Graduate Student Intern (Remote)
The Better Life Lab at New America is a small team of researchers and storytellers working in solidarity with the movement for work-life justice. We focus on intersectional gender equity, elevating the value of care, and rewiring social policy and workplace culture to work for today’s families.
The team works collaboratively to maximize its impact on workplace culture, social policy, and gender equality, employing a variety of innovative tactics and iterating on them based on analysis of their efficacy. Collegiality, self-motivation, creativity, and energy are key to thriving in this flexible work environment.
The Lab is looking for a remote graduate student intern for 20 hours per week from late August through December 18, 2020. This is a paid internship with a wage of $25 per hour. The Lab would like the intern’s support with the following:
- Write the weekly Better Life Lab newsletter, “Your Life, Better,” and work with BLL team members to edit and revise it
- Manage the Better Life Lab’s social media presence, including frequent posts on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook every day
- Manage, research, and write content for the Better Life Lab’s special project, Better Life Lab Experiments (BLLx), a behavioral-science informed tool to move the needle on gender equality at home by helping families share the work at home more fairly. This work will include:
- Researching and writing original experiments;
- Writing, sending, and editing a biweekly newsletter to beta testers;
- Communicating with, soliciting and incorporating feedback from beta testers;
- Managing the BLLx Instagram page; and
- Working with beta testers and partners to build peer networks and community.
Required Qualifications:
- A current graduate student studying public policy, journalism, sociology, gender studies, communications, or another program with demonstrable connection to our focus areas.
- A demonstrated interest in work-family justice and the work redesign, gender equity, and social policy issues BLL covers.
- Able to convey complex information, including academic research and public policy to a broad and diverse audience in a concise, clear, and conversational manner.
Desired Qualifications:
- Able to keep track of multiple competing deadlines and communicate potential conflicts with the Lab’s staff.
- Able to give and receive timely feedback and edits
- Able to work well with people from diverse backgrounds and with different work styles and personalities, and to think creatively about how to advance a culture of equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism both within the Lab and beyond.
To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter describing your interests and qualifications. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.