Our next round of recruiting September 5, 2023 for AY 2023-2024 Positions
NNSI will hiring strategic communication interns for a September 25, 2023 start. If you are interested, please send an e-mail explaining what you hope to learn from this experience and a resume to shumate@northwestern.edu. Interviews will be conducted via zoom or in person.
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION INTERN
The Network for Nonprofit and Social Impact (NNSI) is looking for two strategic communication interns for 2023-2024 academic year. These intern will gain valuable experience writing and creating media for various NNSI outlets aimed at nonprofit and civic leaders, policymakers, and undergraduate students. Responsibilities include:
- Writing a weekly blog about NNSI research, relevant social impact news, and NNSI personnel
- Designing communication campaigns including social media, podcast, website, and event planning elements.
- Publishing a monthly e-newsletter, using Zoho Campaigns, to our extensive nonprofit leader e-mail list.
- Created automated drip e-mail marketing campaigns.
- Creating new content for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles.
- Updating the NNSI website and electronic sign in the Frances Searle building.
Successful candidates will be self-starters and champions for NNSI communications. Students should have some experience writing for a general audience. Students with a background in journalism, IMC, or the strategic and organizational communication module from Communication Studies are preferred. Students are paid $18/hr and are expected to work a minimum of 8 hours per week. Students may work remotely. In addition, students will attend weekly NNSI team meetings.
* Note that NNSI is not hiring new Research Assistants this fall. All our research assistants have returned!
NNSI RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Students will work on grant-funded research projects. Some possible tasks include:
- Conducting interviews with organizational leaders about their organization and networks.
- Data cleaning: to both code and structure the dataset at different levels.
- Conducting descriptive analysis: to use R to run descriptive analysis (you’ll learn R with us)
- Writing reports: to translate our preliminary research findings in a white paper/reports for local communities participating in the research project.
- Writing literature reviews and creating annotated bibliographies for academic articles.
How we work:
- The positions pay $18/hr, and we ask that you commit to a minimum of 2 quarters. We ask that you commit a minimum of 8 hours a week to the job, though we can accommodate up to 20 hours per week.
- We meet weekly to do professional development training about social impact and research. You’ll learn a lot.
- You’ll find a community of like-minded people – we have up to ten research assistants, including other undergraduates and Ph.D. students working together.
- You’ll learn how to do research, how to write more effectively, and how to get research noticed.