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City

Dharamsala

Remuneration

Depends

Description

EcoBuilding Designs Intern Project

MINIMUM STAY; 4 Months

EcoBuildings, is an initiative of EduCARE India, focuses on sustainable buildings through a variety of grass-roots level projects.

Our goal in creating this program is to promote systemic social changes towards sustainable human habitats and to encourage loving personal growth, free artistic expression, caring relationships, deep environmental awareness, and celebration of cultural and individual differences. We hope to inspire people to work for something greater than themselves.Reinventing their traditional ecobuilding designs.

The more immediate goals are;

- To design and make small economical ecostructures with the use of bamboos, ropes, mud, thatch etc; in rural settings in India based on improved local traditonal design systems - help catalyze the creation of small ecobuilding/ecostructures amongst the rural community members - To move students from understanding and concept development to practice with hands-on, experiential learning in the rural environment in India

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The Project Manager is required to innovate and manage one or more projects, with the support of Assistant Project Managers where applicable. They work closely with the Project Coordinator and the Project Director to implement on-ground projects and manage them daily, monitor and evaluate these projects and their resource needs on a weekly and monthly basis, and update project manuals and documentation to ensure clear communication and continuity.

There is a large amount of flexibility in our organization and we believe that creative and new approaches to problems are needed to cause a real and sustainable impact, thus the Project Manager is encouraged to innovate new projects where they see a need and have an idea for a solution. Additionally, the Project Manager should reach out to their community and create/maintain communication and collaboration for the education and empowerment of the local community.



RESPONSIBILITIES

· Manage their defined projects, working as a team with other PM's and programs

· Monitor, evaluate and report on the project activities to the Program Coordinator

· Create and update documentation and research regularly

· Create long term, medium term and short term plans with the support of the Program Coordinator

· Attend cluster meetings and assist on other projects where needed

· Create blog posts related to their projects and experiences monthly

· Update or create a project manuals at the end of internship



CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION

A graduate from an environmental or building designs, architecture or engineering related field would be ideal. Self-initiative and flexibility are key to a successful internship with EduCARE India. Other essential skills are an ability to work as a part of team, leadership skills, good interpersonal and communication skills, patience to deal with the constraints of working and living in rural India, independence and a positive attitude.
Benefits
Free Housing: Interns receive free housing in a cross-cultural intern house with 6 to 8 colleagues from other countries.
Pre-arrival orientation and post-arrival induction training
Internet facility and mobile sim card
A unique opportunity for interns to live and serve in a distinctive rural Indian village in the Himalayas, desert and/or coastal areas
Opportunity to gain real world work experience and learning in the field of organic farming, environmental health and nature conservation.

Required specialized knowledge

The Project Manager is required to innovate and manage one or more projects, with the support of Assistant Project Managers where applicable. They work closely with the Project Coordinator and the Project Director to implement on-ground projects and manage them daily, monitor and evaluate these projects and their resource needs on a weekly and monthly basis, and update project manuals and documentation to ensure clear communication and continuity.

There is a large amount of flexibility in our organization and we believe that creative and new approaches to problems are needed to cause a real and sustainable impact, thus the Project Manager is encouraged to innovate new projects where they see a need and have an idea for a solution. Additionally, the Project Manager should reach out to their community and create/maintain communication and collaboration for the education and empowerment of the local community.

Preferred language abilities

Englisj

Preferred skills

A graduate from an environmental or building designs, architecture or engineering related field would be ideal. Self-initiative and flexibility are key to a successful internship with EduCARE India. Other essential skills are an ability to work as a part of team, leadership skills, good interpersonal and communication skills, patience to deal with the constraints of working and living in rural India, independence and a positive attitude.

Additional assistance

To design and make small economical ecostructures with the use of bamboos, ropes, mud, thatch etc; in rural settings in India based on improved local traditonal design systems - help catalyze the creation of small ecobuilding/ecostructures amongst the rural community members - To move students from understanding and concept development to practice with hands-on, experiential learning in the rural environment in India

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