Intern, Community Health-Remote

American Heart Association • Dallas, TX

4d • Remote

About The Position

The American Heart Association's Internship Program provides college students with hands-on experience in various facets of a non-profit, voluntary health organization. This specific internship is with the National Community Health Team, offering students the chance to apply classroom learning to practical public health solutions under the guidance of experienced professionals. Interns will engage in planning and execution tasks to improve health outcomes in diverse communities. The Association supports work-life harmonization through resources like Heart U, its corporate university, and provides local and national training and support. The #TheAHALife culture emphasizes work-life harmonization and core values, allowing employees to thrive personally and professionally.

Requirements

• Candidates who are seniors or graduate students pursuing a degree in health, social work, or public health courses.
• Demonstrated ability to research health topics and translate findings into actionable guidance.
• Demonstrated excellence in written communication skills, including writing on health topics for promotional or educational outcomes.
• Demonstrated skills in effective one-on-one and group communications and comfort with working professionally with all levels of community leaders, volunteers, and staff.
• Ability to deal professionally in a corporate or non-profit environment and assume responsibility for guiding projects and programs from inception through completion.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment managing multiple priorities involving multiple entities.
• Intermediate to excellent proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Canva.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship, now or in the future.
• For any roles working remotely, the work must also be performed inside the United States, not in a foreign country.

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual in one of the following languages is preferred: Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, or Haitian Creole.
• Basic knowledge of Animoto or Adobe Creative Suite is a plus

Responsibilities

• Enhance community impact work
• Research evidence-based and promising strategies that support health priority areas (blood pressure/other chronic conditions, nutrition security, CPR, tobacco)
• Identify, review, and develop resources that meet community health needs such as playbooks, intervention best practices and other turnkey materials.
• Assemble a catalogue of vetted resources developed across market teams
• Supports day-to-day management of internal communications channels, including Teams chats and the Community Impact email inbox and calendar, to enable clear, consistent team communication.
• Assists with maintaining SharePoint sites by ensuring content is current, relevant, and well organized, and supports site redesign efforts to improve user experience and accessibility.
• Assist community impact team in communicating the impact of local work.
• Support community impact storytelling for dynamic work for showcasing, enhancement via research and interviews, and develop communication pieces for online or offline sharing.
• Assist with compiling data for monthly health strategies reports
• Identify local indicators for priority health measures and show trend over time in communities of interest to the Association.
• Support the Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health initiative community workstream team.
• Participate in team meetings and record next steps and action items for attendees.
• Assist with planning and coordinating activities for local networking events.
• Drafts content outlines for community resources and edits materials.
• Research and compile listings of local community resources and clinics.

Benefits

• Access to Heart U, award-winning corporate university
• Training and support locally and through National Center
• Opportunity to participate in Teladoc General Medical and Behavioral Health programs
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern