Communications Intern, Anishnabe Moose Committee (PAID)

April 2, 2025 | by User Posts

This internship is sponsored by the Office of Community Engagement, find more information on the program on our website.

Description of Organization

The Anishnabe Moose Committee (AMC) is a grassroots committee made up of folks from several different Anishnabe (Algonquin) communities in and around La Verendrye Wildlife Reserve and the Ottawa River watershed in western Quebec/North Eastern Ontario. The AMC engages directly with their communities to protect the moose, their lands, and their culture. Adhering to Anishnabe traditional governance framework, the AMC collaborates with their people—Elders, land users, youth, and others— to connect with their traditions and protect the moose and their lands, in and beyond La Verendrye.

AMC conducts community-led research and educational activities to build community knowledge that helps:

Protect the moose populations,

Reinvigorate traditional knowledge systems,

Unify Anishnabe communities,

Strengthen Anishnabe self-governance.

Responsibilities and deliverables

Social media and newsletter content on moose and AMC activities (50%)

Finding grants, fundraising and grant writing (30%)

Summarizing projects for internal and external communications (15%)

Research project assistance (5%)

Assets and Requirements

Student must be registered under a Concordia degree-bearing program. Organized, reliable, skilled in writing and research. Bilingual would be an important asset. Social media and newsletter savvy would be great! Indigenous students are encouraged to apply for this position.

Duration: Summer Semester (12 weeks between May 12 and August 1, 2025)

Site of employment: Remote

*All OCE interns are also welcome to come co-work at SHIFT’s space (LB-145) throughout the work week.

Hours: 180 hours total (15 hours a week)

Remuneration: $3,600

Please note that the OCE internship payments are made as honorariums, sent in 2 instalments at mid-semester and the end of the semester.

Deadline to apply: March 31, 2025

To apply, fill out our application form with:

Cover letter describing your experience with managing social media and/or newsletters, and experience in Indigenous allyship

Resume

About

This is an informal site for BA and Diploma students in the Department of Communication Studies to seek out paid and unpaid internships for credit, and for organizations to post internship opportunities. NB Internships are not required in order to complete your BA or Diploma degrees.

We strongly encourage participating organizations to offer renumeration for their posted internship opportunities.

We also post job opportunities when we hear about them.

This site is run and monitored by the Internships Co-ordinator.

NEWS

March 31, 2021: Internships and COVID-19 – special announcement

To BA and Diploma students in the Department of Communication Studies: If you are considering a Summer internship, please know that under these exceptional circumstances you may work partly, or entirely, from home. This assumes, of course, that your onsite supervisor fully supports this arrangement. If you still have concerns or questions after you’ve read the Guidelines, please contact the Internships Co-ordinator.

June 2019: Young Canada Works is a government program offering thousands of job opportunities each year in the fields of heritage, arts, culture and official languages. Sign up and search! (Thanks to Natasha Whyte for the tip!)

May 2019: We are now allowing students to have the option of receiving compensation for their internships (more info above).

Sept 2018: Please note that all internships are considered complete as soon as students reach 120 hours. We ask that everyone respects this limit.

Sept 2016: Please note that, in order to maximize the value of the internships for everyone, we support a maximum of TWO student interns at any one company during any given semester.

A Few Words of Caution

To our students: These opportunities have been submitted directly by companies and organizations offering internships (120 hrs, supervised, paid or unpaid) or paid job opportunities for students in the Dept of Communication Studies. It is ultimately up to you, the students, to assess them for accuracy and value. Please approach all potential opportunities thoughtfully and respectfully. All internships are subject to approval by the Internships Co-ordinator. The information provided here is to be used solely for the stated purposes.