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About the Role

This internship offers a high-quality experience focused on wildfires and forest conservation, providing practical skills in strategic media and social media planning, communications tactics, and campaign management. The role involves researching media landscapes, developing targeted pitches, coordinating internal communications, creating social media content, and assisting with event planning.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and implementation of strategic marketing and communications planning.
• Research and monitor the media landscape for opportunities to pitch journalists about wildfires and forest conservation issues.
• Develop media lists for pitching journalists.
• Attend Forests team meetings to understand short-term priorities.
• Attend communications meetings to strategize content planning and tactics.
• Support the communications team with writing, editing, designing, securing approval for, publishing, promoting, and monitoring public-facing content.
• Assist with video podcast production, including facilitating interviews and selecting promotional clips.
• Write social media content for video podcasts.
• Assist with event and workshop planning and promotion.
• Upload video and photos to the EDF Library.
• Create social media invitations.
• Develop post-event content, including blogs and social media posts.
• Support with basic report layouts and social media graphics using Canva and EDF’s Brand Styleguide.
• Participate in advancing EDF’s organizational effectiveness and culture goals.
• Perform other Global Climate Cooperation and MarComm related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Enrolled in or a recent graduate of an undergraduate degree program in communications, marketing, environmental studies, journalism or related topics.
• Demonstrated interest in climate advocacy.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proficiency in drafting and posting content across various social media platforms (e.g., LinkedIn and Twitter).
• Must be well organized, motivated, and detail-oriented.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in a team setting.
• Ability to work independently when projects are due.
• Demonstrate self-awareness, cultural competency and inclusivity.
• Ability to work with colleagues and stakeholders across all cultures and backgrounds.
• Demonstrate initiative and problem-solving skills.

Skills

• Strategic communications
• Public relations
• Writing
• Digital marketing
• Social media marketing
• Graphic design
• Canva
• Media pitching
• Content creation
• Event planning

Location

• U.S. Remote
• Hybrid (New York)

Work Type

• Part-time (20 hr/week)
• Full-time (35 hr/week)

Experience Level

• Internship

Education Level

• Undergraduate degree program in communications, marketing, environmental studies, journalism or related topics
• Coursework in strategic communications, public relations, writing, digital or social media marketing, or graphic design recommended

Salary/Compensations

• $18 /hour or the local minimum wage if it exceeds $18/hour

Benefits

• High-quality experiences
• Relevant projects
• Opportunities for networking

About the Company

• Forests are vital to stabilizing the global climate, sustaining livelihoods, and preserving biodiversity.
• Forest loss is accelerating due to threats from wildfires and land conversion.
• Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) advances solutions to strengthen Indigenous agency, shift wildfire management, and unlock finance for forest conservation.
• EDF has worked since 1967 to create a world where people and nature thrive.
• Healthy forests are central to EDF's vision.

Equal Opportunity

• EDF is committed to advancing organizational effectiveness and culture goals, ensuring people from all backgrounds and experiences feel connected, included, and empowered.