Our Summer internships are more intensive and provide real work-life experience on the various aspects of running a non-profit. There are two sessions with the following details:

Summer I 2013

Applications Due March 29, 2013
Interviews April 1-19
Decision announcements April 26, 2013
Orientation May 14, 2013
End date July 26, 2013
 

Summer II 2013

Applications Due April 19, 2013
Interviews April 22-May 10
Decision announcements May 15, 2013
Orientation June 11, 2013
End date August 23, 2013
 

Summer I Internships

Grassroots Organizing

INTERNSHIP SUMMARY- Recruitment experience is the foundation of many aspects of non-profit work in advocacy, fundraising, training, and organizing programs. The Grassroots Organizing intern assists with recruiting and coordinating volunteers into the planned activities of the Center such as volunteer nights/days, committee meetings and FOCUS: Reproductive Advocacy workshops. The intern also assists with updating volunteer orientation packets and other training materials. 

Digital Media Intern

INTERNSHIP SUMMARY- Focuses on creating digital materials used in our marketing, communications, and public relations strategies. You learn web master skills while assisting with the maintenance and improvement of FeministCenter.org and our new website CliffValleyClinic.org in both Spanish and English. You will develop your writing and graphic design skills while creating engaging content for our website, blog, and various social media outlets. Other internship tasks include: assist with online reputation management, content editing, attending outreach events, and other marketing-related activities. Previous experience in with graphic design, social media, and website content management is a plus, but only interest is required. This internship will help prepare you for positions working with website administration, social media management, and communications. This is a great internship for anyone interested in knowing more about creating a web presence and will appeal to a multitude of majors.

Grassroots Organizing Internship Job Description

QUALIFICATIONS: 

•  Familiarity with and commitment to reproductive health and rights issues.
•  A desire and interest to learn about community organizing.
•  Excellent organizational and communication skills, including writing and computer skills.
•  Attention to detail is a must.
• Car and driver’s license required for in-state travel.
• Flexibility in work hours as some evenings and occasional weekend hours are necessary.
• Must be able to intern for at least 10 hours per week during the internship.

Objective I: Agrees to follow FWHC policies and procedures.

• Has knowledge of volunteer recruitment and development as set forth by Midwest Academy.
• Has knowledge of CEAN policies and procedures regarding volunteer flow and recruitment.
• Keeps informed of CEAN policy by reading memos, attending meetings and trainings.
• Bring any suggestions and concerns to the attention of your Internship Supervisor.
• Is punctual and contributes to positive team development.
• Follows through on assigned tasks and responsible for meeting established deadlines.

Objective II: Must be able to maintain professionalism when dealing with the public, supporters, volunteers, interns, and employees.

• Discusses and provides information to potential and actual volunteers in an engaging and enthusiastic manner.
• Understands & is able to articulate programs, services, and activities.
• Communicates effectively with fellow interns and employees, resolving issues and contributing positively to FWHC’s goals.
• Is a courteous, helpful person during phone, email, and personal interactions.
   

Objective III: Completes training & competently performs key aspects of Volunteer Management.

• Gains knowledge of volunteer marketing processes.
• Assists with creating and producing the volunteer listserve message on a bi-weekly basis.
• Assists with creating and producing the monthly Volunteer Opportunities Flyer.
• Assists with writing website updates and social marketing site updates for volunteer recruitment needs.
• Ensures that volunteer recruitment materials are visible and placed strategically around FWHC and at events, activities, and functions.
• Gains knowledge of volunteer recruitment processes.
• Calls and emails potential interested volunteers on received sign-up sheets within 2 work weeks of receipt and succeeds in gaining commitment of 30% of those reached for a volunteer orientation or a FOCUS workshop.
• Responds to volunteer inquiries either by email or phone within 2 work weeks.
• Schedules and performs volunteer orientations.
• Maintains a healthy supply of updated New Volunteer Orientation packets.
• Observes 2+ volunteer orientations and conducts orientations as needed.
• Gains knowledge of volunteer tracking and reporting processes.
• Participates in a Donor Perfect training on entering individuals and organizations as part of the volunteer, training, and outreach program.
• Enters all of the volunteer activity data in Donor Perfect following an event or activity.
• Completes Community Outreach/Inreach reports and distributes to CEAN team members.
• Ensures the flow of sign-up sheets to the appropriate parties following outreach and inreach events.
• Gains knowledge of volunteer management processes.
• Helps welcome, set up and supervise volunteers during office hours and events
• Plans and conducts a phonebank to call lapsed volunteers and updates records accordingly
• Other duties set forth by your Internship Supervisor.
   

