Jobs and Internships

CRK seeks a passionate intern to assist the technical programs department with daily activities and responsibilities associated with running our Neighborhood Water Watch program. Duties include data management and analysis, lab work and lab inventory, fieldwork, pollution tracking, instrument calibration, public outreach and presentations, email correspondence, and an independent project related to NWW. Spring and summer interns may have a special focus on an independent project.

Click here for details about the NWW internship based out of CRK’s Gainesville office.

Click here for details about the NWW internship based out of CRK’s LaGrange office.

Click here for details about the NWW internship based out of CRK’s Columbus lab.

Please note that currently, all CRK internships are unpaid positions. Ideally, we would like to compensate our interns financially for the crucial work they do to protect our river. However, as a nonprofit, our resources are often more limited than we would like. We are regularly contacted by students who would volunteer with us for free in order to gain crucial lab and industry experience. In response to this and the feedback from many of our past interns, who find value in being able to list this work on their resume and apply it toward their collegiate coursework, we made the decision to instead offer these volunteer opportunities as official positions with CRK.

We work hard to ensure that we fulfill all individual academic requirements requested by our interns, we remain extremely flexible with regard to scheduling and hours out of respect for these student volunteers, and we remain an active career advocate on their behalf both during and after their time with CRK, providing training in any specific skills they find interesting (even if those tasks fall outside of their position outline), and helping them in their job search within and beyond the nonprofit and sustainability space. In the future, we hope to be in a place where we can dedicate additional funding toward our internship program. Until then, we hope to continue providing educational opportunities to students that are passionate about environmental preservation and our mission to protect the Chattahoochee River.