Web Content Intern

Everytown for Gun Safety is seeking a passionate, thoughtful, and creative Web Content Intern to join our Web team for the summer. This role will contribute to the organization’s goals by creating web content and assisting in maintenance of major web products across our vast portfolio of websites, including Everytown, Moms Demand Action, and Students Demand Action.

Applications will be considered until the position is filled. This paid internship will run through the summer, and is limited to 20 hours per week. The start and end dates are flexible. This is not a web developer role.

In this role you will:

• Create new content to support Everytown’s web platforms, including advocacy, research, and field initiatives
• Evaluate existing web content for freshness and coherence
• Assist in website content maintenance requests
• Attend Digital and Web team meetings and contribute to strategy and brainstorms
• Help the Web team in managing information and projects throughout the organization
• Assist with ad hoc tasks as needed

In this role, you will learn:

• How to write in different voices for different audiences across a portfolio of several websites, while maintaining brand coherence
• How to collaborate with stakeholders across departments at a major nonprofit organization
• How to utilize WordPress for web content management
• How to write web content for an advocacy audience
• How to effectively advocate for gun violence prevention as a part of the country’s biggest gun violence prevention organization
• Opportunity to learn about analytics and SEO

Required Qualifications:

• Current undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates
• are encouraged to apply
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Experience writing and editing content while following a set style guide (i.e. AP Style)
• Solutions-oriented with a knack for creativity and a flexible attitude
• Passion for activism and an interest in the gun violence prevention movement
• Nice to haves: familiarity with WordPress of similar website content management systems; content entry HTML

The minimum hourly rate for this role is $17.00p/hr

ABOUT EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY

Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund (“Everytown for Gun Safety”) is the largest gun violence prevention organization in the nation with nearly ten million supporters, including parents, students, survivors, educators, gun owners, and Americans fighting for common sense gun safety. Through victories in Congress, statehouses, corporate America, the courts, and town halls across the country, Everytown is helping change how Americans think about this public health threat. At the core of Everytown is Moms Demand Action, a grassroots movement of American mothers founded the day after the Sandy Hook tragedy, and Students Demand Action. Learn more at everytown.org and follow us @Everytown.

You can learn about the framework that guides our work by viewing Everytown's Organizations Values

Everytown for Gun Safety provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Candidates who identify as members of historically underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. A diverse workforce and open culture are at the heart of our organization and vital to our success.