KIP Spring 2027 - Policy Team Intern - Ballotpedia

Stand Together; United States; Remote; USD 5,500 - 7,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Ballotpedia is seeking an intern to join its Policy Team and learn how to code the Ballotpedia website while following Ballotpedia’s style guide.

As an intern, you will work with full-time staff writers and researchers on public policy coverage, learn bias prevention practices, and participate in onboarding and ongoing policy projects.

Ballotpedia interns work remotely and gain hands-on experience across national policy topics and data-driven research.

Responsibilities

• Learn Ballotpedia's style guide and how to code the Ballotpedia site.
• Join the Policy Team and work with staff writers on public policy coverage.
• Research policy topics, track legislation, and monitor primary sources.
• Assist with news tracking, data collection, and reporting metrics.

Job description

The Koch Internship Program (KIP)

is a paid experiential learning program run by Stand Together Fellowships that offers professional development, leadership training, and meaningful work experience at non-profits tackling some of our nation’s most pressing policy challenges all over the United States. Early-career professionals including undergraduate/graduate/law students and recent graduates are encouraged to apply. Eligible candidates will be geographically located in and authorized to work in the United States through the duration of the program. Successful candidates will interview with both our non-profit partner organizations and Stand Together Fellowships staff, so we strongly encourage you to begin the admissions process early!

About Ballotpedia

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. We value innovation, humility, hunger, structure-first approaches, mission-driven mindsets, and the ability to understand the perspectives of others, and we are committed to continuously improving our offerings to better serve our audiences, readers, and candidates.

Role description

As an intern, you will go through a similar onboarding experience to full-time Ballotpedia employees. You will learn how to code the Ballotpedia website, be oriented to Ballotpedia’s style guide, learn about what we do to prevent and detect bias in our resources, and much more. Following orientation, you will join the Policy Team, working alongside full-time staff writers and researchers on Ballotpedia’s public policy coverage.

As a Ballotpedia Policy Team intern, you may:

• be embedded in our Content Department on the Policy Team and work directly with Policy Team staff members;
• research and write about a variety of policy topics, covering key arguments, reform
• proposals, legislation tracking, and primary source monitoring;
• assist our teams in news tracking, legislation tracking, and primary source monitoring;
• conduct other detailed research projects;
• participate in brainstorming sessions and planning meetings with experienced staff members; and
• assist with metrics and reporting on data collection.

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.

$5,500 - $7,500 a year

Stand Together Fellowships pays participants a stipend of either $7,500 for full-time participants working approximately 32 hours per week at the partner organization, or $5,500 for part-time participants working approximately 24 hours per week at the partner organization. Attending the entirety of the online and on-site KIP programming is required for both full and part-time participants.

Stand Together Fellowships believes that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. Our admissions office treats all program participantsand applicantswith honesty, dignity, respectand sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless ofcolor,race,religion,religious creed,sex,genderor gender identity,gender expression,sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy(including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions),military andveteran status,genetic information,maritalor familialstatus, political affiliation,or any other legallyrecognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.