Title: Tonic Profiles Intern

Reports to: Editor Tonic Profiles
Summary
Tonic is seeking an Intern to help guide Tonic into becoming the world’s leading destination for effortless social activism. Tonic is a media company focused on aggregating and producing content about the good things that happen around the world each day. Our content is current, entertaining, inspiring and filled with hope. The site is supported by projects we do with personalities, with some percentage of revenue from these projects donated to a charity. The company is seeking an Intern to help to gather, organize and support research from the web to support writers and to assist with outreach to profile subjects. The position may also include some fact checking. Based in Tonic’s Soho office in New York City, Tonic will provide the resources, team and vision to allow the right candidate to thrive and make a difference in the world.

Description
We are seeking an organized, internet savvy, talented, well-rounded intern who is passionate about the Internet, social media, good usability practices, Web 2.0 capabilities, and is obsessed with crafting, organizing and presenting data, to help grow our business and a new section of our site, Tonic Profiles. Profiles will serve as a go to destination for the latest news about specific personalities, companies and causes. Sort of a Wikipedia of goodness, Tonic Profiles will work collaboratively with featured subjects to provide the latest information on charitable activities, amazing philanthropic projects and other information on the good intent of celebrities, athletes, top companies, nonprofits and others.
You will be researching content and supporting daily research for Tonic writers as well as assisting with profile subject outreach and fact checking. This role requires a responsible individual who can balance multiple projects that involve working with different customer facing applications and websites. You will help manage Google alerts for thousands of individual subjects. You must be highly self-motivated, organized, innovative, and well-versed in Internet technologies. This position requires a detail-oriented, business-focused professional, experienced with researching and organizing data in a fast-paced environment.

The position is unpaid but Tonic will work with interns to help them gain academic credit for the internship.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an effective multi-tasker
• Possess strong communication skills and handle multiple projects in a growing small company
• Have knowledge of web browsers, search engines and maneuvering through company, personality and cause web sites
• Excel at managing regular web updates across thousands of profiles and working with Profiles team to keep content fresh, up-to-date and original

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• In the process of obtaining Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education & work experience
• Expert proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Internet
• Strong teamwork, project management skills and communication skills
• Great sense of ownership, responsibility and attention to detail
• Sense of humor absolutely required
• We are flexible on days of week and hours and can discuss availability when you apply