategic, organized way. You will work with and learn from a team of mission-driven, high-achieving, passionate colleagues to help Zeta succeed in its mission to build and sustain high-performing schools that forge thriving communities of lifelong learners, problem solvers, and innovators.

 Apply here.

Internship - City of Rolling Meadows, IL

Title: Intern

Type: Full- or part-time

Location: City of Rolling Meadows, IL

Pay: $15-20/hour

The City of Rolling Meadows, Illinois is hosting a paid full-time internship this summer for current undergraduate students with an interest in public administration, city management, urban planning, and related fields.

Apply here. 

Community Service Officer, Winnetka Police Department - Winnetka, IL

Title: Community Service Officer

Type: Part-time

Location: Winnetka, IL

Pay: $29-41/hr

The Winnetka Police Department seeks a part-time Community Service Officer. The Community Service Officer is a uniformed, civilian position that patrols public streets, alleys, parking lots, and parks to enforce Village ordinances and regulations, and performs administrative support for law enforcement functions not requiring the use of sworn officers.  This position enforces state and local parking regulations and animal ordinances, investigates reported animal bites and animal impoundment, directs traffic, and provides courier service for the Department. A significant component of this position is serving as a Crossing Guard to assist school-aged youth in crossing the street at assigned intersections.

Apply here.

SAFE (Streets are for Everyone) Ambassadors - MUSE Community + Design

Job Title: Chicago’s SAFE (Streets Are For Everybody) Ambassador

Employment status: Part-time, Non-exempt, Seasonal

Compensation: Hourly, $20

Hours: 24 hours/week

Start Date: Monday, May 13, 2024

End Date: Friday, September 13, 2024

 

About

MUSE Community + Design is seeking outgoing, well-organized, and committed advocates for transportation safety education, biking, and social equity to join the team as a SAFE (Streets Are For Everybody) Ambassador from late May to late September. 

 

As a SAFE (Streets Are For Everybody) Ambassador, you will represent the Chicago Department of Transportation in its efforts to support and promote active transportation and Complete Streets initiatives, such as traffic safety. To learn more about traffic safety initiatives, click here. In addition, Ambassadors educate the public on current best practices, recommendations, and guidelines for safe mobility around the city.

Interested candidates should send their resume and cover letter to Aaron Gatdula at aaron@musecommunitydesign.com. Please use “Seasonal SAFE Ambassador” in your subject line. The positions are open until filled. No phone calls, please.

Research and Communications Intern - Shared-Use Mobility Center

Position Title:                                Research and Communications Intern

Date Opened:                                November 26, 2023

 

Date Closing:                                  As soon as possible - Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and will close December 31st, 2023

 

Position Details:                           

 

Part-time temporary position (20-30 hours/week)

Six-month term, subject to negotiation

Compensation at $18.00 / hour

Position will be based in our Los Angeles office.  SUMC follows a hybrid remote/in-person model, allowing staff to work remotely most days and requiring office visits weekly or bi-weekly.

Full description and application available here.

Clean Mobility Equity Alliance Intern - Shared-Use Mobility Center

Position Title:  Clean Mobility Equity Alliance Intern

Date Opened:  November 15, 2023

Date Closing:  As soon as possible - Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and will close December 15, 2023

Position Details: Part-time temporary position (20-30 hours/week)

Six-month term, subject to negotiation

Compensation at $18.00 / hour

Position will be based in our Los Angeles office.  SUMC follows a hybrid remote/in-person model, allowing staff to work remotely most days and requiring office visits bi-weekly (twice a month).

 

General Overview: 

 

The Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) is a non-profit public interest organization promoting multi-modal transportation systems that work for all. Through pilot projects, research, capacity-building, and advocacy, SUMC helps communities realize a vision of an equitable and sustainable mobility future. 

SUMC is growing its LA office to serve a growing set of programs that support practitioners and stakeholders in pursuing transportation equity and innovation.  In particular, the Clean Mobility Options Voucher Pilot program (CMO) disseminates knowledge and resources throughout a rapidly growing mobility ecosystem of public agencies, community-based organizations, Native American tribes, and private sector mobility providers.

SUMC is looking for a Spring Intern to support the Clean Mobility Equity Alliance (CMEA), a network of California mobility project implementers and stakeholders that supports knowledge sharing and peer-learning within the Clean Mobility Options Pilot Program. 

