Membership Internship

Founded in 1935, The Wilderness Society (TWS) is a national non-profit environmental organization whose mission is to protect wilderness and to inspire Americans to care for our wild places.

TWS’s headquarters located in Washington, DC has an opening for a paid full-time intern for a six month internship. This is a perfect opportunity for a graduate student with an interest in pursuing a career in development to learn the day to day operations from a professional staff.

Internship Duties

• Working within a team environment to provide support for direct mail, telecommunications and online fundraising initiatives and stewardship to a national nonprofit advocacy organization with nearly one million supporters.
• Attend Direct Marketing 101 training to learn production side of direct marketing for membership programs.
• Attend weekly meetings with direct mail, caging and customer service vendors.
• Contacting Wilderness Society membership through mail, e-mail and phone to answer membership and program related questions.
• Opportunity to learn donor centric database strategies for managing constituencies.
• Provide assistance with income processing tasks.
• Scheduling weekly departmental meeting.
• Creating dashboard and tracking of follow up tasks.

Qualifications

• Interest in fundraising and donor stewardship
• Well-organized and flexible
• Excellent customer service skills and attention to detail
• Good writing and editing skills
• Database experience desired 
• Interest in the environment and public land issues desirable

Please send a cover letter, resume and writing sample to:

Robin A. Hickman, Director, Advocate and Membership Services at robin_hickman@tws.org