Summer Intern, Sports Challenge

Job Title: Summer Intern, Sports Challenge

Stipend: $1,500

Contract Schedule:

• Dates of Contract: Monday, May 26 – Friday, July 11, 2025

• Pre Sports Challenge: Hybrid: partially remote and partially in-person in Wilmington, DE, Monday-Friday with occasional weekend hours

• Monday, May 26 – Thursday, June 19, approximately 15 hours per week

• • • Sports Challenge Staff Training: Sanford School in Hockessin, DE
      • Saturday, June 14 & Sunday, June 15, 9am-5pm daily
      • Friday, June 20 – Sunday, June 22, 9am-5pm daily

• Sports Challenge Program: Sanford School in Hockessin, DE

• Monday, June 23 – Friday, June 27, 7am-6pm

• Post Sports Challenge: Hybrid: partially remote and partially in-person in Wilmington

• • • Monday, June 30 – Friday, July 11, approximately 15 hours per week

How to Apply:

Please email your resume to Krista Bacchieri at krista@striveleadership.org. Positions will be filled on a rolling basis.

Sports Challenge Summer Intern Responsibilities

1. Serve as administrative support to Strive staff with the planning and execution of Sports Challenge.
   1. Pre Sports Challenge
      1. Communicate with student-athletes and their families to collect paperwork and tuition payment via email, call and/or text.
      2. Obtain and coordinate in-kind donations.
      3. Prepare materials and equipment for Sports Challenge, staff training and Sports Challenge Visitors Day. 
      4. Actively participate in staff training sessions.
   2. During Sports Challenge
      1. Distribute, manage, and effectively keep record of equipment including t-shirts, jerseys, sports gear, and classroom supplies. 
      2. Coordinate technology for evening presentations and serve as support for technology in classrooms.
      3. Assist in general set-up for program operations including registration, sports practices, and classes.
      4. Assist with day-of logistics for Sports Challenge Visitors Day.
      5. Assist in cleaning up the facilities each day and at the conclusion of our program. 
      6. Coordinate food pick up and disbursement. 
      7. Other administrative duties including taking attendance, etc. 
   3. Post Sports Challenge
      1. Assist with collection and distribution of student-athlete letters and evaluations.
      2. Participate in program debrief.

1. Uphold the Sports Challenge culture. Our positive, intentional, compassionate culture is vital to our success. We hire individuals who we feel exude these qualities. 
2. Invest in your work. Interns will actively engage, ask questions, problem-solve and take initiatives to complete work that is of a high quality and delivered by set deadlines.

Qualifications: 

We are seeking candidates who: 

• Are rising sophomores thru seniors in college, or recent graduates
• Are proficient in Google Platform (Docs, Gmail, etc)
• Are willing to make cold calls and send cold emails
• Are capable of lifting and carrying heavy objects
• Are passionate about leadership and athletics
• Believe in working hard and working as a team
• Believe that leadership skills can be taught
• View sports as an extraordinary medium for teaching leadership skills as well as other life-lessons
• Believe in self-improvement and continued learning
• Take their responsibilities seriously without taking themselves too seriously

Expectations:

• Strive asks that staff utilize their personal laptop for Strive-related work, although it is not a requirement. If you do not have a laptop, please communicate this and we will lend you a laptop for work-related tasks.
• Strive expects all employees to have a reliable means of transportation to arrive on time to in-person events.
• Strive will run a background check prior to Sports Challenge staff training.

Details:

• Housing will be covered by Strive for non-local staff.
• Lunches and snacks will be provided by Strive during Sports Challenge Staff Training and the Sports Challenge Program.

Organization Background

Strive: How You Lead Matters is a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the power of character-driven leadership. We deliver dynamic experiences in sport, school and community spaces. With over twenty years of robust research based curriculum, we develop leaders who are prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Strive’s foundational program, Sports Challenge, develops character-driven leaders on and off the field, applying the rigor of sports training to the practice of leadership. We bring together a diverse group of high school student-athletes to play soccer or basketball at a competitive level. This highly demanding, yet nurturing, program offers a unique 1:5 coach:athlete ratio. Sports Challenge takes place over five days, where student-athletes learn and work together, immersed in a growth-mindset culture.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Strive is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage individuals to apply regardless of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy status, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, and/or any other characteristics unrelated to merit.

How we define Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Strive 

Diversity: Who’s present? Who is not? 

The understanding that each individual is different; the recognition of our differences as it relates to the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies.

Equity: Does everyone have access to resources that meet their needs?

The presence of structural factors that benefit all individuals, groups, and communities; an intentional effort to transform the status quo by providing opportunity and resources for those who have historically not had access.

Inclusion: Does everyone feel included? 

A state of belonging and connection; the act of including and supporting people who have historically been marginalized or excluded.

How You Lead Matters

Strive’s purpose is to spread the power of character-driven leadership. We know that effective and successful leaders are self-aware and bring their full identities and values to any situation. Through social emotional learning and character-driven leadership, we believe that anyone can lead, and that when everyone brings their differences and individuality to the table, we are all more motivated, innovative, and collaborative.

Strive is committed to ensuring that individuals from all backgrounds have the opportunity to become character-driven leaders through our intentionally designed social-emotional learning curricula and programs. 

We are committed to creating and maintaining a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment. 

We know that modeling and leading by example is an integral part of leadership, and we therefore strive to always put our core values into action.