About the Organization
For more than 16 years, Playworks has leveraged the power of play at recess and throughout the school day to accelerate children's learning and improve school climate. In partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Playworks currently serves more than 360 schools in 22 cities across the country, reaching 170,000 children daily. Principals and teachers tell us as a result of having Playworks on their campus, kids are more active, bullying, fights and injuries significantly decrease, and students return to the classroom focused and ready to learn.
In 2012-13 Playworks Portland provided full-day on-site programming to 13 low-income public elementary schools in Portland, serving 5,500 students daily. Playworks' upstream and root cause approach to enhancing school climates creates a school environment where kids thrive and have more positive opportunities for engagement.
In addition to placing Playworks' staff in schools full-time, Playworks' Training Department offers fee-for-service workshops and hands-on training and technical assistance to enable schools, school districts and community-based organizations to put our approach into action in their communities. For more information, please visit www.playworks.org.
About the Position
Playworks Portland seeks an unpaid intern to assist the Program and Development department in day-to-day activities. This internship will give the intern valuable, real-world experience in grant research, volunteer management, and non-profit administration work. Well suited candidates should have an interest the non-profit sector. This is an unpaid position. We ask for a minimum of 10 hours a week until the end of June 2013.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Help coordinate volunteer recruitment, training, data input and recognition events.
- Grant and Training Research
- Support the coordination of fundraising events
- Assist in strategies for recruitment of individual donors
- Assist with general data and research management
- Support community outreach efforts
Qualifications
- High School degree
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of all aspects of job responsibilities
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Comfort with a playful, exuberant and mildly irreverent workplace culture
- Ability to thrive in an environment that is characterized by significant growth, diversity and constant change
