UNPAID Communications Specialist Internship
Seattle, WA (Remote)
Posted 3 months ago
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Job Description
About Positive Masculinity:
With over 30 years of combined gender education experience, Co-Founders Mac Scotty McGregor and Drew Griffin started Positive Masculinity for heart-led masculine folks who want to create a transformative path for masculinity in our world.
Our ultimate goal is to thrive while being our best possible selves; therefore, we offer private groups and workshops that provide a safe space to address how societal expectations and conditioning have affected us. We strive to create a masculine model that is healthy and mutually supportive.
Visit https://www.positivemasculinitynow.org/about-us to learn more about Mac and the team’s stories.
YOU WILL:
- Promote our books, merchandise, training, coaching, and speaking events.
- Write press releases for 400+ digital distribution and pitch stories to writers to get our content out to the world.
- Communicate, pitch, and book Mac for podcasts and feature stories
- Create and improve new and current processes for communication within and between PM departments.
- Build relationships and brand awareness between Positive Masculinity and our target audiences.
- Draft, edit, proofread, and revise communications.
- Establish and maintain relationships with media outlets.
- Collaborate with all PM departments — Marketing, Graphic Design, and Digital Video Specialists, to name a few.
- Attend team meetings as needed.
YOU ARE:
- Adaptable to changes in projects and priorities, and can handle multiple tasks at once.
- Excellent in verbal and written communication, email etiquette, the internet, and Google Suite.
- Highly motivated, detail-oriented, reliable, and organized.
- Able to work independently and with minimum supervision.
- Able to attend video conference meetings whenever needed.
- Tech-savvy and own a computer with reliable access to the internet.
YOU WILL BENEFIT BY:
- Attaining high-level skills and experience, which in turn helps you increase your earning potential, reach your career goals, and find more rewarding jobs.
- Receiving mentoring on your LinkedIn Profile (and thus, your resume), interviewing skills, professional goals, and how to manage your career.
- Building your professional portfolio.
- Participating in collaboration sessions with our Teammates and team leadership.
- Being exposed to the behind-the-scenes of a one-of-a-kind start-up organization.
- Gaining access to various training materials on gender education and other topics worth thousands of dollars. You will also have opportunities to work with a seasoned mentoring professional in Mac McGregor.
- Receiving a top-notch letter of recommendation and referrals from our Employment Verification team upon completing your 200-hour internship. In addition, we will gladly help you arrange for academic credit if needed.
LOCATION:
This internship is a virtual/remote opportunity, which means you don’t have to deal with traffic or sit in a stuffy office! Instead, you can work in any comfortable environment you so choose!
We work to dismantle traditional and toxic masculine modeling and messaging and recreate a healthy model of masculinity for all people. Creating a heart-led, conscious, growth-minded masculine model and message that serves all of us in a healthy way. We do this through education by teaching workshops, group coaching and a free monthly masculine peer support group with a trained facilitator to lead through this work and process. We create a safe space for all who identify as masculine to do this important work of healing from the damage that the old traditional modeling has done and then moving forward with a conscious growth mindset of how to thrive in the world by doing our own deep inner work and becoming our best selves. Living in full authenticity with respect and compassion for others.