The Executive Leadership Council is the preeminent member organization for the development of global black leaders. Comprised of more than 800 current and former corporate black CEOs, board members and senior executives at Fortune 1000 & Global 500 companies, entrepreneurs leading top-tier firms, and recognized thought leaders, we open channels of opportunity for the development of black executives to positively impact business and communities.

We are currently seeking a detail-oriented Learning & Development Program Specialist Intern to join the HR team in our Washington, DC office. for Summer of 2025. The internship requires the available to work up to 40 hours per week, at minimum 32 hours per week during the summer with 5 hours per week devoted to professional development with opportunities for Shadowing, mentoring, and training with successful professionals. The internship will commence on Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 and runs until Friday, August 15th, 2025. This position will report to the Director of the Leadership Institute. This is a hybrid role requiring you to come into the DC office at least 2 days per week.

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN | POSITION OVERVIEW

The Learning & Development Internship program combines hands-on mentorship, professional development, and real-world projects to help launch a career and gain professional experience as a Learning & Development professional. You will support the foundational work of launching the ELC's Institute for Research & Leadership Development Learning Management System (LMS) for our business. Our Learning & Development internship program will be a 10-week where they will receive full-time on the job education that will prepare them for On-the-Job Training (OJT). This internship provides an excellent opportunity to gather hands-on opportunity and to gain experience in learning content strategy, instructional design, and educational technology while making a tangible impact on our learning programs. The primary responsibility of the intern will be to inventory, define, and organize learning content and make recommendations for the selection and implementation of an LMS that aligns with our business goals.

WHAT YOU WILL DO | ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS & KEY OUTCOMES

Our interns are encouraged to bring fresh ideas to the table and are quickly entrusted with foundational responsibilities:

Instructional Design & Content Management

• Conduct an inventory of existing leadership development content (workshops, presentations, e-learning modules, videos, articles, assessments, etc.) and maintain catalogs and assets aligned with Institute competencies.
• Categorize and define learning assets based on topics, audience levels, and formats.
• Research and evaluate potential LMS platforms, identifying key features that support our training goals.
• Organize and structure content in a way that facilitates future LMS integration.
• Collaborate with leadership coaches, trainers, and instructional designers to understand content needs.
• Provide recommendations for LMS selection and implementation roadmap based on best practices.
• Create documentation or guidelines for content migration and system setup.
  
  

Business Administration & Development

• Provides administrative services to and on behalf of the Leadership Institute Team including calendar scheduling, creating, revising, and editing letters and reports using the Microsoft 365 Office pack.
• Collaborate with team members to identify and pursue new business opportunities.
• Assist in the productization of corporate offerings and develop custom program sales materials.
• Professionally engages with ELC clients & prospects, both internal & external, to provide support and resolve issues; continually possess a problem-solving, customer service mindset.
• Learns and becomes proficient in internal software systems, including MyELC, Asana, ect. Utilizes the system to make updates, run reports and analyze reports for accuracy and consistency.
• Accepts various business-focused projects to research, propose ideas and solutions. Provides suggestions to management for improving customer service and internal processes.
  
  

Project Management Coordination & Support

• Assist the department head and project managers in organizing and coordinating various events and programs.
• Collaborate with the team to develop project plans, timelines, and budgets.
• Track project progress, identify potential risks, and propose mitigation strategies.
• Maintain project documentation, including meeting minutes, action items, and status reports.
• Support the coordination of various programs aimed at engaging professionals
• Assist in developing program schedules, coordinating activities, and securing necessary resources.
• Communicate with program participants, ensuring they have the required information and materials.
• Monitor program progress, collect feedback, and assist in evaluating program effectiveness.
• Produce deliverables (e.g., slide decks, reports, spreadsheets, marketing materials, etc.)
• Create and execute project proposals and plans in a timely manner.
• Participate in project team meetings and provide status updates, as appropriate.
• Collaborate with the team on various projects related to data.
• Track project progress, milestones, risks, and issues.
  
  

Communication & Technology Support

• Manage communications with prospective, current, and former s scholars and maintain accurate informational resources and data management.
• Assist Senior Program Manager in recruitment and relationship management efforts; duties include organizing solicitation and recruitment efforts for potential clients.
• Support and collaborate with Senior Program Managers & Directors with program administration.
  
  

General Duties

• Contribute to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adhere to department policies, procedures, quality standards, and safety standards.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced office environment, demonstrating a flexible approach with short deadlines.
• Promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality improvement.
• Ability to maintain high project organization, multitask, and a focus on quality of results with attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
• Support a seamless information sharing workflow within the Leadership Institute department and the overall organization.
• Perform other duties as needed.
  
