Center Road Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Researching and synthesizing federal policy, research, and legislation across issue areas (including mental health, child welfare, education, and tech transparency).
• Organizing and updating legislative tracking tools.
• Drafting congressional communications, talking points, and other advocacy materials.

Potential Project Assignments:

• FY27 Appropriations Support
• Eating Disorders Coalition 2026 Congressional Scorecard

Moderate Supervision: Intern will meet with their supervisor regularly, but will be given the opportunity to work on independent projects.

Center Road Solutions is a small, collaborative, mission-driven firm focused on federal advocacy for nonprofits in maternal health, mental health, and social services. With a team of fewer than 10 people, our environment is close-knit and highly communicative, and all projects involve collaboration across team members.

Each staff member has a designated supervisor for weekly video check-ins and ongoing support. In addition, every project has a lead who coordinates the work and keeps the team aligned. Our work follows the federal legislative calendar, so we balance fast-paced advocacy periods with time for planning and content development.

Socially and professionally, we prioritize relationships. Internally, we support one another through frequent collaboration and informal weekly check-ins. Externally, staff have regular opportunities to build networks through coalitions, congressional briefings, advocacy days, and partnerships with national nonprofits and policy leaders.

This Director's Internship Host will potentially host additional undergraduate interns outside of the Director's Internship Program.

We are seeking candidates who are able to work remotely ~35-40 hours (flexible) during the EST workweek. Applicants are passionate, detail-oriented, flexible in adapting to shifting priorities, and willing to learn and implement feedback.

Applicants have:

• Strong oral and written communications skills, including error-free written products.
• Track record of in-depth research in either academic forums, policy, or legislation.
• Self-starter with previous office experience.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Teams, and Excel.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in a public-facing (i.e., customer support, restaurant industry, retail, etc.) position.
• Capitol Hill, advocacy, or federal policy experience, especially in appropriations, health policy, health equity, mental health, youth/adolescent health, eating disorders, suicide prevention, maternal health, military family health, child welfare/foster youth, Medicaid policy.
• Previous experience in a remote office setting.
• Proficiency with design tools like Canva, Miro, etc.
• Passion for legislative change on the above issues.

Access to high-speed Wi-Fi, Personal laptop, Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel)