As an intern at Surus, you will be asked to identify a "path" or area of interest that you will have the opportunity to specialize in. Regardless of the path you choose, you will become an expert in the Surus platform and school of campaigning. The paths are as follows:
Political Path
For those looking for an immersive experience on a political campaign while being trained and closely supported by Surus to learn the foundations of coalition building and relationship management. You will be embedded with one (possibly more) of our client campaigns.
Responsibilities include:
- Provide the campaign you are embedded with detailed reporting on daily activity (contact type, status and method)
- Initial troubleshooter and implementation manager of Surus tech on the campaign • Support new client onboarding and additional trainings (in group, video and 1:1 sessions) with all relevant stakeholders on the campaign
- Help support the campaign’s coalition and relationship management efforts • Support the client in using Field Edge for logging and recording retail engagements
Content / Communications Path
For those with a passion for communicating messages to targeted audiences to drive meaningful results/action. You will be partnering with one or more of our clients to help them develop a narrative and implement a robust communications plan over the course of the campaign. Responsibilities include:
- Review a client’s current paid, earned, social and owned media channels and make recommendations on how they can be better integrated with the Surus solution • Provide the client social media and P2P text monitoring and update the client’s Nationbuilder database/CRM with any new lead information
- Help devise a content calendar with the client and their team
- Produce email copy, social media posts and video content designed to drive engagement with a client’s website
- Create event pages and update copy/video content on client website
Data Analytics Path
For those interested in exploring how data can be used to help inform who a campaign should be leveraging their limited time and resources on and which messages they should be exposed to. Works closely with Content / Communications team.
Responsibilities include:
- Configure our client’s Nationbuilder accounts, support new client onboarding • Wrangle voter information, ballot history and custom field information from L2 Political in DataPrep/ Google Cloud Platform and import into Nationbuilder
- Aggregate and append lists provided by our clients. Take point on record deduplication and database maintenance while providing support to the campaign team on best practices. • Manage list importing and exporting, supporting Surus’ account managers in making strategic recommendations to our client on what to do with the information available in their database/CRM
- Special projects related to an intern’s technical abilities
Business Operations Path
For those most interested in learning about the practical application of business principles to help Surus grow and scale. This internship is based in our office in Lake Bluff, Illinois.
Responsibilities include:
- Create marketing and branding content that will attract new business
- Assist with new client acquisition and help with proposal process
- Produce written and video training materials (101 and FAQ guides, HOW TOs, product reviews) • Test our current suite of products and new product solutions
- Support Surus’ staff in various administrative functions and projects
- Special projects related to an intern’s technical abilities