Office Intern: Website/Computer Specialist
Before you apply for an internship, read the Letter from the Director, Kari Bagnall.
We need someone with strong HTML coding skills and a way with computers to help us keep our website updated, our emails flowing, and our files and equipment doing our bidding.
Office interns live on-site and work the same hours as the intern caregivers (generally sunrise to sunset). For office internships minimum length is 10 weeks; longer internships are preferred.
Duties may include:
- Maintain and update the Jungle Friends website.
- Create HTML-formatted mass emails and manage emailing application.
- Provide technical support and assistance for all office software and computer equipment.
- Manage file transfers and organization.
- Create and edit video files and upload to YouTube.
- Assist with social networking (FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.)
- Participate in special projects such as creating newsletters, email campaigns, or writing grants, or organizing special events.
- Provide other assistance as needed for the Executive Director and staff.
Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of and experience with HTML coding.
- Strong computer skills, including file management and troubleshooting.
- Commitment to animal advocacy.
- Experience with Microsoft Office and Outlook.
- Experience with social media, especially Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
We are looking for very special people. You must be friendly and have good communication skills, work well with others and have the ability to lead others as well as follow. You must be even-tempered and down to earth. Interns are expected to embrace the communal, family-living style at the sanctuary while they are here. The successful intern will come to Jungle Friends with an open mind and open heart, ready to work hard and become a part of the Jungle Friends family. The number one rule at Jungle Friends is: the well-being of the monkeys always comes first!
Trial Visit:
We ask that intern applicants come to Jungle Friends for a 10-day trial period to evaluate your suitability for this position. If this is not possible, an exception can only be arranged through Kari Bagnall, our Executive Director. You must be in a position to make at least an 10-week commitment to Jungle Friends. Our office internship is from 12 weeks to 1 year. We prefer longer internships.
Due to safety considerations, we will not consider applicants who smoke. An intern who is found to be smoking, whether on- or off-site, will be asked to leave immediately.
Internship Cost and Accommodations:
There is a fee of $75 per week of internship, to be paid in advance. For longer internships, the fee drops to $50 a week after 4 months. Following the trial, the fee must be paid in full in order to reserve the dates for your internship. Scholarships may be available in cases of hardship.
Room and board are provided at the sanctuary. This is a vegetarian organization. No meat is allowed to be consumed, cooked or stored on Jungle Friends premises, and no animal products can be purchased for use at Jungle Friends. Jungle Friends opposes exploitation of animals.
Application Procedure:
The intern application packet includes the application form, reference form, and details regarding other items that must be submitted with your application, as well as more information about the internship position. Click below to download the packet. Be sure to clearly indicate that application is for the website/computer internship.
Intern Application Packet - pdf format
and the list of what to bring:
What to Bring - pdf format
If you are unable to download any of these filesfrom the internet, email info@junglefriends.org and ask to have the file emailed to you.
Once we have received your completed application packet, we will contact you to arrange a telephone interview.
Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary (Established 1997)
13915 N. State Road 121, Gainesville, Florida 32653 USA
Jungle Friends is located on 12 acres just outside of Gainesville, FL.
Director: Kari Bagnall
Phone: 386-462-7779
Fax: 214-292-8630
E-mail: info@junglefriends.org
Mission: Jungle Friends is a 501-(c)-3 non-profit organization that offers permanent sanctuary care for a variety of primates who have fallen into the wrong hands or are simply no longer wanted. Our program is designed to rehabilitate and socialize primates with their own species. The primates in our care are successfully interacting with members of their own kind, many of which were once species isolated, neglected or abused. Jungle Friends' outreach program teaches people about the plight of captive primates. We are dedicated to animal rights issues and advocacy for primate protection.
Jungle Friends monkey residents: Jungle Friends has
120
new-world primates, including white-faced or white-throated capuchins Cebus capucinus (lower risk), white-fronted capuchins Cebus albifrons (lower risk), tufted, brown or black-capped capuchins Cebus apella (lower risk), weeper or wedge-capped capuchins Cebus olivaceus (lower risk), a bearded capuchin cebus libidinosus (lower risk), common squirrel monkeys Saimiri sciureus (lower risk), black squirrel monkey Saimiri vanzolinii (vulnerable), black-handed spider monkeys Ateles geoffroyi (vulnerable), white-bellied spider monkey Ateles belzebuth (endangered), common marmosets Calithrix jacchus (lower risk), black tufted-eared marmoset Calithrix penicillata (lower risk), golden-handed tamarins Sanguinus midas (vulnerable) and cotton-top tamarins Saguinus oedipus (endangered).
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