RIPPAC Internship Guide - Summer 2021

Name of Company / Association / Organization   Assemblyman Ryan Reynolds and Assemblywoman Jean Stanfield

Internship Coordinator Brian Woods   

Coordinator’s Phone / Email 609-667-7360    bwoods@njleg.org 

Location of Main Office Lumberton, NJ 

# of Summer 2021 Interns Accepted 1-3

Where will the internship be done?

In the main office       

Remotely (student works from home)       

Combo At-home & In-Office XX

Dates / Length of Summer Internship June 1 – August 15   

Required Hours/Week Up to 15 hours

Is there some type of salary or stipend?  No

 If so, how much? 

What is the application process?  (Please include deadlines & other requirements.  Feel free to attach additional pages)

Send resume and cover letter to bwoods@njleg.org

Deadline to submit resume is Friday, May 15, 2021

Intern work areas:           Clerical  XX   Research  XX   Errands        Organizing XX

Please explain the work that will be required of the intern:  Responsibilities include answering phones calls, mailing letters, and scial media marketing and constituent casework.  We will teach the intern public relation strategies and how to best reach constituents through various multi-media marketing.  We will also go over how to properly help residents who reach out and have an issue with the state.  The intern will learn about going through the proper channels of government to help people with specific issues.  

Will there be opportunities for the intern to observe:

Internal strategy sessions? XX     Legislative sessions?  XX Committee hearings?  XX

Visits to Trenton will happen if the state begins allowing visitors.

Is the intern expected to work evenings and weekends?  If so, please explain.  Extra work is at the discretion of the intern:  It is not required for the intern to atend evening or weekend events, such as ribbon cuttings, town fairs, roundtables, etc.  but if the inter would like to experience interacting with constituents and accompanying the elected official to events, it is more than welcomed.

The same goes for Trenton visits.  These are typically during the day, but voting sessions could last until well after 5pm.  The intern will not be required to go to Trenton with the Assembly members, but if he or she would like to get the experience of being at a voting session and the process of determining how the elected official will be voting, it is also more than welcomed. 

Do you have any suggestions for the applicants? (Please use additional pages if necessary)

We have a relaxed office environment that looks to each students about government, the voting process and how a district office is best run to help constituents.  We are looking for interns who possess a desire to help people, are passionate about local government and have an interest in state politics.