Employment Opportunity:
NatureWILD sales and distribution intern
Position: Part-time, 6-month contract (Sept 2026-Feb 2027). The start date can be Sep 7, 2025.
Location: remote from home, digital team
Hours: 20/week
Compensation: $21/hour
Reports to: Executive Director
About NatureKids BC
NatureKids BC (NKBC) is a registered charity that helps children ages 5-12 get outdoors to explore, play, learn about and take action for nature. We do this through an award-winning network of Nature Clubs that extends across BC. Together with our volunteer club leaders, nature mentors and donors, we share a vision of working together to help children develop a love of nature, a lifelong connection to the natural world, and build the environmental literacy and skills to take action for nature.
NatureKids BC is offering a 24-week student position to assist with a challenging and fun variety of tasks related to the production and distribution of our growing and evolving quarterly publication, NatureWILD. The student’s work will advance the public profile of the NatureWILD magazine and will work on career-related tasks, including supporting the production management implementation for the winter, spring and summer NatureWILD issues of 2027.
You Are
- Passionate about building community through creating engaging youth-oriented publication
- A responsive relationship builder and clear communicator
- A collaborative team player and leader that works well independently within a distributed team
- A lover of details with a knack for organizing yourself and others
- Thrilled to be contributing to a community purpose and mission-driven organization
Responsibilities. The primary tasks are to
- update promotional tools and campaigns related to NatureWILD magazine aligned with NatureKids BC brand
- support the magazine editors with content collection, fact checking and editing
- conduct marketing research, data entry and analysis related to expanding reach of the publication
- interact with NatureWILD development committee volunteers to support planning updated sales and distribution goals and plans to achieve them
- research and writing related to grant funding opportunities for the publication
Qualifications
- Interns must either be current students or have graduated less than 3 years ago from an accredited post-secondary institution with a background in marketing, communications or publishing with solid understanding of the functions related to full-cycle magazine publishing
- Experience in science communication an asset
- A meaningful relationship with nature
- Enthusiasm for kids and families’ access to resources that support learning about nature
- Good communication skills through written, spoken and visual display; experience with communications planning, internal organizational reporting and analysis, content creation for public relations, public outreach is an asset
- Well organized, able to work independently, efficiently, accurately
- Able to establish and maintain careful organization of work tasks; and
- Well experienced with computer programs, including google suite, design and review software (such as adobe), and social media platforms.
To apply
Email your resume, cover letter and references to Executive Director, NatureKids BC at executivedirector@naturekidsbc.ca with Subject: NatureWILD internship.
The start date can begin September 7, 2026.
We thank all applicants for their interest in this position. Only those selected for interview will be contacted.
