Are You Ready to Join the SIECUS Team?
Thank you for your interest in joining SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change. We’re thrilled you’re exploring opportunities to join our dynamic, fast-paced team dedicated to advancing comprehensive sex education for all young people. Please see below for current open positions.
2025 Policy Fall Internship
About SIECUS
Since 1964, SIECUS has been advocating for the rights of all people to accurate information, comprehensive sexuality education, and the full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health services. We believe that sex education is a powerful vehicle for social change. Our focus is on advancing comprehensive sexuality education as a means of building a foundation for a long-term culture shift that will positively impact all levels of society, particularly issues of gender equity, sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, consent, personal safety, and autonomy. SIECUS applies an intersectional lens to ensure people’s real lived experiences inform our policy, education, and strategic communications work.
SIECUS internship opportunities are:
- For the duration of the fall, it is offered for an estimated 15 hours per week
- Flexible in start and end dates but roughly September to December
- Intended for current students or recent grads of both undergraduate and graduate programs, an individual considering a career change, or an older individual re-entering the workforce
Policy Internship
Remote SIECUS Policy internships are available part-time throughout the academic year. Policy interns will assist the SIECUS team with a variety of activities, including, but not limited to:
- Researching, monitoring, and tracking state laws and policies impacting sex education and sexual and reproductive health and rights more broadly
- Support the advancement of the federal Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act and related federal initiatives concerning youth reproductive and sexual health and education.
- Supporting advocacy projects by: analyzing proposed bills, developing letters or position papers, drafting fact sheets and other collateral, identifying decision-makers and stakeholders, and participating in outreach to allies and stakeholders
- Support the development of graphically dynamic explanations and analyses of policy impacts at the state and federal level
- Coordinate and help author SIECUS’ monthly newsletters
- Supporting the planning of advocacy events, such as the SIECUS Sex Ed National Week of Action
- Support for SIECUS publications
- Author email and text action alerts on specific policy initiatives to mobilize constituents
- Participate in weekly staff meetings
- Manager SIECUS’ inbox and support administrative needs
- Assisting with special projects as needed
Email your cover letter and resume to hiring@siecus.org. Write “Name, Policy Intern” in the subject line. Apply by July 31st.
Executive Director
SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change is searching for our next Executive Director—a visionary, justice-driven leader ready to advance bold, inclusive, and medically accurate sex education in every community across the country.
SIECUS has retained Kevin Chase Executive Search Group to lead the national search for our next E.D. Please direct all inquiries, applications (resume and cover letter), and nominations should be sent directly to the KCESG team via search@kevinchasesearch.com
Thank you for your interest in advancing sex education for social change!
SIECUS is an equal opportunity employer committed to equitable hiring and dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in our work and staff. We do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status and other characteristic protected by law. Women, people of color, including bilingual and bicultural individuals, LGBTQIA persons, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Those whose experiences and perspectives have been traditionally under-represented in the field of sexual health are particularly encouraged to apply.