Health Equity Intern

Organizational Background

Founded over 50 years ago, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) is a pioneer coalition of over 300 socially responsible investors including faith-based communities, labor unions, and others who leverage their investments to hold corporations accountable for the social and environmental impacts of their operations. Our membership collectively represents over $4 trillion in invested capital.  

ICCR members and staff engage hundreds of multinational corporations annually to promote more sustainable and just practices to ensure companies secure a better future for their employees, their customers, their shareholders and the community at-large. We do this through on-going engagement with corporate management on a range of social and environmental issues that impact communities in the U.S. and globally.  These engagements include a variety of strategies including, but not limited to dialogues, roundtables, resolutions/shareholder proposals, and investor statements/letters.

Position Summary 

ICCR is seeking candidates for an internship on health equity. The Intern will assist the Senior Director – Health Equity with research to support the rollout of the 2024 shareholder strategy and inform the 2025 strategy to engage: (1) the pharmaceutical sector on measures that ensure long-term value creation for all stakeholders and increase access to affordable medicine; (2) health care companies on preventing algorithmic harms; and (3) the food sector on changing practices that contribute to health inequities.

·      Conducting research on key issues and companies to inform engagements with target companies

·      Drafting issue briefs and backgrounders, company profiles, and investor statements

·      Developing tools to ensure consistency in member engagement across companies

·      Participating in dialogues and meetings 

The internship period is scheduled to run from June through August 2024. The internship includes a stipend of $5,000 and applicants should be able to commit to 20 hours per week on average, with flexibility.

Benefits for Intern  

The intern will learn about the work of corporate engagement from seasoned practitioners, and about how companies are addressing sustainability issues and the regulatory environment and its impact on sustainability.  The intern will also learn how investors leverage their relationship with companies to impart positive change.

Qualifications  

• Applicants must be currently enrolled in, or recently graduated from, a graduate degree program – MPH students preferred.
• Experience and knowledge of public health; additional familiarity with corporate social responsibility is preferred.
• Excellent research skills with the ability to organize & synthesize information effectively.
• Ability to take direction as well as work & think independently.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong computer skills (Windows environment: Word, Outlook, Excel & PowerPoint)

Application

Please send a resume and cover letter together in one PDF file to: Esaba Hoque, Senior Program Associate at internships@iccr.org. Also include the contact details (name, email address, and organization) of two references.

Please send a resume and cover letter together in one PDF file to: Esaba Hoque, Senior Program Associate at internships@iccr.org. Also include the contact details (name, email address, and organization) of two references.