Intern Responsibilities 

Job Description

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​The intern's work is critical to the successful execution of the Conference. This intern will work within a multidisciplinary team environment and will report to the Senior Conference/External Affairs Specialist. Duties include independent project work related to the successful planning and execution of the agency’s premier annual training, the Crimes Against Children Conference.  Administrative responsibilities include applying payments to registrations in Cvent, hotel reservations, inputting purchase orders for government agencies, stocking and organizing Conference merchandise and office supplies, organizing directional signage to direct attendees during the Conference, facilitating the electronic handout system via Dropbox, manning special registration, receptions, and workshop management at Conference, and answering telephone and email inquiries about Conference details.
 

Requirements
  • Must be a currently enrolled, full-time undergraduate student returning to school in the fall of 2017 as a Junior or Senior.
  • Must possess good organizational skills and have the ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects and tasks.
  • Advanced level proficiency with MS Windows, Word, and Excel.  Access, PowerPoint and Outlook knowledge is preferred.
  • Must possess strong interpersonal and written communication skills.  A clear and pleasant voice and the ability to exhibit good telephone communication is necessary.
  • Individual should be creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, and flexible, possessing a positive attitude, tact, good judgment, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to work well as a team member with staff, community professionals, and volunteers.
  • Individual should ensure accuracy and confidentiality in all work.
  • Must demonstrate/live our organization’s core values: put the child first in all that we do, operate as a seamless team, work with a servant’s heart.

Benefits, Opportunities, and Achievements
The intern will develop customer-service skills, as s/he will be charged with answering calls regarding registration, payment, meal, and hotel issues as well as manning the high-traffic Help Desk during the event. The intern will attend meetings with DCAC's Conference team through which she will learn the intricacies of non-profit event-planning and will get to know DCAC staff, a benefit that has resulted in full-time employment for three previous Conference interns. Further, because a team of forensic interviewers, licensed therapists, and family advocates all occupy the same building, the intern will be able to interact with front-line professionals in the child abuse field. The intern will benefit from seeing the final product of all of his or her work firsthand through attending the Conference in the last week of the internship. Finally, the intern will gain technical proficiency through working with Cvent, Dropbox, Survey Monkey, Outlook, and Microsoft Excel.  

The internship is typically unpaid, but in 2016 DCAC received a grant from the ExxonMobil Community Summer Job Program. This allowed the intern to be paid $3300 over the summer. She was also able to meet fellow non-profit interns in the Dallas area, participate in a service project, networking events, and leadership training.