TechCongress Communications Internship 2027 – YOA

Deadline: November 10, 2026

Applications are invited for the TechCongress Communications Internship 2027. TechCongress seeks a Communications Intern for the winter/spring 2027 time period, beginning in early January and operating by mid-May. You ought to have an curiosity in studying about and enhancing Congress or expertise coverage. This is a hybrid internship, with a minimum of two days every week within the Washington, D.C. workplace. You should be primarily based within the D.C. metropolitan space (D.C., MD, VA) throughout the internship.

TechCongress is a nonpartisan nonprofit that locations technologists in Congress and state legislatures as fellows, constructing the technical experience democratic establishments want to control AI, digital infrastructure, and rising expertise. Over 11 years, they’ve positioned greater than 146 fellows in workplaces throughout each events, together with these of Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, Senator John Thune, and the Senate Intelligence Committee. 31 have been employed into full-time congressional workers roles. They are actually increasing that mannequin to state legislatures throughout the nation.

Responsibilities

You’ll be a core member of the Communications Team, engaged on initiatives that form how audiences, from Congress and the tech sector to state legislatures and most people, perceive the function of expertise expertise in policymaking.

• Tell fellows’ tales. Draft truth sheets, weblog posts, social media campaigns, and press supplies that present how fellows’ technical experience modified legislative outcomes.
• Own month-to-month jobs e-newsletter. Produce every version of Policy Opportunities for Technologists: supply tech coverage and public curiosity expertise roles from their community and public job boards, write itemizing summaries, and construct and ship the version in MailChimp.
• Support branding. TechCongress is constructing its first-ever model information! Implement the brand new branding components and make sure that all TechCongress supplies mirror model pointers. 
• Document impression. Own the methods for gathering fellowship impression information and maintain the guy accomplishments and press protection information present. Learn Google Drive construction and retrieve information for supplies and reporting.
• Shape our digital presence. Propose, draft, and publish web site content material. Plan and run campaigns on LinkedIn, X, and Bluesky, preserve the content material calendar, and analyze engagement information to refine their technique.
• Support core programming. Internally, assist execute their 2027 fellow orientation and 2028 recruitment occasions. Externally, assist excessive-stage panels, webinars, and in-particular person networking occasions that join technologists and share their learnings.
• Contribute to technique. Analyze communications efficiency, pitch content material concepts, and advocate methods to achieve goal audiences.

Remuneration

• The internship pays $20/hour.

Eligibility

• Open to present undergraduate and graduate college students and up to date graduates;
• Must be approved to work within the U.S.
• Strong writing abilities, with the power to adapt tone and complexity for various audiences.
• Self-direction and challenge possession. You can take an project from idea to completion.
• Organizational abilities and a focus to element that maintain up underneath deadline strain.
• Availability for 20–40 hours every week (part-time or full-time).

Additional abilities (a plus however not required)

• Familiarity with or skill to study the communications instruments: Squarespace, MailChimp, Canva, and Hootsuite.
• Familiarity with or skill to study the G-Suite (Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and so on.)
• Experience managing organizational (non-private) social media accounts.
• Interest in tech coverage and authorities.

Application

To apply, submit a resume, solutions to the application questions, and a writing pattern of not more than two pages by the application on Screendoor.

They overview purposes on a rolling foundation and prioritize these submitted by Friday, November 6. Applications shut Tuesday, November 10 at 11:59 PM ET. An early January begin date is most well-liked.

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For extra info, go to TechCongress Communications Internship.