CC Intern

position Description: Assist with coordination and promotion of outreach events for Turner projects, subcontractors and employees. Under direction of local Community & Citizenship team, provide support for local business unit to identify and establish strong business partnerships, build community networks, and disseminate information using social media platforms.

Reports to: Community & Citizenship Director or Manager

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assist in brainstorming, administration, coordination, preparation, and promotion of outreach events for projects, subcontractors and employees, such as ACE Mentoring, YouthForce, Subcontractor Trade Fairs, and Turner School of Construction Management. Provide support to Turner Service Projects, assist with building community networks contacts, conduct research, create presentations and coordinate information sessions.
• Hands on responsibility to expand and build social media resources to showcase outreach and event activities, update and post approved social media content.
• Interact with community network, attend trade shows and engage with local economic entity organizations that provide support for Underrepresented Business Enterprises (UBE) owned businesses and diverse and local workforce.
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Enrolled at 2 or 4-year college or university offering accredited and credentialed degree programs; recommended majors include but not limited to Communications, Marketing, Advertising/PR, Sociology, Psychology, Education, or similar degree program
• Passionate and willing to learn overall Turner Community and Citizenship business strategy, culture, core values and Turner’s connection to local community
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills including student leadership, volunteerism, or other community involvement
• Energetic, proactive, and eager to tackle new projects and ideas, flexible, adaptable, and creative
• Able to work independently, with minimal oversight in team environment
• Organizational skills; ability to accurately manage and document information
• Clear verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to appropriately use Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter, Instagram, among others
• Ability to conduct research using the Internet, create presentations including using graphics, tables and charts, use collaboration technology (Office365, SharePoint, etc), and familiar with calendar meeting functionality
• MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and MS Outlook email and calendar programs, or similar applications
• Flexible to travel locally

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Performance of the required duties will require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move heavy weight.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may work on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer – race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.