Summer Fellow

Job Description

Fenton: Build Your Career in Communications and Make the World a Better Place!

Come join us at Fenton as a Summer Fellow and apply your love for communications to meaningful projects that help build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. We are a fully integrated communications agency with expertise in both earned and digital media.

Our clients include non-profit organizations, political advocacy groups, foundations, and social purpose companies. We help them achieve their missions to bring justice to the world in fields such as human rights, social and economic justice, environment, education, and public health. Check us out at Fenton.com!

If you have prior experience in communications through past internships or academic studies, we want to hear from you.

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Fellowship Program Overview:

• Fellowship Dates: June 1, 2026 – August 28, 2026
• Application Deadline: March 13, 2026
• Compensation: $20/hr
• Hours: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Monday – Friday
• Location: Hybrid model, requiring residency within a 35-mile radius of NY, DC, LA, or SF.

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Available Fellowship Positions:

(1) Strategic/Earned Media Communications Fellow

This role focuses on traditional media outreach, content creation, and strategic communications. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Monitor news and social media; compile coverage summaries.
• Research relevant journalists for targeted pitches and build media lists.
• Conduct media and peer audits for client research and discovery processes.
• Pitch reporters, editors, producers, and bloggers at all levels.
• Conduct research on issue areas, online communities, media markets, and new business prospects.
• Help create and edit press releases, advisories, pitch memos, fact sheets, op-eds, online content, and other collateral.
• Assist account staff with various media, administrative, and research activities.
• Conduct communications audits.
• Help with landscape and competitive analysis research projects; gather insights to inform campaigns and communications strategies.
• Organize logistics for client meetings, conferences, and other events.
• Develop presentations and design materials.
• Proofread/copy edit documents.
• Participate in creative brainstorm sessions.
• Support digital campaigns, website projects, and social media management as needed.
• Develop and share a capstone presentation based on an assigned client account.

(2) Digital Communications Fellow

This role focuses on digital strategy, content development, social media management, and online campaign execution. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Assist account staff with various digital, administrative, and research activities.
• Support social media campaigns and community management for a variety of progressive clients.
• Write and develop copy for outreach/campaign emails, blogs, and other forms of digital content.
• Deploy and send direct communications via email sending and SMS platforms like ActionNetwork and Mailchimp.
• Search and monitor online spaces to help clients optimize outreach or respond to opposition disinformation.
• Support the deployment of paid campaigns on platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google AdWords.
• Draft ad copy and manage tracking documents for client review.
• Utilize online metrics tools to report on statistics for websites, social media sites, email campaigns, and online advertising.

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Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities Required:

• Eligible college students entering their junior or senior year, or recent college graduates.
• Demonstrated writing and research skills.
• Passion for communications, understanding what drives engagement and the impact of language.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and effectively pivot in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Genuine interest in social issues.
• Affinity for traditional and digital news media.

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Work Environment & Location:

Fenton operates on a hybrid remote/in-office worksite model. All employees are required to live within a 35-mile radius of any one of our four strategic hubs: New York, D.C., Los Angeles, or San Francisco. Fellows have the option to work remotely from home and will travel to Company meetings/events as needed, or they can work from any of our shared workspaces.

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Eligibility & Work Authorization:

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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Capstone Presentation:

With guidance and mentorship from your Fellow advisor, you will develop a 5–10-minute presentation at the completion of the fellowship to Fenton staff. This presentation will outline your role on a client project from which you learned and wish to share. It will include conveying the strategies, tools, and tactics used to approach the project, as well as the results you were able to achieve and key learnings.

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Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

Fenton is an anti-racist and intersectional organization that prioritizes the needs of those who have been historically marginalized or oppressed. We actively work towards creating positive social change as an act of repairing harm done to those disenfranchised across racial, gender, sexual orientation and preference, religious, and other marginalized backgrounds. We are committed to doing work that is rooted in justice and equity and continuously strive to learn how to improve.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to the affirmative hiring of people of color, members of the LGBTQI+ community, people with disabilities, and women. We strive to represent the diverse community reflected in our client work and believe that our firm’s continued success is driven by hiring and retaining high-caliber staff from all backgrounds, experiences, identities, and orientations. We are committed to supporting our staff in growing their careers.