Internship – Federal Government Relations, HMS
HMS leads the nation in cost containment, coordination of benefits, and program integrity services for government healthcare programs. We make sure that claims are paid correctly, and by the responsible party. Each year, we recover more that $1 billion for our clients and help them save billions more. HMS is a wholly owned subsidiary of HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HMSY) and operations offices nationwide.
HMS is pleased to offer graduate students an opportunity to complement their formal education with a career-related experience. As an intern, you may increase your skills and knowledge and apply theoretical concepts to the actual work environment. We have the following PAID part-time (20 hrs/week) internship opportunity immediately available in our Washington D.C. office.
Perform duties to support the HMS Government Relations team. This internship position will be primarily responsible for providing assistance to the Government Relations team and will serve as a resource for monitoring, tracking and analyzing legislative and regulatory issues that impact HMS’ business.
The position will offer unique opportunities to gain valuable work experience and knowledge of Congress and the Federal and state governments. The internship is open to qualified students who demonstrate good oral and written communication skills and have a genuine interest in the field of government relations, specifically healthcare. Candidates should also possess excellent research skills, and should be familiar with the legislative process.
Candidates must be currently enrolled in a graduate level program and be located in Washington D.C. to be considered for this part-time internship.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- The role will be primarily responsible for monitoring, tracking and analyzing legislative and regulatory healthcare issues and performing market research.
- Responsible for ad-hoc administration and organization projects for the Government Relations team.
Knowledge/Skills Required:
- Must be a graduate student
- Fields of Study: Public Policy, Law, Political Management or related fields are preferred
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office products
- Strong analytical and research skills
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of the legislative process
Please click here to apply
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Job Offer – Media Relations Manager, American Wind Association
Job Description:
The Media Relations Manager is actively engaged in and provides support for a broad array of media relations activities. The position’s primary responsibility is to manage media requests and ensure they are fielded in a timely and professional manner. In addition, the Manager will manage distribution of news releases and statements, prepare media events, draft materials and help coordinate media activities with relevant AWEA teams in support of the industry’s goals.
Essential functions of the Media Relations Manager are: to respond to media-related inquiries and field calls timely; draft news releases, statements, letters to editor and articles; manage preparation of media events, including events associated with AWEA workshops, conferences, and preparation of press kits; oversee maintenance of press log; manage distribution of AWEA releases and statements to targeted media, AWEA members and stakeholders; ensure coordination and updates with AWEA PR firm; work with Public Affairs team to update and maintain messaging points for AWEA and industry spokespeople; maintain communications-related contacts with AWEA member companies to efficiently respond to inquiries; manage online updates for PA department sites on awea.org; assist in disseminating items from AWEA newsletters, Wind Energy Weekly and Windletter to reporters; develop and update publications as needed, understand economic policy and other issues affecting the wind energy industry and market, or possess the ability and desire to learn about those issues; experience in working with broadcast media operations.
Qualifications:
- B.A. or B.S. preferred;
- Master’s degree in communications, policy or related field is a plus.
- At least four years of progressive experience in a media, media relations, or communications position.
- A professional with broadcast media experience is strongly desired.
AWEA is a fast-paced, high-energy organization with a very ambitious agenda and a staff that is highly motivated. This job will experience high work demands under tight timelines.
To Apply:
Send resume with a writing sample and salary requirements to communicationsjobs@awea.org (please use “Media Relations Manager” in subject line) or mail to AWEA, 1501 M Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005, attention HR.
AWEA is Metro accessible and provides a generous benefit package. To learn more, please click here.
AWEA is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Internship – Public Relations & Event Planning, The Curley Company (Paid)
The Curley Company is offering a 4-5 day a week paid internship. This position includes exposure to event planning, public relations, fundraising and all the administrative functions of such activities. The ideal candidate is extremely detail orientated, able to work independently, and has an aptitude for prioritizing and juggling multiple tasks at once. This is a great opportunity to diversify your experience and gain valuable knowledge for a future in event planning or communications.
