Strategic Communications & Digital Media Intern (Founding Team)

Duration: Duration: Summer 2026, with potential for continued paid engagement beyond the internship

Hours: 10 to 40 hours per week (flexible)

Compensation: Paid Internship ($22/hour); college credit eligible

Are you ready to build a digital movement from the ground up?

We are launching a groundbreaking, nonpartisan political and educational ecosystem dedicated to one vital mission: Speaking Boldly for Child Health. Operating across three interconnected advocacy and educational branches, we translate pediatric science into legislative action and support bipartisan champions in Congress. This is an opportunity to help create a cohesive visual identity for a new organization and ensure consistency across social media, presentations, publications, fundraising materials, and advocacy communications.

We are seeking multiple highly creative, visually strategic, and self-motivated summer interns to serve as the engine of our digital launch. Working directly with the founders, your primary mission will be architecting our social media presence and building a robust content pipeline from scratch. 

What You Will Do:

The core of this internship is social media strategy, asset design, and content architecture. You will be taking the leadership team's vision and transforming it into a cohesive communications and digital footprint.

• Build the Launch Backlog: Design, draft, and batch a comprehensive library of platform-specific content for LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube, applying social media best practices, audience engagement strategies, and platform-specific design standards.
• Develop Content Calendars: Map out, organize, and manage a structured social media content calendar to ensure a consistent and strategic rollout of messaging.
• Translate Vision into Design: Take the founders’ high-level ideas, research, and pediatric data, and turn them into compelling stories and visually stunning digital assets (infographics, carousel posts, and short-form videos).
• Digital Engagement Support: Assist with the digital side of our soft-launch fundraising campaigns by drafting outreach emails and tracking prospective supporters.
• Develop Communications Materials & Brand Assets: Create professional one-pagers, fact sheets, donor materials, slide templates, briefing documents, social media graphics, and other public-facing collateral while helping establish and maintain a cohesive visual identity across all organizational communications.
• Administrative & Operations Support: Handle light administrative tasks to keep the startup ecosystem running smoothly, such as organizing digital files, scheduling meetings, and tracking after meeting actions. 

Who You Are:

• A Creative Strategist: A student or recent grad (Public Policy, Political Science, Communications, Public Health, Graphic Design, or Marketing) who loves storytelling and digital design.
• A Digital Communicator: Highly proficient in Canva and familiar with current social media and digital design best practices across LinkedIn, Instagram, X, and YouTube. You understand platform-specific content formats, audience engagement strategies, visual storytelling, and how to create content that is both mission-driven and visually compelling. You can develop polished communications materials including one-pagers, fact sheets, presentations, and social graphics.
• A thoughtful Designer & Brand Builder: Familiar with graphic design best practices, including visual hierarchy, typography, color usage, accessibility, and branding consistency. Excited by the opportunity to help create and maintain a cohesive visual identity across social media, presentations, publications, fundraising materials, and advocacy communications.
• A Self-Starter: You thrive in a fast-paced startup environment. You are excited to take a rough concept or vision and run with it without needing constant hand-holding.
• Mission-Driven: Deeply passionate about children’s health and wellbeing, grassroots organizing, or bipartisan political strategy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing or creating content for organizational social media accounts.
• Experience designing communications materials such as one-pagers, reports, presentations, social media graphics, and fundraising collateral, with a strong understanding of graphic design principles and best practices.
• Familiarity with nonprofit, advocacy, public policy, healthcare, or political communications.
• Experience with Canva Pro (required), CapCut, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar design tools.
• Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
• Ability to create platform-specific designs optimized for LinkedIn, Instagram, X, YouTube, email, and web use.

Why This Internship is Different:

This isn't a "get us coffee" internship. You will have a direct seat at the table with organizational leaders, and your visual designs and strategic fingerprints will shape the public face of a national movement.

To Apply:

Submit your resume and a brief portfolio sample (or links to content you’ve created), along with a 1-page cover letter OR a <60-second video pitch explaining why child health is a priority for you, to info@aafac.org