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Posted October 18, 2007

Town of Chapel Hill
Department of Housing
Job Description and Proposal for Student Intern (Spring semester)

Description of the Project: The Department of Housing is a public housing agency, which is a Department
within the Town of Chapel Hill.  The Department owns and manages 336 apartment units in 13 scattered
sites throughout Chapel Hill and Carrboro.  The operation, maintenance and capital improvements are federally
financed through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  As a requirement of these
Federal funds, we must be in compliance with the Section 3 provisions of the Housing and Urban Development
of 1968 (12 U.S.C. 1701u) (section 3) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.  The purpose of the
Section 3 provisions is to ensure that employment and other economic opportunities generated by HUD
financial assistance shall, to the greatest extent feasible, be directed to low- and very low-income persons,
particularly those who are recipients of government assistance for housing, and to business concerns which
provide economic opportunities to low- and very low-income persons.  The purpose of the Section 504
regulations is to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability in programs and activities, public and private,
which receive federal financial assistance.

Work Product or Results Expected: We would need a student intern to assist the department in reviewing
the existing Procurement Policy and finalizing the Section 3 contracting policy and procedures for all
procurements generated for use with HUD funding. As a result of this review, the student will assist in
finalizing the Section 3 Plan and aide in implementing the established goals, standards and procedures
to ensure the objective of the Section 3 provisions are met.  Also, the student will assist the department
in reviewing and revising policies, programs and activities to comply with Section 504 regulations.

Special Skills required or Other Qualifications Necessary: Special skills needed are good writing skills
and the ability to understand and interpret Federal regulations and provisions.

Please send a copy of your resume, by October 26, to Carolyn Turner at studentserv@unc.edu

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Posted September 26, 2007

Economic Growth Internship
Public Finance and Economic Growth Group
Research Triangle International

The Public Finance and Economic Growth Group (PFEG) is a division within RTI’s International Development Group.
PFEG provides services to clients in developing countries in a wide range of technical areas, including regional and
local economic development, local government finance, intergovernmental finance, sectoral finance, public sector
management, service delivery, and the use of information to promote accountability.  More information about PFEG,
the International Development Group, and RTI can be found at http://www.rti.org/pubs/idg_finance.pdf and
http://www.rti.org.

The Public Finance and Economic Growth Group is seeking a graduate level intern to work with the PFEG team.
The role of the intern will be to provide substantive support and input into a variety of internal program-development
projects.  These projects will focus on the broad area of economic growth, with a particular emphasis on local
and regional economic development.  These internal projects will include a number of concrete tasks:

• identifying and documenting both indigenously-led and externally-supported best practices in the areas of
  local and regional economic development
• developing a library of key readings on economic growth

as well as several more open-ended research and writing tasks:

• carrying out research on existing and future donor-supported economic growth programs
• carrying out research on countries and regions of particular technical and business interest
• working with PFEG staff to author papers related to economic growth

The precise set of activities and required outputs will be defined in consultation with the intern and may
evolve over the course of the internship.  Some travel to RTI’s offices in Research Triangle Park will be required.

We anticipate a commitment of 10-15 hours per week for the period from mid-September 2007 to mid-May 2008.

For more information, please contact:
Stephen Dunn
Director, Public Finance and Economic Growth
International Development Group
RTI International
email: smdunn@rti.org
tel: +1-919-541-6383