We believe that the best way to build leaders for the future is to familiarize them with the work that community leaders perform. Our internship program is designed to equip young people with the tools and skill-sets needed for them to grow into becoming effective leaders and to adequately represent their communities. With Majlis Ash-Shura, our interns acquire the unique opportunity to experience what life behind the scenes of the pulpit looks like for community leaders.
Why should I work for Majlis Ash-Shura of New York?
With Majlis Ash-Shura, you have an opportunity to work with an organization that represents over 90 mosques and organizations. As a result, we have various projects throughout the year that all provide their own unique experiences where interns can learn countless new skills and network with many professionals and community leaders along the way. Our Internship program runs throughout the entire year; fall, winter, spring and summer. All students are encouraged to apply whether they are high school students, undergraduate, or graduate, regardless of major. Interns can apply to earn academic credit, community service hours, or simply to gain experience in grassroots efforts.
We offer internships in marketing, event planning, graphics design, and media.
Compensation: $1000 stipend minimum, letters of recommendation & college credit.
How do I receive academic credit and/or community service hours?
For the intern to receive academic credit and/or community service hours a communication must be established between Majlis Ash-Shura and the intern’s school. We expect the student to know their school’s requirements, communicate with the Executive Director to structure the internship, and to provide the necessary documentation that must be filled for the intern to receive academic credit from their institution.
Internships
Position Summary:
As a Graphic Design & Marketing Intern you will be under the supervision of the Project Manager to assist in ongoing projects by the ILCNY. Your tasks will primarily focus on producing graphic designs and strategies to help market and brand ILCNY. Tasks include: flyer designs, infographics, logos, and graphs. Additionally, you will be involved in the designs for presentations, videos, and imagery that will be used for the purposes of marketing the ILCNY.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Project Manager to find designs to help brand the ILCNY
- Producing aesthetically pleasing graphics that will be utilized to market ILCNY on social media.
- Design creative flyers for events that maintain the values of ILCNY.
- Craft infographics, beautify graphs and spreadsheets to be used for presentations.
- Represent the brand of ILCNY with evocative imagery and designs.
- Research best practices and latest trends in design and marketing to keep the organization relevant
Qualifications:
- Must have experience with producing flyers and infographics.
- Must have experience with Islamic artwork
- Must demonstrate organization and time management skills
- Exhibits creativity in their designs and ideas.
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment on several simultaneous projects .
- Ideally have experience in motion graphics as well.
- Must be proficient with graphic designing software of any kind
- Experience in using Canva and Doodly is a plus
- Must be able to produce quality designs in a timely fashion.
- Some familiarity with producing presentations using Google or Microsoft software.
Requirements:
This internship is for currently enrolled college students or fresh graduates. The internship will demand approximately 20 hours of your time per week. Specific days and number hours are flexible and can be scheduled around your coursework.
Position Summary:
As a Social Media & Marketing intern, you will work closely with the Outreach Manager. Your primary role will be to oversee the ILCNY’s social media channels, increase followership and engagement, research best practices in media and marketing, and make sure that the team stays up-to-date on current local affairs of importance to the New York Muslim community.
Responsibilities:
- Developing marketing strategies to promote the organization across all of our social media platforms
- Effectively marketing events, fundraisers, and initiatives the ILCNY is part of.
- Researching creative and effective means of building a stronger and larger presence online and offline.
- Synthesizes daily/weekly news into detailed summaries that will provide the team with important information.
- Research opportunities for the ILCNY to engage with media outlets, publications, and interviewers to promote causes or the organization itself.
- Assisting in managing social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Qualifications:
- Ability to research the latest news and synthesize important information.
- Must exhibit initiative in pursuing new opportunities for the organization.
- Exceptional writing and analysis skills.
- Passion for improving communities.
- Familiarity with causes that would be of interest to Muslims and minority communities
- High proficiency with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok
- Understand best practices for various social media platforms
Requirements:
This internship is for currently enrolled college students or fresh graduates. The internship will demand approximately 20 hours of your time per week. Specific days and number hours are flexible and can be scheduled around your coursework.
Position Summary:
As an Events/Outreach Intern you will be under the supervision of the Outreach Manager. Your role will primarily focus on taking care of logistics for event-planning, staying up-to-date with events in the area, and maintaining consistent communications with our member organizations, partners and religious leadership. Additionally, the intern will assist the Outreach Manager in administrative tasks to maintain effective communication.
Responsibilities:
- Gather important community events weekly for the Community Calendar
- Assisting the Project Manager with planning and budgeting for events.
- Preparing and contacting venues that would be most effective for events.
- Analyzing the logistics necessary for events such as; size of the venue, volunteers needed, dietary considerations, and time management.
- Attend events and make sure events go smoothly
- Assisting Outreach Manager in administrative tasks.
- Communicating with member organizations and partners via emails and phone calls.
- Organizing conference calls and meetings between Majlis Ash-Shura and our members.
- Researching and seeking potential networking opportunities for Majlis Ash-Shura in the tri-state area.
Qualifications:
- Excellent logistical, organizational, and time management skills; detail oriented.
- Ability to multitask in a fast paced environment and to work independently with minimal supervision
- Exceptional interpersonal communication skills and etiquette
- Ability to recognize strategic networking opportunities and pursue them.
- Exceptional researching skills and familiarity with effective search tools and techniques.
Requirements:
This internship is for currently enrolled college students or fresh graduates. The internship will demand approximately 20 hours of your time per week. Specific days and number hours are flexible and can be scheduled around your coursework.
How to Apply
If you are interested in applying for this position, please fill out the internship form below. Please be sure to submit relevant writing samples and/or graphic design samples (if applying for GD internship), respectively.