Intern, Healthy Living-Remote

Overview

Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do. To overcome today’s biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter, and so does the impact you can make with us.

The American Heart Association’s Internship Program provides college students an opportunity for hands-on experience in various facets for individuals interested in gaining work experience with a non-profit, voluntary health organization. 

 

The content development internship will work with our Healthy Living and Health Literacy departments to gain professional experience with a national non-profit organization while working directly to create compelling content for our healthy living website.

 

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations.  To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as training and support locally and through our National Center.

 

#TheAHALife is our company culture, our way of life, reflecting commitment to fostering an inclusive environment, our focus on work-life harmonization, and our Guiding Values. Discover why you will Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Valued at the American Heart Association by following us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and at heart.jobs.

 

Internship Overview:

• Time Commitment: 25 hours per week
• Internship Duration: 5/19/25-8/22/25
• Remote Position with Monday & Tuesday availability.
• Salary: $23.00 per hour

Internship Outcomes:

Individuals participating in the internship program are provided with an opportunity to:

• Gain important and practical job skills to be successful in a non-profit environment.
• Opportunity to explore a career-path with a reputable voluntary health/service organization.
• Complete an internship that enriches your academic and professional resume as well as enriching your personal life by making a difference in the lives of others.

Responsibilities

Tasks may include the following:

• Research and reporting
  • Conduct online research to identify external content.
  • Participate in our consumer research process to develop messaging and create slides to convey and communicate research results to various internal and external stakeholders.
  • Create slides summarizing ROI for sponsors.
  • Conduct analysis across our Healthy Living website and email marketing.
• Content creation
  • Develop promotional resources for various aspects of our business.
  • Edit materials (e.g., slide decks, one-pagers, etc.) and coordinate review with internal stakeholders.
  • Support content and asset creation across Healthy Living and Health Literacy, with emphasis on growth of nutrition, physical activity, and other wellness resources.
  • Help translate and transcreate the organization’s Healthy Living content to support engagement with multicultural audiences.
• Internal resource and content audit
  • Support recipe promotion and development for increased usability and cultural authenticity.

• Administrative support

• Develop materials for meetings (e.g., agenda, compile notes, gather exhibits, etc.).

Qualifications

• Candidates who are seniors or graduate students pursuing a degree in health promotion, nutrition, public health, content marketing, general marketing, and/or communications preferred.
• Experience in developing consumer educational materials, webinars, etc.
• Fluent in Spanish a plus.
• Effective oral (one-on-one and group; virtual meetings; phone), written (consumer-facing educational resources, email) and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate professionally in a corporate and non-profit environment and assume responsibility for guiding projects from inception through completion.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment managing multiple priorities involving multiple entities.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Required Equipment: Reliable WiFi Connection.
• Minimum availability of 20 hrs/wk, M-F between the hours of 8:30am-5pm EST.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sp