KIP Spring 2027 - Policy Team Intern - Ballotpedia

Standtogether; Wisconsin; Remote; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

The Koch Internship Program (KIP) is a paid experiential learning program run by Stand Together Fellowships. It 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 are encouraged to apply and must be authorized to work in the United States for the duration of the program.

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, reformproposals, legislation, regulations, case law, state surveys, and more, depending upon your assignment;
• 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;
• 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.

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.