Editorial Or Communications Intern

Summary

Join Ballotpedia's summer 2025 internship program and gain hands-on experience in a collaborative environment. The part-time internship (10-20 hours/week) runs from June 2nd to August 1st, 2025, and offers remote work. Interns will receive compensation of at least $15/hour and will be embedded in one of four teams (Communications, Editorial, External Relations, or Tech). The program includes onboarding, training on bias prevention and website coding, and opportunities to work on various projects related to elections, candidates, and political data. College credit may be facilitated.

Requirements

• Have a well-functioning computer with Internet access
• Provide a resume in PDF format
• Provide a cover letter in PDF format which states your area of preference (Editorial or Communications), including the contact information for two professional references
• Provide a neutral writing sample (under five pages) in PDF format
• Ensure that either your resume or your cover letter includes your current address

Responsibilities

• Be embedded in one of our Editorial teams (i.e. Ballots, Elections, Marquee or News) and work directly with Editorial staff members
• Work on articles on candidates and elections
• Write about Federal, State, or Local elections, depending upon your assignment
• Assist our teams in news tracking and monitoring
• Research candidate stances and biographies
• Research election results and input them into our database
• Research race expenditures
• Research race endorsements
• Process candidate surveys
• Conduct research projects to improve overall data quality
• Participate in brainstorming sessions with experienced staff members
• Write and research on other topics as assigned
• Process new volunteer applications
• Work with volunteer program activities
• Support Ballotpedia fellows program activities
• Assist with metrics and reporting data collection
• Assist with Ballotpedia’s social media, including creating posts and graphics
• Assist with Ballotpedia’s various email products, from daily and weekly newsletters to special campaigns
• Respond to communications from a variety of external sources
• Assist in coordinating and completing webinars, briefings, or similar group events
• Collect a variety of data points, tracking subscribers, and engagement
• Help develop compelling presentations, infographics and reports
• Monitor and report on media mentions
• Participate in special research projects
• Participate in promotional planning and activities
• Assist in identifying and coordinating influencer relations on social media
• Find and analyze potential social media channels for Ballotpedia to join or track
• Assist with video script writing and video image sourcing
• Assist with SEO tagging

Preferred Qualifications

Some familiarity with Google Applications is helpful

Benefits

• Compensation at $15.00 per hour or more (depending on area minimum wage)
• Remote work
• College credit may be facilitated