Intern, Curricula Development

About Us

The vision of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing is to make mental wellbeing, including recovery from substance use challenges, a reality for everyone. Despite overwhelming need, nearly 30 million people across the U.S. do not have access to comprehensive, high-quality, affordable mental health and substance use care when they need it.

Founded in 1969, the National Council is a membership organization that drives policy and social change on behalf of nearly 3,300 mental health and substance use prevention, treatment and recovery organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. We advocate for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services and supports. We build the capacity of mental health and substance use treatment organizations. And we promote greater understanding of mental wellbeing as a core component of comprehensive health and health care. Through our Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) program, we have trained more than 3 million people in the U.S. to identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges.

The National Council is growing rapidly to meet this moment; both our budget ($77M) and passionate staff (260+) have grown more than 50% since 2020. In addition, while we maintain office space in Washington, DC, we are a remote-first organization, meaning our employees work remotely from their locations across the United States.

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and commit ourselves to creating an inclusive environment for everyone.

Internship Summary

Internships at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing provide recent or current college students with a 12-week remote experience to grow within a professional area of interest. As a National Council intern, you will model our organization values: showing a bias for action, helping shape the future, being a team player, being curious, and championing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

All interns are paid $20/hour. This is a remote, full-time internship projected to start with a summer cohort at the National Council on May 29, 2024 and end on August 21, 2024. While this internship can be done remotely from anywhere in the US, you must primarily work in our Washington, DC business hours of 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM ET.

The National Council is an equal-opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and commit ourselves to creating an inclusive environment for everyone.

Internship Responsibilities

As the Intern, Curricula Development, you will primarily assist the Curricula Development and Evaluation team with the transition into a new curriculum system. In addition to supporting this project, you may support ongoing curriculum development projects using instructional and graphic design knowledge.

• Prepare curriculum materials and/or graphics for import into a curriculum system.
• Assist with migrating the prepared materials into a curriculum system.
• Perform quality checks of content as it is migrated.
• Assist curricula developers, graphic designers, and curricula editors with curriculum development projects.

Required Qualifications

• Current or recent enrollment in an undergraduate or graduate degree program in instructional design, graphic design, or related field
• Ability to work with PDFs, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, PPT, Word, and adapt quickly to new technologies
• Must be authorized to work in the United States

National Council Internship Program Benefits

• Remote work: We welcome applicants from all US time zones, with your knowledge that some required meetings and trainings are likely to occur in US Eastern Time.
• Relias Trainings: Free access to job-relevant trainings
• Mental Health First Aid: Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches participants how to respond to the signs of mental illness and substance use.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): An employee program that focuses on wellbeing by providing resources and solutions to help you through difficult times.
• Focus Time: Regularly scheduled on our calendars to reduce meeting burnout and give staff the time to focus on work
• Resilience and Relaxation Pause of the Week: A drop-in experience to take a pause to rest in the here and now
• DEI Committee: Thought leadership on issues of social and health equity that affect you, the National Council, our members, and the field.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): 1) The African American and Black group; 2) LGBTQ+ group; 3) Lived Experience Collective for those living with mental health or substance use challenges; 4) Abled and Disabled Allies Partnering Together (ADAPT)
• College Credit: This internship may fulfill college credit requirements in your college program.