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 digital 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 paid media. Our clients are non-profit organizations, political advocacy groups, foundations, and social purpose companies. And we help them achieve their missions to bring justice to the world in the fields of human rights, social and economic justice, environment, education, and public health and more…
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If you have prior experience in communications either through past internships or academic studies, let’s hear from you.
Fellowship dates: May 18, 2026 – August 28, 2026
Fellowship position: Digital Team
Compensation: $20/hr
Hours: 9-6, Monday – Friday
Location: Hybrid/NY, DC, LA
Position description: See below
Digital Fellow
Description of 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 (sometimes unpleasant) corners of the internet to help clients identify ways to optimize outreach or respond to opposition disinformation
- Support the deployment of paid campaigns on a variety of platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google AdWords
- Draft ad copy and manage tracking documents for client review
- Utilizing online metrics tools to report on statistics for websites, social media sites, email campaigns and online advertising
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Bachelor’s degree or related experience; non- traditional educational paths are welcome
- Has some experience and a strong desire to learn about digital organizing, paid digital ads, social media and email communications
- Is interested in and excited by social change and issue campaigns
- Has some experience and a strong desire to learn about digital organizing, paid digital ads, social media and email communications
- Is a strong writer
- Is a media and news junkie
- Is a multi-tasker and effective organizer who is capable of managing competing tasks and projects simultaneously while ensuring deadlines are met
- Is able to clearly and promptly communicate problems, needs
Capstone Presentation
With guidance and mentorship from your Fellow advisor, you will complete certifications for Facebook, Google Ads, Google Analytics and Youtube. At the end of the fellowship you will give a 5–10-minute presentation to Fenton staff on these certifications, how you used them in practice for client work, and skills you honed throughout the certification process.
Fenton is an anti-racist and intersectional organization that prioritizes the needs of those who have been historically marginalized or oppressed. We do the work of creating positive social change as an act of repairing the harm done to those who have been and are currently 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 continuing to learn how to do this work better.
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.
