Communications and Development Intern

Communications and Development Intern

Women’s Action for New Directions is seeking a Communications and Development intern to work in our Arlington, MA headquarters on a part-time basis. Start and end dates are flexible.

Updated January 2013

The Organization:

Women’s Action for New Directions is a national nonprofit organization which seeks to empower women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism and to redirect excessive military resources toward unmet human and environmental needs. WAND was founded in 1982 as Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament. With the end of the cold war, we became Women's Action for New Directions, and have been dedicating our energies to further our work in three key areas: federal budget priorities and Pentagon spending, nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, and women, peace, and security. Our work and goals are guided by each year’s Legislative Agenda, passed by our Boards of Directors annually. WAND has offices in Arlington, MA, Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA.

Our goals are to:

• Challenge and promote alternatives to militarism and violence as the solution to conflict.
• Shift from a military to a civilian-based economy to address the threats to our real security, ensuring that human, economic and environmental needs are met.
• Clean up environmental effects of nuclear weapons production as well as toxic waste at all military facilities, and prevent further contamination.
• Eliminate the testing, production, sale and use of weapons of mass destruction.
• Prevent violence against women.
• Increase women's political leadership to further WAND's goals.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist with WAND advocacy efforts related, but not limited, to: nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear weapons testing, Pentagon spending, federal budget priorities, and women, peace and security policy
• Assist with WAND social media campaigns on Facebook and Twitter
• Assist with planning of special events
• Assist with fundraising efforts as needed including research, phone calls and mailings
• Assist with the development and delivery of digital communications such as emails, newsletters and website updates
• Attend team meetings as appropriate including, but not limited to, Communications Team, Development Team, Arlington Staff and All Staff
• Assist with updating and maintaining our NGP database
• Write Letters to the Editor, Op-ed templates, blog entries and other media pieces for public consumption
• Track media hits by using Google Alerts, Giga Alerts, and Google searches
• Regularly read about WAND’s key issues and stay up to date on related current events
• Attend webinars hosted by WAND and other partner organizations
• Perform administrative tasks as assigned

Qualifications:

• Interest in or willingness to learn about women’s political leadership, security and defense issues, peace advocacy, politics and the legislative process
• Social media user
• Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Good sense of humor, creativity, and a willingness to show initiative

To apply:

Please send cover letter and resume to Sharon Zimmerman at szimmerman@wand.org. For more information about WAND, visit us at www.wand.org and www.wandactioncenter.org.