High School Intern

About the Role

HighSchoolOpportunity (HSO) is a nonprofit platform dedicated to helping high school students discover internships, scholarships, volunteer roles, academic programs, competitions, summer programs, and more in a centralized location. HSO offers a curated database of over 1,700 opportunities, saving students time by eliminating the need to search across multiple websites.

This remote internship role involves supporting the research, organization, and presentation of opportunities for high school students. Interns will assist in identifying and verifying new opportunities and adding them to the database with clear, accurate descriptions.

This is an unpaid role designed to offer hands-on experience in a mission-driven, student-focused organization. Interns can work their own hours and choose to specialize in areas such as Social Media, Marketing, or Research.

Key Responsibilities

• Online research to identify and verify new internships, scholarships, programs, and events.
• Data entry for adding and updating opportunities in the database.
• Light content editing for opportunity descriptions.
• Communicating with team members to keep listings up to date.
• Assisting with basic outreach, social media updates, or user feedback collection.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Comfort working remotely.
• Ability to use online collaboration tools.
• Ability to communicate with the team in a timely manner.

Qualifications

• HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT.
• Strong research and information-gathering skills, with the ability to evaluate sources for accuracy and relevance.
• Clear written communication skills for summarizing opportunities and editing short descriptions.
• Basic organizational and time-management skills to handle multiple tasks and meet agreed-upon deadlines.
• Interest in education, student support, or nonprofit work.
• Genuine motivation to help high school students access opportunities.
• Attention to detail when entering and updating information in databases or spreadsheets.
• Ability to follow guidelines and accept feedback.
• Currently a high school or college student, or an individual seeking experience in research, education, or nonprofit operations.