Objective IV: Completes training & competently performs key aspects of Volunteer Event Coordination.

• Maintains the Volunteer Room’s friendly and clean appearance.
• Schedules. trains and helps supervise day volunteers and Stand for Reproductive Justice (SURJ) volunteers with Development team and Community Engagement Coordinator.
• Plans and implements strategies to make Volunteer Nights, Weekend Days and other programs to be fun and engaging ways to involve potential and newer volunteers
• Organizes & coordinates volunteers in activities planned for Volunteer Nights, Weekend Days and other programs.
• Willing to train fellow interns and volunteers to perform Coordinator function.
• Other duties set forth by your Internship Supervisor.
   

Objective V: Completes training & competently performs key aspects of Leadership Development.

• Attends and participates in the FOCUS Reproductive Justice Advocacy Workshop
• Prepares and sets up materials and PowerPoint for the FOCUS workshop.
• Willing to train fellow interns and volunteers to conduct a FOCUS workshop.
• Serves as FOCUS workshop leader at least once during internship.
• Other duties set forth by your Internship Supervisor.

Digital Media Intern

INTERNSHIP SKILLS:

Required Skills: knowledge of internet, an aptitude for computer work, attention to detail, evidence of superb writing skills, and the ability to work independently with direction and objectives.
Helpful Skills: Basic knowledge of social media and graphic design. Many skills will be taught depending on the specific projects you help with. Basic working knowledge of Spanish will be helpful.

INTERNSHIP PROJECTS:

• Assist with creation and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). This project applies to *all* interns. SOPs are informational documents that contain the necessary rules, instructions and procedures to complete various tasks. You will create SOPs based on an outline or take notes as you learn new skills. As you use SOPs to learn these skills, update as necessary to refine the information or accommodate any changes in procedure.
• Community Research & Communications – Let’s hear from New Voices! Help facilitate the open sharing of necessary health and sex information, research, experiences and opinions on the FeministCenter.org blog.
• Branding and Material Redesign – Over the course of 2013, we are undergoing numerous changes. You will assist in updating and modernize marketing materials for the center and clinic.
• Accomplishments Archive – FWHC has received many awards, participated in numerous published clinical studies, presented at numerous conferences, and have received other designations that are worthy of listing and keeping an archive of. Basically, we’re logging all the bragging rights we can! This project intersects with the Multi-Media Archival Project, but is more specialized and of higher priority.
• Spanish Language Web Content, Marketing & Outreach Materials – Our Summer 2012 Intern translated a significant portion of our website content into Spanish in collaboration with FWHC’s Lifting Latina Voice Initiative. This project involves maintaining and adding Spanish language content to the website and assisting with the creation of additional materials.
• Public Relations & Online Reputation Tracking – Many websites keep a directory of business listings, allowing users to rate and comment. Written reviews and ratings are influential to potential clients, volunteers, donors, and community members. Further, social media and blogs create outlets for activists on both sides to publish any information they desire.
• This project involves monitoring our internet reputation by conducting specialized Boolean searches, Google Alerts, monitoring known directory website listings, discovering new listings or opportunities, maintaining and further developing a spreadsheet of known listing with account information.
• Assisting in developing a monitoring system for comments on popular social networking and blogging sites may also be a task involved with this project.
• Multi-Media Archival Project– FWHC has rich history and an extensive amount of historical documents, including newspaper articles, old photographs, brochures, materials and items of historical significance worth preserving and archiving. We also have a significant amount of digital e-newsletters that could provide a lot of excellent content for the website and a historical view of the center. The multiple facets of this project are detailed below:
• Historical Timeline: Use existing information and ongoing research to develop and maintain a timeline-style history of FWHC through facts, stories, images and other forms of media.
• Newsletters: An abundance of quality content that is rich with keywords and phrases will help us rank higher on search engines. Before publishing, the newsletters need to be edited for safety and security purposes, removing names and other identifying or private information; protocol to be determined by the directors at time of implementation.
• Digital Archiving: Involves sorting through archives, scanning photos and documents, graphical editing of digital images, production for display on web
• News Article Archive: In service of the Wikipedia page, our intern discovered that vast amount of newspaper articles exist about FWHC and other feminist clinics. Primarily, this involves using Google news to search “archives” and create an online directory of information on feministcenter.org.
• Oral History Project – This project is a continuation of work inspired by the Wikipedia project. The primary purpose is to preserve FWHC’s history in addition to generating additional content for our Historical Timeline Project, provide additional content for our website and Wikipedia.
• Thus far, 5 interviews have been completed: 2 current directors, 2 founding mothers, and another with a longtime employee who worked with FWHC from nearly the beginning. These interviews have been about the history of FWHC, but also on the women’s views on what makes a feminist health center different and where the reproductive rights movement could go in the future. Future interns could attempt to follow up with those who we have been unable to interview, specifically 3 that were referred by interviewees and one that expressed interest but was unable to be scheduled.
• Wikipedia Article Maintenance & Development – Over Spring and Summer sessions in 2012, our Research & Communications intern created three Wikipedia articles based on research from books, the internet, magazines, website, and oral interviews. These articles heighten awareness about feminist centers, assists with search engine rank and website traffic to various feminist centers. These articles are amazing pieces of work, but are in no way complete. You can contribute additional content and even create new articles. Any writing must be of academic quality with citations, formatted according to Wikipedia standards using Wikipedia code. There are numerous documents on Wikipedia and you will be required to become familiar with these standards.

