Unpaid summer internships at NJDEP

The Office of Coastal and Land Use Planning (OCLUP) (http://www.nj.gov/dep/lum/lup.htm) at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has openings for unpaid internships for the summer and fall of 2015. OCLUP oversees the NJ Coastal Management Program and manages a number of planning activities, described below, related to municipal public access and resiliency planning in response to coastal hazards. This opportunity will provide students with real-life planning experience at multiple levels of government.

OCLUP requires excellent communications skills (both verbal and written) and analytical skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint is a must. For certain projects, students with a high level of GIS skills are preferred.  Interns would be based in Trenton but would travel to coastal communities regularly.

Public Access Planning (http://www.state.nj.us/dep/cmp/access/index.htm)

Interns would be required to work with OCLUP and municipal staff, provide GIS mapping products and assistance; assess existing public access locations in the field to document physical conditions; review municipal master plans for consistency with public access requirements and plans; and assist with the development of a Municipal Public Access Plan that is consistent with rule requirements.

Additionally, Interns may be involved in the following tasks according to the municipalities assigned:

·        Coastal Monitoring protocols and pilots:  Interns would assist with setting up monitoring locations for citizen monitoring of problem areas-flooding, erosion, and wetlands loss

·        Waste Management: Intern assessment of waste management issues and responses -waste from the ocean and waste from beach use

·        Resiliency Planning: Interns would assist with Coastal Vulnerability Assessments, Getting to Resilience Reports, and community engagement.

·        Infrastructure-Transportation, Power + Communication, Water supply, sewage and storm water: Interns would research and create educational information on resiliency from the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS),  and similar documents addressing coastal hazards and mitigation strategies

·        Community Education and Outreach: Interns would help with community presentations and materials from North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS), other state programs and NOAA on a regional or local basis

·        Urban-specific issues: Research and develop designs for urban solutions to specific municipal issues for SLR (non-traditional bulk-heading solutions, green infrastructure -keeping water out of CSO, urban public access and park systems appropriate at all bulk-headed locations

·        GIS of potential new public access and recreation asset locations: Assist with GIS mapping and data sets and may include work with PGIS/monitoring website

Please provide expressions of interest, a resume and two references to Nick Angarone at njczm@dep.nj.gov.