Accenture Innovation Challenge for Summer 2020

Apply for the Accenture Innovation Challenge, exclusive for University of Maryland, College Park students.The deadline to apply is Monday, January 13, 2020. 

University of Maryland students can submit applications here and please also apply on Careers4Terps (Search for ID: 194857).   

* Apply if you are pursuing a Bachelor’s degree (with a graduation date between December 2020 and September 2023)

Accenture is thrilled to host the Accenture U.S. Innovation Challenge – an event combining hands-on consulting experience with the opportunity to make a positive impact in the community. The Accenture Innovation Challenge is a three-round event that gives undergraduate students the opportunity to bring their most creative ideas to life by helping a non-profit client think through pressing business challenges. If selected to participate in the AIC, student teams – alongside Accenture coaches – will have the chance to exercise their critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and compelling storytelling skills in ideating solutions for our client’s real-world business challenges. Round 1 will be hosted in your local Accenture office; round 2 will be virtual; and the final round will take place in New York City, NY. Accenture will cover travel and accommodations for final-round participants.

About the Client
This year, Accenture is proud to partner with Waterkeeper Alliance, the world’s largest non-profit focused on clean water. Waterkeeper Alliance strengthens and grows a global network of grassroots leaders protecting everyone’s right to clean water. Waterkeeper Alliance unites more than 300 Waterkeeper groups that are on the frontlines of the global water crisis, patrolling and protecting more than 2.5 million square miles of rivers, lakes, and coastal waterways on 6 continents.

  

Key Dates

Application deadline: January 13, 2020

Round 1 (in-person, 800 North Glebe Road Arlington VA 22203): February 21st 2020

Round 2 (virtual): early to mid-March 2020

Round 3 (in-person, NYC): late March 2020

Competition Awards

• Participants of each round will gain exciting opportunities to meet Accenture executives.
• Semi-finalists receive an automatic invitation to interview for an Accenture internship or full-time opportunity.*          
• National finalists receive a trip to meet in person with the client for their final presentations. They will also have an opportunity to attend networking events with Accenture Managing Directors and the non-profit clients.
• Members of final round winning team will receive an offer to intern with Accenture in Summer 2020.*
• Members of the final round winning team will receive a cash prize.
• Members of the final round winning team will have the opportunity to join Accenture as they begin implementation of their idea at the non-profit client.

Qualifications
*Competition Eligibility

• To qualify, participants must have a Bachelor’s degree (with a graduation date between December 2020 and September 2023).
• To qualify, participants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

Community Organizer w/ Hoyer For Congress

Hoyer for Congress seeks Community Organizers for the 2020 cycle. Responsibilities include volunteer recruitment and management, representing the office at public events, and direct voter contact, persuasion, and mobilization. 

Interested candidates should have organizing experience, superior communication skills, and the ability to work independently. Access to a vehicle and flexibility to work non-traditional hours are required. Experience with VAN and/or NGP, as well as Maryland ties, are preferred. 

Interested applicants should submit a resume and a brief cover letter in the body of your email to adrian@hoyerforcongress.com

Internship Opportunities Available at the Rumi Forum

INTERNSHIPS OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE

The Rumi Forum is offering internship positions for undergraduates, graduate students, or recent graduates. Our current available position include:

Project Internships

The responsibility of these interns will be centered around general projects of the Rumi Forum, most of which include event planning and organization of our various conferences, seminars, international trips, evening events, community events, and social responsibility projects.

Requirements:

Applicant must be pursuing (or have recently graduated with) an undergraduate degree in Religious Studies, Theology, International Relations, Public Policy, Political Science,  Sociology, Journalism, Communications, or other related fields.

Duties may include the following:

• Reach prominent government, corporate and media officials, opinion-makers, academics, diplomats, clergy and other civic leaders for event collaboration opportunities 
• Email marketing
• Promote events by developing and executing a social media strategy
• Maintaining contact database
• Conduct site selection research
• Work with the photographer and the cameraman
• Edit speeches and interviews, preparing news updates for the website
• Follows events in Washington DC related to the field of Rumi Forum
• Assists with updates on the website

APPLY HERE

How to Apply:
Please fill out the application form. Send your resume to info@rumiforum.org. All internships are unpaid. Dates and hours are flexible and negotiable.                                            

If you have any questions, please email all inquiries to info@rumiforum.org.  

