HRC Youth & Campus Outreach Internship
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Youth & Campus Outreach Program provides tools, facilitates connections, and empowers GenEQ to fight for LGBT equality on campus and beyond.
Generation Equality, the current group of high school and college-aged young people, is more supportive of LGBT equality than any other generation in our country’s history. As young people work to attain the goals of the queer community on their campuses, it is our hope that we can help by providing tools and facilitating connections with other LGBT student activists across the country.
For more information, check out www.hrc.org/generationeq.
Responsibilities:
In addition to completing a long-term project related to a topic of interest to you, the Youth & Campus Outreach intern's responsibilities include:
- Monitor and write about news and content of interest to queer young people, including overseeing the production of weekly Queerly Speaking webisodes (www.hrc.org/QueerlySpeaking).
- Create, update and edit online resources that assist LGBT students in making their campuses more inclusive and welcoming of LGBT people.
- Assist the management and growth of our LGBT campus group directory to increase collaboration between students across the country.
- Work with the Coordinator and Associate Director to develop new, innovative initiatives that support, assist and empower queer students.
- Help to represent HRC at local LGBT and progressive youth conferences and events.
- Administrative duties as needed.
Qualifications:
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Please submit a 2-5 page writing sample or excerpt with your application.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
- An interest in using blogs and social networking to engage young people
- Web design and/or multimedia skills are a plus, but not required
- Experience with or desire to learn about youth- and campus-specific LGBT issues
- A strong commitment to HRC’s mission
Outcomes:
Through the Youth & Campus internship experience, the intern can expect to:
- Gain a greater understanding of the issues that queer youth face.
- Correspond with a variety of youth on a breadth of issues, developing strong correspondence skills.
- Learn effective strategies for campus activism and organizing that can also be applied to broader contexts.
- Fine-tune writing skills in both formal and informal contexts.
- Obtain administrative skills that are applicable to entry-level employment and useful in life.
Other:
- This internship is unpaid, but includes an educational and leadership component. School credit is available upon request.
- All of our internships are based out of our offices in Washington, DC. We cannot provide housing for our interns.
- Resume and cover letters must be in Microsoft Word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.
- Please refer questions to our website, www.hrc.org/intern.
- For any other questions, email campus@hrc.org.
- No phone calls, please.
*PDFs require Adobe Acrobat. Download and install free Adobe Acrobat Reader