White Bird Employment
Internships at White Bird Winter/Spring 2010
White Bird Dance is the sole dance-only presenter west of the Rockies, and specializes in bringing world class contemporary dance to Portland Oregon. White Bird presents 12 companies each year, 6 as part of our main subscription series, 4 as part of our Uncaged series and 2 exclusive events.
Several projects are available at High School, Undergraduate and Graduate levels. The scope of internship will be defined to fit the student, educational institution and White Bird’s needs on a case by case basis. All internships will involve non-project work, as White Bird is a small, organic organization where everyone contributes laterally.
Current General Administration Projects
- Managing the organization of the Clip Book – Under the direction of a Co-Founder, archiving media, realia and press related documents in a creative clip book to serve as an historical record. This project has research, archival and creative components.
- Materials Distribution – assisting the Special Projects Manager with the distribution of promotional materials throughout Portland, creating poster volunteer guidelines and maintaining accurate records in excel. This project has volunteer management, community services and database management components.
- Creating and Maintaining a Volunteer Database/Spreadsheet – Assist the Audience Services Manager in creating a list of all volunteers, what their interests are, and a method of tracking when and where they’ve helped us out in the past, preparing the data for entry into the Raiser’s Edge CRM. Also monitors our volunteer recognition to make sure our volunteers are being thanked in a timely manner. Volunteer management and database management components.
- Production – Assist the Special Projects Manager with load-in, load-out, site prep and company management for both White Bird series. Production, contracts and company management components.
- Video library/archive project – Assist the Special projects Manager with the cataloguing of the White Bird video and DVD collection into a searchable, semi-public database. Database management components.
- Video Blog and Multimedia/Interactivity projects – Assist the Marketing manager and Special Projects Manager with creation and maintenance of interactive website content including video blogs, interviews, dance previews, behind the scenes blogs and other interactive methods of audience outreach. Marketing, audience development, multimedia and IT components.
Raiser’s Edge CRM project – Assist the Development, Audience Services and Special Projects managers in preparing all White Bird constituent data for import into the Raiser’s Edge database, including ticket data, volunteer data, constituent organizations data, etc. Help construct systems for loading the several types of data into a Raiser’s Edge compatible format. Assist in the creation of import strategies, timelines and procedures. De-duplicate, import and error check the Raiser’s Edge database. Must have previous experience in spreadsheet software or donor management software. Database, development and donor management components
As space is limited, White Bird can only accept two interns at any given time. White Bird is unable to offer a stipend, but will extend a full year’s subscription to all White Bird shows.
Please send a cover letter and resume to: chris@whitebird.org
