While HRC is primarily regarded as a political organization, we offer internships in nearly all of our departments and programs, every one of which will provide you with training that can help start your career in the non-profit world. Please review the following available departments & teams before you submit our general application.
We strongly encourage people of color, transgender, and non-binary people to apply. HRC is an equal-opportunity employer and welcomes everyone, including non-LGBTQ+ people, to join our team.
Our Policy & Government teams are the most competitive and most requested internship placements. We recommend applicants consider some of our Fundraising & Events teams.
The Government Affairs team is a team of dedicated public policy advocates who lobby US Congress and the Administration to promote pro-LGBTQ+ federal legislation both domestically and abroad. The GA team tracks legislation, monitors Congressional hearings and coalition meetings, and runs events focused around Capitol Hill and other partnerships. They also prepare the Congressional Scorecard, which ranks members of Congress based on their record of passing Equality legislation. We look for interns who have:
HRC’s Legal Department represents the organization on cutting-edge
issues before all three branches of the federal government, state and
local governments, as well as before our membership and the media. The
Department specializes in legislative lawyering at both the federal and
state levels and provides critical assistance to LGBTQ groups and allied
legislators in pursuing positive legislative developments and defeating
legislative attempts to deny full equality to the LGBTQ community. The
Department monitors and seeks opportunities to engage in ongoing
litigation to advance non-discrimination in the courts and push back
against the expansion of religious refusal bills. Legal Interns are
integral parts of these teams, which are comprised of attorneys, program
managers, and law fellows. The Legal Policy intern will:
The Policy and Political Affairs team at the Human Rights Campaign spearheads the organization’s political efforts and ensures a pro-LGBTQ+ majority in all levels of government across the country. Our department is also responsible for cross-collaboration between the wider HRC departments, coalition building with movement partners, and the strategic thinkers that ensure collaborative work between our Government Affairs, Legal Policy, and Campaigns & Organizing Team. We look for interns who have:
HRC's Digital Communications team manages a wide variety of HRC's online properties, including www.HRC.org, associated microsites, and social media platforms. The Digital Marketing internship is an opportunity to gain valuable digital marketing experience and learn more about HRC’s award-winning digital and social media strategy. Some of the ongoing tasks for this internship include drafting language for various social platforms and scheduling content; researching LGBTQ-related trending topics; and assisting in the ideation and implementation of long-term social media campaigns. The Digital Marketing team is responsible for:
HRC’s award-winning Video team illustrates the fight for lived and
legal equality. We support the political, programmatic, and membership
work of the organization, and convey the emotional weight of the
struggle to the rest of the world. Our team:
We look for interns who can:
The heart of the Human Rights Campaign is its membership — over 3 million members and supporters strong. They make our critical work for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer equality possible. The Membership Team engages with members and supporters in a number of ways to advocate for equity, fairness, visibility and representation for LGBTQ+ people and to raise funds to fuel our mission. It is responsible for the following:
The Communities & Volunteer Relations (CVR) at HRC helps to achieve LGBTQ+ equality by keeping HRC strong, funded, and fighting through our management of an impactful volunteer leadership program. We empower the volunteer leaders in 32 steering committees across the country to engage and expand support for our mission locally. The CVR supports the work of our national network of volunteers by:
The HRC Consumer Marketing team oversees all merchandise created on
the online shop, Provincetown store, and other departments. Our online
retail store promotes HRC branded merchandise, brings in new HRC
members, and puts a face on the fight for LGBTQ equality. The Consumer
Marketing Program:
HRC's Major Gifts team is responsible for identifying, recruiting, and stewarding donors who give $5,000 and above annually to the HRC. The Major Gifts program has more than 1,000 members, whose annual pledges help to fund the work of the HRC Foundation, the community and education-focused branch of the Human Rights Campaign. The Major Gifts team works to make sure these committed individuals have a strong and lasting relationship with the HRC. In addition, Major Gifts members enjoy special benefits, such as complimentary tickets to dinners, as a result of their membership. The intern on this team primarily interacts with the Major Gifts team but will also get experience with various projects tied to HRC’s Planned Giving and Foundation Relations teams. Major Gifts is pivotal to the work of HRC Foundation and gives us the ability to focus on lasting relationships with some of our biggest contributors.
HRC’s Federal Club is an industry leader when it comes to mid-level
giving programs within non-profit organizations. Our generous donors
provide the resources that help fuel HRC’s nationwide legislative and
advocacy work. The Federal Club program:
HRC's Online Strategy team helps our community make history for LGBTQ+ equality through the development and execution of online advocacy and fundraising campaigns via email, paid social recruitment and text messaging. Our Digital Organizing, Advocacy, and Fundraising Intern will gain valuable hands-on experience in digital communications and have a direct and lasting impact on our movement for LGBTQ+ equality. Some of the intern’s ongoing tasks will be the daily development of email communications and related engagement collateral, analysis, and reporting for HRC’s various national and local online campaigns; troubleshooting HTML coding for HRC email communications and other online strategy projects. The Digital Organizing, Advocacy, and Fundraising Intern should:
Strategic Outreach & Engagement plays an important role in supporting the Human Rights Campaign by fostering community connections within and outside of HRC’s constituencies. This team is responsible for expanding HRC’s outreach to partner organizations, cultivating and empowering volunteer-led steering committees, and supporting the growth and development of HRC’s Board of Governors and Board of Directors.
This position works closely with HRC’s Affinity Groups: AANHPI & Proud, B.L.A.C.K Council, HRSi, and Women LEAD. HRC's Affinity Groups are working committees of HRC volunteer leaders, members, and staff who help expand the reach and benefits of HRC's work by involving more people in these affinity groups to engage with the organization. The purpose of gathering in these different affinity groups is not to encourage separation, but rather to create safe and brave spaces where people can express their fears, pain, hopes and innovations. They center the Affinity Groups' identities while celebrating the positive gifts of ancestry, ethnicity, legacy, and history.
Since 2007, ACAF has been dedicated to resource development,
technical assistance, and training on LGBTQ+ inclusion for child welfare
systems around the country. The program provides professional
development to child welfare case workers, supervisors, and
administrators. ACAF:
The Transgender Justice Initiative (TJI)
is dedicated to justice for the transgender community and is focused on
four pillars that will seek to transform the systemic discrimination
faced by transgender people. TJI has several capacity-building programs,
which seek to advance the leadership of marginalized transgender
people, economic programs focused on providing grants for different
needs, as well as live talks focused on the experience of being
transgender.
The TJI Four Pillars are:
HRC’s Data and Analytics team ensures that all data, reporting, and analytical needs of the organization are being met. Our investments in data infrastructure in recent years have created a sophisticated and complex data ecosystem, which is the largest in the LGBTQ+ movement. We are looking for an intern with advanced Excel skills to help with electoral efforts and data reporting.
More broadly, the Data and Analytics Team:
HRC’s Leadership Development department supports staff and intern effectiveness by providing high-quality education and learning programs to empower and encourage professional growth, to ensure consistent understanding of and adherence to HRC’s mission, policies, and procedures, and to increase effectiveness across the organization. We do this by providing comprehensive orientation and onboarding, management training, professional development opportunities, and other trainings through in-person, virtual, and e-learning courses. The Leadership Development intern will:
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