Intern at NLC
Intern Invitation
The National Leadership Conference is your conference! Not only are activities and events planned for you, they are conducted with your help! The NLC Internship Program is a vital part of the National Leadership Conference, involving over 200 student volunteers from all across the country.Do you want to see what happens “behind the scenes”? Do you want to meet new people from all across the country? Do you want the ultimate leadership experience? If you said, “Yes,” to any of these, you want to be an NLC Intern!
Intern Job Descriptions
Super InternSuper Interns are former Intern Participants or National Officers. Super Interns help manage the internship program. Super Interns will need to display critical thinking skills and perform independent decision-making. You will be vested with a high level of responsibility.
General Sessions
Work with the session coordinator approximately 1 hour BEFORE the session begins. Put up flags, set up awards, and work with the staging area. You will be able to see what happens “behind the scenes” when we’re setting up the amazing General Sessions.
National Officer Coordinator Interns
Interns will be working with National Officers and Officer Coordinator before many of the special events to help set up, decorate, greet, and/or take tickets. Events, Success Sessions, Campaign Rally Set-up, General Sessions, and much more!
Registration
Interns will check in chapters and address problems that arise. Sharpen your problem-solving skills, because this is a fast-paced, customer-focused assignment that will keep you jumping!
Intern Desk
Interns at the desk will be responsible for ALL intern communication. The Intern Desk is where students will come to switch hours, check their schedules, and request additional volunteer time.
Judges
Interns will greet judges as they enter the Judges Orientation breakfast or lunch. This is a two-hour commitment. It will be important that Interns understand the layout of the hotel, or bring their conference handbook as they will be escorting the judges to their respective contest rooms. Interns may be asked to help set up the orientation area and pass out judges’ gifts. Be the face of BPA and show everyone how great you, the students, really are!
Press Team: Social Media
As an intern on the Social Media Team your job is to make sure everyone is in “The Loop.” Business Professionals of America has made a special Facebook page dedicated to the 2012 National Leadership Conference in Chicago, IL and you will intern as a special correspondent. Social Media Team Interns will post five or six times a day to keep BPA members connected to everything great about Chicago and the National Leadership Conference. This might include a great place you ate, a cool attraction you saw, or something you don’t want BPA members to miss out on. This team will keep everyone in “The Loop!”
Requirements for any intern interested in being part of the Social Media team include the following:
- Understanding of Facebook
- Attend a webinar prior to the NLC, date and time to TBA
- Smartphone with access to Facebook application. (No equipment or internet access can be provided by BPA.)
The official behind the scenes photographers serve a very important role at the National Leadership Conference. It is the job of each intern to take pictures that will be used on the national BPA website, the Wire, and other promotional materials. Where ever you are you have the unique opportunity to capture the amazing moments of NLC. Interns filling these roles will be taking pictures of everything, everywhere, and everyone. Interns on the Press Team will have a detailed understanding of the conference schedule to make sure every exciting moment is captured at NLC. This intern assignment can be flexible as not everything happens between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. If you are interested in being a floating photographer we can make that happen.
Team Members are required to do the following prior to the NLC:
- Interns should have access to a DSLR camera of their own. The Intern Program will provide memory cards.
- Attend an informational webinar to understand your role in the NLC, date and time to TBA.
APPLY!
Advisors can register students for the intern program while registering their students online for NLC: http://www.bpa.org/nlc/crs.Approval in the intern program is granted by the local advisor and confirmed by submitting the online conference registration. No other approval is required. All applicants registering for the National Leadership Academy during the online conference registration process will be admitted.
Please contact Brenda Jacobsen at jacobren@isu.edu or Dan Armstrong at DArmstrong@cdaschools.org for additional information or questions.
Participants are required to select an Intern Orientation during the online registration process. Participants are only required to attend ONE orientation.