You must be a full-time undergraduate/graduate student or recent graduate with a 3.0 GPA, at least junior standing, and expertise in clean energy, climate change, research, and project management for this internship.

You will support NREL's university partnerships strategy by analyzing academic programs, coordinating activities with stakeholders, building relationships with diverse institutions, and conducting research on STEM education in clean energy.

Sustainability

United States

Golden

Large

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<ul><li>The candidate will support a variety of tasks related to the strategic partnerships NREL has with universities and other stakeholders, with a particular focus on Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs).&nbsp;The successful candidate will have strong organizational, writing, and communication skills.</li><li>The candidate will be a self-starter that brings creativity and enthusiasm to support the strengthening of renewable energy and energy efficiency programs in a way that promotes equity and inclusion through desk research, critical thinking, opportunity analyses, event planning, communications, and project management.</li><li>The intern's primary task will be to assist our MSI Coordinator with the Student Training and Applied Research (STAR) undergraduate internship position. The UPP team has developed and hosted this program at NREL for the last two years, and is excited to be hosting it for the third year. The STAR program brings undergraduate students in STEM from 9 different MSIs to Golden, Colorado, for a unique 10-week summer internship, and then students go back to their home universities to continue follow-on work from the summer with their home faculty mentor. The graduate intern would be primarily assisting with the planning, coordination, and logistics of this program both before and while students are on campus in Colorado for the summer, and if interested will assist with reporting and evaluation after students go back to their home institutions.</li></ul>

Currently Studying

Undergraduate

Third Year

Bachelors

Masters

The candidate will support a variety of tasks related to the strategic partnerships NREL has with universities and other stakeholders, with a particular focus on Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). The successful candidate will have strong organizational, writing, and communication skills.The candidate will be a self-starter that brings creativity and enthusiasm to support the strengthening of renewable energy and energy efficiency programs in a way that promotes equity and inclusion through desk research, critical thinking, opportunity analyses, event planning, communications, and project management.The intern's primary task will be to assist our MSI Coordinator with the Student Training and Applied Research (STAR) undergraduate internship position. The UPP team has developed and hosted this program at NREL for the last two years, and is excited to be hosting it for the third year. The STAR program brings undergraduate students in STEM from 9 different MSIs to Golden, Colorado, for a unique 10-week summer internship, and then students go back to their home universities to continue follow-on work from the summer with their home faculty mentor. The graduate intern would be primarily assisting with the planning, coordination, and logistics of this program both before and while students are on campus in Colorado for the summer, and if interested will assist with reporting and evaluation after students go back to their home institutions.

Undergraduate/Graduate (Year-Round) Intern - University Partnerships and Energy Equity

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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