Programs Summer Intern

About Echoing Green

Echoing Green builds a movement of leaders innovating today to transform tomorrow. Through its Fellowships and other innovative leadership initiatives, Echoing Green spots emerging leaders and invests deeply in their success to accelerate their impact. Over 35 years, Echoing Green’s global community of emerging leaders have launched GirlTrek,  Good Call, Last Mile Health, Neighborhood Benches, Shining Hope for Communities, SKS Microfinance, Tala, Village of Wisdom, and hundreds of others.

For more information on Echoing Green, please visit www.echoinggreen.org.

Who You’ll Work With

At Echoing Green, we have a front row seat to the brightest leaders with the most innovative ideas driving social progress across the world. We are fired up about our Fellows; we are their advocates and their biggest champions.

What You’ll Do

As an intern on the Programs Team, you will receive real work experiences through a meaningful project that will add significant value to our programmatic work.

Project Overview

• This internship focuses on comprehensive research and outreach efforts aimed at gathering and updating essential information from Echoing Green's extensive network of nearly 1,000 Fellow alumni. The core objective is to collect crucial details such as email addresses, websites, current places of employment, job titles, and biographies.
• The accurate and up-to-date data collected will play a pivotal role in strengthening the connection among our Fellows, allowing us to effectively reintegrate them into their peer communities. This effort is vital for enhancing our support mechanisms, which include nominating Fellows for funding opportunities and awards, engaging them as mentors, and offering extensive wrap-around services tailored to their needs.
• Candidates who possess a strong passion for research and an exceptional attention to detail will find this opportunity rewarding.
• Echoing Green's summer internship program runs from June 3 - August 2, 2024.

Responsibilities include:

•  Conduct desk research on websites and LinkedIn to collect updated data (email, website, place of work, title, bio, etc) on nearly 1,000 Fellow alumni
• Collaborate with the Community, Capacity, and Communications teams to conduct direct outreach (email, phone, zoom) to nearly 1,000 Fellow alumni to update their data (email, website, place of work, title, bio, etc)
• Update Fellow data in an excel spreadsheet or Salesforce in partnership with the Tech team
• Create a document to Fellow bios to prepare for copy editing by the Communications team
• Communicate regularly across the Programs and Thought Leadership (Comms + Tech) teams regarding project progress and challenges
• Participate in team meetings

Key skills needed for this project:

• Strong organizational skills
• Pays close attention to details
• Ability to follow guidelines and directions
• Research experience
• Great written and verbal communication skills

Requirements

What You’ll Bring

• Passion for Echoing Green’s mission, with a commitment to social entrepreneurship and harnessing next generation talent.
• Currently enrolled undergraduate student or 2024 graduate
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail, organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work effectively in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment
• Effectively able to work with others of diverse backgrounds in a collaborative, positive and
• productive manner
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving and research skills
• Ability to collaboratively work on a team in a deadline-driven environment with multiple
• priorities
• Proficient in MS Office Suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, OneNote)/Google Docs, Google Sheets required
• Previous internship or professional office experience strongly preferred

To Apply:

Please upload your resume and a cover letter answering the following:

1. What about Echoing Green’s mission is compelling to you? What do you hope to gain from an internship experience with us?
2. In what ways do you see yourself creating value as an intern? 
3. Why did you pick your major? What are your post graduate aspirations?

Submissions without a cover letter will not be accepted.

Benefits

Compensation

• Rate: $20.00 per hour (projects will not exceed 20 hours per week).
• The internship program runs between June 3 - August 2, 2024.
• This is a part-time remote internship opportunity available to candidates residing in the United States only.

At Echoing Green, we celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ, gender non-conforming & non-binary, women, veteran, multilingual, and other underrepresented persons in senior leadership to apply, even if they may not meet every listed qualification. Diverse perspectives drive innovation, and we are dedicated to building a team that reflects the richness of the global community.