Communications Intern

The Innocence Project, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that represents prisoners nationwide who can be proven innocent through DNA testing, is seeking a Communications Intern for Summer 2008. The Innocence Project’s mission is nothing less than to free the staggering numbers of innocent people who remain incarcerated and to bring substantive reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment.

The Innocence Project Communications Department is accepting applications for a smart, energetic, and resourceful undergraduate to work in communications. The department’s work focuses on strategic communications with the public and target audiences through media relations, publications, websites, etc. The intern’s general duties involve some administrative work for the department, including filing media clips and internet research. The communications intern will also conduct some in-depth issue-based research, assemble and maintain media contact lists, and write background memos, fact sheets and other materials.

Required qualifications include:

  • Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel. (HTML and Photoshop a plus)
  • Basic clerical skills including scanning, faxing, and answering phone calls.
  • Excellent web research skills (experience with Lexis Nexis and Westlaw a plus).
  • Excellent writing and editing skills.
  • A flexible, independent, work style.
  • An interest in criminal justice issues and/or communications work for a non-profit organization.

The internship will run late-May to late-August and requires a minimum commitment of at least 25 hours a week. (Time frame and schedule is flexible.) The Communications Director and the Communications Associates will provide ongoing supervision of, and collaboration with, the intern. Letters of recommendation and documentation of internship completion can be provided, as well as course credit with participating schools. This is an unpaid internship.

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to info@innocenceproject.org with the subject heading COMMUNICATIONS INTERN.