Salary: $20.00 Hourly
Position Summary
Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is seeking a bright and inquisitive individual with an interest in exploring local and state-level Western water policy issues and opportunities to join our team in Winter/Spring 2025 as a part-time Healthy Rivers Policy Intern. The Healthy Rivers Policy intern will support a variety of research priorities including researching water allocation policies in the Western US, green industry professional certification, and state water and land use integration policies, among other related tasks. The Healthy Rivers Policy Intern will work closely with WRA’s Healthy Rivers Program team, with opportunities to learn and grow while working with other conservation and policy professionals.
About Western Resource Advocates
WRA fights climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. We respect the different needs of diverse people and partner with them to develop a shared vision for progress—one that advances communities while protecting biodiversity.
Our team of policy experts, scientists, economists, and attorneys has a 30-year history of working where decisions are made, sweating the details, creating evidence-based solutions, and holding decision makers accountable. This on the ground work with policymakers and other advocates advances clean energy, protects air, land, water, and wildlife—and sustains the lives and livelihoods of the West.
Location
This position will be based in the Denver-Boulder Metro area and will be a hybrid remote and one day per week in-office position in our Boulder, CO and/or Denver, CO offices.
Timeline
The internship will take place during the Winter and Spring of 2025. While the specific dates are flexible, the preferred start date will be February 18th, 2025, and the internship will end in June 2025.
Deadline To Apply: Open Until Filled with priority review beginning on Monday, January 20, 2025.
Please submit the following application materials in pdf form:
- Cover letter to the attention of Kimberly Bell, Human Resources Manager, describing your relevant qualifications and the reason for your interest in this position;
- Resume; and
- Recent writing sample (up to 5 pages). This writing sample does not need to be on a topic related to the internship and our hope is that applicants can submit a recent writing sample, not create something new.