Description

EDICT Internship Program

The EDICT (Empowering Diverse Climate Talent) Internship Program is a 10-week immersive program designed to help students gain work experience at climate organizations, tap into growth opportunities with a cohort of peers and develop a professional network in the climate sector.

EDICT is a partnership between Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI), Elemental Excelerator, and FutureMap. It is designed to match employers from all corners of climate innovation — for-profits, nonprofits, funders, and government organizations — with aspiring climate professionals, college students, and recent graduates from traditionally excluded backgrounds

How your summer will look:

Professional Growth

In addition to contributing to meaningful projects with their host companies, interns will attend professional growth workshops hosted throughout the summer by people with over a decade of experience working in clean energy. Workshop topics include:

• Clean energy 101 workshop series 
• Communication and virtual work norms
• Managing up and taking feedback
• Managing stress and workplace dynamics
• Identity and authenticity
• Networking on the job
• Update your Resume + LinkedIn
• Public Speaking

Community Building

The EDICT experience provides interns with numerous opportunities to build a strong community. Throughout the program, interns will be surrounded by a cohort of peers with shared lived experiences who will also be navigating interning at a climate organization. In addition to this peer community, EDICT offers the following community-building resources:

• Ongoing mentorship from a diverse group of leaders in the clean energy space and access to coaching sessions to support your career development.
• Exposure to grassroots activism, regulatory policy, renewable energy technologies, entrepreneurship, and other ways to launch a career fighting climate change!
• Once you’re part of EDICT, you’re a member for life! This means you’ll have access to all our partners’ resources, events, and future job opportunities to continue supporting your career beyond EDICT.

Time commitment

Internships will range from 20-40 hours per week depending on the role. For interns working 40-hour work weeks, we recommend you do not pair this internship with additional commitments such as summer school or external jobs. There may be exceptions in certain cases, let us know in your application.

Eligibility

EDICT is open to current college students, recent graduates, and graduate students from traditionally excluded backgrounds interested in pursuing a career that will help fight climate change. Candidates from the following groups are especially encouraged to apply: Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC); members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) communities; people who have disabilities; people from low-income backgrounds; people who identify as nonbinary; and women. We also welcome applicants of all majors and US geographic areas.

Note: Interns who participated in EDICT Summer 2022 do not qualify to participate in EDICT Summer 2023. 

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