Who We Are: The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) seeks to protect, preserve, and enhance Massachusetts' environmental resources and create a clean energy future for all residents. Through the stewardship of open spaces, the protection of environmental resources, and the advancement of clean energy, EEA works tirelessly to make Massachusetts a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family. ??Our commitment to environmental justice ensures that every resident, regardless of background or location, can live in a safe, clean environment and shares equally in the benefits of the clean energy transition. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) is the state agency responsible for ensuring clean air, land, and water. Our work impacts every aspect of people's lives and is critical to the health and wellbeing of our residents and visitors. MassDEP is the lead agency for safe management of toxics and hazardous materials, promotion of waste reduction and recycling, preservation of the state's wetlands and coastal resources, air quality monitoring and pollution reduction, and so much more. Who We Are as an Employer: At EEA, we create meaningful, inclusive opportunities that empower our employees to make a real difference in shaping the environmental future of Massachusetts. We foster a workplace culture where diversity is valued, innovation is encouraged, and collaboration thrives. Our employees play a vital role in advancing sustainability, environmental justice, and clean energy solutions, ensuring a positive and lasting impact on Massachusetts and its residents. Job Description: The MassDEP Web Team seeks a motivated undergraduate student looking to make a tangible difference in how the public accesses and engages with the agency's critical environmental data and information. Our team oversees MassDEP's online presence and works to ensure that visitors can easily find, understand, and use the resources available on our website. For the core of this summer/fall internship, you will focus on analyzing and transforming a set of highly used downloadable environmental forms into fully transactional and accessible online equivalents. This project will improve the public's access and user experience when submitting complex environmental information, will enhance data quality through advanced field level validations, and will advance efficiency by capturing core environmental data electronically and by reducing staff time and effort required for updating forms for federal accessibility requirements. In addition, you will develop a library of easy to use and accessible content templates and educational resources for agency-wide use and will work directly, as requested, with environmental professionals on their environmental outreach and education efforts via the MassDEP Website. Through this internship, you will gain experience working with environmental professionals and data, get trained on digital accessibility, and develop technical expertise in an online forms engine and in business requirements gathering and analysis. You will actively contribute to improving the public's interactions on our web site and help transform high priority content into more accessible, usable, and effective products. Job Duties: Work with program staff and the Web team to gather and analyze core environmental and regulatory requirements for a set of existing downloadable forms. Design an equivalent set of online transactional forms in Gravity that capture these core requirements and that leverage conditional logic and validation rules to improve data quality and to deliver a user-friendly and accessible UI. Conduct QA and testing protocols to demonstrate correspondence of online versions with the existing forms, to validate data capture and field level rules, and to develop routing and workflow process consistent with program requirements. Design accessible and user-friendly templates and educational resources in accordance with MassDEP standards. Other duties as assigned. Preferred Qualifications: Familiarity with, or interest in learning, accessibility best practices and standards to create inclusive digital tools for users of all abilities. Familiarity with, or interest in, environmental data and requirements, user analytics, online form platforms, and/or web design and information architecture. Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with strong organizational abilities. Basic knowledge of, or interest in, web development, online form builders, UX/UI design, and creating accessible, user-friendly digital tools to support environmental programs. Experience with Microsoft Office and Adobe tools (Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, or Illustrator) is a plus. This internship is unpaid and designed to support students or recent graduates seeking practical experience in the field. Interns may be eligible to earn academic credit through their college or university. Position Information: Contracted Student Intern: Enterprise and Information Office - Website Team Intern Start/End Date: 6/15/2026 - 10/16/2026 Weekly Hours: 22.5 hours Number of Openings: 1 position A cover letter and resume must be submitted as part of the application process and attached "as relevant" to the requisition. Qualifications - External First consideration will be given to those applicants that apply within the first 14 days. Minimum Requirements: NONE Please see the Preferred Qualifications above. Comprehensive Benefits When you embark on a career with the Commonwealth, you are offered an outstanding suite of employee benefits that add to the overall value of your compensation package. We take pride in providing a work experience that supports you, your loved ones, and your future. Want the specifics? Explore our Employee Benefits and Rewards! An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Females, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. The Commonwealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. Research suggests that qualified women, Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color (BIPOC) may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage individuals who believe they have the skills necessary to thrive to apply for this role. Job: ContractorOrganization: Department of Environmental Protection Title: Enterprise and Information Office - Website Team Intern - UNPAID Location: Massachusetts-Boston-100 Cambridge Street Requisition ID: 2600037L
