Americans For Financial Reform Education Fund Spring 2024 Executive Fellow

Executive Fellowship (2024-2025): This Internship is a year-long, part-time, paid position. The Executive Intern will report to the COO and provide a range of organizational, operational, and logistical support to the COO and the organization. This is an outward-facing position, meaning the Executive Fellow will be in regular contact with people outside AFR/AFREF’s staff, including coalition members, the Board of Directors, vendors and service providers and other partners or event participants. An ideal candidate will be attentive to email, organized, proactive, thorough with follow-up, and able to juggle multiple projects at once. Location in the Washington, DC area is preferred but not essential.

To apply:
Please send a resume, a cover letter, a brief writing sample, and three references to internships@ourfinancialsecurity.org. Please note that we are only able to hire residents of the following states: Alaska, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Washington (state), Wyoming.

Summer Intern 2024 - Alvin H. Baum Family Fund

Position: Intern

Pay: $15-20/hour

Type: In person, 30 hours/week

The Alvin H. Baum Family Fund (https://baumfund.org/) is seeking a paid intern who will be a promising undergraduate student with an interest in philanthropy and the not-for-profit world.  During this internship, you will primarily do a deep dive in our files which will allow you to learn about the organizations we support as well as the Baum Fund’s history with each organization. 

Find full description and application here.

Graduate Research Assistant - UIC Library - Special Collections and University Archives

Who: UIC Library, Special Collections and University Archives Department

What: Fall 2018, 50% Graduate assistantship. The Graduate Research Assistant assists in researching, processing, describing, preserving and ensuring access for personal papers, organizational records, and photographic collections in the Special Collections Department. Responsibilities include:

• Assist in the arrangement and description of archival collections for the Special Collections Department. Describing collections requires research, organizational, and writing skills. 
• Maintain collection data in the department’s content management system. 
• Create metadata for digitization projects. 
• Assist in implementing educational and promotional events and programs, and other activities related to the organization and preservation of the department’s manuscript collections. 
• May have the opportunity to contribute to the exhibition program through research, writing and design of interpretive digital and physical exhibits. 
• May contribute to writing grant proposals. 
• Folder labeling, archival rehousing as necessary, and other clerical tasks as assigned. 

Graduate Assistant - Academic Professional Advisory Committee, UIC

Who: The Academic Professional Advisory Committee at UIC. The mission of the committee is to provide for the orderly voicing of suggestions for the good of the University, afford added recourse for the consideration of grievances, and furnish a channel for direct and concerted communication between the Academic Professional (AP) staff and the administrative officers of the University, its colleges, schools, institutes, divisions, and other administrative units on matters of interest or concern to the Academic Professional staff or any member of it. As advisors to the University Administration, we review policy, represent academic professionals on search committees, voice concerns regarding academic professionals to the Chancellor, and play an active role in professional development efforts at UIC.

What: Graduate Assistant to the Academic Professional Advisory Committee – 25% appointment for 9 months, 2018-2019. Responsibilities include:

Summer Campaign Associate - Kwame Raoul Attorney General Campaign

Who: Kwame Raoul Attorney General Campaign

What: Summer Campaign Associates will be exposed to a wide array of campaign operations including but not limited to field organizing, campaign communications, research, event coordination, social media outreach and direct voter interaction. Specific positions are available in the communications, organizing, and policy and research departments.
The internship will run from June 4, 2018 through August 31, 2018. Successful candidates may request to remain involved with the campaign through the General Election on November 4, 2018.