Open Internship Opportunities for Summer 2024

Apps are now open for our 2024 Summer internship program!

If you’re looking to gain experience and build your resume while making valuable connections in the Chicago tech & startup community, our internships are for you!

Apply today for your chance to learn & grow among the brightest innovators in our community of early-stage, growth-stage, and late-stage founders & Fortune 500 corporate companies. 

Discover our openings down below & apply! Summer 2024 internships will take place Monday – Thursday from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM CST from 06.03.24 – 08.09.24.  

 

2024 Summer internship roles 

Affinity programs intern  

This role will assist the Senior Director of Affinity Programming on a wide range of projects, including: hosting weekly cohort meetings, cleaning up data from past cohorts, including research into individuals for progress reports, etc. 

>Learn more + apply 

Copywriting intern 

1871 seeks a professionally driven, creative, and highly motivated copywriting intern to support its content creation strategy. This role will assist the Creative Producer and Copywriter in brainstorming, writing, and editing a wide range of 1871 content, including for social media, event promotion, and blog features

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 Development intern

This role will assist the Director of Development broad a vast range of responsibilities in support of 1871’s development strategy, including: conducting research on potential sponsors, donors, strategic partners, markets and industries for Annual Fundraising events, drafting correspondence, reports, proposals, and donor appeals, etc. 

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Digital marketing intern 

1871 seeks a professionally driven, creative, and highly motivated digital marketing intern to support its web content and delivery strategy. This role will assist the Marketing Director in brainstorming and editing a wide range of 1871 web content, including: Web development for SEO, building lists for LinkedIn Ads & Meta Business Suites, etc. 

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Entrepreneurial development intern 

1871 seeks a professionally driven, creative, and highly motivated intern to support our Director of PYROS. This role will assist the Director of PYROS on several projects, including: conducting market research on competitive programs in the tech/entrepreneurial sectors, assist in developing assessment tools & metrics to evaluate program impact and relevance, etc. 

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Events intern 

1871 seeks a professionally driven, creative, and highly motivated intern to support our Events Team. This internship will focus on planning and executing hands-on/tactical events. Responsibilities include: fundraising solicitation & raffle assistance, event maintenance, 1871 leadership/event planning, etc. 

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Hubspot Database integration intern 

This role will assist the Chief Product Officer with a wide range of responsibilities, including: assisting clean up in Hubspot data on our members, building data integrations for up-to-date data through several systems, building reports, etc. 

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Innovation Labs intern

This role will assist the Senior Director and Program Manager of Innovation Labs in supporting program management activities, including: managing calendars and event awareness for key stakeholders, operations assistance for virtual weeks, in-person assistance for hybrid and capstone events, etc. 

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Marketing project manager intern

1871 seeks a professionally driven, creative, and highly motivated intern to support our Marketing Project Manager. This role will assist the Marketing Project Manager in several projects, including: supporting marketing project management functions at 1871 and related admin projects, collaborating on the comprehensive planning of diverse marketing campaigns, etc. 

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Public Relations intern 

The 1871 marketing team seeks a professionally driven, creative, and highly motivated PR intern to support press functions and related admin projects. This role assists the Marketing Director by: supporting press functions at 1871 and related admin projects, organizing press content and pickups per the 1871 offering, etc. 

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Social Media Marketing intern 

This role will assist the Social Media Coordinator in brainstorming, writing, and editing a wide range of 1871 content, including: collaborating with the marketing team to develop social media campaigns and strategies, assisting in creating and scheduling social media content across various platforms like Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, and more, etc. 

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Video Production intern 

1871 seeks a professionally driven, creative, and highly motivated video production intern to support its marketing strategy, including social media platforms, an audio library, member spotlight series, and organizing footage.

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UX/UI intern 

1871 seeks a professionally driven, creative, and highly motivated digital marketing intern to support its UI/UX strategy. This role will assist the Marketing Director in brainstorming and editing a wide range of 1871 web content, including: optimizing 1871 landing pages & web experience, build out custom modules and universal elements across the site, URL maintenance, etc. 

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