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Special Event Intern – Spring 2023

OVERVIEW
Building Tomorrow, Inc., an international social-profit organization delivering literacy and numeracy to children in underserved areas in Uganda, invites interested individuals to apply for our Strategic Partnerships Build-a-School Night Event Intern position.

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THE ORGANIZATION
Started in 2006, Building Tomorrow equips communities to support universal access to inclusive, quality education. Through a team of 150 Building Tomorrow Fellows and over 7,000 Community Education Volunteers, Building Tomorrow will deliver its Roots to Rise literacy and numeracy programming to more than 100,000 learners in 2022 in response to a nearly two-year closure of schools in Uganda. Between offices in the USA and Uganda, Building Tomorrow has a full-time staff of nearly 175, just seven of whom work in the United States. Building Tomorrow has received funding and recognition for its innovative work from the Mastercard Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, Educate A Child, Echoing Green, Big Bang Philanthropy, and Forbes Magazine. More information can be found online at: www.buildingtomorrow.org.

The Strategic Partnerships team, headquartered in Building Tomorrow’s Indianapolis office, is responsible for identifying, cultivating, securing, and stewarding funding from institutional and individual partners, as well as liaising with volunteers and other stakeholders. In 2022, Building Tomorrow has raised over $3 million in funds for the current operating year, and we look to be able to further scale our programs with additional multi-year investments from philanthropic foundations, individual gifts, event revenue, and multilateral organizations and donor governments.

THE EVENT
Build a School Night (BaSN) is Building Tomorrow’s largest individual donor revenue-generating source and is traditionally held in April in downtown Indianapolis. After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, we held our 13th Annual BaSN, themed “The Race to Learn,” on April 29, 2022. It was a record-breaking year as we welcomed nearly 300 guests and raised more than $295,000 through pre-event donations, ticket and table sales, sponsorship, and silent and live auction items, bringing our total BaSN revenue since 2015 to nearly $1.4 million. BaSN 2023 is scheduled for April 28, 2023 in Indianapolis.

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS
The BaSN 2023 Intern will join Building Tomorrow’s three-person Strategic Partnerships team and will report to the Partnerships Associate. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator, highly organized, and self-motivated, with experience or interest in event planning and execution, fundraising, nonprofit operations, the international education sector, and/or international development. The Intern will be a valued member of a tight-knit team, with opportunities to build and further develop written and verbal communication, leadership, time management, and creative skills, while collaborating within a dynamic international nonprofit operation and with various event stakeholders (venue, auction donors, sponsors, guests, etc.).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Serve as an active member of the Strategic Partnerships team, consistently bringing ideas and energy
  • Solicit, procure, and organize auction items and in-kind donations
  • Draft silent and live auction package names and descriptions
  • Draft email content for invitations, ticket and table sales, and important event night information for guests
  • Engage volunteers by fielding questions, attending brainstorming meetings, providing them with materials they need for outreach, and helping coordinate some event-day training and duties
  • Draft event content for BaSN website and social media
  • Support the Partnerships Associate by tracking revenue and expenses
  • Explore auction software OneCause educational training resources and attend team calls with Building Tomorrow’s OneCause Consultant
  • Draft correspondence for event sponsors
  • Assist with information management and organization, including organizing shared drive files
  • Attend BaSN on Friday, April 28, 2023
  • Other duties as assigned

WE WANT YOU TO APPLY IF…
  • You have an unshakeable passion for education equality, believing access to an inclusive, quality education is a basic human right.
  • You possess creative ingenuity, being progressive in your thinking and approaching challenges old and new. You are intrapreneurial and unafraid to pilot new ideas.
  • You are relentlessly determined. You refuse to accept the status quo and persistently strive to create new opportunities to reach more children, allowing them to reach their maximum potential.
  • You believe in collaborative engagement. You believe more can be achieved together than alone, believe in the power of cultivating relationships, and see everyone as an equal partner.

MUST HAVES
  • Pursuing a college degree, or a recent graduate
  • High level of attention to detail and ability to problem solve
  • Experience/interest in event planning and execution and/or fundraising
  • Ability to self-motivate and think critically to bring creative ideas and solutions to assigned tasks
  • Excellent time management skills and capacity to multitask
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills and positive energy
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite a must, Salesforce a plus
  • Possess superior English written and verbal communication skills

COMPENSATION & LOGISTICS
Building Tomorrow’s intent is to work with the selected applicant to ensure academic credit is received, where relevant. The internship itself is unpaid. The internship must be based in person in Indianapolis, IN; no remote option is available. The Intern must commit to at least 10 hours per week. This internship reports to the Partnerships Associate and works alongside the rest of the Strategic Partnerships team.
*Intern must be increasingly available on and weeks leading up to Friday, April 28, 2023

TO APPLY
All applicants must submit a CV, a cover letter, and a recent writing or creative sample in English. Please also note your availability in terms of start date and full-time versus part-time. If someone referred you to apply for this position, please provide their name in your cover letter.

Building Tomorrow is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and maintains a dedication to promoting gender equity, diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion, and recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or age.