Opportunities near Austin, TX

What's myfoco? Myfoco is a start up software company that is building a platform that connects youth who are leaving the foster care system to the resources and people they need. Who are you? You have a creative mind. You enjoy making things look amazing. You hate it when you see crappy designed websites. Most of all you want to use your talents to change the world.

Want a career where you enjoy the fruits of your own hard work? Looking for a business without the risk or capital investment of buying into a franchise? United Social Sports has an opportunity for you to build and manage all aspects of USS operations in several regional markets. This position will be semi-autonomous with the support of the successful DC based team and will be tasked with launching our latest expansion. The City Commissioner will be responsible for managing all aspects of our co-ed social sports leagues and activities for young professionals. This includes all aspects of planning, hiring, budgeting, organization and running of USS events in each regional area. The City Commissioner will benefit from existing USS infrastructure (including our custom-built league management software, equipment distributors, best practices and personal knowledge, accounting support, marketing assistance and experience of the DC based management team). The City Commissioner is encourage to work from home until league operations support the need for a local office. Interested candidates should be willing to travel to DC for hands on training and experience. The City Commissioner will be part of our national team and support all efforts/projects designed to build the infrastructure of United Social Sports and should be excited about building their portion of a larger national brand. The City Commissioner is a person with a strong entrepreneurial desire. In other words, you look at this as a business opportunity to grow into your own business full-time (rather than a part-time job for quick cash).

About The Texas Observer The Texas Observer is an award winning nonprofit magazine that writes about issues ignored or underreported in the mainstream press. Our goal is to cover stories crucial to the public interest and to provoke dialogue that promotes democratic participation and open government, in pursuit of a vision of Texas where education, justice and material progress are available to all. Visit www.texasobserver.org to learn more.

Jotpress is looking for someone to help us initiate our social media efforts. You must be truly knowledgeable at the inner workings of the social web. With your creativity and resourcefulness, you will help grow our user base and traffic. Prefer students on large campuses at national universities (or similar environments) to incubate this application. Work remotely, wherever you can connect online to lead this social media initiative. This internship does not pay a salary, but instead equity in the company. If you're successful, then you'll have created your own position at ground level in a startup.

CsillaWear - downtown Austin boutique with it's own clothing line is seeking for 2 bright and skilled fashion design interns. The design, cut, construction and production of each garment (colorful jersey dresses and tops) is done in the boutique thus creating a very unique business concept. The clothing line was started in 2007 by Csilla in New York City where she had a boutique in Tribeca, Manhattan. Now in Austin Csilla opened a store in a historical building (oldest standing construction built in 1856) on Congress Ave. CsillaWear is really one of the most creative environments a young designer with tenacity and a passion for fashion can hope for. Interested candidates please email to: csilla@csillawear.com

PetRelocation.com, named by the Austin Business Journal one of the "Best Places to Work" and one of the fastest growing privately-owned businesses in Austin, is seeking someone to join our team and help make it even better! No move is too great nor animal too exotic for our team and network of animal movers and caretakers. PetRelocation.com handles everything from paperwork to international quarantine laws, from special health needs to door-to-door pet delivery. Shipments range from military dogs to Afghanistan, horses to Honduras, poison dart frogs to Switzerland, and thousands of mosquitoes to research labs.

The Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee (HDCC) is seeking Fall 2012 interns who desire campaign and fundraising experience. Hours for the position are flexible and will be determined based on the interns schedule. Office hours are 9am-6pm weekdays, with the potential for some late night and weekend work as needed. The Texas HDCC is interested in hiring unpaid interns who can work between 10-20 hours a week.

JHL Company interns play an important role in supporting client teams and on internal projects and events. Interns will have the opportunity to work on a variety of accounts learning the basics of fundraising, event management, stakeholder relations, public affairs, and research.

Rocca Productions is a subsidiary of parent, JHL Company. Rocca is a promotional products company, providing strategic "brand extensions" to our clients with exceptional customer service. We do the product searching and comparing for our clients based on the qualities that are important to them and their brands. Rocca interns are integral to the success of Rocca Productions, and thus provide interns with the opportunity to gain valuable experience that they can carry into their future careers. Interns will be exposed to a variety of different clients and projects related to promotional merchandising, innovative branding, and strategic relationship building.

JHL Company interns play an important role in supporting client teams and on internal projects and events. Interns will have the opportunity to work on a variety of accounts learning the basics of fundraising, event management, stakeholder relations, public affairs, and research.