Faculty of ArtThe UBC Arts Amplifier is hoping to hire two paid interns for 250 hours’ work each starting in January 2022 and ending no later than June 30, 2022. Hiring for these positions is contingent on successful funding applications.
One intern will focus on the structure and organization of the Arts Amplifier’s website, making our services and resources easier to navigate and more accessible for our site visitors, including community partners, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members. For this position, we’re looking for someone who can understand how a range of users interact with professional or academic-oriented websites, and be able to draft and implement necessary changes to the website’s structure. The supervisor for this position will be Will Atkinson.
The second intern will focus on drafting and pitching articles related to the Arts Amplifier’s work for Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and University Affairs, or other venues as appropriate. Examples of the kinds of articles this second intern will draft include:
- “Integrating the Public Humanities With Career Development” by Henry John, Inside Higher Ed, 2 Nov 2021
- “Incorporating Experiential Learning in a PhD Program” by Catherine Hundleby & Stephanie Dupley, University Affairs, 19 Nov 2021
- “The PhD Conversion Experience” by Paul Yachnin, University Affairs, 30 Sept 2020
For this second position, we’re interested in someone who can take existing content (eg. responses to evaluation forms, student success stories, grant applications, and reports like the Council of Canadian Academies’ 2021 Degrees of Success) and rewrite it into compelling stories for academic and non-academic audiences. We anticipate that the successful applicant will likely have achieved candidacy in a PhD program, and so will draw on lived experience within academia in writing their pieces. The supervisor for this position will be Letitia Henville.
Both internships will pay $32.66/hr and will require 250 hours of work over a 4-to-6 month period. We are flexible on hours of work, though please note that Arts Amplifier staff do not work on Fridays. These will be remote positions and you will need access to your own computer and internet connection.
Speaking at this Q&A will be the Arts Amplifier’s Drs. Letitia Henville (Project Lead) and Annika Rosanowski (Grants Editor).
To prepare for this Q&A, please see “Why the Arts Amplifier Runs Q&As with Employers.”
Eligibility criteria: This paid internship is open to both international and domestic students who live in British Columbia and who will be located in Canada for the duration of this position. However, the funding requirements for this position limit eligibility to people from equity-deserving groups. To apply for this position, you must self-identify as belonging to one of the following equity-deserving demographic groups:
- Indigenous
- Black and people of colour
- 2SLGBTQQIA+
- Neuro-diverse (including ADHD, ADD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder)
- Persons living with a visible or invisible disability (including mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety)
- Women (cis or trans)
- Youth from care
- Non-binary
- Other