Motorola Solutions Foundation - 2024 Summer Internship

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with safety. It’s the constant that empowers people to confidently move forward. It can fill a flight or sell out a stadium. It can care for a patient or graduate a class.

As a global leader in public safety and enterprise security, we create and connect the technologies that help to keep people safe where they live, learn, work and play. Our integrated technology ecosystem unifies critical communications, video security and access control, and command center software, enabling collaboration in more powerful ways.

At Motorola Solutions, we’re ushering in a new era in public safety and security. Bring your passion, potential and talents to a career that matters.

Department Overview

As the charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola Solutions, the Motorola Solutions Foundation partners with organizations around the globe to create safer cities and equitable, thriving communities. We focus on giving back through strategic grants, employee volunteerism and other community investment initiatives. Our strategic grants program supports organizations that offer first responder programming and technology and engineering education, and align to our values of accountability, innovation, impact, diversity and inclusion.
Job Description

The Motorola Solutions Foundation is one of the many ways in which the company lives out its purpose of helping people be their best in the moments that matter. As a corporate foundation, our giving is intended to further the philanthropic goals of the business, with a focus on programs that support first responders and technology and engineering education, as well as overarching priorities that include support for underrepresented populations within these program types. The Foundation has donated more than $100 million over the last 10 years, most of it through our annual grants program. 

 

As the Foundation's 2024 Summer Intern, you will play a critical role in our 2024 grant cycle. You will:

• Assist in reviewing grant inquiries and grant applications using Google Suite and the Foundation’s grantmaking database

• Coordinate the Foundation’s employee grant review committees

• Create reports on the Foundation’s grantmaking activities and impact

• Assist in managing the Foundation’s internal and external social media events

• Help coordinate company-sponsored volunteer events as appropriate, and prepare communications for senior leadership regarding the volunteer opportunities.

• Assist with developing volunteer metrics & giving data and other related communications or Foundation community engagement efforts

• Create collateral to showcase Motorola Solutions and the Foundation as corporate social responsibility leaders

Additional Knowledge/Skills

• Minimum GPA: 3.2

• Knowledge in Google Sheets and/or Excel

• Candidate must be able to work with Google and Microsoft products

This will be a hybrid role based out of our Chicago Headquarters with the expectation of 2-3 days/week in office

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Basic Requirements

• Candidate must be currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree with a graduation date on or after December 2024

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.

Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeIntern
Referral Payment PlanYes

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K with Company Match
• 9 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.