JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Development and Communications Intern - Bay Area

Duration: Summer 2009

Description: Peer Health Exchange (PHE) gives teenagers the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions. We do this by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education. The Development and Communications Intern will support PHE staff by assisting with development research and grant writing, creating weekly news summaries on topics relevant to PHE, and performing general administrative tasks.
This is an unpaid position requiring a commitment of at least eight hours per week. Candidates are encouraged to seek outside funding to support their work at PHE.

Responsibilities
The PHE Development and Communications Intern will:

• Provide development support by:
• Researching potential PHE funders.
• Assisting with the preparation of grant proposals.

• Provide communications support by:
• Research weekly news developments on topics relevant to the PHE mission by reviewing national and city-specific news sources, reviewing e-mail updates from health- and education-related news feeds, and signing up for updates from additional news sources.
• Creating an electronic news summary with links to news stories on the internet and circulating weekly news summaries to staff.
• Assisting with the preparation of PHE press folders

• Perform general administrative tasks by:
• Maintaining vendor files.
• Assisting the National staff as necessary.

Qualifications
Peer Health Exchange is looking for someone who:

• Has or is pursuing a bachelor’s degree.
• Has excellent research, writing, and editing skills.
• Has strong interpersonal skills.

Contact
Please submit a resume, a cover letter, and a sample news summary to the following email address: rachel@peerhealthexchange.org. Resumes will not be considered without cover letters and a sample news summary. More information about Peer Health Exchange can be found at www.peerhealthexchange.org.