Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Southern Environmental Law Center
The Human Resources and Finance Assistant primarily supports HR operations while completing recurring finance-related administrative work. Responsibilities include benefits and payroll support, onboarding and offboarding, HRIS recordkeeping, compliance tracking, invoice processing, meeting coordination, document management, and year-end administrative tasks.
Movement Voter Project
The Assistant to Program Leadership provides core administrative support to two senior program leaders, including complex calendar management, inbox triage, travel logistics, expenses, and meeting preparation. The role also takes notes, tracks follow-ups, maintains shared information systems, supports team projects and events, and synthesizes program updates for leadership.
Planned Parenthood of Delaware
The Patient and Community Navigator proactively contacts patients due or overdue for preventive and essential reproductive health services, coordinates appointments, and resolves access barriers such as transportation, financial concerns, language access, and childcare. The navigator documents patient interactions and outcomes, provides financial and care-process education, coordinates referrals and warm handoffs, and uses navigation data to improve access and patient experience. The role also convenes county-level advisory groups and develops partnerships with community-based organizations.
Rise
The Advisor manages routine fellow questions and support needs related to education, funding, benefits, and wellbeing, escalating complex or safeguarding matters under established procedures. They administer higher-education funding workflows, maintain Airtable records, coordinate with schools and vendors, and help deliver communications and global events.
Democratic Socialists of America
This coordinator will organize national membership and dues drives in collaboration with development staff, regional organizers, chapters, and member committees. They will handle member requests through Zendesk, maintain membership records, analyze trends, support fundraising and outreach activities, and provide event and administrative support.
Murmuration
The Partnership Success Manager serves as the primary contact for a portfolio of partners using the organization’s Organizer platform and broader services. Responsibilities include onboarding, troubleshooting, facilitating partner trainings and recurring meetings, coordinating internal support teams, collecting feedback, and developing documentation and best practices.
YMCA of the USA
The Specialist manages a queue of technical support requests from staff, students, and volunteers using self-service systems. They troubleshoot access and application issues, process manual system transactions, document defects, and collaborate with IT on testing, updates, and user training.
SSP International, Inc.
The Programs Administrator supports student application and enrollment workflows, including processing applications, tracking documents, responding to inquiries, and generating status reports. The role also maintains post-program records, processes alumni recommendation-letter requests, supports mentor and mentee communications, and helps with alumni initiatives.
Penta Group
The coordinator will build, launch, monitor, and optimize paid campaigns across Google, YouTube, LinkedIn, Meta, X, programmatic platforms, and direct publisher partnerships. They will conduct campaign QA, manage pacing and budgets, troubleshoot delivery and tracking problems, analyze performance data, and prepare recurring internal and client-facing reports. The role also maintains campaign documentation and coordinates with internal teams, platform partners, and external media vendors.
Alliance for Children's Rights
The Legal Assistant supports the Education Program Director and attorneys serving young people facing barriers in general and special education systems. Responsibilities include interviewing clients, maintaining files, gathering medical and education records, translating for Spanish-speaking clients, scheduling education-plan meetings, and handling data entry and correspondence.
The Aspen Institute
The coordinator provides administrative and operational support across the team, including executive calendar management, travel arrangements, expense reports, invoices, vendor setup, donor communications, and team records. The role also maintains shared tools and supplies, updates CRM and project-tracking systems, and supports logistics for local, office-based, and virtual events.
Clean Water Action
Grassroots Organizers conduct field canvassing to educate community members, raise funds, and mobilize support for the organization's environmental policy priorities. They communicate with the public about clean-water affordability, climate action, toxic chemicals, and related public-health and accountability issues.
Clean Water Action
The Field Manager will initially conduct canvassing, educate community members about campaigns, collect petitions and constituent letters, and raise funds. As they advance, they will train new activists, motivate teams of five or more, manage team logistics, track canvass and budget performance, and help teams meet campaign goals.
Global Refuge
The RCMA Program Coordinator oversees the delivery of cash and medical assistance services, including participant eligibility, enrollment, recertification, case documentation, quality assurance, and required reporting. They supervise staff, support complex client situations, coordinate referrals and employment-focused services, manage community partnerships, and ensure compliance with federal, state, and organizational standards.
Four Friends Foundation
The Program Associate serves as a liaison to grantees, applicants, vendors, and philanthropic peers while supporting the full grantmaking cycle. Responsibilities include records and CRM management, research, meeting preparation, event logistics, reporting, workflow improvement, administrative coordination, and communications support.
Panorama Global
The coordinator supports day-to-day grants and contracts administration, including due diligence, drafting standard agreements, reviewing vendor and funding documents, and tracking restricted-grant requirements. They maintain accurate records, support approval workflows and post-award administration, and respond to routine questions while escalating complex compliance issues.
Milken Institute
This hybrid Washington, DC-based Associate supports the programmatic fundraising team across prospect research, donor stewardship, proposal development, relationship communications, and revenue-pipeline tracking. The Associate maintains Salesforce and project-tracking data, coordinates meetings and event logistics, and partners with program leads to advance philanthropic funding and engagement opportunities.
Swing Left and Vote Forward
The Field Manager will support a Texas randomized controlled trial evaluating two voter-contact scripts. They will train and coach volunteers, run in-person and virtual canvass debriefs, review incoming canvassing data, and provide troubleshooting support. The role also manages treatment/control logistics, coordinates daily with partners, and escalates threats to randomization or study fidelity.
Swing Left and Vote Forward
The organizer will build local volunteer capacity for a people-powered voter-contact program, including hosting and supporting canvasses, phone banks, trainings, and community events. They will recruit and coach volunteers, maintain volunteer relationships, confirm event participation, and provide real-time support to volunteer hosts. The role also includes event logistics and maintaining accurate records in internal organizing and communication tools.
United Way of Central Florida, Inc.
The coordinator provides administrative, operational, and program support for early childhood and family services at a resource center. Responsibilities include welcoming families, scheduling classes and events, maintaining records and databases, coordinating supplies and meetings, supporting the lending library, and assisting with outreach or class facilitation.
Sundance Institute
This full-time hybrid IT support role resolves end-user help-desk requests, administers software and user access, and configures employee hardware. The Coordinator maintains IT inventory, provides employee technology orientations, and travels to Festival and event sites for onsite technical support.
Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities
The Education Associate supports the delivery of classes, workshops, camps, school field trips, outreach workshops, and youth theatre programming. Responsibilities include managing registration data, coordinating instructors and participants, preparing supplies and studios, training volunteers, addressing daily camp logistics, and occasionally serving as a backup instructor.
Center for AI Safety (CAIS)
This full-time, onsite Operations Associate role supports core office, systems, and people-operations workflows. Responsibilities include triaging internal requests, maintaining documentation, coordinating onboarding and events, supporting access provisioning and inventories, and handling office logistics such as supplies, catering, visitors, and facilities coordination.
The Menil Collection
This role is the main administrative contact for a curatorial department, directly supporting its Chief Curator while managing office workflows, scheduling, correspondence, finances, and departmental records. The position also coordinates fellowship administration, committee and board materials, exhibition logistics, collection access, and public programs.