The Texas Commission on Marriage and Family is seeking INTERNS

As we launch the Texas Commission on Marriage and Family, we are seeking interns to help us accomplish our charge to strengthen Texas families, and create an environment across our state that supports healthy family formation. 

It is our hope that the Texas Commission catalyzes a movement—one that builds trust, fosters cross-sector relationships, and lays the groundwork for lasting change.  To that end, we are creating six working groups  each focused on a distinct element of family strengthening:

  • Marriage

  • Fatherhood 

  • Parenting/Grandparenting

  • Youth

  • Foster/Adopt

  • Family Law

These groups will be collaborative teams tasked with advancing key priorities through shared insight, innovation, and action.

Each working group will recruit a diverse team of experts, stakeholders, and practitioners from across the state. These will include nonprofit leaders, counselors, educators, business and healthcare professionals, faith leaders, state agency staff, and legislative aides. 

Each working group will delve deep in their respective domain of family strengthening, identifying best practices, policy gaps, and opportunities for innovation. Collectively, they will form a relational ecosystem capable of advancing a shared vision: the formation and maintenance of strong, two-parent families. 

These groups will not simply gather information or issue reports. They will be spaces of co-creation—where diverse voices from across Texas can come together to imagine upstream solutions, translate research into practice, and reframe marriage as a public good worthy of cultural and legislative renewal.

To ensure these groups flourish, we are recruiting five key leadership roles within each working group:

1. Facilitator – Works closely with the Commissioner to guide the group’s rhythm, tone, and purpose with emotional intelligence and adaptive leadership. Each facilitator will have an understanding of the principles of collaboration and social innovation.

  • Key Responsibilities and Qualifications:  Active listening skills.  Incorporate multiple opinions and keep work groups on task. Facilitate group discussions with emotional intelligence and adaptive leadership. Strong communication skills required for effective interaction with commissioners, work groups, agency staff and the public.  Facilitate regular online work meetings. Available 5-8 hours a week.

2. Researcher – Curates evidence and frameworks to ground the group’s work in credible insight. Researchers will identify the people, ideas, and resources that can guide us to best practices and solutions for family strengthening.

  • Key Responsibilities and Qualifications: Collaborate with other stakeholders to gather resources and best practices to help build solutions for family strengthening. Map out stakeholders across Texas who elevate the Commission’s work. Curate and collate relevant information for working group members. Regularly present data to the working group. Available 5-8 hours a week. 

3. Recruiter – Identifies and invites stakeholders who bring wisdom, diversity, and lived experience. Recruiters should be articulate in the hopeful vision of the Commission in a way that invites the right people into the process.

  • Key Responsibilities and Qualifications: Identify respected experts, practitioners and thought leaders within the assigned domain of family strengthening. Make contact with identified leaders and invite them to participate in the working group and its goals . Build relational bridges with families, nonprofits, faith-based groups, practitioners, and local leaders. Strong interpersonal skills to reach out and invite experts to participate in working groups. Available 5-8 hours per week.

4. Administrator – Manages logistics, schedules work group meetings, attends and supports meetings, compiles documentation needed to comply with open meetings law, follows up with group members as needed.

  • Key Responsibilities and Qualifications: Work with facilitator and commission to schedule and host online meetings, maintain accurate documentation, minutes and action items Support the team in staying organized, timely, and informed. Must be proficient with zoom and other meeting software and tools. Available 5-8 working hours per week. 

5. Communication Specialist – Crafts messaging that amplifies the group’s voice and fosters shared language. Captures the most compelling language generated by the working group 

  • Key Responsibilities and Qualifications : Active listening skills.  Capture key insights and opportunities from working groups, communicate emerging ideas back to the group for review, disseminate shared ideas and vision in a compelling way to broader audiences. Assist in preparing summaries, updates, and visuals for community audiences. Strong writing skills. Available 5-8 hours per week.  

Please note: all Working Group roles are remote. 

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