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Description
The U.S. Green Building Council has an opportunity for a practical learning experience for a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate student through an un-paid internship with its Education department.
Position Overview:
This internship will provide students with hands-on experience applying taxonomies, metadata schemas, and data organizational management to the USGBC.org website and USGBC's education programs. Students will be exposed to knowledge management strategies and quality assurance in order to help USGBC integrate many important green resources across areas of work.
This position will provide a solid introduction to the work and issues associated with the collection, analysis, evaluation, packaging, and dissemination of information in a special library setting. The internship in knowledge management will work directly with the Knowledge Exchange Coordinator and support a liaison role with USGBC's Marketing and Communications department.
This internship is unpaid, and is available in exchange for school credit
Responsibilities:
Internship Details Include
- Correctly apply organizational taxonomies and metatags documents and guidelines to usgbc.org content
- Perform Quality Assurance on the application of all metatags and taxonomies
- Develop a metadata workflow and methods document for USGBC and possibly help train staff on the usage of this workflow document
- Recommend possible data-driven functionality improvements to the usgbc.org website
Qualifications:
Education and Training Requirements/Preferences:
- Current enrollment in undergraduate or graduate degree program required, preferably in library or information science
Experience Requirements:
- Experience cataloguing, indexing, metadata or working with a taxonomy
- Working knowledge of XML technologies
- Comfort with data entry
Other Required Skills and Qualifications:
- A strong focus on and attention to detail and quality results
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Excellent communication, organizational, and computer skills (MS Office)
- Interest in and commitment to USGBC Mission
To Apply:
Please submit resume and letter of interest via email or fax, ATTN: Human Resources. Please indicate where you saw the posting for this opportunity. No phone calls please.