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Online Strategy and Membership Internship

HRC Online Strategy team manages a wide variety of ways to engage online constituents, including HRC’s Facebook and Twitter presences, online advocacy and fundraising modules, email communications and text messaging.

The online strategy internship is an opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience with the wide breadth of mediums in which HRC and engages with our over a million members and supporters.  The Online Strategy Intern must have an established familiarity and interest in the latest technological aspects of social networking, email communications, and html coding. Some of the intern’s ongoing tasks will be daily development of email communications and related engagement collateral, social media profile posting and engagement with constituents; analysis and reporting for HRC’s various national and local online campaigns.

In addition to these responsibilities, the Online Strategy Intern will also provide help as need to HRC’s Member Services Team. The Member Services Team works closely with the Online Strategy Team to responds to various correspondences from HRC’s members and supporters.
 

Responsibilities:

  • Develop HTML coding for HRC email communications and other online strategy projects
  • Assist in maintenance of Facebook and Twitter campaigns
  • Assist with editing and producing graphics.
  • Assist in measuring analytics.
  • Organize and map content.
  • Provide administrative support to staff.
  • Assist with making changes to membership accounts
  • Occasionally help respond to supporter questions regarding email communications
     

Qualifications:

  • Some experience with hand-coding HTML beneficial.
  • Experience with Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook
  • Knowledge of social networking platforms, primarily Facebook and Twitter.
  • Demonstrated interest in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.
  • Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
  • Ability to learn quickly.
  • Some experience working with databases
  • Good customer service skills
     

Outcomes:

  • Real world professional online campaign strategy and social media engagement experience.
  • Resume-building experience and references.
  • A wide audience for completed projects.
  • Inside experience with a highly active and professional organization.
     

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.
  • For any other questions, email intern@hrc.org.
  • No phone calls, please.