ADM: Summer Intern/Tour Guide (S9956X)

Summary

The Summer Admission Intern position is a full time, on-campus summer internship. Summer interns work as a tight-knit team, and are an integral component to the Office of Admission during this peak season for prospective students to explore Bates, in-person and virtually. If you are a student who desires to learn more about admission, outreach, access, and recruitment at Bates, this is the ideal opportunity for you!

Interns’ primary responsibility is leading on-campus tours twice a day, thereby providing prospective students and their families with the unique student perspective to academic and extracurricular offerings and opportunities, and campus life broadly. They will also connect with prospective families through in-person and virtual information sessions, social media platforms, student panels, and email correspondence. This position requires enormous flexibility, responsibility, creativity, collaboration and a willingness to work not only on short-term projects, but on longer-term independent projects. We strongly encourage students of all backgrounds, faiths, lived experiences, academic areas, graduation years, and cultures to apply.

Basics

  • Department: Admission
  • Supervisor: Sadie New
  • Office Location: Lindholm House
  • Email: snew@bates.edu
  • Hours: 35-40
  • Workers: 10

Responsibilities

– Provide enthusiastic, thoughtful, thorough, and down-to-earth tours to visiting prospective and/or admitted students, special guests/groups, and families.
– Staff specialized in-person Open House programming, involving (but not limited to involving) speaking on panels, connecting with guests more closely, and/or working with staff members and faculty from all around campus to welcome guests to campus.
– Lead virtual programming to help students from all around the world gain a better understanding of Bates.
– Coordinate and carry out weekend programming.
– Handle correspondences with prospective students over email, phone, and/or Zoom.
– Attend trainings, re-trainings, community-building, and professional development sessions throughout the summer.
– Assist staff members in the office with critical special project work (i.e. social media, event planning, access work, operations).
– Co-lead conversational and thoughtfully crafted information sessions with staff members throughout the office, for prospective students.
– Work at the reception desk on an as needed basis to check in and welcome guests.
– Assist with other duties as assigned by Admission staff members.

Requirements

Summer Interns will start on June 8th and will run through August 28th. If those dates are unmanageable for you, please still consider submitting an application and be in touch with Sadie New (snew@bates.edu) throughout the application process to work through your individual circumstances. A secondary start date/end date can potentially be provided on a 1-1 basis.

Successful applicants will be enthusiastic, organized, effective communicators, responsible, excited to learn, and detail-oriented.

This position is open to all class years. Training will be completed on campus in the Spring/Winter semester 2026, though training can occur at the beginning of the summer if you are abroad Winter 2026. No prior experience in the Admission Office is required, though prior experience is welcomed.

Reporting

his position in its entirety reports to Students in Admission (SIA) Supervisor, Sadie New, Admission Counselor. Please contact snew@bates.edu with any questions.

Working Conditions

This is a full-time position with in-person and occasional virtual responsibilities. Summer Interns will be in-person Monday through Friday from 8:30am-4:30pm, with a one hour lunch break. Summer Interns will also take part in occasional evening and weekend programming, in which case normal day hours will be adjusted to ensure they are able to stay under 40 working hours. Summer Interns will be allowed seven unpaid vacation days to use throughout the summer, and those dates will be submitted at the beginning of the internship.

Applicants must be prepared to give tours in potentially carrying weather conditions for roughly an hour.

*To assist with the feasibility of accepting this position, the Admission Office will financially cover lunch for all Summer Interns throughout the extent of their time working in the office over the summer.