HRC Membership & Community Events Internship
The Membership & Community Events Intern will work with staff and HRC leadership to broaden HRC’s outreach and visibility, and build our grassroots membership basis. This Intern will play an integral part in coordinating and fulfilling membership requests that come from our gift membership program, our in honor of donation program and our house party program. Other duties will include administrative support the community events and pride programs.
Responsibilities
The Membership & Community Events Intern will have important responsibilities from the beginning of their internship, as well as miscellaneous assignments as they are needed.
- Preparing & mailing Gift Membership & In Honor of Donation requests
- Provide administrative support to all Membership & Community Events staff
- Assist in pride database management and coordination of HRC’s presence at 85 + pride events
- Shipment of materials to organizations and volunteers
- Assisting department in planning and execution of community events when needed
- Enhancing HRC’s Campus membership program
Qualifications
- Professional & responsible manner
- Willingness to learn the details of membership recruitment in a non-profit setting
- Basic proficiency in or willingness to work with Microsoft Word, Excel and Access with the ability to become adept at the use of these and other computer programs
- Demonstrated interest in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues
Outcomes
- Intern will gain transferable database management skills
- Intern will work and gain experience working with many dedicated, high-level volunteers throthroughout the country
- Intern may have the opportunity to lobby on Capital Hill on behalf of LGBT issues such as the passpassage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and Hate Crimes legislation
- Intern will gain knowledge of HRC’s role in modern LGBT rights movement
Other:
- This is an unpaid internship. 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, http://www.hrc.org/intern.
- For any other questions, email intern@hrc.org.
- No phone calls, please.
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