The UMass tobacco free policy aims to achieve compliance through education, cessation support, and community engagement. Empowering students, staff, and faculty to remind faculty to remind violators of the policy and to encourage their compliance, enables and sustains policy success. All members of the campus community are asked to encourage policy compliance for a collective benefit for us all.

Program Vision:
A campus environment in which to learn, work, live, and play free from tobacco’s impact.
Position Description
Tobacco Free Umass seeks student’s interns to assist with programmatic efforts in educating the campus community of tobacco harm, encourage policy compliance, and evaluating tobacco use. The student intern will champion health promotion efforts and seek to develop new avenues for delivery in order to further engage the campus community.

Primary Objectives for interns:

• Conduct an deliver health promotion and campus outreach initiatives
• Develop educational interventions
• Promote Tobacco-Free UMass through social media platforms
• Review evidence-based interventions and best practices for tobacco prevention
• Develop collaborations and new avenues for outreach and education efforts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate student enrolled in a degree program in public health, or other closely related social science.
• Strong communications skills
• Strong Interpersonal Skills (empathy, respect, inclusion, diversity of opinions)
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse population of students, staff and campus community members

Application Process:
Please provide a cover letter and current resume to sdupont@umass.edu