Events and Communications Intern Summer 2025
Events and Communications Intern Summer 2025
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Organization Description
Vital Voices Global Partnership is a leading international nonprofit organization. We invest in women leaders who are tackling the worlds greatest challenges from genderbased violence to the climate crisis economic inequities and more. We are venture catalysts identifying leaders with a daring vision for change and partnering with them to make that vision a reality. What sets Vital Voices apart is that we make longterm holistic investments in leaders with bold ideas for change providing them connections capacity a network of their peers financial support and visibility for their work. We have provided early support for leaders who went on to become Nobel Peace Laureates US Youth Poet Laureates Prime Ministers award winning innovators and breakthrough social entrepreneurs. Over the past 24 years we have directly invested in more than 47000 changemakers across 188 countries who in turn have improved the lives of millions of people in their communities and countries.
Today Vital Voices has a staff of nearly 100 headquartered in Washington DC. Weve recently been working to dramatically scale our impact in accordance with our bold vision. In early 2022 we opened the first ever Global Headquarters for Womens Leadership a 30000 sq. ft. historic building just blocks from the White House on 16th Street. It is a hub of activity events and collaborations bringing together women leaders and their allies to tackle the worlds greatest challenges.
Mission
Vital Voices invests in women leaders taking on the worlds greatest challenges and accelerates collective action towards an equitable and sustainable world.
Organizational Goals 2030
- Scale our proven investment model from 47000 to 50000 women leaders who together will positively impact the lives of one billion people.
- Make a measurable impact on 12 of the greatest challenges as defined by the Vital Voices Global Network proving the power of collective action.
- Cultivate a critical mass of people around the world who believe that womens leadership has a positive impact.
Summary
The Events Intern will work directly under the supervision and guidance of the Director Events. This position will be responsible for assisting with the planning and day of event logistics. This role is based in Washington DC with the option of a hybrid work schedule.
Additional responsibilities include:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Event Coordination:Support event coordination for internal and external events. Liaise with catering vendors security and operations to ensure a smooth process that follows standard operating procedures.
- Event Day of Coordination: Serve as a day of coordinator for events at VVHQ. Manage event logistics and serve as a central point of contact for day of operations.
- Global Leadership Awards: Support the full planning process for the annual Global Leadership Awards. Attend meetings and follow up on action items process vendor invoices and contracts serve as a main point of contact for event participants manage guest lists and communication with guests and work closely across internal departments to facilitate event progress.
- Other duties as assigned.
Professional Qualifications:
- Majoring in Business Administration International Studies/Relations/Affairs Hospitality or other relevant fields;
- Strong demonstrated interest in global womens issues;
- Excellent oral and written communications skills in English;
- Ability to prioritize tasks swiftly shift priorities and work in a fastpaced environment with tight deadlines sometimes under difficult or challenging circumstances;
- Ability to work independently and as part of a dynamic team;
- Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and selfawareness;
- Experience with Classy (event software) Canva and Mailchimp preferred;
- Ability to work some nights and weekends as needed;
- Strong computer skills including MS Office applications (esp. Excel Word and PowerPoint) social networking tools and database software (i.e. Salesforce).
The stipend for this 10week position is $3000 based on a 3040 hour work week and will be paid in 2 increments throughout the program. For part time interns the stipend is $1500 and based on a 1520 hour work week. This role will begin May 27th and run through August 2nd 2025. Candidates with the flexibility to extend the internship August 11 October 18 in a parttime or fulltime capacity is desired. Due to the nature of events flexibility in scheduling (including some nights and/or weekends) is required.
The internship program is a hybrid position and requires at minimum 1 day in our DC office per week for parttime interns and 2 days in office for fulltime interns. Preference will be given to interns that can be present at VVHQ at least 3 days per week due to the volume of in person events.
Vital Voices provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements Vital Voices complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Vital Voices expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age genetic information disability or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Vital Voices employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.
Staff may experience secondary trauma due to exposure to descriptive and/or graphic genderbased violence content in their work on the urgent assistance program. Vital Voices does not provide work visa sponsorship or relocation assistance for this position.
Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