Established in 2002 by Founder and President, Jennifer Curley, The Curley Company specializes in strategic communications, special events, and reputation management. We are dedicated to helping clients navigate and engage in a fluid digital world, tailoring a strategic approach to reach each client’s communications goals.
To Apply:
Email a cover letter and resume to intern@curleycompany.com
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Internship – Media Matters (Paid)
About Media Matters:
Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier, not-for-profit, progressive media watchdog and research/information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the media — every day, in real time.
About the Internship:
We are looking for full or part-time interns to work in our Washington, D.C. office who believe in progressive causes and values. We are currently recruiting candidates to perform the following functions in support of our senior fellows:
- Assist with research for future columns and books
- Draft blog posts and other short pieces
- Conduct online and offline research
- Assist with administrative functions as needed
How to Apply:
First click here and become familiar with the scope of our work.
Submit a résumé, cover letter explaining why you want to work at Media Matters and a writing sample (preferably on the subject of politics and/or the media). On a separate page, list the semester for which you’re applying, and the total number of hours per week that you are available (if not full-time, please specify available days and hours).
Send the above application materials to kfrisch@mediamatters.org
Media Matters for America is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Job Offer – Grassroots Campaign Manager, Livestrong
Summary:
At Livestrong, we fight for the more than 28 million people around the world living with cancer today. There can be—and should be—life after cancer for more people. That’s why we kick in at the moment of diagnosis, giving people the resources and support they need to fight cancer head-on. We find innovative ways to raise awareness, fund research and end the stigma that many cancer survivors face. We connect people and communities to drive social change, and we call for state, national and world leaders to help fight this disease. Anyone, anywhere can join our fight against cancer. Join us at Livestrong.org.
The Grassroots Campaign Manager will be responsible for managing Livestrong’s major global advocacy campaign. The Campaign Manager’s principal focus will be building a large global grassroots movement to take meaningful action on cancer issues using innovative online mobilization strategies combined with an offline organizing strategy.
Role Qualifications:
- At least 3 years campaign experience in a leading advocacy organization or major political campaign, including a strong track record in online organizing.
- Sophisticated understanding of global politics and/or demonstrated campaign experience at the international level.
- Sharp political instincts and political communication skills
- Knowledge or experience with cancer issues and/or other public health issues
- Proven track record of successfully engaging diverse constituencies in issues and action over time
- Innovative thinking with an ability to translate visionary ideas into executable strategies
- Message savvy, with an ability to create compelling online and offline communications that inspire people to act
- Experience with SMS/mobile campaigns and ability to integrate them into an overall grassroots global campaign strategy
- Cross functional orientation with appreciation for and ability to operate across disciplines to meet a goal
- Exceptional relationship building skills, with an ability to establish rapport and credibility quickly
- Proven project management skills with an ability to develop and execute comprehensive work plans
- Persuasive communication skills (verbal and written)
- Detail oriented with strong analytical ability.
Position Responsibilities:
- Develop, execute and manage the grassroots campaign plan and calendar
- Build and maintain robust online and offline campaigns for advocates to engage and to maintain connection with the LIVESTRONG movement
- Serve as project manager for the grassroots campaign process working with all stakeholders to manage timelines and deliverables
- Scope and develop plan and concept for online community platform
- Continuously seek ways to build community to connect grassroots leaders, NGO’s, and others to maximize engagement over time
- Report on metrics for measuring the success of the movement
- Craft and write email campaigns to motivate people to action
- Coordinate communication and involvement with the Mission, Development, and Advocacy & Engagement teams to have integrated campaigns that support organizational strategic objectives
- Work collaboratively, proactively, and in a professional, service-oriented manner with all colleagues
Travel:
- This position will include 10-20% travel.
- Education and/or Experience:
- At least 3 years campaign experience in a leading advocacy organization or major political campaign, including a strong track record in online organizing.
