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Editorial or Communications Fall 2025 Internship with Ballotpedia

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Ballotpedia is a mission-driven organization dedicated to providing Americans with accurate, relevant, and reliable information about politics, elections, and public policy. Our goal is to close the ballot information gap and help voters make informed decisions. Ballotpedia interns join either the Communications, Editorial, External Relations or Tech teams, working alongside full-time staff members.

As a Ballotpedia Editorial intern, you may:

  • be embedded in one of our Editorial teams (i.e. Ballot Measures, Elections, Marquee, News, or Policy) and work directly with Editorial staff members;
  • research and write about elections and candidates, policy topics, legislation, ballot measures, or other topics, depending upon your assignment;
  • assist our teams in news tracking, legislation tracking, and primary source monitoring;
  • process candidate surveys;
  • conduct other detailed research projects;
  • participate in brainstorming sessions and planning meetings with experienced staff members;
  • process new volunteer applications and work with volunteer program activities; and
  • assist with metrics and reporting on data collection.

As a Ballotpedia Communications intern, you may:

  • assist with Ballotpedia’s social media, including creating posts and graphics;
  • assist with Ballotpedia’s various email products, from daily and weekly newsletters to special campaigns;
  • respond to communications from a variety of external sources;
  • collect a variety of data points, tracking subscribers, and engagement;
  • help develop compelling presentations, infographics and reports;
  • monitor and report on media mentions;
  • participate in special research projects;
  • participate in promotional planning and activities;
  • assist in identifying and coordinating influencer relations on social media; and
  • find and analyze potential social media channels for Ballotpedia to join or track
  • Assist with video script writing and video image sourcing
  • Assist with SEO tagging
  • Opportunities to write marketing/promotional content.

Ballotpedia’s fall 2025 internship runs from Monday, September 8, 2025 through Friday, December 12, 2025. Ballotpedia’s fall internship is a part-time internship program; interns will work approximately 10-20 hours per week depending on their availability.

Ballotpedia is happy to facilitate credit for your internship experience if that is available to you. If you will be seeking credit for your internship, and if there is anything that Ballotpedia will need to do to assist you, please include that information in the same file as your cover letter.

Environment

Ballotpedia interns will work remotely, as all Ballotpedia staff work remotely. To join Ballotpedia, you must have a well-functioning computer with Internet access. Ballotpedia uses Google Applications (Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive and more) to accomplish our goals. Some familiarity with Google Applications is helpful.

Compensation

Interns will be compensated at $15.00 per hour.

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See all current Ballotpedia jobs/internships at https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia:Job_opportunities.

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