Communications Intern, Spring/Summer 2021
Does your school ask you to complete an internship for credit?
We’d love to help you build your resume and sharpen your skills while supporting a cause you love: building consent culture.
We are currently seeking a Communications Intern for Spring and/or Summer 2021. Timeline and hours per week are flexible. We want this experience to be as much about your growth as it is about ours!
Depending on skills, abilities, and time they are able to commit, the intern may...
Produce blog content for Speak About It website, including but not limited to: Follow up posts for #hotgoss, Changemaker profiles, and SAI news updates.
Media, publication, and marketing research, which may include...
Finding share-able media articles, graphics, and other resources to supplement day-to-day social media plan.
Supporting research/citations for HotGoss, CyberSex Ed, web resource pages, and other programs.
Cultivating more extensive list of national writers/journalists and contact information.
School contact research to expand marketing reach.
Scouring TikTok/other new media for sex ed content, producing ‘State of TikTok Sex Ed report.’
Supplement digital content:
Create or draft Canva graphics about topics in sex and consent education.
Appear in HotGoss and/or supplement video content.
Create other digital content that matches intern interests and communications plan.
Monologue solicitation: Reach out to friends and community to help with generating new monologues for our in-person or digital show.
Optional: Write your own monologue for the show!
Qualifications/Abilities:
Interested interns should have...
Interest/experience in writing, particularly nonfiction/professional writing.
Intern must be able to produce 500-2000 word blog posts in a reasonably timely fashion.
Intern should be willing and able take feedback/edits on their writing and incorporate them into final work.
Intern should have an interest in Consent, Identity, and Sexuality, and have a sense of “the current climate” and dialogue around these issues, particularly in the media, pop culture, and on social media.
Intern should be familiar with and able to use social media platforms, especially Instagram. Graphic design experience and/or TikTok, other content creation, and other new media a plus!
If you’re interested, send an email to catherine@wespeakaboutit.org. Please share a brief statement about why you’re interested in this opportunity, and include a resume or relevant experience, if any. You won’t be judged for lack of experience, that’s what internships are all about, gaining experience.
Please submit a writing sample as well. This can be an essay from class, a really great social media post you wrote, and bumpin’ email you sent to your elected officials, a piece of creative writing, anything that gives us a sense of your style as a writer and your voice.