Summer 2027 Insurance Policy Research Intern
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · DC, US
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About the Role
NRDC's Environmental Health Department is seeking a graduate intern to support ongoing projects and priorities for our Adaptation Division. This intern will report into a Senior Advocate, Adaptation. This intern will have the opportunity to support NRDC’s Insurance for a FAIR Future initiative, which focuses on advancing solutions to the growing property insurance affordability and availability crisis while leveraging insurance as a tool to strengthen climate resilience and adaptation.
Responsibilities
- Conduct policy and literature research.
- Synthesize emerging research and state-level developments into accessible internal briefs.
- Support engagement with community organizations, consumer advocates, policymakers, and other stakeholders.
- Potentially contribute to external blogs, educational materials, and stakeholder convenings and events.
- Lead a primary project in alignment with the initiative’s goals.
- Deliverables may include a policy analysis, internal research briefs, stakeholder meeting materials, and/or recommendations identifying promising state-level policies and practices.
Requirements
- Must be currently enrolled in a graduate program.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Research and/or data analysis skills.
- Initiative, proactiveness, and creativity.
- Ability to work collaboratively, within a team.
- Commitment to NRDC’s mission, values, and DEI principles.
- Previous experience with disaster insurance and/or financing investments in climate adaptation/risk reduction is preferred but not mandatory.
Skills
- Research
- Data collection
- Analysis
- Writing
- Developing materials
- Policy solutions
- Copywriting
- Editing
- Social media
- Marketing campaigns
- Process improvements
- Vendor management
- Partnerships
- Engagement
- Project management
Location
- New York
- Washington, DC
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Internship
Experience Level
- Graduate Intern
Education Level
- Graduate program enrollment
Salary/Compensations
- $10,000.00 stipend
Benefits
- Paid internship
- Stipend paid bi-weekly
About the Company
- NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
- NRDC combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts to confront the climate crisis, protect nature, ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
- As an international nonprofit environmental organization, NRDC is working to address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges, and advance innovative, science-based, and enforceable solutions.
- Since our founding in 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver many of America’s foundational environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.
- Today, we continue to lead in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at the local, state, federal and international levels, as well as through the marketplace.
- Our team works across the United States and around the world, from offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Beijing, and New Delhi (a subsidiary of NRDC India Pvt. Ltd.).
- Supported by our members and online activists, NRDC is driving impactful solutions that confront the climate crisis, defend nature and safeguard public health across Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
- At NRDC, we believe lasting change happens when people bring their talent, passion, and expertise together for a common purpose: to build a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient world.
- Learn more at nrdc.org.
Equal Opportunity
- NRDC is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our work and in our workplace.
- We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planet's most pressing environmental problems, and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the environmental movement.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.