Honors Music Community & Event Planning Intern (Fall, J-term, Spring, or Summer)
Goal: Enhance a sense of belonging for Honors Music students, who compose roughly 30 percent of the Honors Program, by planning and executing community-building events; maintaining the Honors bulletin board in Mason Hall; and potentially identifying other goals and tasks in keeping with the Honors Program pillars (Learn. Lead. Live.) in relation to the distinctive needs and interests of Honors Music majors.
Tasks:
- Propose, promote, budget for, and host monthly (or more frequent) events for Honors Music majors
- Promote the recitals and endeavors of Honors Music students
- Promote the Honors Program and serve as a resource for disseminating information, both to Music students and to the Honors Director
- Maintain the Honors bulletin board (by Mason Lounge) with all Honors events
- Use software and social media to communicate with Honors Music majors and interested parties
- Help with virtual and in-person Honors events and recruitment (e.g., Orientation; recognition events; Go Big Blue Day)
- (Possible) Perform on behalf of the Honors Program
Projects:
- Participate as a student representative of the Honors Program in new student orientation, and recruitment events
- Host/lead 4-8 events per semester
- Create and distribute follow up surveys to demonstrate effectiveness or updates to consider (based upon university mission, Honors mission, career readiness, etc.)
- Design promotions in keeping with publicity laws and add upcoming events to the Events@Fredonia calendar platform on the Fredonia website, as well as to the Honors Program Google Calendar
Qualifications:
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively while still being reliable and practicing good communication to ensure invested parties and colleagues are kept informed of daily activity
- Undergraduate Honors Music major with an interest in event planning and community building
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and timeliness simultaneously
- An outgoing, collaborative disposition and growth mindset
Who are we looking for?
- Creative individual passionate about student engagement
- Undergraduate Honors Music student having completed a minimum of one year in the program
- Knowledgeable in campus resources
- Responsiveness to email, or virtual feedback, and requests or edits in a timely fashion
his role is unpaid; however, a student successfully completing this applied-learning experience and meeting all the requirements of an Honors Program Learning Contract may substitute this internship for any one required Honors course.
Details about the role:
- 80 to 120 hours total during the 17-week semester
- Approximately 5-6 or 8-10 hours per week, depending on whether pursuing 2 or 3 credits
- To have this experience substitute for one Honors course, the student intern must maintain a weekly or biweekly learning journal, give a public presentation, and complete a substantive final paper, project, or portfolio connected to the experience.
HOW TO APPLY:
Via email to the Honors Program Director (Natalie Gerber), submit a current résumé and letter of introduction that demonstrates success in relation to the job description. Samples of work may be shared as well, or during the interview process.
honors.program@fredonia.edu