Spring 2025 Women’s Empowerment Communications Internship

“This exciting, diverse PR/Communications/Marketing internship played a huge role in the success of my job search and career development. Renee was—and still is—an invaluable and generous mentor to me. She takes the internship program very seriously. I highly recommend this internship to anyone who is serious about their PR/Communications career and wants to truly gain the skills/experience/contacts and mentoring to secure an incredible first job!” —Kristen Nelson, Sr. Associate, Public Relations for RetailMeNot, Inc.

Past communications interns are now employed at: Apple, The Conference for Women,  The Center for Women in Law, Shell Oil, GSD&M, Dell, Whole Foods Market, Retail Me Not, IBM, the United Nations, national nonprofit organizations and top local and national advertising and public relations agencies.

2025 internship projects may include: social media, event coordination, writing/editing newsletters and web content, helping to launch a new web site, PR and assisting in national marketing campaigns depending on intern’s time/availability. Primary role is social media/event marketing to begin. 

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Position Details:

Title: Communications Assistant (internship)

Date posted: Dec. 11— interviewing is ongoing.

Internship start/end date: Jan 1. – May 30th (ideally intern would continue through the summer; training starts in late Dec./ early Jan.)

Organization: Renee Trudeau & Associates: www.ReneeTrudeau.com, a global coaching/consulting firm. We have been mentoring/guiding young professionals and interns for 25 years.

Internship hours: Minimum of 5 hours/week

Office location: Asheville/Brevard, NC. Internship is hybrid. Intern will meet with team virtually and have the opportunity to support events in person in NC. We are a global company.

Intern reports to: Renee Peterson Trudeau, owner and president and Audri Van Gores, our Communications Coordinator. Works with ad agency/team as needed.

Compensation: Opportunity for a performance-based stipend at the end of this internship if you continue through August. Career and job search mentoring and coaching through our sister company Career Strategists (personal branding, resume, interview, salary negotiation, contact/referral connections and career strategy) and Renee Trudeau & Assoc. (valued at $5,000+). Professional development and training paid for; may attend all our online events at no cost; wellness/yoga classes covered in Brevard. Opportunity to attend our regional in-person events/retreats. We have connected all of our interns with job opportunities. Meet and network with AWC, PRSA, AMA and IABC professionals.  This is a fabulous opportunity to list a full internship on your resume with a minimum time commitment of only 5 hours/week.

Requirements: Seeking a self-motivated, responsible, mature, tech-savvy, reliable junior or senior PR or communications student with social media experience. Prior communications internship experience is ideal.

Title: Communications Assistant—intern is part of a local/national team.

Overview: Rare opportunity for a mature, bright, professional, energetic PR/communications/journalism/marketing/English student. Renee Trudeau is a nationally-recognized entrepreneur/coach/speaker/author and president of Renee Trudeau & Associates, a global coaching/consulting firm www.ReneeTrudeau.com. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, national women’s conferences, national retreat centers, national nonprofits and public policy centers and national non-profit organizations. View speaking clients here.

Responsibilities: Primary responsibilities include executing our 2025 social media calendar (we have a highly effective template/plan and editorial calendar we coach you on) and social media engagement. Also, assisting with a national women’s conference we are producing and other marketing communications activities, as able.

Trudeau, the firm’s owner, was the winner of the 2020 Women Communicators of Austin Leadership award and was a nominee for the national Assoc. for Women In Communications National Headliner and Mentor Award. She was a finalist in the Austin Business Journal’s Profiles in Power Awards, was a regular Austin Woman life balance columnist and was awarded the Mentor Award from the Austin Association for Women In Communications Chapter. She is a former advisory board member for Women in Communications, Austin, and is a past PRSA and WCA board member. Trudeau has been featured extensively in national media, including the New York Times and US News & World Report. View recent media highlights here.

Interested applicants should email a résume, cover letter and their top three strengths to renee@reneetrudeau.com as soon as possible. Priority is given to students who can continue through summer 2025 (80% of our interns choose to end up doing two semesters–the experience is that good!).

Note: Please make sure you visit the company website, before applying: www.ReneeTrudeau.com.

Read an Austin Women In Communications Member Spotlight with Renee Trudeau here.