- Knowledge of the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors with an awareness of, and a genuine interest in, supporting the LIVESTRONG mission
- Comfort working with technology providers and experience using content management systems and CRM tools
- Proven excellence in interpersonal relationship skills and oral and written communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required.
- Multilingual and multicultural background a plus
Compensation:
Position is full-time with complete benefits package.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear; lift weight up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
To Apply:
Please submit an online application available here.
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Fellowship – Summer Research, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Sustainable Endowments Institute, special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Start Date:
June 1, 2010
Last Day to Apply:
February 10, 2010
The Sustainable Endowments Institute is seeking highly motivated and reliable individuals for full-time summer research fellowships. We stronglyencourage individuals from diverse backgrounds to apply. Research Fellows will collaborate on surveying and analyzing sustainability initiatives at hundreds of prominent colleges and universities in the United States and Canada to help produce the College Sustainability Report Card 2011. To view previous editions of the Report Card, please click here
The fellowship positions will last approximately 12 weeks, starting in June 2009. Flexible scheduling arrangements would be considered in certain circumstances.
The Institute’s successful research fellows program is entering its fifth summer and has involved undergraduate/graduate students and alumni from dozens of leading schools including: Brandeis, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Northeastern, Oberlin, Penn, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, Vermont Law School, Williams, and Yale.
The Sustainable Endowments Institute is a nonprofit organization engaged in research and education to advance sustainability in campus operations and endowment practices. Founded in 2005, the Institute is a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Located in Harvard Square, Cambridge, our office is easily accessible by public transportation. We encourage applicants to familiarize themselves with our website before applying by clicking here.
Responsibilities:
The Research Fellow’s job duties include, but are not limited to:
- Working with Institute staff on current and new research
- Conducting web research on sustainability programs
- Data analysis and entry
- Maintaining Excel spreadsheets
- Reviewing, verifying, and updating previously gathered material
- Coordinating information with other Research Fellows and Institute staff
- Designing/administering surveys of university officials
- Developing innovative outreach strategies to connect with new constituencies
Qualifications:
- Experience with advancing sustainability on campus
- Ability to navigate the internet and conduct research
- Proficiency in Word and Excel
- Strong oral and written communication
- Ability to succinctly summarize data
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail
- Flexible and cooperative work ethic
- Experience designing and administering surveys, or coursework in survey methodology
Compensation:
Competitive compensation commensurate with experience.
Application Deadline:
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. For the best chance of being offered a Research Fellow position, applicants should apply as soon as possible.
Application Instructions:
Candidates should submit a resume, cover letter, and writing sample as Microsoft Word or PDF file attachments. Send to Mark Orlowski, Executive Director at the following email: jobs@endowmentinstitute.org.
Please address the following questions within the body of your cover letter:
- How did you hear about Summer Research Fellows opportunity?
- Why are you interested in working for the Sustainable Endowments Institute?
- What experiences—work-related or otherwise—have you had on the topic of environmental sustainability in higher education?
- What set of skills or experiences do you have to offer that will be particularly beneficial in pursuing the mission of the Institute?
- Do you have any experience in succinctly summarizing large amounts of data?
- What are you hoping to gain from a position at SEI?
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Job Offer – Online Engagement Manager, Hostelling International USA (Silver Spring, MD)
Interested Applicants should email hiring@fissionstrategy.com
About HI-USA: Hostelling International USA (registered as American Youth Hostels, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization founded to promote international understanding of the world and its people through hostelling. HI-USA operates a network of over 60 quality hostel accommodations throughout the United States that are inexpensive, safe and clean. Our hostels range from urban high-rise buildings with hundreds of beds to small more remote hostels in rural settings.As a nonprofit organization, we are celebrating 75 years of experience in serving young travelers.