Full description and application available here.

Research Assistant Position - Professor Renee Hatcher

Short Description of Position and Research Topic: 

Professor Hatcher is seeking a research assistant to work on a project (an academic law review article) related to topics solidarity economy, law and political economy, and regulatory regimes. Specifically, the selected research assistant will perform legal research, write summaries, and footnote and cite check a draft article on topics related to race, worker cooperatives, corporations, business associations, and organizational governance. Prof. Hatcher will meet with the selected student every other week to assess progress and provide additional guidance and direction for the project. The total anticipated number of student hours is 125 hours over the course of the project.

Interested students should submit application via email directly to Prof. Hatcher before the deadline of December 1, 2023. Professor Hatcher will review the applications and interview at least three students for the position. Law students of color and students from historically underrepresented communities are encouraged to apply.

Research Assistant - Metropolitan Planning Council

Department: Research Assistants, Chicago

Employment Type: Contractor

Minimum Experience: Entry-Level

Compensation: $18

Description

Research assistants play an important role at MPC, offering essential support for our projects by researching, writing, and learning about planning policy in the region. Research Assistants at MPC have exposure to a broad range of regional policy issues and the opportunity to connect with a variety of planning agencies, community groups, and officials. Compensation for research assistant positions is $18 per hour. MPC also provides a $35 transportation subsidy. We welcome students with federal work-study and those seeking course credit to apply.

Full description and application are available here.

Graduate Assistant - UIC Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice

GA to support Associate Head (25%)/DGS (25%): This position will provide general administrative support to the AH/DGS, including helping to develop policies and procedures manuals and coordinating programming. Tasks include but are not limited to: Curate and distribute bi-weekly department newsletters. Monitor printer usage. Help coordinate furniture surplus moving and disposal. Help manage graduate/alumni listserv. Collect and document office keys for Graduate students. Build out instructions for incoming GA. Coordinate, attend, and take notes for relevant department committees. Administrative tasks in the office as needed. Provide administrative support for Graduate Coordinator. Creating doodle polls, making schedules, creating flyers (including recruitment flyers), coordinating on various projects and events, replying to admission questions from prospective students, drafting templates for the various projects, and helping create various spreadsheets as needed. Provide additional office support while in the office/ as needed. 

Any interested graduate students can send a resume to the CLJ Department Business Manager, Danielle Smith (dsmith34@uic.edu).

Research Assistant - Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project, UIC Center for Healthy Work

Background 

The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work (GLHW) project is nearly a decade-old community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership between North and South Lawndale communities and the University of Illinois in Chicago. GLHW Project is a research project in the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Healthy Work, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Total Worker Health Center of Excellence (Grant: U19OH010154).  

If interested in the position, please email Sylvia Gonzalez sgonza43@uic.edu and provide your CV/resume by Tuesday, August 15th 2023.

Teaching Assistant, SOC 105 - UIC Department of Sociology

Call for Teaching Assistant
Fall 2023

The UIC Sociology Department is searching for a teaching assistant to support a 100 level
course on Social Problem in Fall 2023. This includes: attending lecture, grading 60
students, and 2 office hours a week. The course meets in person on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday day from 3:00-3:50 pm. The fall term at UIC begins on August 21
and the last day of classes is December 1 (with final exams the following week). The
current rate for Teaching Assistants (50% appointment) is 2,610.44 per month for 4.5
months. If you are interested, please send a CV and cover letter to Lisa Berube at
lberub2@uic.edu. The department will begin reviewing applications immediately.

Soc 105

Social Problems
3 Credit Hours
Contemporary social problems examined from the perspectives of social institutions,
culture, inequality, organizations and groups, political and economic structure, social
change, and social policy. Course Information: May be substituted for SOC 100 as a
prerequisite for other sociology courses.

Government Finance Research Center (GFRC) Graduate Hourly Positions

The Government Finance Research Center (GFRC) at the University of Illinois Chicago is seeking two graduate students for a limited, part-time hourly position to work with Results for America on data collection and detailed reporting on investments by 50 target jurisdictions to promote racial equity and accelerate equitable economic mobility across America. 

Hours Per Week: 30 hours/week

Duration: approximately 4 weeks

Rate of Pay: $30.12 

Please note this position is pending final contract approval and not eligible for tuition and/or fee waivers.

