URI Yale Student Internship: Fall 2025 and Spring 2026

The Urban Resources Initiative (URI) – a New Haven-based environmental non-profit and program of the Yale School of the Environment – is hiring Yale student interns to participate in its GreenSkills program this fall and spring! GreenSkills is a city-supported green job training program for local high school students and adults who have experienced incarceration. GreenSkills crews plant trees along city streets, in parks, and at schools, at the request of New Haven residents, businesses, and community institutions. Our team of Apprentice Urban Foresters & Program Associates supports all aspects of our work – from fundraising and outreach, to tree planting and care.

The GreenSkills program is committed to promoting environmental justice in New Haven by fostering an equitable distribution of tree canopy across the City’s neighborhoods, by providing access to paid green jobs to local residents with barriers to employment, and by including New Haven residents historically left out of environmental decision-making as equal partners in the planning and care of the city’s urban forest. We are looking for students who want to a) contribute to local environmental restoration and climate adaption/mitigation work, b) invest in relationship-building with the New Haven community, and c) commit to an equity-based approach to environmental work and community development. We hope you consider joining our team! A year-long commitment is preferred, but semester-long internships are possible.

Commitment: 

Urban Forester apprentice (manual work outdoors in all conditions)

Saturday team apprentice: 11 consecutive Saturdays 8am-5pm. Weekly meeting 1hr. Pre-season training 4hrs. 

Weekday team apprentice: 12 consecutive weeks, 1 shift per week during the week, 6:30am-12:30 or 12:00-5:30pm. Weekly meeting 1hr. Pre-season training 4hrs. 

Additional hours upon request: substitute (additional 6-9 hours per week as needed); tree loading (4 hours per week, as needed)

Outreach & communications (indoor office work, including phone calls, emailing, social media, and/or outdoors canvassing, tabling, interfacing with the public), 6 hrs/week, flexible (ex 3 days/week for 2 hrs). 

Hourly wage is the current Yale approve rate. Work study encouraged. Total hours for all Yale jobs not to exceed 19 hrs per week. 

To learn more, visit: https://uri.yale.edu/get-involved/internships

To apply, please fill out this online form. If you have any questions, please email GreenSkills Managers, Elizabeth Nowlin (elizabeth.nowlin@yale.edu) and Miche Palmer (miche.palmer@yale.edu), or call the URI office at (203)432-6189