HI-USA is looking for a tech-saavy Online Engagement Manager to activate our online presence. A successful candidate will have impeccable communication skills, be highly self-motivated, and have proven success and expertise in email list management and navigating the social media landscape. You should be able to draw on the expertise of HI-USA’s team while also coming up with and implementing your own ideas for engaging users through online activity. Hostelling is more than an affordable place to stay; it’s a social movement, and you should want to be at the forefront. Plus if you are an experienced traveler who has stayed hostels before.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Growing the email list
- Managing all email communications
- Over time: website content
- Improving data collection from hostels and booking engines
- Performing user testing and list segmentation to improve response rates
- Expanding HI-USA’s organizational social network presence
- Supporting hostels in their online fundraising and outreach efforts
- Fundraise online, primarily by leveraging the email list
A Candidate Must:
- Have a proven ability to grown an email list
- Be completely at ease with technology, including basic HTML, CSS and image manipulation
- Have experience with databases (i.e., Salesforce, RaisersEdge, MySQL)
- Be able to write compelling email copy, with an understanding of what makes some emails more effective at generating action than others
- Be experienced working with partner organizations
- Be familiar with Democracy in Action or similar program (Blue State Digital, Convio, Capitol Advantage, Get Active, etc)
- Know best practices in list segmentation, message personalization, and email response tracking
- Know online best organizing practices, including social network and blogger outreach
- Be familiar with online advertising — e.g. AdWords, Facebook Ads, Care2 or ValueClick
Compensation:
The salary for this position is $60k/year, plus benefits. Please send your resume along with a cover letter detailing your qualifications to hiring@fissionstrategy.com
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Job Offer – Full-Time Field Staff, The Sestak for Senate Campaign
The Sestak For Senate campaign is looking for motivated individuals to join the campaign’s field team at multiple levels. Applicants should be hard working and motivated, must be outgoing, and must work well in a team environment.
Responsibilities:
- Recruiting and managing volunteers
- Outreach to local Democratic activists and organizations
- Involvement on any major events or initiatives
- Other tasks as neccessary
Campaign experience is preferred but not neccessary.
To Apply:
E-mail your resume along with a cover letter to Rich.Culbert@JoeSestak.com
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Job Offer – Teachers of Pashto Language, DC Internationals
DC Internationals is seeking to hire teachers of Pashto language. Only one evening a week, teachers will be expected to teach one or two evening classes from 6:00-7:30 and or 7:30-9:00 in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood.
DC Internationals is expanding the number of languages it offers, so teachers will be a part of a new and innovative intensive language program comprising 23 classes. DC Internationals has taught foreign languages for eight years. Its success has overwhelmingly increased demand for such an expansion of the program.
Starting pay is competitive and negotiable, and each class is 1.5 hours. We would like each teacher to teach two classes; a beginner and a beginning intermediate. The semester will run ten weeks with an option for five more weeks. There will be continuous sessions throughout the year, therefore you would potentially have an extra consistant and reliable easy source of income. This is an excellent opportunity to earn extra money after one’s day job, or to get a foot in the door of an expanding private school. Teachers would work in the Foggy Bottom area for the Spring semester that will begin the week of February 8, 2010.
Interested applicants should send their resumes and inquiries to Ross Kaplan at ross@dcinternationals.com as soon as possible. Classes start in February. More information about DC Internationals can be found here.
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Job Offer – Executive Assistant, Brainstorm Creative Resources
High-profile office seeking an experienced EA who is comfortable acting as a right arm, and sometimes left arm, to top-level executives. Individual must be a polished professional who is extremely comfortable dealing with well-known people and highly regarded executives. Must be accustomed to a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines as well as plenty of experience juggling ever-changing calendars. Ideal candidate will be reliable, dedicated, goal-oriented and work well with junior- and senior-level staff. Excellent computer skills and the ability to anticipate the needs of busy, high-energy executives are a MUST. Salary commensurate with experience (40Ks to 50Ks). Great benefits package and Metro accessible. Please provide resume, salary history and interview availability to Larky@brainstormresources.com. For more information, please click here.
Lauren Arky
Brainstorm Creative Resources
202.470-5202 .:. phone
877-596-8386.:. fax
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