Position Description
The Apollo Alliance is seeking a smart, organized, energetic person with strong research, writing and internet skills to assist our communications department. This internship offers an excellent opportunity for a talented student or professional committed to clean energy and social equity issues to gain experience working in a high caliber, fast paced, results-oriented non-profit policy organization.
The Communications Intern will work closely with Apollo’s communications team to provide support for the advancement of Apollo’s national, state and local program priorities. Internship responsibilities will include the following:
Internship Job Responsibilities
• Writing blog posts, letters to the editor and articles about clean energy success stories
• Updating Apollo’s website, including the Green Room and What’s New sections
• Increasing Apollo’s visibility by using social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter
• Updating Apollo’s database of the organization’s media coverage
• Other responsibilities depending on our current campaigns
This position will be unpaid, part-time (24 hours/week), and temporary beginning in early June and ending in August 2010 (dates flexible). The internship will be based at our national office in San Francisco.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Persuasive, organized, creative thinker
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines
• Ability to be flexible, positive, take initiative, and demonstrate good judgment
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and follow-through on tasks and projects
Education and Experience
• Some college education is strongly preferred
• Some journalism or communications experience preferred
• Desktop publishing and some HTML knowledge would be helpful but HTML experience is not required
• Experience with/interest in social media
• Experience with non-profit organizations is highly desirable, though not required
• A strong commitment to Apollo’s clean energy, good jobs mission.
Physical Demands
(These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions of the job.)
• Working 7-8 hours seated at a desk and using a computer
• Occasionally lifting 10-20 lb boxes or equipment
• Taking public transportation
Work Environment
(While performing the responsibilities of the job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the employee will encounter. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.)
• Second floor office in building with elevator
Application Instructions
Please submit a resume, cover letter and writing sample. In your cover letter, describe your interest in supporting Apollo’s mission and why you are qualified for this internship. Only complete applications will be considered.
Please submit your application materials as attachments by email to Sam Haswell at [email protected] and include “Summer 2010 Communications Internship” in the email subject line. No phone calls please.
Application deadline: April 15, 2010.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Apollo Alliance is a project of the Tides Center, a 501 (c)(3) organization. Tides is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions.
Applicants with Disabilities
Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise us in writing of special needs at the time of application.
Background on the Apollo Alliance
The Apollo Alliance is catalyzing a new, green industrial revolution in the way our country generates and uses energy. Harkening back to President Kennedy’s visionary call to land the first man on the Moon within the decade, the Apollo Alliance speaks directly to the core values we share as Americans: our can-do spirit, our inherent optimism, and our unrivaled patriotism. We did it before, we can do it again. This is America, the richest, most technologically advanced and industrious country in the world. If anyone can do it, we can. And we will.
The Apollo Alliance works at the local, state and national levels to transform our nation’s approach to energy and, in so doing, make America stronger and more secure: strategically, economically and environmentally. Working with allies in the labor movement, the clean energy business sector, urban America and the environmental community, Apollo builds the political support for energy investments that will provide a quadruple return to American taxpayers by: 1) reducing our dependence on foreign oil; 2) cutting carbon emissions that are destabilizing our climate; 3) restoring America to its rightful place as the world’s leading innovator and developer of clean energy products and services; and 4) creating a new generation of well-paid, green-collar jobs for people across America. For more information, go to: www.apolloalliance.org.