Volunteer: Environmental Multimedia Internship In Peru

Location: Peruvian Amazon, Cuzco region
Duration: 3 months
Start Dates: TBC
Cost: $4,750 USD
Includes: all food, accommodation, airport pickup, orientation and all project related activities
Does not Include: Flights, travel insurance, visas and vaccinations
Benefits

• Receive weekly workshops in writing, photography and videography skills, along with media field work training and one-on-one mentor meetings.
• Understand the scientific process and what it takes to conserve biodiversity by working alongside conservation researchers in the field.
• Gain careers advice and development through group workshops and one-on-one tutorials to help build career confidence and insight into the various employment options.
• Produce a professional portfolio of published multimedia work to showcase a diverse skill-set to future employers.
• Meet local people and gain knowledge about the sustainability solutions they're developing to improve their livelihoods and living standards.

Introduction
This internship set in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon offers you the opportunity to actively participate in important conservation and sustainable community development initiatives. We offer a career development programme designed to provide you with a deeper level of engagement in not-for-profit conservation work where you will gain extensive practical experience in field techniques and leadership skills, enabling you to effectively advance your career and ability to make a difference. You will be immersed in a structured learning course which is delivered via one-on-one mentoring and numerous training workshops. We focus also on the professional and personal skills which will prove immensely valuable when you go on to apply for jobs and further your career.
Founded in 2002, our Foundation has worked to establish sustainable practices throughout the Amazon. True sustainability encompasses all areas of life in the rainforest people, plants and wildlife. We take a holistic approach which values environmental stewardship; we look at real issues faced by local people and try to develop practical, sustainable alternatives. We envision a sustainable Amazon where education and learning is the forefront for driving understanding and change. The Amazon is under constant threat from many processes that cause habitat destruction such as logging, agriculture and mining. Our sustainable initiative projects provide alternative forms of income that can help protect the rainforest as well as give people a livelihood. This means that we help protect one of the most biodiverse places in the world, preventing the extinction of species, and other associated effects of rainforest destruction, such as climate change
Our Multimedia Internship offers you the experience to develop your skills providing Environmental Communications in the heart of the rainforest. This internship is designed to help you further your career and give an in-depth insight into environmental, social and economic issues, while providing practical workshops and field-based training in multimedia skills - from writing and marketing to photography and filmmaking.
Daily Life
At the start of your three month internship, you will travel to the Reserve. This is where you will learn about the challenges and solutions to protecting the rainforest by working alongside scientists and conservationists.
While gaining these invaluable insights, you will be trained by a professional Media Intern Leader who will teach you to tell compelling environmental stories through written, photographic and film media.
This internship programme has been created to help school leavers, recent graduates and career breakers develop specific multimedia skills in environmental communications through hands-on expert training. By the end of the internship, you will have a portfolio of work that will showcase your written, photographic and video skills to future employers.
Beyond the career development, we have designed the Multimedia Internship programme to give you a truly inspirational rainforest experience, based at our research and educational hub, the Manu Learning Centre. You will stay in jungle lodges and have up-close wildlife encounters, while living and working with a team of like-minded people united in our passion to create a sustainable Amazon, where nature and people thrive.
Please note: all information above is subject to change. Please check the most up to date information on the Global Nomadic website when applying. COVID-19 restrictions may still apply.