Internships
We are a non-profit organization, and we are bringing the Philadelphia community together by empowering everyone to live healthier lifestyles through eating right and exercising.
Internship Positions
Accounting Assistant
This is an unpaid 20 hours per week position for someone interested in gaining experience working for a health and fitness nonprofit organization. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to, preparing and reviewing the organization’s financial documents and reports. The accounting assistant will be working primarily with the executive director in monitoring budgets, and the financial activities of the organization.
Recommended Qualifications:
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
- Knowledge of Excel and other accounting software
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Goal-oriented
Event, Volunteer, and Marketing Manager
This is an unpaid 20 hours per week position for candidates interested in gaining experience working for a health and wellness nonprofit organization. The responsibilities of the Event, Volunteer, and Marketing Manager will include but are not limited to assisting with the planning and organizing of several CEFN programs and events (Primarily the Senior Gala, the Senior Harvest Ball, and Get Fit/Healthy Cooking demo), along with working primarily with the executive director to promote and market events to CEFN’s sponsors, vendors, community partners, and older adults in the larger community.
Recommended Qualifications:
- Highly organized and creative
- Considerable knowledge and willingness to learn the principles and practices of healthy eating and living.
- Has strong interpersonal skills and enjoys working with people
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Goal oriented
Digital Media Designer
This is an unpaid position that requires 20 hours per week and is designed for someone who is
interested in gaining experience with digital media production and graphic design in a company that needs many different designs to display CEFN’s events and projects.
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to, helping provide graphics for different projects
that will be needed at CEFN, working with the CEFN team to collaborate on projects, following the guidelines of what you are creating and assisting those who may need graphics for CEFN projects (sponsor ads, website graphics, etc.). They should be aware of the responsibilities of creating different projects that the CEFN client base, older adults, and CEFN staff would interact with. Experience with and access to the Adobe Creative Suite is essential for the position.
Recommended Qualifications:
- Intermediate experience with graphic design (Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator and Photoshop experience)
- Preferably pursuing an Associate or Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, or a related
field from an accredited college/university
- Good communication, collaboration, and time-management skills
- Is experienced in using and posting on social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and maintain deadlines with each project
Grant Writer
This position is for 20 hours per week and for someone interested in gaining experience in grant writing for a health and fitness nonprofit organization. Primary responsibilities include preparation of proposals and grant applications, researching, identifying, developing, and responding to public and private grant opportunities. This position is unpaid.
Recommended Qualifications:
- Excellent writing and computer skills (Microsoft Office Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Excel)
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to implement systems and follow-up processes
- Considerable knowledge and willingness to learn the principles and practices of effective grant writing
- Ability to effectively work under pressure
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Goal and detail oriented
Nutrition Assistant
This is an unpaid position for 20 hours a week for someone interested in gaining experience with a health and fitness program. Responsibilities will include, but not limited to updating healthy eating guides for participants, disseminating healthy eating tips/ information to participants during health and fitness programs, participating in health and fitness programs, TV shows, and health fairs. He/she should be aware of major health concerns/risks working with high risks populations. Also, he/she must be willing to work closely with an onsite Nutrition educator.
Recommended Qualifications:
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
- Knowledge of Excel and other accounting software
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Goal-oriented
Social Entrepreneur
This position is for 20 hours per week and for someone interested in gaining experience in running your own organization. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to, the recruitment of prospective board members, managing fundraising procedures, accounting/finance, event planning/coordination, and some graphic design (fliers, brochures, booklets). In addition to gaining invaluable experience and skills in social entrepreneurship, the student in this position will gain valuable leadership skills, the option of working remotely, the benefit of a flexible work schedule, the freedom to develop creative ideas to enhance the job description and co-op experience, and function as a consultant with CEFN’s team. You will also be working closely with the Event, Volunteer, and Marketing Manager.
