Children's National Medical Center

Children's National Internship Program: Summer 2012
(Summer 2012)
Name of Internship position: Interactive Communications
Department Name: Public Relations and Marketing Department
Mailing Address:
Children’s National Medical Center
Attn: Public Relations and Marketing Department
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010
Department Contact Person
(Preceptors):
Victoria Hughes
Office line: 301‐244‐6722
webteam@ChildrensNational.org
Intern Placement Location:
801 Roeder Road
9th Floor
Silver Spring, MD
Main line: 202‐476‐4500
*Department Educational Level
Request:
▪ Undergraduate Student
▪ Graduate Student
Describe the primary project the
intern will be supporting:
The Interactive team of the PR and Marketing Department will provide the intern
with a selected web focused initiative at Children’s National to develop a pitch and
full communications plan to improve and maintain the childrensnational.org web
site. Interns will meet with project advisors, which will include intern advisors and
assigned initiative or function leaders for an initial needs assessment. Projects will
all be related to the childrensnational.org website and will include web and social
media optimization, broken links throughout the site, graphic enhancements,
general web edits and web research.
Duration: 3 months (June thru August)
Provide a brief summary of
the intern’s job duties and tasks:
Interactive Communications Internship responsibilities include:
• Populate and manage website edits on the Children’s National public web site
• Work with various graphics and editing applications
What required skills/abilities
must the intern have:
Candidates should:
• Be self‐motivated and highly organized
• Proficient in Photoshop, In Design, HTML, in addition to video and audio
editing software
• Have excellent writing, verbal and communication skills a plus
• Have at least 10 hours/week to commit to the internship
Closing date: May 11, 2012
*Requests are not guaranteed but your preference will be taken into consideration.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________