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Fall 2025 Communications Intern

Description

I’m looking for an intern for the Fall 2025 semester. The intern would work on materials and public awareness campaigns about preventing child abuse and neglect and strengthening families. The intern may receive three credit hours. This internship includes on-the-job training for all skills and programs related to the position.

About the Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida

What We’re About: More than 30 years ago, a handful of influential policy makers, corporate leaders and children’s advocates in Florida shared a common vision: to create a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to funding research and demonstration projects to help Florida’s children and their families. In 1989, the dream became reality, and the Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida was founded.

What We Do: The organization is a public-private partnership, blending state and private dollars and investing them in innovative, community-based programs that serve children and families.

We Believe in Partnerships: Today, the Ounce of Prevention Fund has become one of Florida’s true health and human services success stories. In addition to its original function as a laboratory for innovative, community projects to help children and families, the organization has taken on the additional role of housing statewide initiatives, including the nationally accredited voluntary home visiting program Healthy Families Florida and the Florida Chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America.

The student’s interests will help determine their duties. Responsibilities may include:

• Research
• Writing
• Copy editing
• Developing and scheduling social media content for Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and Instagram
• Graphic design (Canva)
• Video editing (WeVideo)
• Podcast production (WeVideo)
• Ensuring content is accessible (video captions, transcriptions, screen reader-accessible PDFs, and more)

Schedule
Start and end dates to be determined by intern
If student completing internship for three credit hours: 160 total hours over the course of 15 weeks
Weekly schedule may be set by intern (Office is open M-F, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.)
In-office only (no remote work)

Benefits & Compensation
If desired, three hours of college credit (paperwork supplied by student)
On-the-job training and mentoring
Open and respectful environment where all ideas and perspectives are welcome
Intern will produce professional-grade materials to add to their portfolio

Qualifications

• Student enrolled in community college, technical college, or university
• Excellent English writing and copy editing skills
• Basic familiarity with Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and Instagram
• Basic familiarity with Canva a plus
• Fluency in Spanish, Creole, or American Sign Language a plus

How to Apply

By July 28, 2025, email a one-page PDF resume, one original English writing sample (any format), and three original design samples to zlinafelt@ounce.org. Qualified applicants will be invited to the office for an in-person interview and brief copy editing skills exercise.

Contact:
Zoe Linafelt, APR
(Pronunciation: ZO-ee LINN-uh-felt)
She/Her
Director of Communications
Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-linafelt/
zlinafelt@ounce.org
O: (850) 782-4003
C: (850) 339-9438

Job Originally Posted on: Thursday, July 17, 2025