Recommended Qualifications:
- Excellent writing and computer skills (Google Suite/Microsoft Office)
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to implement systems and follow-up processes
- Ability to effectively work under pressure
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Excellent analytical and abstract reasoning skills, and excellent organization skills
- Has strong interpersonal skills and enjoys working with people
- Goal-oriented and detailed-oriented
Social Worker
This is an unpaid position designed for a social work intern who is interested in doing their field practicum at the Community Enrichment Fitness Network (CEFN). Working under the auspices of CEFN’s executive director, the intern will be assigned to do their fieldwork assignments at CEFN. The executive director will be the primary supervisor. The social work intern should be aware and become knowledgeable about the health, social, and economic concerns/risks in working with the elderly and the disabled.
Duties:
- Attend weekly supervision meetings
- Write and submit monthly reports
- Maintain and keep all work in an electronic folder and a hard copy binder
- Attend staff meetings (whenever possible)
- Shadow supervisor during home visits
- Perform case management follow-ups as needed
- Assist with conducting assessments on home care patients and residents living in affordable housing
- Assist with planning, organizing and coordinating special events
- Develop, update, and co-facilitate a support group (if available)
- Call inactive older adults who may need support and/or home care services
- Develop and update resource directory (if needed)
- Connect with resources in the community to develop programs
- Invite speakers to do presentations
- Provide supportive counseling to clients in need
- Work with CEFN’s team on developing project management tools for special events
- Attend community outreach events as needed
- Attend Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA) training sessions on working with older adults
- Assist executive director with community outreach presentations for senior health and wellness programs
- Perform other duties as required
Webmaster
This is an unpaid 20 hours per week position for someone interested in gaining experience working for a health and fitness nonprofit organization. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, managing and updating CEFN’s website and marketing and promoting “Focus on Fitness.” The Webmaster will be working primarily with the executive director and the CEFN team in developing a strong online presence through CEFN’s website.
Recommended Qualifications:
- Experienced is preferable but willing to learn WordPress. Experienced in web design, Web browsers, and other web applications. Knowledge in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, UI/UX Design, UI Prototyping, Adobe Photoshop, and/or Adobe Illustrator are a plus.
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Goal-oriented and detailed-oriented
- Excellent knowledge of Google Workspace
- Good understanding of the digital media landscape
- Good communication, collaboration, and time-management skills
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Intern Testimonials
Testimonials
"As Webmaster, I thoroughly enjoyed my experience at Community Enrichment Fitness Network. During my time here, I gained invaluable WordPress experience and appreciated the autonomy to take initiative and find creative solutions to any challenges that arose. Working within a small, close-knit team has always been my preferred work environment, and it was incredibly rewarding to contribute to a cause that supports the senior population – an area that is deeply meaningful to me." - Julia Veal (Webmaster Fall/Winter 2024-2025)
"As a digital media designer, my overall experience with CEFN is eye opening. At CEFN, I have worked on flyers, tickets, newsletter, ad, website and promotion video, reorganize the google drive and many other miscellaneous tasks. I did experience some challenges when I just started, prior to CEFN, I didn’t have any work experience or any knowledge about organizing events. Working at CEFN let me gain a lot of knowledge in those areas and allow me to evaluate my skill set objectively. I have gained many soft skills like communication, networking, and adaptability that will help me in the future." - Chuanhui Yan (Digital Media Designer Spring/Summer 2022-2023)
"As a Drexel co-op student, I worked at CEFN as an event coordinator. Throughout my time, I had a great team to coordinate my ideas and openly present and communicate different opinions. I enjoyed the flexible time on working on various projects. Sherry was very responsive in answering questions throughout the day if help was ever needed. As an event coordinator, it helped me build my communication skills as I had to reach out to many different vendors/representatives. It also helped me expand my creativity by working on flyers and creating newsletters. After a successful event, you get great satisfaction from putting together an amazing event and helping many others in the community." - Alice Yip (Event Coordinator Spring/Summer 2020-2021)