Summer II Session

Black Women's Health Outreach Intern

INTERNSHIP SUMMARY - The Black Women’s Health Outreach intern helps to increase reproductive healthcare access to black women and educate on reproductive health care disparities and how this affects Black women. The intern collaborates with other staff and volunteers of the Health Center to develop and implement the Black women’s health program, and build relationships with community partners.

Black Women's Health Outreach Job Description

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Familiarity with and commitment to reproductive health and rights issues.
• A desire and interest to learn about health education and community organizing.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, including writing and computer skills.
• Attention to detail is a must.
• Accessibility to a reliable car and a driver’s license is required for in-state travel.
• Flexibility in work hours as some evenings and occasional weekend hours are necessary.
• Must be able to intern for at least 20 hours per week during the internship.
• Must be available on Memorial Day Weekend.

Objective I: Agrees to follow FWHC policies and procedures.

• Gains knowledge of grassroots organizing as set forth by Midwest Academy.
• Gains knowledge of CEAN policies and procedures regarding outreach procedures.
• Stays informed of CEAN policy by reading memos, attending meetings and trainings.
• Brings any suggestions and concerns to the attention of your Internship Supervisor.
• Is punctual and contributes to positive team development.
• Follows through on assigned tasks and responsible for meeting established deadlines.

Objective II: Maintains professionalism when dealing with the public, supporters, volunteers, interns, and employees.

• Discusses and provides information to potential and actual volunteers, clients and supporters in an engaging, concrete, and enthusiastic manner.
• Understands & is able to articulate FWHC’s programs, services, and activities to potential clients, volunteers and supporters.
• Communicates effectively with fellow interns and employees, resolving issues and contributing positively to FWHC’s goals.
• Is a courteous, helpful person during phone, email, and personal interactions
• Follows through on assigned tasks, duties and meets established deadlines.

Objective III: Completes training and competently plans & implements outreach strategies to reach and serve Black women

• Gain knowledge of reproductive health care disparities for Black women
• Fully researches community outreach/ new partnership opportunities in local communities, organizations, etc. that will reach and serve Black women;
• Shows initiative for finding and researching such community outreach opportunities;
• Evaluates and reports research on community outreach/ new partnership opportunities (as specified in the next item) to your Supervisor;
• Establishes at least 5 new community relationships/partners. (e.g. hair salons, nail parlors and other places that black women spend their time and there is an opportunity to educate)
• Prepares materials, etc. for such activities, including marketing, educational materials and relevant internal paperwork
• Develops script/pitch for calling and talking to potential/new community partners as specified in the above items as part of a team;
• Plans, organizes and conducts partnership visits and meetings where appropriate
• Reviews and assesses written materials for updates, re-formatting, and revisions related to reproductive health issues/concerns of Black Women’s, and creates a plan for review by the CEAN team;
• Other duties set forth by your Internship Supervisor

Objective IV: Completes training and competently plans & organizes at least 3 outreach activities to reach and serve Black Women

• Participate in team strategy meetings to plan, organize, promote, hold and evaluate these events (target Operation Peace, community group in the 4th ward and surrounding areas)
• Assist with key elements of implementing the plan to organize and hold street team opportunities at the Black Arts, Jazz, Caribbean festivals
• Other duties set forth by your Internship Supervisor
• Objective V: Completes training & competently plans & organizes a follow-up step for the future Black Women’s Health Outreach Interns
• Create or expand on existing timeline/task list, a conceptual plan, logic model and marketing approach to hold outreach activities in the fall
• Prepare key marketing pieces such as a constant contact message, flyers, list serve blurbs, etc.
• Implement other elements of the implementation of this plan
• Other duties set forth by your Internship Supervisor

Advocacy Project Coordinator

INTERNSHIP SUMMARY: The Advocacy Project Coordinator intern will assist with several special advocacy projects including but not limited to: (1) Planning, organizing and furthering the collaborative work necessary to hold a Georgia Policy-Maker Boot Camp (a training day and a kick-off reception), and (2) Assisting with fulfillment of a new role as Regional Coordinator for Raising Women’s Voices (http://www.raisingwomensvoices.net/), a coalition dedicated to making health reform real for women. This intern will work with other staff and volunteers to achieve the educational and legislative goals of the Feminist Women’s Health Center.

