Spring 2025 IT Intern
About Reproductive Freedom for All (Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America)
For more than 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All and its chapters have fought to protect and expand reproductive freedom —including access to abortion and contraception — for everybody. We are powered by our more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who believe every person should have the freedom to make the best decision for themselves about if, when, and how to raise a family.
Reproductive Freedom for All centers diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in our organization and our work. Continuously learning from our history, we hold ourselves accountable to achieve reproductive freedom with equitable access for everybody. As the oldest and largest national membership organization primarily focused on advocating for abortion access, we organize and mobilize, galvanizing millions of people to take action to defend reproductive freedom, and shining a spotlight of accountability on bad actors who work to impose their ideological agenda on others. We also work to elect champions for reproductive freedom and advance state and federal legislation to safeguard it. For more information on Reproductive Freedom for All, please visit our website.
Job Details
Compensation: $18.67/hour
Start Date: January 27, 2025
End Date: April 18, 2025
Location: This position will be hybrid, located in Washington, D.C.
Hours: Part-time; Between 20-25 hours per week, with flexible hours as needed
In this internship, you will:
- Conduct an audit of the current patch panel connections on the network rack with which switches they lead to, match up which VLANs they are set to, and document all connections;
- Post-audit, swap out the aggregation switch and the edge switches with the replacement units, with the assistance of the IT Director;
- Field day to day support requests from staff, as needed.
- Final deliverable: Update the network layout Visio diagram to be current with the reality of the new network setup.
In this internship, you will learn:
- How to safely migrate an active network from a series of old networking hardware to new networking hardware while maintaining the network with minimal downtime;
- How to improve day to day technical skills with fielding support requests from typical users. You will learn how to support requests from users on Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, Monday.com, Stampli,
- PandaDoc, Adobe software suite, Microsoft Office suite, and others;
- How to use Microsoft Visio to make basic network layout diagrams.
We're looking for someone who:
- Has knowledge of networking switches and other networking hardware(firewalls, patch panels, ethernet);
- Has knowledge of networking concepts such as VLANs, DHCP, DNS, IP Addresses, MAC Addresses;
- Has technology troubleshooting skills supporting users with macOS, Windows, Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace (Google Docs/Sheets/Drive);
- Is committed to or interested in advancing reproductive freedom;
- Is committed to Reproductive Freedom for All’s values of diversity, equity, and inclusion;
- Is comfortable working in a face paced environment.
Reproductive Freedom for All does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or political affiliation.
Candidates with backgrounds, identities, and experiences that are historically underrepresented in reproductive freedom non-profits are encouraged to apply.