Sierra Club Maryland Chapter Internships

The Maryland Sierra Club offers many internship and volunteer opportunities. Conveniently located on Route 1, students can take advantage of their diverse openings.The interns become part of the office team and are essential to accomplishing many of the chapter's conservation goals. Working side by side with staff and lead volunteers, interns get the opportunity to see how a grassroots non-profit works, gain valuable real world experience, and become the next generation of activist leaders.Listed below are open internship positions.

Beyond Coal Listening Project Intern: The Baltimore Beyond Coal Listening Project Interns will form a small creative team that will interview a diverse range of community members suffering from asthma or other health problems related to Baltimore’s poor air quality. The team will share these stories with the public through creative online and offline media. Responsibilities include: finding, researching, and interviewing a diverse range of people in Greater Baltimore. Working with a team to creatively share stories with the general public. Publicizing stories using social media and/or in-person events. Assisting in compiling weekly reports on accomplishments for Sierra Club senior staff.

Beyond Coal Energy Intern: The Maryland Energy Intern will work inside the state’s Beyond Coal Campaign, helping to move our campaign goals forward through volunteer engagement and recruitment, research, and campaign strategy development and implementation. Assist in policy research and clean energy campaign strategy and implementation. Also, interns draft compelling content for email alerts, newsletters, blogs, and more. Compile research on local and state-level clean energy and efficiency programs. Assist in compiling weekly reports on campaign accomplishments for Sierra Club senior staff. Help create campaign collateral such as fact sheets, flyers, or other materials.

The Baltimore Organizing Intern will sit at the center of the Sierra Club’s Baltimore campaign, helping to coordinate our work with hundreds of volunteers throughout the area. Assist in event planning and volunteer outreach. Interns will maintain a social media presence for the campaign via Facebook, Twitter, and blogging. Additional responsibilities include: drafting compelling content for email alerts, newsletters, letters to the Editor, and more. Assist in coordinating regular grassroots phone banks and in compiling weekly reports on organizing accomplishments for Sierra Club senior staff. Help maintain and update field organizing tools and materials. 

For information or to arrange internships please call or send a resume, cover letter, and a two-page writing sample to internships@mdsierra.org. Please have your name in each document title and cc: maryland.chapter@sierraclub.org.


Please see this post for more information on other internship opportunities offered through the Sierra Club.