Diversity Community Engagement Program Internship - Office of Diversity, Equity & Engagement

About

Interested in working with WLRC and CAN on campus outreach and supporting mental health? Apply for the Fall 2023 DCEP Internship!

The Diversity Community Engagement Program (DCEP) is designed to expand students’ career readiness and community engagement skills through an internship hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity, & Engagement, its seven Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC), and their community partners.

Learn more and apply here.

Seasonal Bicyclist-Trail Project Aide, Forest Preserve District of Cook County

Organization: Forest Preserve District of Cook County

Work Locations: 536 N. Harlem

Job Posting: Apr. 26, 2023, 12:00 AM

Closing Date: May 10, 2023, 11:59 PM

Posting Salary: $16.37/ hourly

Job Summary

Under the general supervision of the Office of the General Superintendent staff. The Seasonal Bicyclist Trail Project Aide will assist with a trail signage project throughout the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (“District”). Duties will include, but are not limited to, verifying signage placement along the District’s trail system by biking and hiking assigned trails, providing GPS coordinates, descriptions, and other valuable information to the Planning & Development and Resource Management departments to help improve the District’s trail experience for visitors to the Forest Preserves. This position requires riding a company issued electric bicycle and driving a company vehicle while transporting the bike. This is a seasonal position, the duration of which is up to four months depending on scheduled work hours.

Apply here

Water Sampling Technician - Grad Hourly, UIC School of Public Health

The Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences is seeking students to fill our part time hourly Water Sampling Technician positions, duties are listed below:

Water sampling technicians will drive to approximately 5-6 beaches and collect water samples following a research protocol. Water samples will be collected and delivered to the UIC School of Public Health Water Microbiology Laboratory (2121 W. Taylor Street) for analysis. This will involve a total of 10-20 miles of driving per day. Technicians will begin work at approximately 5:30 AM (sunrise), and finish at approximately 8:00 AM. In addition to the hourly salary, water-sampling technicians will also be paid for miles driven at the UIC mileage rate ($0.655 per mile).

Management Intern Village of Roselle, Illinois

Department: Administration, Community Development, and Finance
Title: Management Intern

Overview: The position will work on various assignments within the
Administration, Community Development, and Finance Departments to provide
the Management Intern with experience and on the job training for higher level
responsibilities related to municipal operations, while learning valuable work
skills. The Administration, Community Development, and Finance Departments
are located in the Village Hall. Fire, Police, and Public Works Departments are
located in separate municipal facilities within the community. The Management
Intern will be assigned tasks by the three (3) departments located in Village Hall.
The core functions of Village Hall operations include:

• Planning & Zoning
• Building & Permitting
• Economic Development
• Code Enforcement
• Utility Billing
• Information Technology
• Annual Budget Preparation
• Accounts Payable/Receivable & Invoice Processing
• Human Resources
• Village Board Agenda Preparation
• Mayor’s Office
• Community Relations

Planning Internship - City of Joliet

Who: City of Joliet, Department of Community Development

What: This temporary part-time position performs general planning and zoning duties for the City involving a wide range of assignments. The position is open only to full-time students enrolled in an accredited undergraduate or graduate degree level program and is expected to run from mid-May through mid-August 2019, for a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 hours per week. Flexibility in hours and employment dates is available to address individual needs. Compensation is $10 per hour. 
Responsibilities include:

Part-Time Community & Economic Development Coordinator City of Des Plaines

Who: City of Des Plaines – Community and Economic Development Department

What: This part-time position assists Community and Economic Development (CED) Department staff with various tasks including: planning and zoning related matters, maintaining databases, record keeping and filing, reviewing building permits and Planning and Zoning Board Application requests, front counter related tasks, modernizing codes and policies, and assisting with other CED related responsibilities. This position works under the general supervision of the Economic Development Coordinator/Development Manager.
Examples of Duties include:

Fall 2018 Internship - Lakeview Chamber of Commerce (Chicago, IL)

 Who: Do you get excited about city data, local businesses and public space? The Lakeview Chamber of Commerce, sole service provider for Special Service Area 27 (SSA 27), seeks a part-time urban planning intern who is interested in urban planning, economic development or public administration. The intern will gain hands-on experience collecting and utilizing data for economic development and planning purposes, with the goal of improving the Lakeview neighborhood. We offer a $1,000 stipend and will work with students on class credit.