Summer Intern

Summary

Join Truth Initiative's Internship Program and gain practical public health experience! This paid internship offers opportunities in various areas like marketing, communications, and research. Internships last a semester, with flexible hours for fall and spring, and full-time options for summer. You'll work on real-world projects, develop valuable skills, and contribute to positive change. The program is open to undergraduate students, with graduate students considered for research roles. Competitive hourly rates are offered.

Requirements

• Be a current student pursuing their undergraduate degree (graduate students are only considered for internships with our research and innovations teams)
• Possess good communication skills, including writing and speaking
• Have an interest in community management and social media management
• Have experience working on multiple tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Support our social and community management needs, primarily on the TikTok platform
• Engage with people on our own channels and other accounts who are quitting nicotine
• Research social trends and influencers
• Create content on a weekly basis
• Assist the Digital Marketing Specialist with analyzing campaign performance on a monthly basis
• Assist in all aspects of the department and be fully integrated into the Communications team
• Participate in team meetings and events
• Gain experience in supporting the team in a wide range of communications and administrative functions
• Write press releases
• Draft stories from our monthly newsletter
• Assemble press kits
• Research media coverage
• Compile reporter information
• Clip/track media coverage
• Compile clips reports
• Assist with in-house press conferences and events
• Support Truth Initiative's Development and Partnerships expertise center to broaden their knowledge of fundraising, grantmaking, and college activism
• Be involved in the Tobacco/Vape-Free College Grant Program and development work
• Engage in college grant recruitment
• Conduct potential funder research
• Handle virtual meeting logistics and notes
• Perform data entry
• Contribute to the work of evaluating the truth campaign or assisting in other research efforts
• Conduct literature searches for peer-reviewed papers
• Assist in searches for campaign-related information and data
• Test online surveys used to evaluate the campaign and prepare results
• Produce codebooks for internal studies using in-house common codebook template
• Build a repository of common survey measures in the Qualtrics system
• GeoCode FDA (Warning Letters & Passed Inspections)
• Create GIS feature services for the Truth Initiative Tobacco Viewer
• Geotag weekly reported study participant locations
• Support rapid research capabilities with an emphasis on managing and cleaning data and documenting data analytic procedures
• Provide quality assurance support to ensure that data are cleaned, and processes are documented appropriately
• Clean and code large data sets involving multiple years of data; ensuring consistent coding of variables across all survey waves
• Maintain records related to study response rates and retention
• Perform data cleaning, data validation, and reporting tasks
• Conduct literature searches and reviews
• Conduct descriptive analyses and basic inferential analyses using SAS, Stata, R, or mplus under the tutelage of the Senior Analysts
• Support research analysts in preparing datasets for use by others, and facilitating communication among collaborators, when necessary
• Help with presentations of research findings at major conferences and meetings

Preferred Qualifications

• Have a passionate interest in public health or tobacco control
• Be a current student pursuing their undergraduate degree in a related field
• Be an undergraduate student with a demonstrated interest in college activism, grants, public health education, and health promotion
• Be pursuing a degree in public health, marketing, political science, or related fields
• Be detail-oriented
• Possess excellent communication skills
• Be able to work independently as well as collaboratively with other departments and in a fast-paced environment
• Be a current student pursuing their graduate degree in public health
• Have an interest in behavioral research and/or interest in tobacco control research
• Be in an undergraduate or Master’s program in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, or a related field with a strong background in quantitative methods
• Have some experience with programming and data management, along with knowledge of statistical research methodology/principles

Benefits

• Paid internship at $17.50/hour for undergraduate students and $20.50/hour for graduate students
• Flexible work schedule; interns work remotely during the summer semester