Career Corner | West Virginia Offers Year-Long Impact Fellowships with Host Companies

Generation West Virginia, an organization dedicated to attracting and retaining young talent in West Virginia, offers an Impact Fellowship for graduating students or alumni.

“We’re looking for passionate and innovative leaders to work, live and give in West Virginia through yearlong, paid fellowships at some of the Mountain State’s most innovative companies,” says Bill Kuhn, Generation West Virginia program director. “During the course of the year, Impact Fellows work 32 hours a week at one of our participating host companies and spend each Friday dedicating their passion and skills to projects in partnership with local nonprofits.”

Specific job descriptions are:

•   Human Resources Coordinator at Quality Insights Inc. | See detailed job description.
•   Communications Coordinator at EntreEd | See detailed job description.
• Digital Content Managerat Mylan | See detailed job description.
•    Senior Chemist Quality Technical Services at Mylan | See detailed job description.
• MarketingAssistant at Thrasher Group | See detailed job description.
• Developer at Core10 | See detailed job description. 
• Quality Assurance Engineer at Core10 | See detailed job description.
• Software Development Instructorat Core10 | See detailed job description.
• Data Center Operations Analystat Alpha Technologies | See detailed job description.
• Information Systems Security Analystat Alpha Technologies | See detailed job description.
• Business Analystat PracticeLink | See detailed job description.
•   Local Food Facilitator at Buzz Food Service | See detailed job description.
•   Architectural Designer or Graphic Media Arts Designer at the Mill Group | See detailed job description.
•   Operations Analyst at Highland Hospital | See detailed job description.
•   Impact Fellow (Banking/Business) at WesBanco | See detailed job description.

Apply at weimpactwv.org by March 18. Phase 1 takes less than 15 minutes to complete. This part of the application consists of a brief written application, a 60-word pitch on why you want to be an Impact WV Fellow, and your ranking of Impact WV Fellowship positions.