An official website of the United States government -Student Volunteer Intern, MC-099 -Overview -Open & closing dates 10/01/2018to10/05/2018 -Service Competitive -Pay scale & grade MC 00 -Salary $0 to $0 per year -Appointment type Internships -Work schedule Multiple Schedules -Washington DC, DC -Relocation expenses reimbursed No -Announcement number MCC-10319270-18-91-CPA -Control number 512564000 -Duties -Summary The MCC Department of Congressional and Public Affairs is recruiting for the Fall 2018 Student Volunteer Internship Program. Internships are provided for students with a desire to work in the international development field and/or public sector and assignments are designed to complement the intern's educational pursuits while meeting the expressed needs of the agency and individual MCC departments. Internships may be extended. -Responsibilities Candidates will have an opportunity to assist in a wide range of duties to help increase public awareness of MCC's mission, goals, and accomplishments, and will contribute to communicating MCC's innovative model of aid effectiveness to targeted audiences in the United States and overseas. Opportunities are available in the following area: Public Affairs, Press, and Congressional Affairs and External Engagement. Public Affairs Intern: Assist in production of MCC materials for public distribution, assist in coordination of agency public events, and interagency collaboration. Capable of writing and editing public materials and web copy. WordPress skills, Adobe Creative Cloud production applications such as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and video production highly desirable. Other duties as assigned. Press Intern: Prepare media and communications materials including press advisories and releases, media briefers, responses to media inquiries, if-asked press questions and answers, and basic talking points, draft engaging content for social media, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, create press lists and draft media pitches, support the preparation and execution for press conferences, interviews and other activities, support collection and internal dissemination of daily news clips, general media monitoring as directed around topics of importance, create timely analytics reports for press activities, other duties as assigned Congressional Affairs and Engagement Interns: Developing and staffing outreach events with leaders in the development field, perform research projects in the areas of international development, women's economic development, and the private sector, attending hearings and events on the hill and around DC and provide a comprehensive readout to the CPA team, prepare briefing materials for senior level staff who are participating in high level meetings, going on official travel, or attending events, track and answer emails in a professional manner, shepherd assigned projects when needed. Other duties as assigned. Majors in Communications and/or political science preferred. -Requirements -Conditions of Employment -US Citizenship Required -Must be able to successfully complete a background investigation -Qualifications To be eligible for this Student Volunteer Internship position: -You must be enrolled or accepted for enrollment in an accredited two-year or four-year college or university, graduate or professional school (go to www.ope.ed.gov/accreditation/ to verify accreditation status). Individuals who are enrolled must be taking at least a half-time academic, vocational, or technical course load leading to a degree, diploma, or certificate. -In good academic standing. -Must be currently enrolled at least half-time."Half-time" is defined by the school in which the student is enrolled. -Education This job does not have an education qualification requirement.