Summer Programming Internship (Gender and Sexuality Center)
The Division of Student Affairs Internship Program
The Division of Student Affairs Internship Program allows students to spend a summer handling a special project for the university designed to prepare them for life after graduation. Interns will work 19 hours per week for 10-weeks. These part-time internship positions offer a competitive compensation package that includes an hourly wage. Due to COVID-19, we are currently planning for each of our internships to take place virtually. Housing assistance may be provided on a case by case basis after internship positions are offered. Undergraduate students are eligible to apply. The internship runs from May 31, 2021 to August 6, 2021. The application is due February 14, 2021.
Please contact utlei@austin.utexas.edu with questions.
*Undergraduate students must be enrolled in the Spring 2021 semester to be eligible.
The Office
The mission of the Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) is to provide opportunities for all members of the UT Austin community to explore, organize, and promote learning around issues of gender and sexuality. The center also facilitates a greater responsiveness to the needs of women and the LGBTQIA+ communities through education, outreach, and advocacy.
The Position
The GSC is looking for summer interns, and one of them could be you! Our summer interns primarily work with our summer orientation sessions, which includes tabling, talking with students, assisting with the orientation sessions themselves, and other special projects. Our interns also work on book and movie reviews, research about possible speakers to come to campus, help with our social media and with the GSC's Ana Sisnett Library. Students are encouraged to take and share leadership roles, recognize hidden talents, think critically, challenge assumptions, develop their individual identities and goals, initiate new activities, and define their own experiences.
The Supervisor
Liz Elsen, Director of Gender and Sexuality Center
Things You’ll Do
- Tabling, talking with students, assisting with the summer orientation sessions
- Book and movie reviews
- Research about possible speakers to come to campus
- Help with our social media and with the GSC's Ana Sisnett Library
- Participate in all required Division of Student Affairs Internship Program cohort activities and assessments
Who You Are (Preferred Qualifications)
- GSC interns must be able to work with people from diverse backgrounds.
- Commit to actively creating a welcoming environment for all women and LGBTQIA+ students, including, but not limited to women and LGBTQIA+ students who face additional intersections of oppression due to their race, nationality, gender identity and expression, class, sexual identity, religion, age, and physical or mental ability.