Apply to be the next Communications Intern

Apply to be UNRWA USA’s next Communications Intern (Early November 2025-February 2026)

Looking to grow your communications skills, build your portfolio, and make an impact for Palestine refugees? Apply to join UNRWA USA as our next paid, part-time Communications Intern. You’ll support and gain hands-on experience across several areas: advocacy and community engagement, video/digital content, and general communications.

This isn’t a coffee-run kind of internship. You’ll be part of a small yet mighty communications team, contributing directly to nationwide campaigns, events, and digital storytelling that reach thousands across the United States and the Middle East. From shaping content that moves people to action, to helping organize advocacy days on Capitol Hill, you’ll leave with real-world skills and tangible projects under your belt.

This internship runs early November 2025 - February 27, 2026 (20-25 hours per week, remote with flexible scheduling). Start and end dates are negotiable, and there’s potential to extend your contract month to month as needed. 

This role will be jointly supervised by the Advocacy Manager and the Video Manager.

What you’ll do:

Advocacy & Community Engagement

  • Help plan our 2026 Advocacy Day(s)

    • Brainstorm and draft engaging advocacy materials

    • Support logistics, constituent targeting, and member tracking

    • Support meeting requests

    • Develop congressional member briefs with UNRWA positions

  • Assist with ongoing advocacy campaigns as needed, including researching analytics and campaign reach

  • Pitch in with community events, from updating directories to helping with volunteer coordination

  • Support development and update of UNRWA alumni registry

Video & Content

  • Organize and catalog video and audio files

  • Identify and mark strong clips with timecodes for repurposing

  • Assist with YouTube management, from reviewing and organizing existing content to ensuring all videos are properly labeled, categorized, and tagged

    • Design and implement thumbnail templates to maintain consistent branding across videos

    • Update video descriptions, titles, and playlists for clarity and discoverability

  • Review social media analytics monthly, tracking top- and low-performing posts across platforms

  • Maintain a spreadsheet tracker documenting:

    • Annual events and campaigns

    • High-performing social media content

    • Media hits (articles, news coverage, interviews, and press mentions of UNRWA USA)

    • Opportunities for repurposing and reuse

Administrative & Communications Support

  • Assist with team organization, like tidying up our Google Drive and supporting the development and implementation of team-wide SOPs

  • Copyedit and draft articles for our Voices of UNRWA blog

  • Curate, name, and organize photo sets from various events and programs for archival and communications use

  • Monitor UNRWA communications (social media, newsletters, etc.) and proactively pitch content ideas that highlight and align with their work

  • Update the weekly media tracker

  • Take notes during team meetings and update action items in Asana (project management tool)

By the end of the internship, you will have had the chance to:

  • Contribute to our national Advocacy Day(s)

  • Help refresh our video library and YouTube presence

  • Surface and share powerful stories from our archives

  • Publish your own reflection on what you learned with UNRWA USA

Why you’ll love us:

Our team is passionate, progressive, and dedicated to showing Palestine refugees that Americans care. We love what we do, and we genuinely enjoy working together toward our mission.

Why we’ll love you:

  • You love UNRWA USA’s mission! You’re interested in or have experience working in nonprofits, student government, and a prior interest in refugees, the Middle East region, the Levant, and in particular Palestine.

  • You have a desire to be engaged in advocacy and are familiar with government relations, grassroots organizing, and coalition building.

  • You are an organizer at heart and love to add structure to any project.

  • You have impeccable attention to detail, know how to take initiative, and are able to work independently.

  • You’re known for your can-do spirit, organizational skills and resourcefulness.

  • You have an eagerness to learn and work on different tasks as needed.

  • You have excellent relationship management and interpersonal skills.

Please note that UNRWA USA will not sponsor work visas or work permits for this role.

Application Instructions:

Please email your resume, cover letter, and references in PDF format to info@unrwausa.org with the subject line "Communications Intern Application - [Your Full Name].

The deadline to apply is October 24th, 2025.

Only complete applications will be considered. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage candidates to apply early.

No phone inquiries will be accepted and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 

About UNRWA USA:

UNRWA USA National Committee (UNRWA USA) is an independent American 501c3 nonprofit that lifts up the voices, experiences, and humanity of Palestine refugees to secure American support for resources essential to every human being, for the promise of a better life. UNRWA USA’s organizational culture is based on these four core values: shared purpose, integrity, growth mindset, and gratitude. UNRWA USA's core values inform everything we do, from our ongoing relationships with donors and partners to our daily interactions with colleagues across UNRWA USA and UNRWA. It’s what we look for in potential staff members, board members, and volunteers, and part of what staff is evaluated on in addition to their performance.

UNRWA USA embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. The more inclusive we are, the better our work (and world) will be. UNRWA USA provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of a person's actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, national origin, place of birth, sex, age, religion, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, weight, or height.