GiveForward is Hiring Fall Interns!

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GiveForward is looking for bright, enthusiastic, highly-motivated rising juniors, seniors, new graduates and grad students who want to really sink their teeth into a project and run with it.  You must have excellent writing and communication skills, and a sense of humor is a REQUIREMENT. Additionally, the ability to finish a two pound burrito from Chipotle in one sitting is viewed favorably (see below).

If you are interested in applying, please send a resume and a short cover letter explaining why you want to work with us to jobs@giveforward.org.

Please include which position you are applying for in the subject line. We are currently hiring for the following positions:

Fundraising Coach Extraordinaire: Are you a fundraising king or queen? Do you enjoy helping people and coming up with creative ways to raise money for good causes? If so, you could be perfect for this position.

We need someone who is an excellent communicator both with emails and on the phone.

Responsibilities will include:

* Working closely with individuals and organizations to help them better understand the ins and outs of online fundraising  (don’t worry, if you don’t know the ins and outs, we’ll teach you)

* Reaching out to new users to help them do a better job of fundraising

* Serving as the “face” of GiveForward to the Giveforward community and the outside world

* Issuing checks and personalizing the letters we send to beneficiaries

* Ensuring that our users have the absolute best user experience possible

Social Media Maven: Do you have more friends on Facebook than anyone you know? Are you a YouTube junkie? Does TwitterAddict have nothing on you? Well, then you might be just the person we’re looking for.

We need someone who is confident using a variety of social media tools and who understands the importance of building an online community.

Responsibilities include:

* Growing our Fan base on Facebook and interacting with our Fans

* Tweeting and interacting with our following on Twitter

* Helping us to develop and implement our social media marketing strategy

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About the internship…

Please note that all positions are unpaid. We offer course credit for those whose schools accept internship credits and bonus opportunities exist throughout the internship.

If you have any questions about these positions before you apply, please feel free to email ethan@GiveForward.org

A little bit more about our internship program

This isn’t your normal internship.  It is way awesomer! We assign real responsibilities to all of our team members and expect everyone to produce results.  We also believe work should be fun as well. We are a young company (no one here is older than 29) and we try not to take ourselves too seriously (we throw a drunken ugly sweater pub crawl each year). Bottom line, your internship will be a healthy mix of work and play and should provide you with a meaningful experience that we hope you will enjoy.

WORK: Some of the things GiveForward interns accomplished over the past year:

* Coached our users to help them raise over $1.6 million for medical fundraisers and other good causes
* Helped plan and promote a 175+ person charity benefit event as well as the “world famous” Ugly Sweater Pub Crawl
* Developed and maintained GiveForward’s Twitter and Facebook accounts
* Helped us maintain the highest standards for customer relations
* Wrote news stories, fundraising tips and feature articles for our blog
* Designed GiveForward T-shirts and marketing materials such as online ads and pamphlets
* Developed and implemented buzz marketing campaigns including creating a CityChase GiveForward Chase Point, the GiveForward Lemonade Stand, and a Christmas in July GiveForward Newsletter campaign

PLAY: Here are a few of the intern activities that take place at GiveForward

* Participation in Chicago’s CityChase
* YELP + GiveForward Charity Scavenger Hunt
* Birthday Lunches
* Administered free hugs all around Chicago
* Participation in team t-shirt design contests
* Our “Beer Pong for Snuggies” Contest
* The “Interns Only” Summer BBQ
* Participation in GiveForward Lemonade Stand
* Our world-famous Ugly Sweater Charity Pub Crawl
* The Interns vs. Bosses 2 lb Chipotle Burrito eating contest
*…but even better, the First Ever Intern vs. Intern Burrito eating contest