Meetings and Learning Events Intern 25-26

Achieving the Dream • Part-time • Hybrid in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States • $18 - $23 / hour • 1m ago

Fast Facts

The Meetings and Learning Events Intern will support the organization of event logistics for the DREAM 2026 Annual Conference while gaining hands-on experience in conference management.

Responsibilities: Assist with online registrations, manage event logistics, coordinate travel accommodations, and support the events team with various administrative tasks.

Skills: Administrative experience and collaboration skills, along with a learning orientation and an equity mindset are preferred.

Qualifications: Preferred candidates should have some administrative experience and a keen interest in event coordination and management.

Location: Silver Spring, MD (Hybrid) with occasional travel to conferences in Portland, Oregon.

Compensation: $18 - $23 / Hourly

Meetings & Learning Events Intern 25-26

Position Details:

Position Type:

Part Time, Non-Exempt

Reports To:

Executive Director, Meeting and Learning Events

Work Location:

Silver Spring, MD (Hybrid) Remote

Level of Travel Required:

Occasional travel per department and organizational needs

Job Overview:

The Meetings and Learning Events Intern will assist with the coordination of event preparation and logistics for the DREAM 2026 Annual Conference, scheduled for March 2-4 in Portland, Oregon, and be responsible for the following:

Assist with online registration process and generate reports, create comp codes, issue refunds via the system; assist registrants with processing their registrations and any issues.
Attend to the ATD Events inbox.
Work with the events team to keep web pages accurate and up-to-date.
Assist with managing guest room lists and arranging travel accommodations for staff, coaches, and other special guests.
Organize check payments and processing, request invoices, and handle pro-forma registration requests.
Organize and assemble meeting/event materials.
Coordinate outgoing and incoming shipments of meeting/event materials and maintaining inventory.
Assist with cross-checking of specs, rooming lists, and other documents as needed.
Help manage (onsite) staff schedule.
Travel to DREAM may be required.
Assist with other duties as assigned.

*Administrative experience and a desire to work in conference management is preferred.

Internship Duration: Approximately 10-20 hours per week, through March 2026.

Core Competencies:

Collaboration: Demonstrates respect, humility, and willingness to collaborate when seeking to understand others and making decisions.

Equity Mindset: Demonstrates capacity to recognize and address racialized structures, policies, and practices that produce and sustain racial inequities.

Learning Orientation: Embraces challenges, new ideas and different perspectives as an opportunity to learn; continually seeks out and applies new learning to activate change or improvements.

Systems Thinking: Defines the system and one’s role in the system. Sees relationships and the dynamic elements of the holistic system and executes work accordingly. Influences the system and maps connections to ATD’s external landscape.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Achieving the Dream is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse work environment.

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