Commitment: 12 – 20 hours per week over a 3-6-month semester, minimum 100 hours
Location: Medical Center, 3516 W. 26th Street Chicago, IL 60623 with time spent in Englewood and Back of the Yards
PAWS Chicago has long known that the only way we are going to achieve No Kill Chicago is to make spay/neuter accessible to all Chicagoland pets. This internship allows students to build communication, administrative, and animal welfare skills while helping provide resources for pets and people in under-served communities. Students will participate in the program coordination of our PAWS for Life and Community Cats programs.
Duties and Responsibilities
Interns will engage in a variety of areas including, but not limited to:
- Assisting with planning and execution of Community Outreach Events
- Street outreach in under-served neighborhoods, including door-to-door
- On-site rescue and TNR (trap-neuter-return) in the field, transporting cats to and from our clinic
- Coordinating spay/neuter and community medicine appointments, including providing transportation
- Phone calls, client counseling, and database management
- Animal caretaking, especially of feral cats in traps
Requirements
- Passion for animals and belief in our mission to create a No Kill Chicago
- Ability to remain on feet for long periods of time and perform physical tasks that include but are not limited to climbing, bending, stooping, kneeling, twisting, reaching, crawling, holding, and lifting
- Excellent written and verbal communications, with the ability to represent the mission, goals, policies, and core values of PAWS Chicago in a sincere and energetic manner
- Ability to adapt, work collaboratively with a team, and solve problems proactively
- Organizational skills
- Commitment to a high level of customer service
- Basic computer skills, including e-mail and Microsoft Office
- Previous experience performing animal care activities is desirable
This internship may interest you if you are interested in the following fields: Animal Care, Social Work, Community Organizing.
This role is only available in-person.
Please note that all PAWS Chicago internships are unpaid.
