Policy, Advocacy & Campaigns Fellow - Spring

Overview :

Align Social Impact is seeking a junior or senior undergraduate or graduate student fellow to join the team for the Spring school semester of 2025, beginning in April 2025 and ending late June 2025, as our policy, advocacy and campaigns fellow. The ideal candidate must have strong communication, research and writing skills and a background in campaigns, policy and social impact. Our Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Fellowship programs are designed to mentor and support creative, enthusiastic individuals from diverse backgrounds with a passion for social impact strategy, campaigns, partnerships, communications, and implementation to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic, highly collaborative work environment.

We are looking for energetic, highly motivated individuals with a desire to become best-in-class social impact practitioners with some prior, relevant work or academic experience in the nonprofit, advocacy, policy, philanthropy, campaigns or partnerships space. Applicants should be currently pursuing a degree in a social impact-related field and be Internship / Fellowship eligible. As a fellow, individuals will work on a range of client projects across disciplines and industries, and daily responsibilities may vary based on client and organizational needs.

The Fellowship is 12 weeks, from April to late-June, from July to late September, from October to late-December, and January to late-March, each year. This is a paid opportunity; candidates must be able to commit to 20 hours per week. The internship is hybrid (70% remote, 30% in person) and will take place in New York City, therefore, the selected Fellow must reside within the state of New York.

During the Fellowship, duties and responsibilities of the Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns Fellow may include :

• Supporting campaign research coordination efforts, including conducting issue area research, producing issue or action brief drafts, capturing call notes.
• Supporting advocacy and campaign project management and coordination, including managing work plans, team and client databases.
• Participating in and preparing for social impact campaign and program design strategy sessions by developing agendas, session materials, research, surveys and interviews.
• Supporting agency, campaign and client internal and external communication efforts across platforms to increase reach, engagement, visibility and surround sound.
• Developing scalable tools and templates for clients and community leaders to use to support Align-led campaigns, programs or initiatives.
• Support Align Social Impact in its own social impact priorities, programs and standard implementation efforts.
• Track emerging trends, issues and themes in the social impact, CSR and ESG sector.
• Support the development of impact policies, procedures, partnerships and infrastructure for Align's clients.

Our ideal candidate is a motivated, curious, self-starter with a bias for action, a knack for combining creativity, strategy and implementation into projects, and a desire to learn from an outstanding collective of social impact leaders, clients and partners.

Desired skills for this role include :

Align Social Impact is an Align Communications & Creative LLC Company and an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We do not discriminate, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs. Align will not tolerate discrimination in employment, employment-related decisions, or business dealings on the basis of race, color, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status.

About Align Social Impact :

With more than two decades of experience in the social impact sector, our expert team of diverse leaders works at the intersection of research, communications, culture, philanthropy and social change. On a mission to drive community, business and social outcomes through communications and storytelling, advocacy campaigns, systems improvement and transformational partnerships, Align Social Impact is a women-owned business with offices in New York City and Amsterdam. Tailored to support brands, nonprofits, foundations and talent, our firm’s core service offerings fall into five distinct but interconnected pillars : Philanthropy & Partnerships; Impact Strategy & Organizational Development; Policy, Advocacy & Campaigns; and Communications, Thought Leadership & Events. We’re honored to work with some of the world’s most inspiring and influential organizations and individuals to accelerate impact in ways that can be felt and measured in support of our shared vision of a just, inclusive and vibrant world where people, planet and culture thrive.

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