Job Description:

If you have a passion for helping make significant changes to society through grass-roots movements, this Social Campaign Internship may be for you.  This position requires an extremely well organized individual who is committed to working hard for the campaign. During this internship, you will be assisting in the following activities:

• Fundraising
• Fielding organization
• Event planning
• Community outreach
• Communications

Their fast-paced, high-accountability environment will require you to be:

• Detail oriented
• A motivated self-starter
• Highly organized
• Enjoy working with others
• Ready to take responsibility for delivering consistently high-quality work

You will learn skills and develop capabilities related to campaign work and help to educate you in politics. Excellent written, verbal, and phone communication skills a must. Must be comfortable on Facebook, Twitter and have good online writing skills for either blogs or microblogs and proficient in internet-based research.

Company Profile:

Headquartered in London, this international association’s mission is to develop, advance and promote cooperative business around the globe. As the only international membership association of its kind, it represents cooperatives across all sectors of the economy, including agriculture, food distribution and retailing, childcare, credit unions, housing, healthcare, energy, purchasing, worker and telecommunications. In addition to providing strategic partnership opportunities among its membership base, this association creates cooperative connections by also leveraging connections in political realms to impact public policies that impact cooperatives, while also providing examples of cooperative business to educate consumers. In addition, this Association’s International Program has helped develop cooperatives and other sustainable businesses in over 50 countries since 1953.