American Heart Association

Content Writer

• Conduct external research on prospective foundation donors using database tools and basic internet research
• Identify donor priorities, application due dates, and application requirements
• Contact assigned foundations to inquire about opportunities and proposal requirements and deadlines
• Document foundation information in Salesforce CRM and share it with the fundraising team
• Attend planning meetings with experienced fundraisers to develop donor and prospect cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship plans
• Write applications and customize proposals using resources and templates
• Ensure proposals are well-written, compelling, consistent with AHA strategic direction and funding needs, and responsive to donor goals
• Document donor plans and activity in Salesforce CRM using dashboards and reports
• Provide regular progress reporting as requested
• Work on special assignments as requested
• Handle sensitive and confidential information discreetly and professionally
• Follow ethical guidelines and data privacy regulations when researching and handling donor information

Intern, Grant & Proposal Writing

Data Scientist

• Support the Annual Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update
• Extract, analyze, and summarize prevalence, mortality, healthcare utilization, expenditure, and outcome data using national datasets such as NHANES, NHIS, CDC WONDER, HCUP, and MEPS
• Assist with collection, management, analysis, and reporting of cardiovascular disease and stroke-related data
• Create and update statistical tables, figures, charts, and supporting documentation for scientific reports and publications
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, analytic documentation, and process guides for data extraction, analysis, reporting, and quality assurance
• Collaborate with epidemiologists, data scientists, and scientific volunteers to respond to data requests and support annual publication activities

Intern, Epidemiology, Data Science – Evaluation

Operations

• Assist with planning, organizing, and monitoring departmental projects and strategic initiatives from initiation through completion
• Maintain project plans, workback schedules, milestones, action logs, decision records, risks, and dependencies
• Prepare meeting materials and capture decisions, action items, owners, and next steps
• Coordinate information across workstreams and provide stakeholders visibility into project status and priorities
• Document current-state workflows and help design future-state processes
• Identify bottlenecks, duplicative work, handoff issues, unclear ownership, and other operational pain points
• Gather stakeholder feedback, research best practices, and recommend improvements
• Pilot, document, and evaluate new or improved processes using defined success measures
• Create, update, and organize standard operating procedures, process maps, templates, checklists, toolkits, user guides, and playbooks
• Support centralized resource libraries and improve the findability, usability, consistency, and maintenance of departmental information
• Develop onboarding, training, and reference materials
• Apply document standards, version control, and accessibility considerations
• Conduct environmental scans, benchmarking, and internal discovery to identify white-space opportunities, unmet needs, and operational gaps
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative findings into summaries, recommendations, and leadership-ready presentations
• Help prioritize opportunities based on impact, effort, urgency, stakeholders, and department goals
• Support annual planning, special projects, and continuous-improvement initiatives

Intern, Operations

Events

• Assist with planning, coordinating, and executing pre-event logistics
• Support on-site event management for multiple community events
• Conduct pre-event outreach to social-event attendees and members of Cor Vitae and Circle of Red giving societies
• Assist with sponsor presentation preparation
• Gather materials for sponsor follow-up after meetings
• Help maintain relationships with key stakeholders
• Assist with pulling reports and data entry
• Organize event-related information to track progress and outcomes
• Prepare printed materials and assemble thank-you cards
• Organize event supplies

Intern, Development & Community Events

Communications

• Review, update, and refresh communications materials for clarity, accuracy, and consistency across print and digital assets
• Design one-pagers, social graphics, slide templates, and toolkits supporting Voices for Healthy Kids advocacy and outreach efforts
• Ensure materials align with Voices for Healthy Kids brand guidelines, visual identity, tone, and messaging
• Support layout and design work using established templates and brand standards
• Fact-check language, data points, and citations for accuracy and research grounding
• Collaborate with the communications and marketing team to refine content and support timely project updates
• Gain practical job skills in a non-profit environment
• Support national advocacy efforts to improve child and family health

