District 2 External Affairs Work Study Intern

Full Job Description

The work study intern will work with members of the District 2 staff and Councilmember Rhonda Lewis focusing on external affairs including preparing for community events and appearances in District 2 and throughout King County, staffing those events/appearances and also helping construct a community event calendar.

Requirements

Job responsibilities will include the following:

• Preparing written detailed logistics in advance of events and appearances that are complete and timely.
• Attending events with the CM and helping “make the rounds” to meet everyone at an event. Exchanging and collecting business cards and/or contact information and doing appropriate follow-up correspondence. This may include evenings and weekends.
• Writing and editing speeches and talking points as necessary.
• Creating a “community calendar” of events and appearances in the district.
• Creating a “key contacts” list of community leaders in the district.
• Other projects as assigned: Be available to assist with other communications projects and/or community relations projects as needed. There will be special projects to be done with our District Director as well.
• Extra credit for helping to organize and host an event.

Job responsibilities may include the following additional responsibilities:

Correspondence: Assist with research and composition of customized constituent correspondence as directed by staff.

Assist with development of current databases of constituent groups for correspondence. Assist with reviewing incoming correspondence.

Requirement: Ability to use Microsoft Office and potentially a customized based constituent software system.

Contact list: Assist with updates to Councilmember Rhonda Lewis’ key people database/contact list as needed.

Phones: Assist with answering incoming calls from constituents requesting assistance or stating positions on issues.

Qualifications

• Excellence in verbal and written communication.
• Professional-grade in-person customer service skills.
• Ability to learn quickly, ask questions and utilize new information to achieve successful completion of work.
• Detail-oriented.
• Consistent willingness to help with a variety of subjects and tasks upon request.

Additional Information

Anticipated time commitment:

• 10-12 hours per week – within standard business hours.

• 9 am – 5 pm Monday-Friday. (We are happy to negotiate a mutually agreeable schedule.)

• Duration: 10 weeks with potential for extension.

• Needed: Currently enrolled college student interested in politics, public relations and communications who wants to build knowledge of the local civic environment.

Requirement: work-study eligible.

APPLICATION & SELECTION PROCESS

Interested individuals will submit application materials only to King County Councilmember Rhonda Lewis@ Rhonda.lewis@kingcounty.gov.
To apply, you must submit the following:
1. Email of Interest addressed to CM Rhonda Lewis.
2. A resume.
3. Two writing samples.

Please contact BrynDel Swift, Chief of Staff bryndel.swift@kingcounty.gov or 206 477-1005 or 206 715-1779 (cell) if you have any questions.