2013 Internship Notice
Responsible Sourcing Initiative
Natural Resources Defense Council, Beijing Office

The Natural Resources Defense Council’s Responsible Sourcing Initiative is seeking interns for its Beijing office who are energetic, environmentally conscious, intelligent, and self-confident college or graduate students with an interest in improving China’s environment.
Project / Responsibility:
1.    Drafting, editing and translation of written materials
2.    Checking data and calculations in the reports.
3.    Assisting preparation of the upcoming project kickoff meetings.
4.    Collecting information about environmental issues and industry trends of textile industry in China, Creating and editing a bi-monthly newsletter with information relevant to Responsible Sourcing Initiative

Period:
This internship will last at least 4 weeks, and require 4 days a week working in our office. The first week will be probation period.

Funding:
NRDC is able to provide a small stipend to cover lunch and public transportation for those interns who do not have other sources of funding.

Basic Qualifications:
1.    With strong sense of self-initiative, responsibility and detail-oriented.
2.    Proficient on MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint, especially on formatting.
3.    Native Chinese language ability and highly fluent in English
4.    Bachelor's or master's degree in science or engineering
5.    Willingness and ability to research and understand regulatory, financial, and technical information about the textile industry in both English and Chinese

To Apply:
Please send a cover letter and resume with both English and Chinese version to xtong@nrdc-china.org. Please also note in your cover letter what dates you will be available.

Application deadline: As soon as possible


About NRDC:
NRDC is a leading non-profit, non-governmental environmental organization.  Established in 1970, NRDC uses law, science and the support of 1.3 million members and online activists to protect the planet and ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. NRDC’s staff of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and policy experts work out of offices in New York, Washington, Beijing, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In China, NRDC has collaborated with government agencies, research institutes, and civil society organizations for over a decade to help strengthen and expand energy efficiency, green building standards, clean energy technology development, and environmental law and governance.
For more information, visit NRDC online at: www.nrdcchina.org, www.nrdc.org, switchboard.nrdc.org and greenlaw.org.cn.
About Responsible Sourcing Initiative:
Clean by Design is an innovative program to use the buying power of multinational corporations as a lever to reduce the environmental impacts of their suppliers abroad. Clean by Design focuses on improving process efficiency to reduce waste and emissions and improve the environment.
In the past decade, globalization has brought dramatic change to the developing world, helping to lift millions out of poverty and presenting a unique opportunity for multi-national corporations to play a positive role in improving environmental and health standards in developing countries, through their business relationships with suppliers and with participation from the government in those countries.
To take advantage of this opportunity, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Gap, Inc., Levi Strauss & Co., Wal-Mart, H&M, Nike, Li & Fung have launched the Responsible Sourcing Initiative to catalyze environmental improvement in the apparel manufacturing sector. The goal is to find practical, low-cost, or even cost-saving opportunities to increase operational efficiencies at supplier textile factories, while reducing materials, water and energy use and decreasing waste/emissions.    In addition, the initiative will also work with Chinese government officials and local experts to increase the technical capacity of both, in order to improve environmental performance with efficiency improvements in this industrial sector.
The RSI team in Beijing has also worked on projects related to inducing investment, the electronics sector, and other topics related to environmental and energy issues in China.
Please learn more about Clean by Design at:  http://www.nrdc.org/international/cleanbydesign/
Chinese language information available here: http://www.nrdc.cn/our_program_flag.php?cid=256
For more information, please visit:
http://china.nrdc.org/library/nrdc-fact-sheetnrdc's-ten-best-practices-textile-mills-save-money-and-reduce-pollution
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