Intern, Marketing & Communications, Design

• Assist with the end-to-end contracting process, including preparing templates, gathering attachments, routing documents, and tracking approvals
• Maintain the contract repository by filing executed agreements and updating contract data
• Perform basic invoice processing, verify coding, and prepare documents for Finance review
• Reconcile small budget line items and assist with monthly expense tracking and simple reporting
• Enter and maintain accurate data in Smartsheet, Salesforce, Excel, or other team systems
• Respond to internal requests for documentation, archive retrieval, and contract copies
• Participate in process improvement discussions and pilot small automation or tracking enhancements
• Provide general administrative support, including scheduling meetings, taking notes, and preparing meeting materials

• Assist with preparing, cleaning, validating, and documenting clinical, registry, and research datasets
• Conduct descriptive and inferential statistical analyses under senior team guidance
• Support study design, sample size and power considerations, statistical analysis plans, and interpretation of results
• Develop and evaluate statistical models, including regression, survival analysis, longitudinal analysis, and mixed-effects models
• Create reproducible analytical workflows using R, Python, SAS, or other approved statistical tools
• Perform quality-control reviews of data, code, tables, figures, and analytical outputs
• Produce tables, figures, data visualizations, and summaries for scientific and business audiences
• Contribute to literature reviews, manuscripts, abstracts, conference materials, and presentations
• Participate in team meetings, code reviews, documentation activities, and research best practices
• Collaborate with biostatisticians, data scientists, clinicians, and research partners to support study design, analysis, interpretation, and scientific communication

Intern, Data Science, Biostatistics

• Support the design and development of LLM-powered applications and agentic AI workflows for clinical, biomedical, and operational research use cases
• Apply LLMs to modeling and analytical tasks, including information extraction, classification, summarization, question answering, and workflow orchestration
• Experiment with prompt design, structured outputs, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, tool use, and multi-step agent workflows
• Prepare, clean, organize, and document data used in LLM and generative AI experiments
• Develop reproducible prototypes and workflows using Python and approved AI/ML tools and platforms
• Design and perform evaluations of LLM systems using quantitative and qualitative measures
• Conduct validation, error analysis, robustness testing, and comparison of model or workflow alternatives
• Assess hallucination, factual consistency, relevance, reliability, bias, privacy, and reproducibility
• Document methods, assumptions, prompts, evaluation results, limitations, and recommended improvements
• Contribute to technical documentation, presentations, abstracts, manuscripts, and cross-functional project discussions

Intern, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI

• Assist with planning, coordinating, and executing pre-event logistics and on-site event management for multiple community events
• Conduct pre-event outreach to event attendees to support participation
• Assist with sponsor presentation preparation
• Gather materials for sponsor follow-up after meetings
• Help maintain relationships with key stakeholders
• Assist with pulling reports, data entry, and organizing event-related information
• Prepare printed materials and assemble thank-you cards
• Organize event supplies
• Support planning and execution of Hands-Only CPR demonstrations

Business Operations

• Support processing the local event contract backlog
• Enter contract details into Optimus and track legal documentation
• Enter guest lists, table assignments, and bidder paddle information into Greater Giving
• Pull event-related reports and organize data to monitor progress and outcomes
• Conduct weekly data quality checks in Givergy, Luminate, Salesforce, and Tableau
• Enter event-related documentation and invoices into Salesforce
• Assist with preparing Letters of Agreement, Attachment A benefits, and internal proposals
• Collaborate with regional leads to design graphics for event materials
• Update and create standard operating procedures with department leads
• Maintain and update SharePoint resources and documentation
• Create short training videos for onboarding and process education
• Prepare printed materials, thank-you cards, and donation receipts
• Support agendas and materials for operations meetings, departmental meetings, and training sessions

Intern, Grant & Proposal Writing

Intern, Epidemiology, Data Science – Evaluation

Intern, Operations

Intern, Development & Community Events

Intern, Marketing & Communications, Design

Intern, Operations

Intern, Data Science, Biostatistics

Intern, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI

Intern, Development & Community Events

Intern, Regional Business Operations