Internships

Position Title: Social Media Intern

Position Description: 
The Social Media Intern supports the Women’s Resources Center (WRC) by developing digital content that amplifies the Center’s mission, programs, services, and advocacy efforts. This role is ideal for students interested in gender equity, survivor advocacy awareness, intersectional feminism, and community-building through social platforms. The intern will help strengthen the WRC’s online presence, engage the campus community, and ensure that digital communications reflect the Center’s values of inclusion, empowerment, and social justice.
 

Position Title: Girl Krush Intern 

Position Description: 
The Girl Krush Intern plays a key role in supporting the Women’s Resources Center’s signature Girl Krush initiative, an empowerment-focused program designed to celebrate identity, promote confidence, build community, and foster holistic well‑being among students. The intern helps plan, coordinate, and promote Girl Krush events and campaigns, ensuring that the program remains inclusive, culturally responsive, and reflective of the diverse experiences of women and femme‑identified students at Illinois.

This position is ideal for a student passionate about leadership development, empowerment programming, identity affirmation, and building supportive spaces on campus.
 

The Prevention Team at the Women’s Resources Center is expanding to include several new leadership opportunities for undergraduate students with experience in sexual violence prevention to further develop their skills

All Advanced Internships in Prevention Outreach contribute to the Women's Resources Center's goal of preventing sexual violence by utilizing a public health approach to raise awareness about the prevalence of sexual violence and to promote a campus culture grounded in empowerment and respect. Each internship will provide students with the opportunity to engage in sexual violence prevention through educational campaigns, programs, and initiatives. Interns will select a specialty or specialties when applying and focus on a specific area throughout the internship.  

Supervisor: Nora Peterson, Associate Director Prevention, nepeters@illinois.edu

Specialties

Sexual Health Intern

Position Description: This internship focuses on increasing access to empowering sexual health information for University of Illinois students as a means of primary prevention. Responsibilities may include: reviewing best practices; researching initiatives at peer institutions; providing feedback on existing programs; assisting in the development and delivery of educational initiatives; and planning campus-wide outreach for Sexual Health Week.

Healthy Masculinities Intern

Position Description: This internship focuses on increasing opportunities to engage in explorations of healthy masculinities at the University of Illinois. Responsibilities may include: reviewing best practices; researching initiatives at peer institutions; collecting feedback using surveys and focus groups; assisting in the development and delivery of educational initiatives.

Advanced Facilitation Intern

Position Description: This internship focuses on community outreach by facilitating WRC workshops. Responsibilities may include: reviewing existing curriculum; performing outreach to raise awareness of workshop availability; assisting with workshop coordination; creating branding for WRC programs; facilitating workshops; conducting program assessment; and assisting with curriculum development of new programs.

Requirements: experience facilitating FYCARE.

Awareness Month Coordination Intern

Position Description: This internship focuses on community outreach during national campaigns, including Sexual Health Week, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Stalking Awareness Month, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Responsibilities may include: performing community outreach; coordinating and hosting events; developing social media campaigns and other educational initiatives; maintaining budget; coordinating collaboration with campus and community partners; conducting program assessment; and chairing campus-wide planning committee.

Our Work

The Women’s Resources Center (WRC) is a unit of Student Affairs at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign which seeks to improve campus climate by providing transformative learning experiences to the Illinois community that result in an appreciation for cross-cultural engagement, awareness of gender/women’s issues, and visibility of diverse women across the University of Illinois. The WRC supports and connects students, linking them with faculty, alumnae, staff, community leaders and other students through programs, workshops, mentorship, fun activities and networking events focused on the intersectionality of sexism and other forms of social identity. The WRC also provides confidential support and advocacy services for students, staff, and faculty, when they are faced with difficult or emotionally traumatic incidents such as harassment, stalking, sexual assault, or abuse within a relationship. The WRC is responsible for directing prevention programs intended to end these types of abuses as well, including the First Year Consent and Relationship Education (FYCARE), ICARE, I Heart Healthy Relationships, and GUARD programs.

Internship Description

Programming Interns assist with the development and implementation of programs and events hosted and organized by the WRC. Programming interns have a chance to work on a variety of initiatives with differing formats, content areas, and campus partners. Interns may have the opportunity work on programs including (but not limited to awareness months (Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Stalking), Women’s History Month, career development, resource guides, and collaborative campus events. Interns are also invited to be generative in their approach and bring new ideas for needed initiatives or partnerships on campus or in the community. In addition, Programming Interns will be responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating their own program. 

The position requires 8-10 hours of work per week, including weekly committee and intern meetings.

Responsibilities Include:

This internship will entail a mix of administrative and substantive work, including:

• Provide support for WRC events & programs, including tabling, outreach presentations and other activities as needed
• Assist with office coverage, including answering office telephone, checking students in for appointments, and other activities as needed
• Assist with set-up and take-down of WRC programming and events
• Collaboratively developing and implementing workshops and events with other on-campus and external partners
• Assisting in the development and distribution of promotional materials, generating social media content, and updating online calendars
• Soliciting collaborations, financial support, or giveaways from on-campus and external partners
• Archiving event materials including planning documents, marketing, and photographs
• Assisting in event and program assessment
• Other administrative duties as assigned

Professional Development: In addition to the duties described above, course-credit interns are expected to complete weekly related to the WRC’s areas of focus.  Interns must also attend and participate in weekly intern cohort meetings and reading discussions.  Each intern is expected to attend one event hosted by another cultural or resource center (can be the Lunch on Us program) and participate in one campus professional development workshop (ex/resume review). 

Additional expectations: In addition to the responsibilities outlined above, individual interns may be required to complete additional requirements based on their specific course expectations.