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Membership Intern
ORGANIZATION: Alliance for Girls
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2 people are interested
Alliance for Girls is seeking a Membership Intern for Winter 2016/Spring 2017!
Alliance for Girls (AFG) champions the leaders and voices that support girls and young women. Our mission is to ensure girl-serving organizations are more connected, more effective, and better able to prepare girls to become leaders and thriving women. We do this by training girl-serving agencies, fostering collaboration, producing original research and using a collective voice to advocate on behalf of girls. Currently, AFG has more than 130 members including Planned Parenthood and Girls Incorporated.
Working closely with the Membership and Marketing Manager, the Membership Intern will gain firsthand knowledge about the backbone of a rapidly growing grassroots organization - its members - by organizing people around girls’ issues while building the girl-serving community.
This internship provides opportunities to gain professional development and valuable experience in marketing, communications, outreach, networking and event planning.
Responsibilities- Regularly engage with current and potential members
- Maintain AFG’s online membership databases and website
- Provide technical assistance to members
- Assist with event coordination, planning, and logistics
- Represent Alliance for Girls at a variety of community events
- Perform all other administrative duties as needed
Qualifications
Prospective candidates should be undergraduate or graduate students who are passionate about championing Bay Area girls and the leaders that support them. Ideal candidates are self-starters, organized, entrepreneurial, comfortable using databases and managing websites (or are willing to learn), have excellent communication skills, enjoy networking, and are friendly and upbeat.
How to Apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to kailin@alliance4girls.org
Start Date: January 2017, or as soon as possible
Commitment: 8-10 hours per week at AFG's offices in Oakland for a minimum of 3 months, with potential meetings in the Bay Area
Compensation: This internship is unpaid. For off-site events, we can reimbursement travel costs.
Website: www.alliance4girls.org
More opportunities with Alliance for Girls
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Alliance for Girls
Location:
1203 Preservation Park Way, Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94612, US
Mission Statement
Alliance for Girls mobilizes girls’ champions to address barriers facing girls, create conditions for their success, and advance systemic change to achieve equity. Our vision is to advance equitable communities in which every girl thrives.
Description
We are the largest regional alliance of girl-serving organizations and leaders in the country. Our membership includes 100+ organizations that employ 2,400 people with more than 5,100 volunteers serving more than 300,000 girls across six Bay Area counties.
The issues facing girls and young women are complex and multi-faceted. Alliance for Girls (AFG) is transforming the girls’ service sector from one of siloed, single-issue organizations, to a strong, connected network of organizations, with the necessary complexity and collective power to holistically meet girls’ needs and eliminate systemic barriers to their success.
Together we’re enabling new, integrated models for supporting girls with strong leadership, collaborative programming, original research and intergenerational, cross-disciplinary advocacy strategies.
We Believe:
- That those closest to the problem are closest to the solution
- In moving beyond the gender binary
- That diverse leadership is more effective leadership
- In the power of the collective
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
510 16th St.Oakland, CA 94612
DATE POSTED
December 7, 2016
SKILLS
- Networking
- People Skills
- Relationship Building
- Customer Service
- Community Outreach
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 8-10 hours per week for a minimum of 3 months