Teaching and Learning Intern 2024

Teaching and Learning Intern (Undergraduate Level)
Job Description

About This Role:

Job Overview

The Teaching and Learning team is seeking a summer intern to assist in researching educational approaches and practices to support the development and enhancement of T&L services and assets. In this role the intern will be responsible for curating a diverse collection of multimodal instructional resources. These resources will include articles, videos, podcasts, guides, websites, blogs, as well as Open Educational Resources (OER). The focus of the research will center equity-focused, student-centered, and culturally responsive teaching and learning as it relates to T&L deliverables, services and assets. The intern will support staff across the teaching and learning team with presentations, projects, and service delivery. This internship will provide the intern with opportunities to contribute valuable insights to the team while enriching their educational journey.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist the Teaching and Learning team with research that will impact the development of new professional learning services and resources for faculty and faculty developers.
• Conduct literature search to build a curated list of multimodal resources including articles, videos, podcasts, guides, websites and blogs, open educational resources (OER), books, and professional learning services (workshops, webinars, and courses).
• Co-create measurement instruments (survey and interview questions) to support the continuous improvement process.
• Create and design presentations (virtual and in person).
• Other duties as assigned.

Learning Outcomes:

• Practical Skills Development: Gain practical skills related to research, asset development, project coordination, content design and development, and experience working on a cross functional team.
• Industry Knowledge: Advance understanding of the higher education, practices, policies and procedures, actively participating in day-to-day operations of the T&L team and gaining insights into the field, trends, challenges, and opportunities to advance equity in higher education.
• Professional Networking: Engage with ATD professionals, partners, and constituents.
• Communication Skills: Enhance problem-solving abilities by tackling real-world challenges related to addressing inequities in higher education and researching innovative solutions to improve the way students experience learning in educational spaces.
• Cultural Understanding: Experience exposure to diverse work cultures and practices, fostering an appreciation for cultural differences and the ability to work effectively in multicultural environments.
• Develop an understanding of issues and practices in a national non-profit setting.
• Perform research and contribute to projects that will inform the intern’s desired educational and career journey.
• Develop skill competencies specific to an occupation or professional interest.

Skills/Qualifications/Experience

• Familiarity with and interest in higher education, student success, and teaching practices/modes, particularly with a community college focus.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, databases, word processing, and internet research.
• Experience writing for a range of audiences and editing written work.
• This is a virtual position. A strong candidate will be self-directed, with strong collaborative and communication skills, and able to work independently while meeting deadlines.

Core Competencies

Collaboration: Demonstrates respect, humility, and willingness to collaborate when seeking to understand others and making decisions.

Equity Mindset: Demonstrates capacity to recognize and address racialized structures, policies, and practices, that produce and sustain racial inequities.

Learning Orientation: Embraces challenges, new ideas and different perspectives as an opportunity to learn; continually seeks out and applies new learning to activate change or improvements.

Systems Thinking: Defines the system and one’s role in the system. Sees relationships and the dynamic elements of the holistic system and executes work accordingly. Influences the system and maps connections to ATD’s external landscape.

ATD strongly encourages applicants from diverse and historically underrepresented backgrounds to apply.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the role.

Please include a cover letter along with your resume. In the cover letter please discuss the following:

• Why do you believe in ATD’s mission?
• What qualities, experiences, or other considerations do you believe make you an ideal candidate for this position?

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Achieving the Dream believes that diversity, equity and inclusion is critical to its work and its mission. ATD takes meaningful steps to promote inclusion in its hiring, retention, promotion, and board recruitment, and supports equity work at the community colleges it serves.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Achieving the Dream is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse work environment. Employment policies and decisions are based upon merit, qualifications, performance, and business needs. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), gender identity or expression, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, legally- protected genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.