UPDATE: We hired 2 summer interns so we are no longer looking…Thanks!

Today we decided that we have a spot for a summer intern to work on Carrotmob! Pretty late notice, we know, but surely this will be perfect timing for some of you. We need support in several areas. For example, we have a million people emailing us every day. Some are organizers who are asking for support or advice. Some are producers of national news shows. Some are people who want to know how their business can somehow win a campaign. Some are people with random questions. We need help responding to all these emails. Also, responding to these emails isn’t robot work. We constantly get fascinating, complicated questions, and we need someone who can help answer tricky questions. But besides email there’s much more to do as well….

- Make phone calls to local organizers around the world in order to vet them, train them, and support them however you can.
- Use our Wordpress backend to create new Carrotmob subdomain blogs (ie: http://tampabay.carrotmob.org) for new organizers who pop up.
- Write blog posts like this, and maintain all parts of the Carrotmob website.
- Maintain records of what the status of various campaigns is, and followup to maintain productive relationships with organizers around the world.
- You will help plan the next SF-based Carrotmob event.
- You will help develop an online library of resources for Carrotmob organizers.
- You may help manage the Carrotmob presence on various social media sites.

That’s the big stuff. There will also be a ton of other possible projects which we won’t get in to. What you do might depend on what sort of expertise you have. Are you a software engineer? A community organizer? Your other experience might determine what sort of project you end up on. Here are some other things about this position:

- You work directly with Brent Schulkin (Founder of Carrotmob, Co-Founder of Virgance).
- You won’t get paid any cash or equity. If you’re in school and need school credit, no problem.
- It’s always possible that there will be future employment opening down the line that a successful intern would be well-positioned to apply for, but that is not an expectation we are setting for this position. We really don’t know whether/when a position like that would exist.
- We need someone full-time (or close to it), at the Virgance office in San Francisco.
- Virgance is a “teaching startup”, so just by being here you will learn an incredible amount about how to launch your own startup. This position will be mainly focused on helping to maintain and scale what we’re doing with Carrotmob, but you will learn more than that. You will be on the front-lines of exciting explorations into new types of business, community organizing, economic activity, and so on…

Here are some things that we are looking for:

- The thought of helping to define and grow a revolutionary new movement of activism makes you giddy with excitement.
- You are good at emailing (ie: you write well, you have an appealing style/voice, you have great attention to detail, you write back to people promptly and efficiently, but also with authenticity)
- You have experience with community organizing or different types of activism, and you are able to speak intelligently about environmental issues which most organizers are interested in.
- You can bring in your own laptop.
- You have the technical aptitude to instantly be a pro at Wordpress.
- When people talk to you they get more excited, not less excited.
- You have already read and internalized the About and FAQ pages on the Carrotmob site.
- You don’t need a whole ton of direction…you can just get to work and make stuff happen.

Here are some other bonus things that would be cool but not required:

- You are a talented video producer/editor.
- You are a coder who can create a Wordpress plugin or other small project in no time.
- You are good at public speaking in case you need to do some press interviews for Carrotmob.
- You don’t mind being on video in case we want to make some videos.

That’s enough of a description for now. Let’s get busy. If you’re interested, send a resume to jobs@virgance.com with “Carrotmob internship” in the subject…