The Heartland Institute - Internships

Deadline: As soon as possible

Internships

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Location(s)

  • United States of America
3939 North Wilke Road Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004

Overview

Are you a conservative or libertarian considering a career in the free-market movement? Do you want to spend 10 weeks working side-by-side with others who share your interests, learning new skills and making contacts that can launch your career? Then being an intern at The Heartland Institute is the right choice for you.

Details

Internships typically run for 10 weeks. Interns typically work 20 hours each week and are paid $150 per week. These terms are flexible – ask if a different term or number of hours would work best for you.

Communications Department

The internship will involve a wide variety of Public Relations responsibilities, including print and broadcast media relations; event marketing and promotion; “new media” and social networking; and speaking engagement scheduling. Among the specific tasks that will be assigned to the intern during this period:

  • Daily interaction/promotion using Heartland’s Facebook and Twitter accounts; finding compelling topics “in the news” that Heartland can share with others who embrace freemarkets and liberty; creating image memes to promote Heartland principles, stories, and activities; commenting on the posts of allies and friends.
  • Blog and Heartland digital magazine updates: Proficiency with back-end WordPress management a plus. Find and re-post on the blog and Heartlander work by Heartland staffers, fellows, and policy advisors that has been published elsewhere.
  • Podcast production: Assist the deputy communications director with production and promotion of the Heartland Daily Podcast.
  • Original content blog posting: Write a blog post once a week on a topic approved by director of communications. Also write at least two blog posts about a Heartland Daily Podcast and embed the audio on the blog.

Development Department

The internship will involve a wide variety of fundraising-related responsibilities, including donor and prospect mailings, emails, or phone calls; data entry; printing; responding to emails and phone calls; and research. 

  • Respond to emails and place follow-up phone calls.
  • Assist the development staff with entering data into ACT donor database.
  • Proofread letters to donors, prospects, and allies.
  • Format and initially proofread emails and letters.
  • Research new, current, and potential donors (corporation, individual, foundation).
  • Assist the development staff in planning donor events and other activities (anniversary benefit dinner, planned giving seminars, etc.)

Editorial Department

The internship will involve a wide variety of editorial-related responsibilities, including policy research, proofreading, formatting publications for print, formatting publications for Web-posting and broadcast-emailing, and editing and preparation of newspaper articles for graphic designers. 

  • Proofread letters to the editor, opeds, and Research & Commentaries.ƒ
  • Proofread, assign MS Word styles to newspaper articles for graphics departmentƒ, copyedit final layout.
  • Assist with research for one or more books, Policy Briefs, and other publications.
  • Format and initially proofread books and Policy Briefs.
  • Process Consumer Power Report, Climate Change Weekly, and School Choice Weekly enewsletters – proofread/edit, assign HTML styles, send to broadcast email provider and post on website.
  • Assist with document “cleanup” on PolicyBot research database.

Government Relations Department

The internship will involve a wide variety of Government Relations responsibilities, including research on policy issues; outreach to elected officials; database development; and event marketing and promotion. Among the specific tasks that will be assigned to the intern during this period:

  • Research on policy issues. This will require conducting research on issues within Heartland’s policy focus (budget and tax, telecom, school reform, health care, energy and environment, and finance); assisting legislative specialists in drafting Research & Commentaries, letters to the editor, and opinion-editorials.
  • Outreach to elected officials. This requires alerting – through phone calls and emails –elected officials of Heartland’s policy work. Inters will also assist the government relations team in recruiting legislators to join the Legislative Forum through a direct mail campaign.
  • Assist with the promotion Heartland events. Assist the government relations team in determining appropriate venues and topics for policy events to be held throughout the country; draft announcements and invitations for allies; work with government relations director and Art Department to develop event invitation; and promote events to state and/or local elected officials and their staff.
  • Administrative: Heartland tracks the performance of its government relations efforts closely. The intern will be expected to perform some data entry tasks (database updates on addresses/phone numbers for elected officials and assembling educational and promotional materials to be sent by the Government Relations Department each week.)

Graphic Design

The internship will involve a wide variety of design assignments and projects such as Web graphics, brochures, newspapers, book covers, fliers, invitations, and ads. Interns will:

  • Create design solutions according to specified assignments.
  • Design solutions and layouts using InDesign.
  • Retouch photographs using Photoshop.
  • Prepare files for use online and for print.

ABOUT US

The Heartland Institute is one of the world’s leading free-market think tanks. It is a national nonprofit research and education organization based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.

We are an “action tank” as well as a “think tank,” and we measure our success by the impact we have in the real world. The Heartland Institute plays an essential role in the national (and increasingly in the international) movement for personal liberty and limited government. We are the pipeline between the freedom movement’s leading writers and thinkers and the nation’s 8,400 national and state elected officials.

Because we are effective, we have been the subject of unfair criticism and even libel by various liberal advocacy groups, elected officials, and even Wikipedia. Please see the “Reply to Our Critics” page where we answer our critics and set the record straight. We hope you will defend us, when you can, in the comments fields of websites that defame us and in conversations with friends and colleagues.

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Eligibility

Candidates should be from:


Description of Ideal Candidate

Interns are expected to have:

  • Knowledge of public policy issues and free-market thought.
  • Significant experience and fluency with Word Perfect or Word for Windows.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • A professional demeanor, attention to detail, and an ability to make reasoned judgments.
  • Experience with conducting research on the Web, using social media, and HTML mark-up.

Dates

Deadline: As soon as possible


Cost/funding for participants

$150 per week

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