Advocacy Project Coordinator Job Description

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Familiarity with and commitment to reproductive health and rights issues.
• A desire to learn about lobbying, political campaigns, or community organizing.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, including writing and computer skills.
• Attention to detail is a must.
• An ability to work with diverse people from an elected official to a community partner leader to a fellow intern.
• Accessibility to a reliable car and driver’s license required for in-state travel.
• Flexibility in work hours as some evenings and occasional weekend hours are necessary.
• Must be able to intern for at least 20 hours per week during the internship.

Objective I: Agrees to follow FWHC policies and procedures.

• Gains knowledge of grassroots organizing as set forth by Midwest Academy.
• Gains knowledge of CEAN policies and procedures regarding outreach procedures.
• Stays informed of CEAN policy by reading memos, attending meetings and trainings.
• Brings any suggestions and concerns to the attention of your Internship Supervisor.
• Is punctual and contributes to positive team development.
• Follows through on assigned tasks and responsible for meeting established deadlines.

Objective II: Maintains professionalism when dealing with the public, elected officials, supporters, volunteers, interns, and employees.

• Discusses and provides information to elected officials, volunteers, clients and supporters in an engaging, concrete, and enthusiastic manner.
• Understands and is able to articulate FWHC’s programs, services, and activities to potential clients, volunteers and supporters.
• Communicates effectively with fellow interns and employees, resolving issues and contributing positively to FWHC’s goals.
• Is a courteous, helpful person during phone, email, and personal interactions.
• Follows through on assigned tasks and duties and meets established deadlines.

Objective III: Completes training and competently plans, organizes & implements timeline/tasklist steps to hold an intensive, hands-on, skill-building training/reception for Georgia state legislators committed to ensuring access to abortion and other reproductive health services;

• Gain knowledge of reproductive health, rights and justice issues for Georgians.
• Gains knowledge on the NIRH grant proposal and conduct a lit review of agendas and materials used in other Boot Camps;
• Assists with arranging, preparing, and holding Steering Committee meetings as well as preparing and posting minutes;
• Assists with research and communications related to key decisions such as determining a date for the functions, securing a keynote speaker, etc.
• Securing a free or low-cost location and food for the reception;
• Plans a draft agenda along with the Steering Committee and assists with arranging for a keynote speaker, other speakers, trainers, and experiential exercises;
• Develop and plan material production for the Boot Camp training;
• Administers and maintains records for participants in the Boot Camp as well as tracks all expenses and charges related to holding the Boot Camp and reception;
• Assist FWHC’s lobbyist with follow-up, confirmations, and other communications towards elected officials targeted to attend and participate in the Boot Camp;
• Works with a Public Health Masters practicum student to develop an evaluation process, survey, and another accompanying materials; and
• Other duties set forth by your Internship Supervisor.

Objective IV: Completes training and assist with the meetings, communications, material development, coordination and other duties related to a new role as Regional Coordinator for Raising Women’s Voices.

• Attends bi-weekly conference calls for Regional Coordinators with the CEAN Director.
• Keeps records, prepares minutes, and handles follow-up after conference calls as needed.
• Assists with internal and external communications to ensure that women are incorporated in messaging, targeting, enrollment, outreach, etc. as determined during the calls as next steps to make health reform real for women in Georgia;
• Prepares and produces materials, etc. for anticipated outreach and educational activities, including internal paperwork;
• Assists with planning future advocacy programming and writing mini-grants available to Regional Coordinators;
• Other duties set forth by your Internship Supervisor.

Objective IV: Completes training and competently participates in the Reproductive Rights Coalition, the CPC investigation trainings or group meetings and Legislative Advocacy Committee Meetings

• Gains knowledge of legislative process, current issues and legislation.
• Attends community and committee meetings and prepares/keeps records, as needed.
• Assists with plans for Advocacy Committee and Coalition meetings and functions.
• Coordinates meetings by developing materials and PowerPoints, keeping the minutes, and completing follow-up steps through Basecamp.
• Monitors newspapers and other key media outlets, and assist with implementing communication, organizing or media strategies.
• Other duties set forth by your Internship Supervisor.