Key skills
Communication
About this role
Role Overview
- Project coordination and logistics planning assistance.
- Supporting multistate initiatives, including the Southern Collective (regional work with our 13 affiliates in the South) and the Battlegrounds Initiative (election safeguarding work).
- Supporting the experts on the team from the advocacy/legislative, organizing, legal, communications, and digital functional areas to ensure well-organized and efficient projects/programs.
- Supporting the Southern Legal Internship Program.
- Supporting the roll-out of guides, toolkits, playbooks, and other resources for affiliate knowledge and learning.
- Support administrative tasks, such as taking notes for and assisting with the coordination of meetings related to working groups, learning communities, and other initiatives.
- Draft preliminary language for deliverables, such as internal communications, summaries of meeting notes, and PowerPoint presentations for different audiences.
- Support survey data collection and analysis of results.
- Create and maintain resource banks regarding advocacy/legislative, organizing, legal, communications, and digital program management.
- Assist in organizing virtual/hybrid workshops and convenings of ACLU affiliates.
- Assist with tasks that ensure the team’s grants portfolio and budget are well-organized.
Requirements
- Experience assisting with administrative tasks in an office setting, preferably a nonprofit.
- Proficiency with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Strong organization skills with great attention to detail.
- Ability to take initiative, think creatively, contribute innovative ideas, problem solve, work well under pressure, and take ownership of projects and assignments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Eager to learn and curious to ask questions, particularly about the range of disciplines that the team manages: advocacy/legislative, organizing, legal, communications, and digital work with affiliates.
- Some knowledge of event planning or logistics coordination preferred.
Benefits
- A stipend is available for students who are lawfully authorized to work.
- Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit.