Development Intern

Development Intern - 2025 / 2026 Academic Calendar

The priority deadline will be November 21st, 2025, at 5pm PST.

UnCommon Law fights to ensure that all people incarcerated for violent crime have access to healing, justice, and effective legal representation.

Through our unique, trauma-informed model of advocacy, we provide the space currently missing in the system for healing, accountability, and safe pathways home from prison. In developing new self-narratives, the people we serve are able to more effectively disrupt violence inside and outside prison and become leaders who change negative societal narratives about those incarcerated for violent crime. Our groundbreaking approach is changing policy and outcomes, driven by the voices and experiences of system-impacted communities.

About The Role

UnCommon Law has an opening for one undergraduate (any major) intern. This position provides support to the Development Team. The primary duties of the position include assisting the Development Associate with day-to-day tasks related to fundraising for UnCommon Law. Many tasks involve working with high-level spreadsheet functions and CRM programs (EveryAction and Clio). This position will also assist with in-person events. A Development Team intern will gain valuable skills in reporting, data hygiene, event planning, donor communication, and donor stewardship. The Development Intern position is hybrid and part-time (15-20 hours / week, 8 of which will be in-office on Wednesdays) over the 2025 / 26 Academic Calendar, beginning ideally on December 1st, 2025, and ending May 15, 2026. This position is unpaid, but it offers a $600 stipend per semester to help offset some costs. We encourage candidates to seek outside funding, fellowship opportunities, or school credit. UnCommon Law will be flexible about scheduling and understands that many students are not only busy with school, but are also working. This is a hybrid position that requires a minimum of 8 hours per week at our office in Oakland, CA, or at local fundraising events. We encourage people who have been directly impacted by incarceration to apply.

Example Responsibilities

• Event coordination : Supporting during the planning and execution of fundraising events (e.g., film screenings, dinners, resource organizer events, etc.)
• Information management : Updating contact records in CRM; working with spreadsheet software on data hygiene
• Research : Use available tools to identify prospective sponsors for events and special campaigns
• Development Team support : Handle daily tasks (recurring and standalone) that support the Development Team (e.g., entering notes into CRM, running preliminary reports, etc.)

Qualifications

UnCommon Law is committed to providing an inclusive, welcoming, and culturally responsive environment for all members of our staff, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients. UCL does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, or prior contact with the criminal justice system. We strongly encourage applications from people impacted by incarceration as well as from traditionally underrepresented communities.