Summer 2025 Entertainment Partnerships Intern - Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

Overview

NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization. We use law, science, and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today, our team of more than 700 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy advocates, communications experts, and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Bozeman, Montana; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington, D.C.

 

NRDC is seeking an Entertainment Partnerships intern to work with the Communications team associated with our New York office.

Position Summary

Our work increases awareness and provides advocacy opportunities for priority environmental issues through partnerships across the entertainment space including media, celebrities, artists, writers, music and film festivals, cultural institutions, social media platforms and more.

 

The Entertainment Partnerships team works to:

●      Attract new, young and diverse audiences

●      Grow NRDC brand recognition and affinity

●      Increase issue awareness around priority areas of work including (but not limited to) climate, safe water and clean air, public health, nature and community resilience

 

We partner across communications and throughout the institution to leverage a variety of channels to enact strategic partnership opportunities.

 

We are looking for a summer intern who can help on a variety of projects across our partnerships team. The intern will also support NRDC’s Rewrite the Future Initiative that leverages NRDC’s deep environmental expertise to help creators tell entertaining stories about our climate-altered world and the path toward a better future. The Rewrite the Future team’s work is focused on consultation on film and TV projects, hosting workshops, events and presentations about representing climate and environmental topics onscreen; encouraging new voices through NRDC’s Climate Storytelling Fellowship, in collaboration with the Black List, the Redford Center, CAA Foundation and NBCUniversal and advising entertainment companies on integrating climate content into their sustainability strategies.

 

This person will report directly to the Manager of Entertainment Partnerships and work collaboratively with the seven-person Partnerships team.

 

The summer internship would focus on two major areas of our culture change work: 

• Supporting the expansion our work in the gaming space 
• hrough a new initiative focused on developing partnerships with gaming influencers (identifying, pitching) and potentially a major project with the game developers. These initiatives aim to: 
• Support studios/developers in efforts to catalyze the gaming industry’s engagement with climate change and environmental themes in storytelling and game design, and with social impact campaigns to provide players with opportunities for real-world action
• Build NRDC visibility and credibility and foster relationships with influential creators and others in the industry
• Support NRDC fundraising goals through livestream fundraising with creators
• Supporting script review, outreach and virtual event planning for our NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship program 
• The internship would also involve working on our influencer campaigns, helping to support content creation for our Spotify channel and possibly collaborating on an education guide tied to a clean energy comic book partnership (La Borinqueña Guest Starring Rosario Dawson).  

Responsibilities

Responsibilities may include

• Performing research
• Brainstorming partner opportunities
• Supporting virtual events
• Drafting social copy, pitch notes, and recap documents, etc. in support of key partnership activities
• Attending team meetings

 

Qualifications

Required

• Commitment to NRDC’s mission and values.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Outstanding organizational skills, the ability to multi-task, set priorities, follow institutional procedures and perform undirected work
• Close attention to detail and follow through on tasks
• Must possess a high degree of proficiency with Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook, and the Google suite of products
• Experience or interest in pop culture, visual arts, and/or the entertainment industry

Preferred

• Interest or experience with gaming a plus
• Interest or experience with social media (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok) a plus
• Interest in environmental issues or social justice advocacy a plus

NRDC is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our work and in our workplace. We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planet's most pressing environmental problems, and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the environmental movement.We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.This position is a paid internship with for a student enrolled in an accredited undergrad program with a stipend of $6,600.00 paid bi-weekly over 10-weeks. 

Our offices are open and we are operating in a hybrid model. We offer NRDCers flexibility, and we ask them to come into the office and spend meaningful time there in collaboration with their colleagues. We call this purposeful presence. 

 

As a science-based organization, NRDC aims to do our part to help contain the COVID-19 public health crisis. For the sake of health, safety, and equity, we ask that people be vaccinated unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation or other exemption in accordance with state and local law. We consider a person to be vaccinated two weeks after receiving one full course of a CDC-approved vaccine. In accordance with state or local law, new hires will be asked to attest to vaccination, those wishing to do so may request medical or religious accommodations or other exemptions via NRDC Employee Relations. NRDC treats all vaccine-related data confidentially, in keeping with local, state, and federal laws. 

 

If you experience technical problems while applying or if you are a person with a disability and need assistance applying online, please reach out to iCIMS Customer Care at 1-800-889-4422. 

 

For more about NRDC, visit www.nrdc.org.