HRC Membership Outreach Internship
The Membership Outreach Intern will work with staff and HRC leadership to broaden HRC’s outreach and visibility, and build our grassroots membership basis. This person will play an integral part in coordinating and fulfilling membership requests that come from our gift membership program, our in honor of donation program and our house party program. Other duties will include updating and guaranteeing the accuracy of HRC’s membership database. The Membership Outreach Intern will work very closely with the Pride & Community Events Intern, as they are both housed under the Membership & Community Events team within the Development Department at HRC.
Responsibilities
The Membership Outreach Intern will have important responsibilities from the beginning of their internship, as well as miscellaneous assignments as they are needed.
- Preparing & mailing Gift Membership & In Honor of Donation requests
- Maintaining the membership database
- Shipment of materials to organizations and volunteers
- Assisting department in planning and execution of pride events when needed
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Professional & responsible manner
- Willingness to learn the details of membership recruitment in a non-profit setting
- Basic proficiency in or willingness to work with Microsoft Word, Excel and Access with the ability to become adept at the use of these and other computer programs
- Demonstrated interest in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues
Outcomes
- Intern will obtain transferable database management skills
- Intern will work and gain experience working with many dedicated, high-level volunteers throughout the country
- Intern will gain knowledge of HRC participation in pride events and parades throughout the country
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, http://www.hrc.org/intern.
- For any other questions, email intern@hrc.org.
- No phone calls, please.
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