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Intern (Conference on Childhood Obesity Prevention) | Nemours | Newark, DE

Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS), based in Newark, Delaware, works with families and communities to help children grow up healthy. It is the newest division of Nemours, one of the nation's largest pediatric health systems, operating the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and outpatient facilities throughout the Delaware Valley and northern and central Florida. NHPS expands Nemours' reach beyond clinical care to consider the health of the whole child within his or her family and community. The goal is to impact long-term changes in policies and practices that promote child health and to leverage community strengths and resources to have the greatest impact on the most children.

***The intern should be available part-time from January through August 2008 and full-time during the months of September and October 2008.*** This position will support the The third annual conference: 2008 Nemours Conference on Childhood Obesity Prevention - Advocacy, Policy and Progress, will be policy-centered sessions presented by national experts who will showcase how Health Eating and Physical Activity (HEPA) policies in the Child Care, Primary Care, School and Community Sectors are having demonstrated success in impacting childhood obesity rates. The conference's three overarching goals are designed to: 1) disseminate information; 2) exchange ideas that work; and 3) increase the rate of progress in achieving long-term policy and practice changes that promote child health while leveraging community strengths and resources. Opportunities for policy makers, advocates, government, and non-profit decision makers to exchange strategies to engage community leaders and affect policy changes at the local level will also be a key focus.

The intern will work closely with team leaders and conference subcommittees in planning, coordinating and preparing all programmatic aspects of 2008 Conference. Previous experience in planning conferences and events is helpful. Ability to manage multiple tasks at once required. Duties will include:

Intern Project Deliverables:
  1. Planning and organizing committee meetings and subcommittee activities
  2. Assisting in the identification of speakers, and designing and coordinating sessions
  3. Collecting, writing, and editing program descriptions and speaker biographies
  4. Scheduling, planning, and facilitating conference calls with program speakers and panelists in cooperation with team leaders
JOB REQUIREMENTS: Master's level preferred

NHPS is an equal opportunity employer, and, as such, takes affirmative action to insure that discrimination does not occur against an employee or applicant on the basis of race, creed, color, age, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, religious or political affiliation, disability, or any other classification considered discriminatory under applicable law.

To apply for this position, please copy and paste the following link into your browser address bar:

http://careers.hodes.com/RD/00.asp?JobID=10081412&eCode=5330

or submit your resume and salary requirements through our homepage at

https://nemours.hodesiq.com/apply_online_1.asp?jobid=1147521



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