OCV Summer Fellowship Program 2019 is available at OCV, a trailblazing digital media organization dedicated to humanizing the climate disaster through storytelling, centering the voices of frontline communities and those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Moreover, it has been connecting people with ways to support climate solution-making work that impacted communities are already doing.

The OCV fellowships are a unique opportunity for you to join the team. The OCV team members are innovative and passionate young people who believe in the power of youth organizing. Also, the fellowship will allow you to fully immerse in OCV’s storytelling mission, work with and have a mentor of one of the core team members, and give you a chance to develop your arts activism and storytelling portfolio. The fellowships are unpaid at this time, but it can offer up to $50 in work-related reimbursements each month to ensure that you can cover the costs associated with the fellowship. It will also work with schools to provide academic credit, if necessary. Fellows will work remotely, and need to contribute 10-15 hours a week.

By the end of the fellowship, each Fellow will spearhead an OCV story from start to finish: identify a local climate justice leader in the community where they live, interview that climate justice leader, lead the editing process as well as publication on the OCV platform, and lead all social media and outreach for that story. The fellowship class will comprise 2 – 4 fellows that fit the following opportunities:

Storytelling Fellow

Responsibilities

• Participate in and conduct OCV interviews that take place during the fellowship term;
• Track fast-moving climate justice developments for OCV to follow and amplify the voices of key leaders in our movement;
• Transcribe OCV interviews that take place during the fellowship term; and
• Provide editorial support for final pieces.

Competencies

• Able to work quickly under time-constraints;
• Also, comfortable discussing and presenting ideas to the team;
• Committed to the principles of environmental and climate justice;
• Likewise, detail-oriented and has previous editing experience; and
• Enthusiastic about OCV’s work.

Design and Communications Fellow

Responsibilities

• Create dynamic graphic media for our fast-growing organization;
• Moreover, develop and manage social media posts; and
• Create a diverse portfolio of graphics including flyers, advertisements, and calls to action.

Competencies