Communications Intern – Advocacy Team
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Communications Intern supporting Bionews’ rare-disease news sites and patient communities. Conducting advocacy research, project tracking, and social media communications.
Responsibilities:
- Support established administrative processes and project management
- Research the rare and chronic disease landscape and identify advocacy groups for potential partnerships and new site launches
- Research upcoming events, milestones, and announcements from potential partners
- Ensure partnership-contract tasks are included in the project management platform
- Track task completion and update project trackers
- Organize and archive files
- Support aggregation and creation of results reports
- Learn fundamentals of patient-centered, accessible communications
- Draft and edit social media copy
- Draft visual asset designs
- Track advocacy-related social media posts across Bionews channels
- Capture screenshots of approved posts for the project management platform
- Provide light logistics coordination for conferences and events as needed
- Report to the Partner Engagement Lead, Advocacy
Requirements:
- Third- or fourth-year student preferred, or early-career candidate
- Strong writing and research skills
- Basic knowledge of social media platforms
- Clear, respectful communication with patient advocates, nonprofit leaders, caregivers, and internal teams
- Strong project management instincts
- Collaborative, team-first mentality
- Proactive and organized
- Knowledge of AP style or another editorial style guide
- Knowledge of Google Workspace or Microsoft Teams preferred
- Experience with Canva preferred
- Knowledge of specific rare diseases, including lived experience, preferred
- Prior exposure to conference planning preferred
- Project management platform experience, such as Monday or Jira, preferred
- Portfolio of 3–5 writing samples
- Recommendations from 2–3 professional references
- Fully remote and US-based
- Available from January 1, 2027 through April 30, 2027
- Availability for up to 10 hours per week
Benefits:
- Paid internship
- Fully remote work
- Academic credit eligibility, subject to prior approval
- Professional guidance and support
- Opportunities to enhance professional skills and gain relevant entry-level communications experience
- Evaluations or learning agreements completed to fulfill academic documentation requirements
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