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Sustainability Communications Intern
Ideas On Purpose
New York (Hybrid), NY
Public Relations
Company Information
Ideas On Purpose is a boutique sustainability and impact communications firm. We work with Fortune 500 companies, foundations, and nonprofits to help them communicate what they’re doing and why it matters. Our clients include some of the most recognized brands in the world.
This is a paid summer internship with real output: acknowledgement in published research, client-facing contributions, and direct mentorship from senior practitioners.
Qualifications
- A strong writer and clear thinker
- Comfortable using AI for research and analysis — not as a shortcut, but as one tool alongside manual research and your own critical thinking
- Able to design a research approach that uses AI where it adds rigor and do the work yourself where it doesn’t
- Marketing knowledge is a plus
- A rising senior or graduate student in Sustainability, Public Policy, Communications, or a related field
- You care about the role business plays in advancing social and environmental progress
- Able to work full-time hours
Duties
- Primary project is leading the next edition of our biennial Trends in Corporate Reports white paper — a rigorous study of how Fortune 200 companies report on sustainability
- Together we'll design the research methodology, use AI tools to help execute the study across 200 companies, analyze findings, synthesizing complex data into high-level strategic insights, and write the paper
- Hands-on research alongside AI, you’ll need the judgment to know when to use each
