Central Vermont Community Radio Summer Internship

This summer you could spend ten weeks engaging rural and urban Vermont communities in conversations and celebration about community radio. Come join Central Vermont Community Radio as we embark on a summer of meeting up with our listeners at farmers’ markets, festivals, and parades.

 

You’ll help recruit new listeners, programmers, underwriters, and supporters; work on our big 50th celebration party of WGDR for the fall and learn about how a small non-profit can make a big impact. The station has lots of additional experiences to offer you two including learning technical skills, radio production, marketing and promotion, fundraising, project management and more.

 

While this internship is focused on community engagement and organizing, we are eager to customize the work toward what you are interested in learning. This internship is part-time, 20 hours a week, remote and in person, with a range of additional professional development opportunities.

 

·     A willingness to talk to and turn strangers into new friends of the station.

·     Good communication skills in writing, inter-personally, and as part of a team.

·     Project management and an ability to plan for attending events, tabling, collecting data, and following up with that engagement.

·     Interest in community radio and rural Vermont communities.

·     Access to a car (we will reimburse mileage from the station to events).

 

·     Grow Our Station Community Engagement: Help us deepen our connection with our listening community about both stations. We are especially looking to work on WGDH’s engagement in the greater Hardwick area. This will include attending summer community events, networking with area businesses to help with underwriting, and helping us recruit new volunteers and programmers.

·     Build Up Our Programming Marketing: Develop messaging in email, web, and social platforms to help highlight our new programming line up for the summer. This will include multi-media features (short video, audio, and graphics), to help tell the story of our new programming to our listeners.

·     Help Us Party: Assist our 50th Party committee in planning for our October celebration, including helping to find sponsors, event planning (promo, talent, logistics), and working with the committee.

·     General Station Support: We are eager to have the intern identify which part of non-profit work or a radio station brings them most interest and to customize a part of the internship to teach them about it. This could be how to fundraise, the programming of radio, or tech and engineering.

 

·     How to connect with community members and engage folks on the value of their community radio station, including fundraising through underwriting.

·     How to work with a variety of personalities and talented volunteers.

·     How to plan a large scale event alongside volunteers, deepening skills in project management and fundraising via sponsorships.

·     How to develop messaging and stories to highlight the programming of the station, including how to use social media platforms, email marketing, a SquareSpace website, and more.

 

Have the ability to work at least 200 hours during the summer, which is about 20 hours a week for the 10 weeks. Some nights and weekends are needed to attend community events, which will make this a flexible schedule most weeks. Date for the internship must fall between May 30 and August 5, but the internship start and end dates are flexible within those dates.

 

Pay rate is between $13-20* an hour.

 

We offer a great work environment, that includes remote, in-station, and in-community work. Our organization is made up of one-paid staff, our Station Manager, to whom the intern will report. We also have a large team of volunteers who have a range of skills they are eager to help teach. As part of this internship, you will be part of a cohort of Central Vermont interns who will participate in paid, weekly professional development workshops hosted by UVM and CVEDC.

 

A computer can/will be provided for use during the internship, to be returned to the station at the end of the summer.

 

Our listening area is most of Central and Northern Vermont, which will have you in the most beautiful parts of Vermont, during the most gorgeous time of the year. In addition to being paid to attend some of the best summer events our community has to offer, you’ll always be near great swimming holes and creemee stands.

 

Our stations are committed to being a caring, equitable, and connective place to work, volunteer, and make radio shows. As an organization, in staff, volunteers, and programmers, we aim to reflect the diverse community we broadcast to. We believe that being intentional in our inclusion makes our stations better.

 

*The higher end pay rate is available for UVM enrolled students only. That program is funded in part by the Statewide Internship Project Pilot, a partnership between the UVM Office of Engagement and the Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation (CVEDC).

CVCR’s mission is to provide a community radio station which serves the people of north central Vermont and beyond; to provide a forum for cultivating social change that re-harmonizes human communities with the natural world, supports the independent arts and celebrates diversity, creativity, and freedom. We inform, entertain and educate through the presentation of alternative news, artistic expression, and public affairs programming. We do this by broadcasting local, community made and national syndicated radio content via two stations, 91.1 FM, WGDR, Plainfield and 91.7 FM, WGDH, Hardwick, as well as streaming worldwide at WGDR.org. We are two years into community-ownership, after 48 years as Goddard College’s radio station. We are located on the Goddard College campus in Plainfield, VT. More info can be found at WGDR.org.

 

Send a cover letter describing your interest in this internship and a brief resume to Station Manager, Llu Mulvaney-Stanak: Llu@WGDR.org. No calls, please.