Rumi Forum was founded in 1999 with the mission to foster intercultural dialogue, stimulate thinking and exchange of opinions on supporting and fostering democracy and peace and to provide a common platform for education and information exchange. The Forum contributes to this ultimate aim by means of conferences, panel discussions, community engagement, luncheons, publications and other activities. In particular, the forum has an interest in issues regarding pluralism, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, intercultural and interfaith dialogue, social harmony and justice, civil rights and community cohesion. 

For more information visit www.rumiforum.org.

Job Opportunity for Recent Grads - Spadework

Spadework

Apply Here!
“What do you want to be?” That’s the common refrain that enters our heads when thinking about career goals and opportunities, and nowhere does it feel more prevalent than on college campuses among the conversations of graduating seniors. Maybe the goal is the Senate, or academia, or business; the way we talk about career goals is title-focused. And the way that graduating seniors talk and think about their job prospects betrays a false determinism: the first job will lead to the second job will lead to graduate school will lead to the dream job. Want to work in business? Better start in consulting. Want to run for office? Better prepare for law school. Want to work in the White House? Better join a Presidential campaign.

At Spadework, we encourage a different thought process. We believe “what do you want to be?” is the wrong question. The better question is “what do you want to change?”
If you think the status-quo is all well and good, then Spadework is not for you. But if you believe that our towns, cities, and states need significant progressive reform, then you should join us. If you want to protect and expand abortion access, or end our system of mass incarceration, or end inequity in our schools, you should join us.

What is Spadework?We recruit, train, and place talented and motivated young people in statewide-and-smaller campaign organizing jobs around the country, with a focus on inclusion.

Why join Spadework?Finding a campaign job is hard and too often requires full-time volunteering or sending a resume to seemingly-bottomless resume banks. We offer a clear and transparent path to organizing jobs, and thus a direct and concrete way to shift the status quo and make change on the issues you care about. We offer training and experience in organizing, a skill that will be applicable in every single job you have, from campaigns to business to academia. And post-campaign, we offer career guidance and support to ensure that you’re well-positioned for whatever’s next.

Why organizing?Research shows that organizing is under-invested in and immensely powerful for campaigns. But beyond just the strategic value of organizing, we believe both that organizing is a public good and a stellar career experience. We believe that more people with organizing experience will strengthen our democracy and our politics at every level of government. Furthermore, we believe that the skills developed as an organizer--clear communication, effective management, responsibility for and accountability to goals, simple hard work--carry over into every future job.

How to JoinFill out our application here!

Internship with the Office of U.S.Representative Anthony G. Brown (MD-04)

BSOS Winter Commencement!

2020 Summer Research Initiative (SRI) at the University of Maryland

Apply to the Smith Business Minor Program!

The Smith Business Minor program has officially opened their applications for student interested in pursuing a minor in General Business, Business Analytics, and Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

If you have any questions, visit the website go.umd.edu/smithminors or email smithminors@rhsmith.umd.edu.

MIDCM Spring 2020 Applications Are Live!

Minor in MIDCM (Minor in International Development and Conflict Management)

This minor is designed to be complementary with many different majors and even other minors. The coursework develops a strong foundation in development literature while providing substantial pre-professionalization development for a many different intended careers. We have had huge success with students from a wide variety of disciplines.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to Michael Cowen, the director of the minor at:
midcminfo@umd.edu

Apply Here Today!

Winter Course in Geospatial Intelligence

Maryland Legislative Summit on December 15th

For more information, visit: mdlegislative.com

Buy Tickets here

Applications Now Open: 2020 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Program

Applications are now open for the 2020 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Program (RBSI).  RBSI is an annual, intensive five-week program for undergraduate Junior held at Duke University. The program is designed to introduce the world of doctoral study in political science to undergraduate students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups or those interested in broadening participation in political science and pursuing scholarship on issues affecting underrepresented groups or issues of tribal sovereignty and governance.

This year’s program will take place from May 31, 2020 to July 2, 2020. Applicants should submit completed materials by Friday, January 17, 2020.

Additional information about the program is available the following link: politicalsciencenow.com/application

Please share this year’s application information with your networks and any current undergraduate juniors that would benefit from participating in the program. 

AAMA Future Leaders Fellowship Program

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