Knowledge & Content Intern
Habitat for Humanity is a movement of people in your local area and around the world, working together to build more prosperous and vibrant communities by making sure everyone has a safe, affordable place to call home. Since our founding in 1976 as a Christian organization, together we have helped more than 62 million people globally build their futures on their own terms through access to decent housing. We’ve done that by working alongside people of all walks of life to build, repair and finance their homes, by innovating new ways of building and financing, and by advocating for policies that make constructing and accessing housing easier for everyone. Together, we build homes, communities and hope. To learn more, visit habitat.org
The Terwilliger Center collaborates with local firms to enhance market-based solutions, recognizing that low-income families already rely on these markets for housing. Habitat seeks to exponentially increase its impact by improving systems for better housing. Supported by the Terwilliger Center, ShelterTech is the leading platform for affordable housing innovation, identifying and scaling entrepreneurial solutions for low-income populations. The program offers funding, mentorship, and networking opportunities, connecting startups with an ecosystem of investors, corporations, and experts. By providing access to critical resources and market opportunities, ShelterTech is poised to disrupt the affordable housing sector.
2. Purpose of the Role
The Knowledge & Content Fellow will support the development of strategic content and knowledge products that document ShelterTech’s evolution, showcase portfolio startups, and position affordable housing innovation more clearly to the outside world. This role will require strong writing, synthesis, and research skills, as well as the ability to work collaboratively with ShelterTech and Habitat’s Global Communications team. Spanish skills are a plus, given the emphasis on Latin American partners and startups.
3. Key Responsibilities
A. Knowledge Product Development
- Produce concise, shareable knowledge products that communicate ShelterTech’s strategy, support model, and future ambitions.
- Work with the Communications team to ensure messaging is aligned with broader organizational tone and goals.
- Assist in editing, formatting, and preparing documents for publication and distribution across multiple channels.
- Produce in-depth startup spotlights, showcasing their business models, impact potential, and relevance to the housing sector.
- Collaborate with startups, partners, and regional teams to collect interviews, quotes, and data as needed.
- Draft business cases that could be used to engage corporates, donors, and investors.
- Develop reusable templates for SGB profiles and promotional materials to ensure consistent messaging and branding across future startup communication.
- Conduct light-touch research to support ShelterTech’s efforts to better define its niche and position itself more clearly within the global innovation ecosystem.
- Produce short briefs or annotated bibliographies summarizing key insights on topics like housing tech, climate resilience, or inclusive innovation in emerging markets.
- Identify success stories or case studies that can be adapted for ShelterTech’s use in campaigns or donor reporting.
Required:
- Strong research, writing, and synthesis skills
- Familiarity with international development, social entrepreneurship, or housing-related issues
- Proactive and self-directed, comfortable working remotely with diverse global teams
- Experience in communications, design, or knowledge management
- Interest in startups, innovation ecosystems, or housing/climate impact
- Professional proficiency in Spanish
About Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Habitat seeks individuals who have a willingness to affirm these principles and values.
At Habitat for Humanity International, we are compelled by our Koinonia roots to put God’s love for all into action and pursue housing equity and opportunity by bringing all people together to build community and drive impact. We strive to build a culture rooted in learning, accountability and trust, attracting and retaining mission-driven talent reflective of the global communities we serve.
As an equal opportunity employer, we realize our success depends on courageously committing to being a workplace where all staff feel safe, welcome, visible, respected, supported and valued, and building a workforce that reflects a variety of lived experiences, backgrounds and perspectives, in which every person experiences dignity and respect.
We also require that all staff take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities (especially children) and all those with whom we work. In line with the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, all staff must pass a thorough background screening and will be held accountable to upholding our policies around ethical behavior, including safeguarding and whistleblowing.