Internship: Mayor's Institute on City Design

JOB DESCRIPTION FOR AN INTERN POSITION
THE MAYORS INSTITUTE ON CITY DESIGN

The Mayors' Institute on City Design (MICD) is a National Endowment for the Arts leadership initiative in Partnership with the American Architectural Foundation and the United States Conference of Mayors.
Since 1986, the MICD has helped transform communities through design by preparing mayors to be the chief urban designers of their cities. MICD achieves its mission by organizing sessions where mayors engage leading design experts to find solutions to the most critical urban design challenges facing their cities.
MICD is currently seeking an Intern to develop content for the MICD Archive Project. The intern will be responsible for coding, categorizing and researching the 800+ MICD case studies that have been presented by mayors over the program’s 25-year history.

The position will be housed at the American Architectural Foundation in Washington DC, and will be compensated on an hourly basis. The candidate should be a student or recent graduate of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, or a similar discipline. Library science, archive or record keeping experience would also be valuable. Both part-time and full-time schedules will be considered, however, candidates should be able to commit to a minimum of 15 hours per week. The candidate should be ready to begin work in October and have availability through December, 2011.

Skills needed include (but are not limited to):
1. Excellent analytical, written and oral communications skills
2. Familiarity with PC and Mac platforms
3. Familiarity with Microsoft Office programs including Excel
4. Familiarity with Wordpress

To apply, please send a cover letter and your résumé to sbellows@micd.org.

Position to be filled immediately.
Intern will be housed at the American Architectural Foundation, 1799 New York Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20006.

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