Marketing and Communications Intern

Marketing and Communications Intern Position Details:

Position Type:

Internship Department:

Marketing & Communications Reports To:

Chris McLeod, Executive Director of Marketing and Communications Internship Duration:

June 2026 - September 2026

Work Location:

Remote Hourly Rate:

$18.00 (undergraduate rate) $23.00 (graduate rate)

Internship Overview :

Achieving the Dream s Marketing & Communications team advances the organization s mission by shaping its voice, strengthening its brand, and driving engagement with key audiences. We position the organization as a trusted leader while supporting strategic priorities such as growing market presence and optimizing the digital experience. A key component of optimizing our digital presence is ensuring target audiences find our website when they go to the internet for help advancing their student success agendas. In addition , a deeper understanding of how metrics can better infor m our digital advertising efforts and the opportunities of artificial intelligence on our daily activities are also ket priorities for the team . The internship will focus on three areas. 1. Improving our website visibility through Search Engine Optimization 2. Looking at how AI can improve our daily marketing and communications work. 3. Improving how we use LinkedIn ad metrics (going deeper into what we can learn and how it can impact our work).

Duties and Responsibilities:

Support the process of optimizing ATD s website SEO Conduct research and present findings on vendors for supporting our website s long-term SEO goals Assist with analyzing LinkedIn content capabilities and ad metrics and how they can inform the team s work Lead the exploration and recommendation of AI tools for the department Collaborate with team members on daily operations

Skills/Qualifications:

Currently pursuing a degree inmarketing and communications or a related field Strong communicationand organizational skills ProficiencyinWordPress-based websites and relevant SEO optimization tools Ability to use AI-assisted tools and an interest in applying them to website development andoptimization What You ll

Gain:

Practical experience incrafting marketingmessaging that boost awareness with target audiences. Knowledge of connecting emerging technologies to marketing and communications in the nonprofit space. Opportunities to builddigital advertising strategies using social mediaadvertisinganalytics Experiencecross-collaborating withother organizationalteams to advance a marketing and communications team s work.

Core Competencies:

Collaboration :

Demonstrates respect, humility, and willingness to collaborate when seeking to understand others and making decisions.

Equity Mindset :

Demonstrates capacity to recognize and address racialized structures, policies, and practices that produce and sustain racial inequities.

Learning Orientation :

Embraces challenges, new ideas and different perspectives as an opportunity to learn; continually seeks out and applies new learning to activate change or improvements.

Systems Thinking :

Defines the system and one s role in the system. Sees relationships and the dynamic elements of the holistic system and executes work accordingly. Influences the system and maps connections to ATD s external landscape.

Physical Demands :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Equal Opportunity Employer :

Achieving the Dream is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse work environment. Employment policies and decisions are based upon merit, qualifications, performance, and business needs. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), gender identity or expression, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, legally- protected genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.