Developable Properties Inventory Summer Intern 2024
ABOUT THE UMVRDC
The Upper Minnesota Valley Regional Development Commission (UMVRDC) is one of nine regional development commissions in MN (http://www.mnado.org/ )that were created and authorized by MN State statutes in 1969 to provide planning and technical assistance to units of government. The UMVRDC serves a five-county region that includes Big Stone, Swift, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle and Yellow Medicine County. It has a board that is made up of elected officials from cities, counties, townships, school districts, tribal governments and public interest representatives. There are 10 professional staff with expertise in finance, management, community planning and marketing.
Services provided by the UMVRDC include transportation, economic development, and recreation planning; development of city or county comprehensive plans; grant writing and administration for a wide range of governmental services (infrastructure, broadband, housing and commercial rehabilitation, recreation and other public facilities); and has a gap financing program that provides business lending. The RDC also manages several marketing programs including Western Minnesota Prairie Waters, MN River Valley Scenic Byway, and the Meander Art Crawl.
Learn more about the UMVRDC at https://umvrdc.org/
ELIGIBILITY
Students must be enrolled in a post-secondary educational institution in the planning and community development field.
INTERNSHIP SCOPE OF WORK
Intern will be exposed to general RDC programs and projects and will be included in any office wide functions. This may include participating in staff meetings, RDC board meetings, staff outings.
Intern will be asked to participate in the MN Economic Development Foundation (MEDF) LINK (Leading Interns Network Knowledge) online and in person meetings.
Intern will be responsible for the following projects:
- Working to gather annual data on developable properties and to update the regional database used to enter location data into the LOIS database which in turn feeds the MN DEED Site selector database which Prairie Waters links to on the https://prairiewaters.com/site-selector/ Helping with outreach to primarily city and EDA staff asking them if they have properties to add, collecting a large list of data about each property, taking photos of the properties if needed.
- Visit some or all of the 97 Minnesota River Valley Scenic Byway discovery sites and take pictures to update our photo database. Intern will take photos with agency provided digital camera at each site, and one video, and bring them back to the office to be edited, labeled and uploaded into the photo archive.
- Develop a new housing developable properties database to promote available lots/areas that could be developed into future housing units. The intern will contact each community to gather information relevant to any available lots/areas that could be used for future housing development. Information collected will include addresses/locations of properties, property dimensions, unique features of the property, available utilities, available incentives (if any) and site photos. Intern will work with RDC staff to assemble the data into a useful format that can be easily shared with prospective residents and area developers.
TIMEFRAME
Estimated to be 3 days per week for 13 weeks from May 20-August 16. Schedule modifications can be arranged upon hire.
PAY
$15- 17/hour depending on experience
CONTACT
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to:
Dawn Hegland, UMVRDC Executive Director
dawn.hegland@umvrdc.org