Position availability:
- Currently two analyst positions
Initiative Description:
Bexar County is launching a new program to foster local economic development talent. The Economic Development Leadership Program (EDLP) targets undergraduate and graduate students for a unique mentored experience in applied and innovative economic development learning.
Program:
- The EDLP provides students with either a Fall Semeser, or Fall-Spring internship.
- The EDLP seeks to bring together the academic community, business community, economic development practitioners, and policy makers to create and share innovative solutions for Bexar County’s economic future.
- While specific activities and responsibilities will depend upon the length of the student’s respective internship period commitment, participating interns may be exposed to applied research and business intelligence methodologies, specific marketing and branding applications, industry specific knowledge, strategic relationship building, regional economic development initiatives (www.txmxautomotive.com) and unique site visit opportunities. (For more program information, please see the EDLP brochure linked to below.)
- EDLP Interns will primarily work within the Bexar County Economic Development Department’s Strategic Initiatives Division.
Eligibility:
- EDLP Interns will be drawn from undergraduate or a graduate students actively enrolled for at least the Fall 2010 semester at a university/college located in Bexar County. (For more eligibility information, please see the EDLP brochure linked to below.)
- (Applicants with language skills in Spanish, Mandarin or Japanese are strongly encouraged to apply, although it is not an eligibility requirement.)
When:
- Our first EDLP Intern is currently working within a Spring-Summer internship period to end the week of August 2, 2010.
- Up to two (2) additional EDLP Interns are being sought for the Fall period (Interns will have an option for additional commitment through Spring 2011). Fall internship periods would begin in Mid August 2010 and would end in mid December 2010, in coordination with the end of the Intern’s Fall semester (with an optional additional commitment through Spring 2011).
- The application deadline is Monday, August 2, 2010.
How to Apply:
- Click here for the EDLP Application and brochure (form-fillable PDF file format).