Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
ERS
The Analyst Consultant works in small consulting teams to help K-12 districts and state agencies redesign how they allocate people, time, and funding. Responsibilities include conducting descriptive data analysis and research, breaking down ambiguous questions, managing defined workstreams, developing evidence-based recommendations, and supporting team culture initiatives.
Pursuit
The Career Coach owns job-placement outcomes for program participants, coaching them through career exploration, networking, applications, interviewing, negotiation, and offer acceptance. The role delivers one-on-one and group coaching, monitors job-search pipelines, partners with the jobs team on hiring opportunities, and helps participants build employer-ready AI project portfolios.
Pursuit
This associate owns execution of the recruitment funnel, tracking applicant volume and conversion to meet enrollment goals. They lead information sessions and workshops, coordinate event logistics, and provide timely, personalized outreach across email, text, and social channels. The role also identifies and implements AI-enabled improvements to admissions workflows.
Pursuit
This role owns execution of top-of-funnel applicant generation for workforce training programs. The associate develops and evaluates community partnerships, oversees paid and referral channels, maintains lead-performance dashboards, and tests outreach approaches to increase qualified applicants.
Transgender Law Center
The National Organizer leads organizing and campaign efforts, including support for the Positively Trans+ program, ballot-measure work, and advocacy addressing HIV criminalization and anti-trans legislation. They build partnerships, facilitate national trainings and regional convenings, develop leadership cohorts and curriculum, and manage program communications and deliverables.
Milken Institute
The Associate maintains accurate account records and reports in Salesforce, performs data-quality checks, and supports departmental data-management operations. They will draft business letters and contracts, update workflow documentation, and collaborate with development, events, finance, and IT teams.
iMentor
The Program Manager supports 80–100 high school mentee-mentor pairs through matching, coaching, case management, data review, and regular communication. They facilitate multiple weekly classroom sessions, organize monthly events and mentor trainings, and collaborate with partner-school staff to advance students' postsecondary goals. The role is school-based and also includes documentation, attendance tracking, safety compliance, and regional team meetings.
Hanover Research
This role builds a pipeline of prospective K–12 and higher-education clients through research, tailored outreach messaging, calls, and emails. The associate maintains a sales territory, coordinates meetings with senior leaders, and supports a Development Director’s business-development goals in a metrics-driven environment.
Food & Water Watch
This temporary full-time role directs a canvass operation in the Lehigh Valley focused on educating residents about proposed data centers. The director recruits and trains canvassers, assigns turf through VAN, monitors performance and data quality, coordinates payroll and transportation logistics, and completes at least one canvassing shift per week.
Save the Children
The Senior Associate supports federal domestic policy and advocacy priorities related to education, child care, nutrition, rural development, and children’s well-being. The role researches and analyzes policy, monitors congressional and administration activity, prepares advocacy materials, and helps coordinate coalition engagement. It also provides administrative and logistical support for policy events, reporting, procurement, intern projects, and coalition operations.
Children’s Aid
The Prevention Facilitator delivers evidence-based prevention groups, social-emotional learning, and college and career readiness programming in school and community settings. The role provides individualized mentoring, referrals, interventions, and crisis support to at-risk youth while coordinating with families, schools, and community partners.
Posse Bay Area
The Career Program Specialist designs and facilitates career-enhancing workshops and events for Scholars and alumni. The role cultivates career partnerships with the Director and development staff, while connecting participants to internships, job-search support, skills-building resources, and career guidance.
Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)
The Education Specialist supports youth enrolled in summer employment and school-based work-readiness programs. The role facilitates trainings and workshops, coordinates with worksites and industry partners, matches and monitors participants, and manages data, surveys, files, and other program compliance tasks.
Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania
This position runs a long-term peer education and mentoring program for middle and high school students. The specialist teaches lessons on relationships, consent, contraception, STI prevention, and related topics; supports youth leadership activities; and participates in community education events.
Mountain State Spotlight
The reporter will lead coverage of the forces shaping West Virginia’s economy, including public investments, tax incentives, job-creation promises, government agencies, and legislative decisions. They will investigate who benefits from economic-development policies, report from affected communities, and hold public officials and companies accountable through enterprise and investigative journalism.
Black Farmer Fund
Reporting to the Senior Communications Manager, this full-time associate supports the organization’s communications strategy through social media content, digital campaigns, website updates, and audience engagement. The associate manages the communications calendar, analyzes campaign performance, produces current-events research, creates multimedia materials, and coordinates with internal teams on content strategy for public-facing projects and events.
Trust for Public Land
The Project Associate supports the Colorado and Southwest land-protection program, primarily advancing land acquisition and conservation projects in New Mexico. Responsibilities include project research, landowner and community outreach, coordination with government and nonprofit partners, real-estate due diligence, grant support, presentations, reporting, and administrative tasks. The position includes statewide field travel and occasional evening or weekend work.
Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)
The Program Coordinator supports a DYCD-funded after-school program at a Brooklyn high school. They provide student guidance, counseling, case management, workshops, and referrals while maintaining attendance, progress, and outcome records. The coordinator also recruits participants, arranges speakers and trips, supports tutoring, and develops relationships with worksites and industry partners.
Vital Strategies
The Associate administers global travel operations and duty-of-care processes, including travel requests, approvals, documentation, itinerary tracking, travel-data reporting, and occasional after-hours support during major group travel. The role also reconciles travel-card and vendor accounts, processes invoices and payments, coordinates with vendors and internal teams, and supports operational process improvements.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Communications & Digital Associate will manage media monitoring and daily news clips while drafting social posts, newsletters, press releases, advisories, statements, and event materials. The role also supports rapid response, press logistics, internal communications, graphics production, and media events.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
This role manages mid-level and major-donor relationships, including cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, acknowledgments, and pledge follow-up. It plans fundraising events, staffs call time for party leadership, supports national fundraising and digital appeals, and helps coordinate associate-level staff workflows.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Constituency Organizer develops coalition-engagement strategies that expand voter outreach, volunteer recruitment, and community visibility in an assigned organizing turf. Day-to-day work includes relationship-building with community leaders and advocacy groups, direct voter contact through canvassing and phonebanking, volunteer management, and staffing community events.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Volunteer Coordinator will build and manage a campaign volunteer program, including recruitment, onboarding, trainings, shift scheduling, follow-up, and recognition. They will staff canvasses, phone banks, text banks, and events; maintain volunteer records in campaign databases; and cultivate volunteer leaders while reporting recruitment and retention metrics.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
Campus Organizers will lead young-voter registration, voting-plan, follow-up, and get-out-the-vote efforts at colleges in their assigned Pennsylvania turf. They will recruit and train student volunteers, run outreach activities such as tabling, canvassing, text banking, and events, and develop students into ongoing campaign leaders.