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Resilience, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving the mental health of students, as well as reducing mass shootings, suicide, and depression. Resilience, Inc also works to combat declining test scores, low student engagement, and a slew of other social issues.

Our organization focuses on offering Social Emotional Learning tools to enable K-12 schools to teach emotional intelligence through five core topics; self-awareness, self-control, social awareness, relationship management, goal setting, and effective decision-making. Resilience, Inc. also provides tools for acquiring and maintaining inspiration, hope, and overall well-being.

Our mission is to teach SEL at every school in the country. It is a tough challenge, but we know "No Challenge, No Change." If you are also concerned about children’s mental health and social being, join us! Become a member of Resilience, Inc, and help change the way schools approach mental health.

Resilience is looking for Web Developers and offering internship programs in the Information Technology department. Our internship programs are 90 hours with the option to continue after meeting the minimum requirement. We require at least a four month commitment, and have flexible start and end dates.

Some previous projects Web Development interns have worked on include the mylearningtools.org website and myselena.org website. Interns will report to the Director of IT.

This internship is unpaid, but students may receive academic credit through their university. It is the responsibility of the student to check with their institute to be sure they meet any requirements before they accept the position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Promote the social emotional curriculum through developing projects for the IT department.
• Using scripting or authoring languages, management tools, content creation tools, applications, and digital media.
• Conferring with teams to resolve conflicts, prioritize needs, develop content criteria, or choose solutions.
• Directing or performing Website updates.
• Editing, writing, and designing Website content
• Identifying problems uncovered by customer feedback and testing, and correcting or referring problems to appropriate personnel for correction.
• Determining user needs by analyzing technical requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience with remote production software
• WordPress, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript experience are a plus, but not required.
• Ability to work independently and as a team.
• Can attend weekly remote meetings.
• Have an eagerness to learn and improve critical skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Objective learning.

Learning Outcome

• Interns will demonstrate an understanding of Web Development.
• Interns will improve their skills in creativity, communication, and critical thinking.
• Interns will gain the ability to collaborate with the Curriculum and Development Department and within the IT Department.