  

WHO ARE YOU | EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & CREDENTIALS

• Must be a Undergraduate or Graduate student enrolled in an accredited College or University at either the Sophomore, Junior, or Senior level or recent graduate with a GPA of 3.00 or above. The student should be pursuing a degree in Instructional Design, Education Technology, Learning & Development, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Must be available to work on-site at our downtown D.C. office 2x per week at minimum.
• Passionate about leadership development, digital learning, and organizational growth.
• Previous Learning & Development internship or work experience preferred, but not required
• Previous experienced (or eager to learn) about LMS platforms, e-learning tools, and content curation.
• Advanced computer skills in Adobe, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Proficient in conducting thorough and effective online research.
• Skilled in identifying and evaluating leadership development content for educational relevance and alignment with program goals.
• Ability to logically map learning objectives to instructional design requirements, ensuring cohesive and effective curriculum development.
• Ability to function in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage multiple tasks simultaneously; coordinating resources and ensuring scheduled goals are met.
• Ability to effectively interact with various levels of management is necessary.
• Ability to demonstrate professional, positive, and approachable attitude, and discretion, and sensitivity in handling confidential and highly sensitive information.
• Ability to make decisions and resolve problems effectively - seek out information and data to evaluate, prioritize, and formulate the best solution or practice.
• Ability to multi-task, work independently and as part of a team, share workloads, and deal with sudden shifts in project priorities and embrace the learning process through mistakes.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong written documentation skills and technical writing are required.
• Excellent presentation and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent editing, proofreading, and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical mindset.
• Shows a profound desire for continuous learning and improvement.
  
  

Even if you don't meet all of the highlighted qualifications, please still apply. This internship is here for you to learn and grow within a professional setting as well as preparing you to take that next step into your career.

WHAT WE STRIVE FOR | CORE COMPETENCIES

• Mission Alignment & Awareness: Has a passion for and commitment to opening channels of opportunity for the development of Black professionals to positively impact business and local communities; contributes to the organization by understanding and aligning actions with the organization's goals, core functions, and values.
• Planning & Results Orientation: Organizes and executes work to meet organizational goals and objectives while meeting quality standards and following organizational processes; ensures individual performance does not negatively impact the performance of others; recommends additional resources that would improve effectiveness and helps others access required resources; identifies opportunities to improve work processes and efficiency; contributes to setting work priorities and direction; identifies in advance when intended results may not be achieved; takes initiative; is not satisfied with the status quo.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Works well cross functionally and with others on the team to achieve personal goals, team goals, and organizational goals; takes responsibility for individual actions in order to achieve consistent results; fosters team camaraderie, collaboration, and cohesion; understands the impact of one's actions on the ability of their team members to do their jobs; respects the differences other team members bring to the table by openly seeking others' opinions; makes suggestions to improve team engagement and effectiveness; supports implementation of team decisions; professionally gives and seeks feedback in order to achieve common goals.
• Problem Solving & Decision-Making: Identifies problems and uses logical analysis to find information, understand causes, and evaluate and select best possible courses of action; seeks information and input to fully understand the cause of problems; takes action to remove obstacles and address problems before they impact performance and results; initiates the evaluation of possible solutions to problems; assesses risks before making a decision; does not take unnecessary risks; effectively navigates through ambiguity, using multiple data points to analyze issues and identify trends.
• Creativity & Innovation: Thinks beyond the confines of traditional models to recognize opportunities and find new and better ways of doing things; questions common practice and contributes to improvement of processes and outputs; proposes novel ideas; utilizes appropriate brainstorming techniques to generate ideas; researches current thinking and shares ideas; explores different alternatives that would achieve a similar output, with the goal of achieving process simplification or efficiencies.
• Resilience & Managing Uncertainty: Adjusts thinking and behavior in order to adapt to changes in the job and work environment with limited stress; is able to work effectively in an unstructured environment; actively promotes and advocates the advantages of changes when new and credible information emerges; acknowledges uncertainty and shares constructive coping strategies with team members.
• Communication & Interpersonal Effectiveness: Effectively and appropriately interacts and communicates with others to build positive, constructive, professional relationships; tailors communication style and messages based on the audience; seeks to understand others' points of view, observes verbal and non-verbal cues to encourage open and honest discussions; uses clear, precise, and error-free language; invites and encourages others to participate in discussions; identifies and helps to resolve interpersonal conflict between team members; does not jump to conclusions or act on assumptions.
• Customer Focus: Identifies, considers, prioritizes, and takes action on the needs of both internal and external customers; uses knowledge about the customer to inform decision making and problem solving; strives to provide additional value to the customer experience; actively solicits internal and customer feedback in order to improve the relationship; suggests ways to improve the customer experience.
• Technology: Proficient with Microsoft productivity suite, project management software, Learning & Development software, and other functional software relevant to area of responsibility.
  
  

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Work is performed in an interior office setting which has no adverse environmental conditions expected.
• Hybrid Role requiring 2 days per week in our D.C. office and requires limited travel in the field.
• Work involves frequently sitting for extended periods of time, frequently talking or hearing, frequently operating a computer, and occasional light physical effort (lifting, pushing, pulling, carrying, etc.) objects weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Work requires frequent ability to comprehend direction and adhere to policies or established procedures, ability to use logic to make sound decisions, ability to interpret and analyze data, ability to gather and organize information for a wide variety of audiences, ability to read and write a variety of materials, and ability to adapt well in the face of workplace stress.
  
  

The Executive Leadership Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on an individual's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as defined by federal, state, and local law

Salary: $20 per hour

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