Program Assistant - CAPRA supportAt — City of Menlo Park - Library and Community Services Department
The City of Menlo Park's Library and Community Services (LCS) Department is seeking a motivated and innovative intern to lead a community-based research project focused on one of our most important questions:
How can we better engage teens and create recreation programs and spaces that reflect their interests and needs?
This internship offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact on the community by helping the City understand what today's teens want from their local parks, recreation facilities, and community programs. The intern will design and implement a comprehensive community assessment to identify barriers to participation, emerging trends, and opportunities for expanding teen recreation services. The findings will help guide future programming, facility planning, and outreach strategies for the City of Menlo Park.
- Conduct research and/or analyze data.
- Analyze problems and develop solutions or recommendations.
- Support project planning, implementation, or evaluation activities.
- Develop a research plan and project timeline.
- Conduct literature reviews and research on successful teen recreation models from other communities.
- Collect quantitative and qualitative data through surveys, observations, interviews, and community engagement.
- Visit parks, schools, community centers, and other gathering places to connect directly with teens.
- Engage youth in conversations to better understand their interests, recreation habits, unmet needs, and barriers to participation.
- Analyze data and identify key trends and recommendations.
- Prepare a final report summarizing findings, supported by data and actionable recommendations.
City and department orientation; Community Engagement training
| Type | Frequency | Amount | Explanation | Show to students? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly Pay | bi-weekly | $29-$30 | Yes |
Student Training or Experience Needed
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- Effective customer service skills.
- Ability to work with a broad, cross-section of people representative of the Bay Area.
- Ability to demonstrate empathy with a broad, cross-section of people representative of the Bay Area.
- Ability to take initiative and be self-motivated and self-directed.
| Hours | Duration |
|---|---|
| 30 | hours per week |