Summer 2025 Paid Intern – Communications and Marketing, Digital Engagement

The ACLU seeks an Intern in the Communications Department of the ACLU’s National office in New York. This position is remote.

The Team
The ACLU’s Communications & Marketing Department team focuses on growing our existing audiences and acquiring new audiences by smartly using digital channels to reach and inspire them to take action. We create rich and compelling written, multimedia, and graphic design content that are used in key email, texting, social, merchandise, and paid media programs that help raise money, get our message out into the world, and mobilize existing and new supporters.

What You’ll Do:
• Marketing, editing, and creating persuasive content on digital platforms
• Writing for website, email, SMS, and other text-based copy as requested
• Working with other communications staff members to develop communications strategic plans that support issue advocacy work across our issues while laddering into org objectives
• Researching and compiling information about our issues
• Meeting with internal stakeholders around project goals, needs, and deadlines
• Analyzing competitors’ online presences in order to gauge organizational opportunities
• Compiling and presenting plans, research to stakeholders and deciders

Your Day to Day
• Assist in content production and execution for web, email and SMS
• Help track and report owned engagement analytics
• Support during rapid response moment and increasing capacity moments
• Collaborate with ODE vendors and other ACLU stakeholders on current campaigns and projects

What You’ll Bring
• Demonstrated interest in digital engagement. Understanding of the internet and user experience.
• Familiarity with a range of online publishing tools, tactics and strategies. CMS experience is a strong plus.
• Experience with editing and excellent writing and research skills.
• Strong computer skills, particularly web-based research including proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (i.e. Word, Excel)
• Comfortable analyzing data
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team.

Future ACLU-ers Will:
• Be committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
• Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
• Be committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflict

Internship Logistics:
• Location: Our internship program offers a limited number of remote or hybrid intern positions. This internship is remote.
• Time Commitment: Term-time internships may be completed on a part-time basis (10, 15, or 20 hours/week) or full-time (35 hours/week). Summer internships require a full-time commitment.
• Internship Duration: Full-time internships span 10 consecutive weeks. This internship has a start date of May 27th or June 9th 2025.
• Stipend: A stipend is available for students who are lawfully authorized to work. Below are the stipend rates:
• $20/hour for undergraduate students or equivalent experience
• $24/hour for graduate and law students or equivalent experience

While there is a priority deadline, our project is committed to reviewing all applications on a rolling basis until the closing of posting.

Why the ACLU:

For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it’s ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.

Our Commitment to Accessibility, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. For us diversity, equity and inclusion are not just check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term meaningful change. We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we’re in the courts or in the office, we believe ‘We the People’ means all of us.

With this commitment in mind, we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online, please email [email protected]. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request accommodations for the interview process.

The ACLU does not accept unsolicited calls or emails from candidates regarding their application status.