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Graphic Design Internship

Basics

  • Start date: As soon as filled / Summer 2023

  • Priority deadline: May 15
  • Position location: Laramie, Wyoming
  • Position type: part-time, unbenefited
  • Duration: 3 months; possibility to extend through the academic year
  • Optional 3-4 hours of credit
  • Hours: 10-12/week, with a flexible schedule and weekly meetings
  • Pay: $12.50 (undergrad), $15/hr (master’s), or $17.50/hr (doctoral student)

 

Position Description

The UW Biodiversity Institute is offering a graphic design internship. This is a great opportunity for a self-motivated student with a passion for communicating science through visual communication. Through this internship, the successful candidate will gain hands-on experience in visual science communication.

Depending on current Biodiversity Institute needs and the applicant’s skills, responsibilities may include:

  • Developing, designing, and creating article illustrations
  • Working with the BI team to design and create engaging event posters for the BI and its partners
  • Designing animal stickers to further engage passionate BI audience
  • Create and design booklets for community science projects and events
  • Develop and design logos for BI events and partners
  • Design work for magazine features
  • If interested, work on BI social media and digital communications 

The intern will be supervised by Erendira Abbey Morales, our Communications and Marketing Specialist, and work closely with Mason Lee, our Senior Project Coordinator.

 

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have prior internship or professional experience in graphic design as well as a strong desire to gain visual science communications skills in a professional setting. The right candidate is a UW graduate or undergraduate student in art or visual communication or related field. Prior internship or work experience is not required but preferred. 

 

To Apply

Submit an application to the Biodiversity Institute team at biodiversity@uwyo.edu. Initial review of applications will begin May 15. This position is open until filled. Application should include:

  • A short letter of interest 
  • Work samples: 3 samples of work you have done, published or not, that demonstrate your abilities and interests relevant to this position.

 

About the UW Biodiversity Institute

Located in the Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center at the University of Wyoming. The UW Biodiversity Institute fosters the understanding, appreciation and conservation of biological diversity through innovative research, education, and outreach, and by engaging a broad audience in the scientific process.

The Biodiversity Institute works with scientists, resource managers, educators, and the public to further the understanding and conservation of biodiversity. We seek to provide a unique service to Wyoming and beyond by facilitating collaborative research projects, disseminating research, distributing grants,

and providing educational, outreach, and citizen science programs for scientists, students and the public. Our communications efforts produce and distribute a wide variety of communications materials to share the work of UW biodiversity researchers with broad audiences.

The UW Biodiversity Institute and the University of Wyoming are an equal opportunity employer, and the Institute also provides a flexible and supportive working environment.