Summer 2025 Social Content and Advocacy Intern

Overview

NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization. We use law, science, and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today, our team of more than 700 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy advocates, communications experts, and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Bozeman, Montana; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington, D.C.

NRDC is seeking a Social Content and Advocacy intern to work with the communications team associated with our Washington D.C. office.

Position Summary

The Social Content team is a robust group of individuals who work diligently to provide the most compelling and poignant content pieces on matters regarding our planet and our communities. From lead in drinking water; to raising awareness of toxic neonics; to legal battles to defend our planet, over the last several years our content has covered a range of topics but has a set goal in mind: To move people to action. Here’s where you come in.

Social media interns play an active role in the movement to protect our planet by doing substantive work that is embedded in writing, research and collaboration.

Responsibilities

Over the course of the internship:

• Research environmental topics pertaining to nature, wildlife and environmental health.
• Monitor ongoing social trends and conversations for opportunities to engage and captivate our audiences.
• Copywrite and edit social posts for our channels, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and X/Twitter.
• Attend weekly meetings and be an avid note taker.
• Pitch social content and create engaging pieces for our channels
• Identify opportunities to increase our brand through social media
• Analyze the metrics and KPIs associated with our content, and work alongside manager to identify areas of growth.

Qualifications

Required

• Commitment to NRDC’s mission and values; 
• Strong writing, analytical, and oral communication skills; 
• Experience effectively working on a team; 
• Creativity and resourcefulness; 
• Commitment to public service, climate, equity, or justice; 
• Record of academic and/or professional accomplishment. 

Preferred

• Strong understanding of climate and environmental issues
• Interest in communications and advocacy work
• Data analysis skills are a plus, but not required
• Journalism, marketing, media or social media skills are a plus.

NRDC is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our work and in our workplace. We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planet's most pressing environmental problems, and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the environmental movement.We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. This position is a paid internship for a student enrolled in an accredited undergrad program paid $6,600.00 bi-weekly over the course of 10 weeks. 

Our offices are open and we are operating in a hybrid model. We offer NRDCers flexibility, and we ask them to come into the office and spend meaningful time there in collaboration with their colleagues. We call this purposeful presence. 

As a science-based organization, NRDC aims to do our part to help contain the COVID-19 public health crisis. For the sake of health, safety, and equity, we ask that people be vaccinated unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation or other exemption in accordance with state and local law. We consider a person to be vaccinated two weeks after receiving one full course of a CDC-approved vaccine. In accordance with state or local law, new hires will be asked to attest to vaccination, those wishing to do so may request medical or religious accommodations or other exemptions via NRDC Employee Relations. NRDC treats all vaccine-related data confidentially, in keeping with local, state, and federal laws. 

If you experience technical problems while applying or if you are a person with a disability and need assistance applying online, please reach out to iCIMS Customer Care at 1-800-889-4422. 

For more about NRDC, visit www.nrdc.org.