Volunteer Network Intern

Summary

Join MoveOn's Volunteer Network as a Part-Time Intern (up to 15-20 hours/week) and make a real impact! Working remotely from anywhere in the contiguous U.S., you'll support and nurture MoveOn's volunteer network, increasing the organization's capacity for change. Responsibilities include coordinating, training, and inspiring volunteer leaders, creating materials, and maintaining the daily operations of the volunteer team. The internship runs from March 1, 2025, to September 1, 2025, with a competitive hourly rate of $25 and a monthly stipend for work-related expenses. The ideal candidate is a timely, hardworking leader with experience in digital organizing and a commitment to progressive values.

Requirements

• Timely, hardworking, low-ego leader, ready to work sometimes long hours in a fast-paced environment to get the job done
• Comfort using digital organizing tools and working in a virtual office environment
• Able to convey a warm and supportive tone to volunteers, supporters, and others. You’re highly organized, goal-driven, results-oriented, and course-correcting
• A genuine commitment to progressive values, organizing, and empowering MoveOn members to take leadership
• Solution-oriented with the ability to de-escalate
• Demonstrated commitment to and prioritization of racial and social justice and experience working effectively with different constituencies
• Strong attention to detail and track record of learning complex distributed organizing systems
• Proven track record of leading effective training programs and organizing meetings
• Experience using technology-based organizing tools such as Google docs, Google sheets, Google forms, and Zoom
• Be able to work evenings 3-4 days out of the month

Responsibilities

• Increase the organization’s capacity through volunteer engagement
• Support staff and volunteer teams to coordinate with one another, ensuring all parties have the relevant information, training, resources needed to complete their work
• Create and maintain materials for volunteers and staff
• Keep a pulse on member feedback and share with internal stakeholders so that the organization is learning from and appropriately responding to its membership
• Scale up and automate
• Help maintain the daily operations of our volunteer team, including scheduling and creating agendas for evening calls, and sharing engagement opportunities with the community
• Convene monthly/bi-weekly volunteer calls
• Nurture the Mobilizer community
• Help with housekeeping of our virtual community by posting regular updates, content and programming on the app, as needed
• Ensure all posts scheduled on the content calendar are shared in the Mobilizer Community
• Support volunteers and staff to maximize volunteer retention, particularly during high energy and rapid response moments
• Monitor and report out on metric indicators of the overall health of our volunteer community

Benefits

• Part-time (up to 15 hours per week), $25 per hour
• $175 monthly toward the cost of cell phone, internet, and office expenses
• Home office subsidy also provided