Business Development Intern
Remote Internship
Emergency Services (ES) practitioners around the world, particularly in the Global South, face challenges that restrict their ability to effectively serve their communities: limited and irregular budgets, few tools to track, assess, and improve services, slow projects that lack templates or direction, and absence of citizen demand for improved services. We can change the dynamic. GESA (Global Emergency Services Action) was founded in 2020 as a focal point for experts and expertise, matching industry leading equipment and consulting with country and donor demand to promote growth across the ES sector.
As an international non-profit, GESA is an exciting team to join. We embrace GESA’s social purpose and strive to understand the root causes of issues faced by practitioners in emerging markets – from the practitioners themselves. GESA is based in Dayton, OH, and has Members and Advisors from countries across the globe: Austria, Ecuador, Great Britain, Kenya, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland, and Zambia – just to name a few. And we are expanding quickly.
With this growth, GESA is seeking a bright, self-motivated Business Development Intern who is looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the world. Through this internship, you will have a real impact on the advancement of Emergency Services – making the world safer for everyone to grow and develop.
Time: 15-20 hours/week
Compensation: begins as an unpaid internship with opportunity for a stipend after 1 month.
Location: Remote
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Communications and Media Monitoring
- Find new stories, conversations, and connections, and recommend actions to take
- Propose, draft, and edit content for posts, blogs, press releases, and newsletters
- Grants and Procurements Research
- Conduct procurement opportunity searches and compile into brief reports for GESA Members
- Create and fill a simple database to track grant opportunities
- Analyze feasibility of opportunities and make recommendations to the Executive Director
- Outline, draft, and edit grant applications
- Industry Research
- Search for and analyze existing industry research
- Prepare and distribute surveys and qualitative research
- Analyze research and draft reports for the Executive Director, that may be read by the Board or other stakeholders
- GESA Flagship Project
- Unique opportunity to work on the development of a platform that seeks to create a sustainable, robust equipment and consulting procurement pipeline for departments in the Global South
Potential Responsibilities Based on Skill and Growth in Role
- Design social media creative and/or edit videos
- Design and edit website
- Member onboarding activities
Requirements/Qualifications:
- Sophomore, Junior, or Senior in 4-year college, or recent graduate
- Strong writer
- Experience with writing grant applications, briefs, industry analyses, or similar
- Experience with non-academic writing or copywriting
- Experience with digital marketing or social media management
- Can read and interpret basic data
- Good general understanding of business
- Respond well to feedback and criticism
- Organized and good time management
- Energetic, determined, can-do attitude
- Foreign language skills are a plus
- Creative software skills (ex: Canva, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc) are a plus