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Intern, Institute for International Urban Development, Cambridge, MA

Student Intern Position 

Organization: Institute for International Urban Development. (I2UD)

Time Period: Summer 2018; possible party-time into Fall.

 

Summary:

The Institute for International Urban Development is a non-profit organization that provides technical assistance, training, capacity building and education for developing areas of the world. Prior to becoming a non-profit organization, we were the Center for Urban Development, at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design.

We are looking for a student of Library Science, to help catalog, organize and make available online a complete set of our projects. The material spans over 20 years, and is in online files, archived disks, and printed reports.

We will be building a master list of projects organized by date, geographic location, topic, participants, funders and keywords. This list will be compared with the existing online library, and a prioritized list of projects to be made available will be processed.

 

Necessary Skills:

  1. Superior organizational skills and attention to detail
  2. Fluency with Microsoft Office — word, excel, powerpoint
  3. A mind for organizing documents and information
  4. Interest and some skills in online web document archives, WordPress, html
  5. Document OCR
  6. Document cataloging, tagging, keywords

 

Hours: 35-40 hours per week

Rate: $15 per hour

Contact: Send CV and letter to: 

Francois Vigier at [email protected]  

cc: [email protected]