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.
Sesame Workshop
The Coordinator supports research operations across data science, consumer insights, and content research and evaluation. Day-to-day work includes recruiting research participants, assisting with surveys and data management, coordinating meetings and events, processing contracts and invoices, and preparing polished communications and presentations.
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.
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
The Contract Support Specialist manages service and vendor agreements for a publishing department, including drafting contracts and statements of work, reviewing revisions, tracking exceptions, and monitoring agreements through completion or termination. The position collaborates with Finance, IT, Legal, clients, vendors, and internal teams while supporting invoicing, budget tracking, documentation collection, and contract-process improvements.
Braven
This full-time hybrid role supports workforce-development efforts for Fellows at Northern Illinois University, National Louis University, and Illinois Institute of Technology. Responsibilities include curating internship and job opportunities, managing Salesforce outreach and outcomes data, supporting employment campaigns, and coordinating virtual and in-person Fellow events. The coordinator also provides onsite event support and collaborates with regional leadership across campuses.
Braven
This position manages the day-to-day functioning of the Atlanta office, including facilities, maintenance, cleaning, supplies, vendors, security, and office equipment. It coordinates staff events and training logistics, supports office scheduling and financial reconciliations, and serves as the primary contact for office-related needs.
March of Dimes
The Donor Development Specialist builds and stewards a mid-level donor portfolio, identifies philanthropic interests, and moves donors through a year-round fundraising pipeline. The role also manages a signature market event, recruits and engages volunteers, coordinates logistics and finance processes, and maintains accurate donor records in the CRM.
Independent Sector
The Project Associate manages project plans, workback schedules, meeting logistics, documentation, and status reporting for program initiatives. They coordinate internal teams and external partners, monitor risks and deadlines, and support planning and execution for the National Summit.
United Way of Palm Beach County
The Campaign Processing Specialist enters and validates campaign pledges, payments, grants, event activity, and adjustments in the donor CRM. The role reconciles donor accounts and designation payouts, maintains data quality, prepares reports, and works with finance and other departments to resolve discrepancies and improve processing workflows.
United Way of Palm Beach County
The Volunteer Engagement Specialist recruits and places individual and corporate volunteers with nonprofit partners and community service projects. The role develops volunteer opportunities, manages corporate service experiences, tracks recruitment and volunteer metrics, and supports initiatives such as drives, events, tax-filing assistance, and disaster response. It also handles routine volunteer-team administration and represents the organization at occasional evening and weekend events.
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.
Abortion Forward
This organizer will recruit, train, and support volunteers while developing relationships with elected officials, coalition partners, business owners, and community leaders. Day-to-day work includes facilitating trainings, attending community and legislative events, coordinating canvasses and phone/text banks, tracking engagement data, and helping implement regional field plans.
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.
Center for Employment Opportunities
The Employment Specialist develops local employer partnerships and identifies job opportunities aligned with participants' skills, interests, and career goals. The role manages participant placement caseloads, provides job-search coaching and resume support, tracks outcomes in Salesforce, and works toward monthly placement targets.
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.
Chef Ann Foundation
The coordinator will serve as a primary contact for apprenticeship applicants and participants, guiding selection, onboarding, learning progress, and completion. They will maintain program documentation and Moodle learning materials, translate materials into Spanish, help facilitate virtual and in-person training, track data, and support reporting, stakeholder engagement, and program 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.