Digital Communications Intern

Responsibilities

• Work with the Politics and Advocacy Communications team to craft social media messaging around key issue areas, with emphasis on rapid response.
• Research Slack communities and Discord channels in the environmental, political, and cultural spheres whose purposes align with the mission of EDF Action’s social media pages, with opportunities to conduct outreach.
• Support collaboration with Congressional offices on communications campaigns.
• Contribute to developing static and video social media posts and captions for EDF Action’s platforms.
• Participate in advancing EDF’s organizational effectiveness and culture goals, so people from all backgrounds and experiences feel connected, included and empowered to address environmental and organizational challenges in ways that align with EDF values.

Requirements

• Demonstrated interest in public policy, strategic communications, environmental and energy issues, and/or digital media.
• Coursework in public policy or environmental and sustainability studies recommended.
• Experience in scheduling and creating communications collateral.
• Experience using Canva and/or Adobe Illustrator.
• Basic proficiency in video production (Adobe or CapCut preferred), social media management, and trend reporting or media monitoring.
• Experience with digital organizing a plus.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must be well organized, motivated, and detail-oriented.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in a team setting and have the ability to work independently when projects are due.

Preferred

• Experience with digital organizing a plus.