Leadership for Social Impact Internship 100% Remote

# Voice Up Leadership for Social Impact Internship

**Mission**: Mobilize students as purpose-driven leaders while developing practical skills in health advocacy and social impact.

**Program Details**: 12-week remote program, 10-15 hours/week, flexible monthly start dates

## Three Participation Tracks

### Academic Credit Track
- Earn 3-6 credit hours through university partnership
- Structured learning with faculty coordination
- Research project component
- **Requirements**: Current enrollment, 3.0+ GPA, university approval

### Volunteer Service Track
- Meaningful community service and leadership development
- Skills development in marketing, research, or advocacy
- Letter of recommendation included
- **Requirements**: 10-15 hours/week availability, team collaboration commitment

### Stipend-Eligible Track
- Competitive stipend: Up to $2,000 per semester 10-15 hours per week
- Advanced leadership responsibilities and executive mentorship
- Priority for full-time positions
- **Requirements**: Outstanding academic record, relevant skills, exceptional commitment

## Program Structure

**Weeks 1-2**: Purpose discovery and platform orientation
**Weeks 3-6**: Skill development and specialized track selection:
- Research & Analytics
- Creative Arts & Music Therapy
- Marketing & Community Engagement
- Health Advocacy & Policy
- Technology & Innovation

**Weeks 7-10**: Real-world project implementation and leadership development
**Weeks 11-12**: Project completion and career planning

## Outcomes
- 97.1% satisfaction rate
- Enhanced career clarity and professional skills
- Purpose-driven network and mentorship
- Portfolio development and industry knowledge

## Application Process
**All Tracks**: Online application, resume, 500-word purpose essay, two references
**Stipend Track**: Additional portfolio, video interview, project proposal

**Rolling admissions** with monthly cohort starts. Applications reviewed first-come, first-served.

## Contact
**Applications & Questions**:

**Ready to discover your purpose while creating social impact? Apply today to transform your career trajectory with Voice Up.**

Together we are organized around the following structure:

Every person identifies a cause that is personal and valuable to them.
Mine is helping the children of the incarcerated.

Every person agrees to be held accountable to the following principles.
Collaboration
All are welcome. All means all

Collaboration
Collaboration in the workplace extends far beyond simply working together on projects. It represents an active commitment to combining diverse perspectives, skills, and experiences to achieve outcomes that surpass what any individual could accomplish alone.

AI Is Coming for Tasks Not People. The Workers Who Thrive Will Be the Ones Who Can Turn Meaning Into Impact.
How the skills economy is shifting and why purpose-driven, project-based learning may be the best insurance policy in an AI workplace.
By the time the first AI tool shows up on a staff meeting agenda, the real change has already begun. Job roles rarely vanish overnight. Instead, they fracture quietly into tasks: drafting, summarizing, scheduling, analyzing, responding, reporting. Generative AI is unusually good at the middle layer of modern work: routine knowledge tasks, first drafts, templated communication, and speed-driven outputs. That’s why global employers increasingly describe the future of work as a race to rebuild human capability around AI rather than against it.
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 suggests that nearly four in ten key skills required for jobs are expected to change by 2030, reflecting a workplace in rapid transition where continuous learning becomes a baseline expectation rather than a bonus. And research from the OECD, examining job postings across multiple countries, finds that occupations with high AI exposure still demand substantial human-centered skill sets especially management, business processes, and social/emotional skills because AI doesn’t replace the need to lead projects, work with people, or navigate messy real-world constraints.

Where Voice Up fits: training the human capabilities AI can’t replace
Voice Up’s approach especially through its Visiting Scholar, project-based canon leading to a 12-credit Applied Purpose Science certification aims to build exactly the set of durable skills that modern workforce evidence keeps pointing toward. Instead of organizing learning around passive consumption, Voice Up organizes it around contribution: reflection, team-based accountability, applied problem solving, and the repeated practice of turning insights into real-world outputs.
At the center is a simple premise: people remain valuable in an AI workplace when they can connect their best qualities to positive impact and demonstrate that impact in tangible ways.
That’s why the Voice Up model emphasizes: