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About the Role

The ACLU seeks an Undergraduate or Graduate Intern for their Affiliate Support and Nationwide Initiatives Department's (ASNI) Program and Strategy Team. This internship offers valuable experience in program development and project coordination within a nonprofit setting.

Responsibilities

Support multistate initiatives, including the Southern Collective and the Battlegrounds Initiative.
Support the Southern Legal Internship Program (SLIP).
Support the roll-out of guides, toolkits, playbooks, and other resources for affiliate knowledge and learning.
Support team experts in advocacy/legislative, organizing, legal, communications, and digital functional areas to ensure well-organized and efficient projects/programs.
Support administrative tasks, such as taking notes and coordinating meetings.
Draft preliminary language for deliverables, including internal communications, meeting summaries, and presentations.
Support survey data collection and analysis.
Create and maintain resource banks regarding program management.
Assist in organizing virtual/hybrid workshops and convenings.
Assist with tasks that ensure the team’s grants portfolio and budget are well-organized.

Requirements

Currently matriculated graduate or undergraduate students who will be rising seniors starting Fall 2027.
Must be based in the U.S. for the entire duration of the internship.
Experience assisting with administrative tasks in an office setting, preferably a nonprofit.
Proficiency with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Strong organization skills with great attention to detail.
Ability to take initiative, think creatively, and contribute innovative ideas.
Ability to problem solve, work well under pressure, and organize/take ownership of various projects and assignments with competing priorities.
Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
Eagerness to learn and ask questions about advocacy/legislative, organizing, legal, communications, and digital work with affiliates.
Some knowledge of event planning or logistics coordination preferred.
Commitment to advancing the mission of the ACLU.
Commitment to centering and embedding the principles of equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Commitment to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflict.
This internship must be tied to the intern’s formal education program by integrated coursework or the receipt of academic credit.

Skills

Program development
Project coordination
Administrative tasks
Meeting coordination
Note-taking
Drafting communications
Data collection
Data analysis
Resource bank creation
Event planning
Logistics coordination
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Organization
Attention to detail
Initiative
Creative thinking
Problem-solving
Working under pressure
Written communication
Verbal communication
Interpersonal skills

Location

NY National office
Remote
Hybrid

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Undergraduate (rising seniors starting Fall 2027)
Graduate students

Education Level

Undergraduate
Graduate

Salary/Compensations

$20/hr for undergraduate students or equivalent experience
$24/hr for graduate and law students or equivalent experience

Benefits

Stipend available for students lawfully authorized to work.
Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit.

About the Company

For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
The ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.
Accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all.
The ACLU is a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability.
The ACLU believes in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization.
The ACLU is committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally.

Equal Opportunity

Strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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