Looking to join a dynamic organization in our community doing meaningful work? You’ve found it with Let’s Shake The Table, Inc. Our nonprofit was created to help bring better opportunities to Black women communicators in Charlotte, NC. This is a paid position, helping to develop you as a communications and DEI leader.

Over the last three years, we've partnered with the Communication Studies Graduate Student program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in various ways, most notably refreshing the Jade Myers Graduate Lounge to posthumously recognize a late alumni. We’re currently working to establish the Jade Myers Intersectionality & Justice Research Award. Once we hit our goal, the award will recognize, reward and encourage students from marginalized backgrounds who use their research to persevere through tough conversations and advance our collective community. 

In addition to our efforts on campus, we provide unique programs to assist Black women in personal and professional development. This work includes skill-building and networking opportunities. If hired, you will work in a hybrid role in a professional environment with various members of the Board of Directors to help further initiatives within the organization. 

Qualifications

Junior and senior students in good academic standing with a minimum 2.0 GPA within the following focus areas of study may apply:

• Communication Studies
• General
• Media & Technology Studies
• Organizational Communication
• Public Relations Concentration
• Health Communication
• Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Change Concentration, B.A.
• Journalism
• Marketing
• Organizational Science

Requirements

The position will run the full Spring semester (12 weeks) at 8 hours per week. Outstanding performance is determined by 100% timely completion (at a satisfactory level) of all assigned tasks, along with participation in a majority of required events.

You will meet bi-weekly with the site supervisor and intern leader to ensure that goals and objectives of the position are being met. Completing any necessary paperwork and periodic reviews will take place during these sessions. It is of the utmost importance that if you are hired for this role that you understand you will handle personally identifiable information for our board, Let’s Shake The Table, Inc. members and those in attendance at our public events. Confidentiality is required so you will be asked to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and any violation of confidentiality or breach of trust may result in immediate termination and/or a complaint to the UNC Charlotte Internship Director.

At the end of the program, you will be asked to complete an exit interview with the site supervisor. Please note that after satisfactory completion of the program, a qualified candidate would be eligible for renewal for the next available semester.