Campus Chapter Intern - Norfolk State University

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Campus Chapter Intern is a public-facing member of NMDP on college campuses. This position engages student peers in alignment with the pillars of the NMDP Chapters program to educate, recruit, and fundraise in support of the NMDP mission. The primary focus of the Campus Chapter Intern is to fulfill a leadership role within the NMDP Chapter on their campus, which includes growing and engaging the chapter membership, ensuring the chapter is officially recognized and has good standing with the university, and ensuring the chapter fulfills all expectations of the NMDP Chapters program.

The role also involves registry recruitment with support from the regional Member Recruitment staff team. The intern will spread awareness, educate, and inspire committed individuals to join the NMDP Registry through captive‑audience presentations, tabling events, digital marketing, and recruitment activities. Specifically, the intern is charged with establishing (if not present), cultivating, and growing the NDMP Chapter at the campus as measured by registered student organization status, number of chapter members, and new NMDP registry members added.

• Build and sustain campus relationships and inspire committed student peers to join the NMDP registry.

• Target audiences include students, faculty, administrators, staff, student organizations, athletic teams, marching bands, and campus public relations/marketing teams.

• Increase the NMDP Registry through peer‑to‑peer engagement and education of genetically varied students and student organizations.

• Plan and coordinate registry awareness, education, and recruitment activities in collaboration with internal partners such as Member Recruitment and external partners within the campus community.

• Work collaboratively with a regional Member Recruitment team to achieve weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual registry recruitment goals.

• Build NMDP volunteerism on campus, including episodic volunteers and NMDP Ambassadors as measured by number of volunteers and hours in service.

• Learn, retain, and communicate lifesaving information about NMDP to spread awareness, educate, and grow the NMDP Registry within the campus community.

• Leverage strong interpersonal skills to develop relationships with other students and campus organizations.

• Build enthusiasm and inspire the campus community through engaging conversations and public speaking.

• Be highly organized and effectively manage time, balancing internship responsibilities with academics and other commitments.

• Adapt and problem‑solve when things don’t initially go as planned.

• Lead weekly on‑campus activations, including captive‑audience presentations, tabling, collaboration with stakeholders, or NMDP recruitment events, and handle the setup and breakdown of booths, securing and managing volunteers.

• Work in a remote environment with minimum in‑person supervision and demonstrate consistent dependability.

• Become proficient in NMDP’s member registration process.

• Use social media platforms to promote NMDP’s lifesaving mission.

• Create, develop, and/or maintain a registered student organization on campus, hosting executive board and general body meetings, recruiting new members, and staying in good standing with the university.

• Comply with NMDP’s confidentiality policy.

• Utilize computer systems, including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and internet search applications.

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program at a targeted college or university.

• Preference given to students who are currently NMDP Chapter members, NMDP Ambassadors and/or NMDP volunteers.

• Completed at least 30 hours of coursework.

• Minimum GPA of 2.8.

• School year: 10 hours per week, including some weekend and evening hours.

• $18.50 per hour.

NMDP offers regular, full‑time employees medical, dental, vision, life and disability, accident/critical illness/hospital, well‑being, legal, identity theft, and pet benefits. Retirement, paid time off/holidays, leave and incentive plans are also offered to eligible employees. Please reference this link for more information: NMDP Benefit Information.