Public Health Intern

Job Title: API-CHAT Tobacco Control Intern

The Intern will coordinate, facilitate, and attend trainings and workshops on tobacco control policies and community organizing skills. Maintain APICHAT’s (Asian Pacific Islander Coalition for Health Against Tobacco) social media. About once or twice a month, an in-person attendance at the BACR El Cerrito.

Benefits

• Compensation of $1,060 per semester
• Mileage reimbursement
• Part time, working 3-4 hours per week
• Off during holidays & most weekends

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in classes at Contra Costa Community College or Diablo Valley College (part-time and full-time students welcome)
• Passionate about public health, social change, and/or tobacco control policies.
• Proficient in social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and others.
• Ability to travel required
• Ability to work some nights and weekends

Preferred

• Experience working with diverse populations and individuals with strong ties to the AANHPI community
• Experience with presentation, teaching and/or training
• Experience with outreach and/or recruitment
• Be able to speak, facilitate meetings, and conduct outreach in AANHPI language, preferably Chinese

Responsibilities

• Educate and/or outreach to the AANHPI (Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander) community, local health policy leaders, stakeholders and civic leaders
• Organize and coordinate an annual tobacco advocate day event
• Work 1-2 times a month in person at BACR El Cerrito Office
• Help recruit and outreach to the AANHPI community and other stakeholders.
• Outreach at community events, such as farmer’s markets and other community events
• Maintain APICHAT’s social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube or other appropriate sites per year and promote cessation services, tobacco issues and policy, and APICHAT’s activities.
• Participate in meetings, workshops and events for tobacco control policies
• Work with PD and project evaluator to implement and coordinate evaluation of workshops, presentations, public opinion surveys, key informant interviews and observation surveys
• Other responsibilities as assigned by the PD

Bay Area Community Resources (BACR)

Project API-CHAT

About Us

BACR is a nonprofit organization supporting individual and community development throughout the Bay Area. Asian Pacific Islander Coalition for Health Against Tobacco (API-CHAT) is a project within BACR. API-CHAT aims to work with the Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community to promote healthy environments that protect our community. The tobacco industry targets AANHPI communities through deceptive marketing, higher tobacco retailer density and lower prices in communities of color, and the creation of culturally familiar and kid-friendly flavors in tobacco vaping products. We’re fighting back to protect the next generation from the tobacco industry.