Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and promoting policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual health. Advocates for Youth relies on dedicated staff to accomplish its mission. Below are current job and internship openings.

Current Openings

• Fundraising Internship
• Manager of Campus Organizing
• Print and Web Design Intern

FUNDRAISING INTERNSHIP, DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT Summer 2012 – Spring 2014

Advocates for Youth is currently seeking to fill a paid internship position for 20-30 hours per week on its Development team. The individual will be trained to do behind-the-scenes and frontline fundraising activities and will help develop the strategy to engage and inform young donors in support of Advocates' mission. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants a non-profit career, especially those seeking leadership positions, since knowledge of fundraising and donor engagement is a vital skillset.

Advocates is highly committed to youth development, and therefore provides its interns with a flexible and supportive work environment in which each intern can find ways to pursue his or her own interests while here. The development team is lean and mean, so someone who wants to quickly become an integral member of team that raises $6.4 million annually and do substantive work is the ideal candidate. Speaking of ideals – ideally, we are seeking candidates that could begin in May/June 2013 and continue through the fall and spring semesters.

During the internship, responsibilities include things like:

• Coordinating Advocates' youth fundraising efforts, including supporting youth fundraising advisory board.
• Conducting and preparing background research on corporations, individual donors and foundations.
• Helping secure and steward sponsors to the organization's annual youth leadership development institute.
• Editing and/or drafting foundation proposals and/or reports as well as compiling articles, reviewing fundraising appeals, and/or creating/updating other donor correspondence.
• Stewardship of donations including thank you notes, thank you calls and reviewing current processes to identify creative ways to say thanks to supporters.
• Following up on outstanding individual pledges via email, letter or phone.
• Administrative duties will occur but will not dominate the responsibilities – these include data entry, filing, mailings, copy work, etc.

What we are looking for (a.k.a. Qualifications):

• Brilliance including strength and clarity when writing.
• Ability (or willingness to learn) to prioritize and negotiate.
• High level of attention to detail and solid organizational skills.
• Familiarity with Internet research.
• Familiarity with databases and/or data entry (or ability to figure it out quickly).
• Ability to take direction as well as work independently.
• Must be creative and willing to brainstorm.

Application procedures:

This is a summer position with a flexible start and end date and will be open until filled. Candidates should send a brief cover letter, resume, and two references to Jen Stark, Deputy Director of Development, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Subject line: I want your internship. Yes, we are checking to see if you really are detail-oriented!

Manager of Campus Organizing

ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION: Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and promoting policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual health. Since 1980, Advocates provides information, training, and advocacy to youth, youth-serving organizations, policy makers, and the media in the U.S. and internationally. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Under the supervision of the Associate Director of Organizing & Mobilization, the Manager of Campus Organizing will assist in efforts to expand, engage, and mobilize Advocates’ Youth Activist Network of 75,000 focusing on college campus based initiatives such as the 1 in 3 Campaign, the Campus Organizer Team, and the Great American Condom Campaign, among others.

GENERAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The Youth Activist Network (YAN) consists of approximately 75,000 youth from across the United States willing to take action to support young people’s rights to comprehensive sexual health information and services. Through new media, face-to-face meetings, and intensive trainings, Advocates provides these young people with information and builds their skills on issues such as reproductive and sexual health, advocacy, media outreach, and youth organizing, among other topics, in order to create an active and mobilized network of youth activists willing to conduct cultural and political advocacy. Within the YAN, the campus-based initiatives currently include the 1 in 3 Campaign, the Great American Condom Campaign, and the Campus Organizer Team.

The 1 in 3 Campaign is a grassroots movement to start a new conversation about abortion—telling our stories, on our own terms. Through harnessing the power of storytelling the campaign aims to challenge the cultural stigma around abortion and inspire action to strengthen the support for abortion access. Through the 1 in 3 Campaign, Advocates recruits, trains and supports activists from 20 campuses in organizing efforts to end stigma and promote access to abortion services.

The Campus Organizer Team is a project to train, support and mentor activists from ten college campus organizations across the United States, assisting them to mobilize and empower their peers in the fight for honest sex education, condom/contraceptive access, the rights of LGBTQ youth, and/or HIV prevention, among others. Campus Organizers serve as activists, advocates, and spokespeople at the local, state, and national level.

Great American Condom Campaign is a youth-led movement on 1,000 college campuses to make the U.S. a sexually healthy nation. Each year, GACC members give out more than one million Trojan Brand condoms on college campuses across the Unites States, educate their peers about sexual health, and organize to improve the policies that affect young people’s health and lives.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Recruit youth activists from college campuses to join Advocates' campaigns.
• Facilitate youth activist trainings on campus organizing, advocacy, policy, and youth sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice.
• Conduct on-going technical assistance, providing student organizers with strategic assistance, on-site training, resources, and materials to conduct advocacy activities on their campuses.
• Serve as a one of the lead event planners of Advocates’ annual youth activist training institute, The Urban Retreat, a meeting of 140 activists held annually in Washington DC by facilitating planning meetings, coordinating staff responsibilities, working with program and policy staff to create overall training agendas, and oversee event logistics.
• Coordinate two regional trainings for 1 in 3 Campaign activists in target states.
• Build relationships with local and state reproductive justice organizations.
• Prepare and develop activism toolkits, campaign materials, and background materials for use by campus activists.
• Represent the organization in selected coalition meetings and activities, as requested.
• Write monthly reports on activities.
• Assist with other specific Youth Activist Network projects as necessary including, but not limited to, alumni engagement.
• Other tasks as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree required. Must have at least two years of experience with student organizing and a demonstrated interest in young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, abortion access, advocacy, and policy. Demonstrated capacity to work with a diverse group is required along with good judgment, cultural competency, attention to detail, ability to work respectfully with peers and supervisors, and flexibility in a fast-paced environment. Ability to pay keen attention to detail, prioritize and/or seek guidance on how to prioritize projects, and meet tight deadlines. Event planning experience is a plus. Excellent interpersonal, writing, and communication skills. Commitment to Advocates for Youth’s mission and goals.

SALARY RANGE: Commensurate with experience.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Interested applicants should submit a resume, cover letter, salary requirements and three references to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . No phone calls, please. Deadline for applications is close of business Friday, March 22nd, 2013.

Print & Web Design Intern

Advocates for Youth's Communications Department is seeking a Print and Web Design Intern to join our team. We work together to create rapid-response campaigns to cultural flashpoints as well as maintain a full annual communications calendar for a range of subject matter. We are seeking a designer who also has a keen interest in activism and/or issues surrounding sexual and reproductive health and rights; and would benefit from getting a sense of what it is like to serve a non-profit operating on a nationwide and international level.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE

• Using templates to create coordinated campaign specific web graphics for a variety of outlets including web, email and social media
• Performing image research pulling from stock websites, Advocate's own image archive and the internet at large
• Following the Advocates brand manual to create small print pieces
• Desktopping short documents using supplied InDesign templates
• Formatting and sending periodic email newsletters
• Performing text and graphic updates to web properties

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Ability to prioritize quick turnaround items alongside longer projects
• Familiarity with Adobe CS programs, primarily Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
• Fluent in HTML and CSS
• Familiarity with navigating the back end of a website run on a CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal or Expression Engine

Strong preference given to applicants with own laptop computer and software. Must be able to work in the Advocates for Youth office at 2000 M Street NW, Washington DC for 15-20 hours per week.  Pay is $10-$12 hour commensurate with experience. Please send resume and samples of work to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .