EPA REGION 8 2018 STUDENT VOLUNTEER INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Denver Regional Office is offering a number of opportunities in 2018 for students to gain valuable professional experience through its student volunteer program. Each position with details may be found at: https://www.epa.gov/careers/volunteer-unpaid-internship-opportunities-currently-open-epa
Eligibility Requirements: Participants must be enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a degree, certificate, or diploma seeking student taking at least a half-time course load in an accredited 2-year or 4-year college or university, graduate, or professional school.
Application Requirements: To apply for any of these positions supply the following by April 9, 2018: transcripts, resume and a cover letter (indicating the position or positions you are interested in, your available start date and approximate hours/weeks you could work) to R8EPAintern@epa.gov with the subject line: Student Volunteer Internship Program.
EPA REGION 8 AT A GLANCE
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Region 8 office in Denver employs approximately 500 staff who work to protect human health and the environment in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and 27 sovereign tribal nations. We share this challenging work with many partners – state, local and tribal governments, businesses, non-governmental organizations, communities and individuals.
EPA Region 8 is unique. Our states encompass the heart of the American West, including much of the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains and Colorado Plateau. Characterized by vast open spaces– mountains, plains, canyons and deserts – and small, concentrated population centers, these areas still maintain some of the wild, frontier character that many associate with the West. They also contain many of our nation's most recognizable landscapes, including national parks and monuments, millions of acres of forests, and even more range, farm and grassland.
Region 8 environmental areas are broad ranging, including agricultural; currently operating and abandoned mining operations; industrial complexes; development of large scale energy projects; and oversight of several federally owned or operated facilities with historic contamination. Given that approximately one third of the area in Region 8 is comprised of public lands, coordination with other Federal partners such as the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, etc. is essential to effective environmental management. Tribal Lands in Region 8 constitute an area the size of Florida, and present a unique set of opportunities to coordinate on environmental goals.
HOME BASE IN REGION 8
HOME BASE IN REGION 8 In December 2006, Denver welcomed a world-class addition to its downtown, the 418,000 square-foot EPA Region 8 building at 1595 Wynkoop Street. The nine-story brick and glass building is a hallmark of environmental sustainability in the prominent Historic District of Lower Downtown (LoDo). The Regional office is adjacent to Union Station, the focal point for Denver’s growing public transit network, and can be directly accessed via a vast array of light rail and bus lines, as well as regional pedestrian and recreational trails. We are centrally located and just minutes from cultural arts complexes, museums, national sports venues, as well as restaurants, shops and outdoor trails. Denver enjoys 300 days of annual sunshine and offers the largest city park system in America with 200 named parks and 14,000 acres of parks in the nearby mountains. There are 850 miles of paved, off-road bike trails in metro Denver, many of which are directly accessible from the EPA Regional Office.
DETAILED VOLUNTEER INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR 2018 LISTED BELOW
1) Air Program Project Assistant; Office of Partnerships and Regulatory Assistance, EPA Region 8, Denver
2) Brownfield Intern; Office of Ecosystems, Protection and Remediation, EPA Region 8, Denver
3) Education/Outreach Agriculture Intern, Office of Regional Administrator, EPA Region 8, Denver
4) Environmental Justice/Technical Enforcement Intern; Compliance and Environmental Justice, EPA Region 8, Denver
5) Field Quality/Operations Intern; Office of Technical and Management Services, EPA Region 8, Denver
6) Financial/Data Analyst; Office of Enforcement, Compliance and Environmental Justice, EPA Region 8, Denver
7) Human Resources Intern; Office of Technical and Management Services, EPA Region 8, Denver
8) Lead-based Paint/Pesticides Intern; Office of Partnerships and Regulatory Assistance, EPA Region 8, Denver
9) National Environmental Policy Intern; Office of Ecosystems, Protection and Remediation, EPA Region 8, Denver
10) Quality Assurance Intern; Office of Technical and Management Services, EPA Region 8, Denver
11) Research/Planning Sustainability Intern; Office of Partnerships and Regulatory Assistance, EPA Region 8, Denver
12) Research Assistant for RARE project; Office of Water Protection; EPA Region 8, Denver
13) Safe Drinking Water Regulatory Oversight and Inventory Intern; Office of Water Protection; EPA Region 8, Denver
14) Safe Drinking Water Intern; Office of Water Protection; EPA Region 8, Denver
15) Site Assessment Team Intern; Office of Ecosystems, Protection and Remediation, EPA Region 8, Denver
16) Streams Research Assistant; Office of Water Protection; EPA Region 8, Denver