Student Intern, Administration and Communications

100% Remote within California, Must reside in California. Join an equity-focused, collaborative team seeking to foster innovation in college teaching and learning practices through competitive grant-making, in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) and other disciplines. The Student Intern is a part-time, paid position.

The California Education Learning Lab (Learning Lab) is a state-funded grantmaking program charged with improving learning outcomes and closing equity gaps across California’s public higher education. Learning Lab supports innovation in higher education pedagogy through intersegmental grants to California’s public colleges and universities. Funded projects leverage technology tools and the science of human learning to create better online and hybrid learning environments and empower faculty in their teaching mission to find solutions that work best for California’s diverse student population.

• Support creation of education-related promotional materials consistent with the Learning Lab brand.
• Review and suggest edits for education-focused audio and/or audiovisual media and transcripts.
• Draft and design external communications using tools such as Canva.
• Support expansion of website functionality and routine maintenance working closely with the Communications Specialist.
• Help to maintain grant project webpages, resources in the grantee portal, and content in CARLE, Learning Lab’s repository for open educational resources.
• Support full spectrum of RFP process that may include reviewing/editing collateral, tracking applications, correspondence, and FAQ using Excel, Google Sheets, and/or other Microsoft Office and Google Workspace applications.

• Must have completed at least two years of college.
• Must be currently enrolled as a student of post-secondary education with a minimum of six (6) semester units or nine (9) quarter units and must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher.
• Background or interest in communications, marketing, media, and/or journalism a plus.
• Familiarity or interest in educational equity and pedagogy (preferred).
• Ability to take projects from inception to completion and work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent writing and copyediting skills with evidence of success and experience.
• Experience in creating public messaging, audience engagement, or digital marketing research and campaigns or other related mass communications or journalistic efforts and activities (preferred).
• Experience using graphic design software such as Canva and/or InDesign (preferred).
• Strong aesthetic sense and understanding of basic design principles.

Our work holds great weight and responsibility, and the opportunity to impact the lives of millions. Innovation, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship are encouraged as employees work to achieve organizational goals. FoundationCCC blends the impact of a non-profit, the culture of an entrepreneurial start-up, and the scale of a state agency. Team members are hired for their expertise in niche areas across our areas of impact and higher education overall, and for their knowledge of business, philanthropy, technology, communications, and more.

We have a commitment to professional development and an emphasis on shared leadership, to ensure growth for employees and the organization overall.

FoundationCCC is fully committed to a “remote-first” philosophy, and recruits and hires talent across the state in fully remote positions, where virtual work is…