Summer Intern - Events Development
Endeavor, United States

About Endeavor
Established in 1997, Endeavor is leading the global high-impact entrepreneurship movement to drive economic growth and job creation by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. To date, Endeavor has screened more than 60,000 individuals and selected more than 2,100 founders leading over 1,300 scale-up companies. With support from Endeavor’s worldwide mentor network, Endeavor Entrepreneurs have created over 4.1 million jobs, generate more than $26 billion in revenue each year, and inspire future generations to innovate and take risks, building strong entrepreneurship ecosystems in growth markets. Headquartered in New York City, Endeavor currently operates in 35+ growth markets throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America.

The Events amp; Development intern will develop an understanding of the Endeavor mission through the lens of events amp; marketing; learn how events and branding relates to what our attendees, Endeavor Entrepreneurs, affiliate offices, and outsiders perceive of Endeavor; assist in the planning, preparation, and execution of the virtual Endeavor Gala and support the correlating fundraising efforts; and develop organizational, communication, and planning skills that will translate not only in events and marketing, but also in coursework and future careers. This is a remote position.

Fundraising

• Assist with donor management, revenue tracking, and outreach efforts for Endeavor Gala
• Assist in writing, editing, and deploying Save the Date and subsequent follow up campaigns
• Support management of donor lists in Salesforce and MailChimp
• Help deploy invoices and formal donation letters to donors
• Learn how to implement digital and social marketing campaigns

Event Logistics

• Assist with coordination of event materials and virtual event preparation
• Assist in developing engaging, interactive, and virtual program that highlights Endeavor Entrepreneurs
• Attend and support creative meetings with internal Marketing team and external vendors and production companies
• Help prepare pre-event materials including: agendas, sponsorship materials, presentation decks
• Create and help manage project timelines, staffing outlines, and other event-related documents
• Assist with event communication strategy to ensure attendees have similar event expectations worldwide

Requirements

• Demonstrated interest in marketing, international development, events, or business
• Excellent written communication skills; knows how to tell a good story across different mediums
• Creativity and an eye for design
• Embody Endeavor's Values: learn our organization's Values and embody them in how you do the job each day
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Self-starter and able to work independently
• Access to a computer; this is a remote internship
• This is an unpaid, educational internship available only to students, including those who graduated in the semester immediately prior to their start date
• Must be a student attending an institution of learning with courses leading to a degree, certificate or diploma - or - you were a student during the preceding semester or have not yet graduated

• Interns tackle non-complex projects that have core guidance of a supervisor; Projects usually encompass the collaboration or support in the creation of platforms/frameworks/studies and not routine work. It's crucial that students get a chance to learn while working.
• Interns learn to follow workflows and prioritize their tasks based on urgency and importance.
• Interns are responsible for specific tasks provided by direct supervisors and check in with more experienced colleagues or their manager when they are unsure or unable to make a decision or solve a problem.
• The problems that interns solve are directly related to the project that they have been assigned.
• Interns support their teammates by completing assigned tasks on time, helping others, and communicating about their workload with their manager.
• Interns work with immediate teammates, their manager, and on occasion, select cross-functional partners outside of their work team.

Job Rewards and Benefits