Communications Intern, Thunderhead Alliance

Title: Communications Intern
Location: San Francisco, CA
Degree Required: Bachelors

Thunderhead Alliance for Biking and Walking is the national coalition of state and local organizations working together to promote bicycling and walking in North American communities. We bring leaders together to help them grow their organizations and become more effective by sharing best practices and innovations. The Alliance’s mission is to create, strengthen, and unite state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations.

Position Overview

The Communications Intern will help implement the results of a year-long communications strategy and rebranding process. You will help shape and style Thunderhead Alliance’s online and/or print communications. This internship could involve creative and engaging tasks such as writing for Alliance publications and website, editing our communications, designing publications and print materials, helping launch new online communication tools and establish the Alliance in social networking channels, and creating marketing materials for our programs. Tasks assigned will depend on your skill set and interests.

This is a virtual internship (meaning you work from home) offering a flexible schedule with a fifteen-hour-a-week minimum commitment. We are happy to work with any academic requirements you may have, to help you earn course credit for their efforts.

Skills & Knowledge To Be Gained:

• Real world experience with national non-profit
• Hand-on work with coalition of grassroots advocacy organizations across North America
• Specific experience working with one of the leading bicycling and walking advocacy organizations in North America
• Opportunity to build your portfolio by creating great new communications pieces
• Academic credit, by working with your academic institution’s internship program

Requirements

Essential:

• Excellent writing skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Track record of working well on team projects
• Strong visual design and communication skills
• Cheerful, friendly, upbeat outlook

Helpful:

• Competent and lucid verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with biking and walking issues
• Commitment to sustainable transportation
• Familiarity with web 2.0 technologies including blogging, wikis, and social networking sites
• Aptitude with digital design tools like Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
• Familiarity with database applications

Length of position: 12 weeks

Compensation: $1500 stipend

To Apply

Please send a letter of interest, resume, samples of work (writing and/or design) & references to Kristen@thunderheadalliance.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications will be accepted through February 20th, 2009. We are seeking someone who can begin immediately.

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