Research & Innovation Intern – Deserta Thinking Lab (Pre-Launch Opportunity)

🎥 We’re Hiring:

Podcast Interns (Remote, Unpaid)

🎙️ Join Deserta Thinking Lab’s YouTube-based visual podcast – where desert ideas meet global screens.

🏛️ About Us

Deserta Thinking Lab

technology, communication, public and rural policy

YouTube-first visual podcast

🎯 Internship Overview

multiple creative, research, and media-based internship roles

remote, part-time, unpaid internship

Start Date:

Duration:

📌 Remote | Flexible Schedule | Unpaid

💼 Internship Roles

🎧 1. Research & Content Intern

• Research podcast themes related to 

  tech, policy, rural development, and communication

• Prepare briefs and curate intellectual references
• Contribute to season design and guest suggestions

✍️ 2. Scriptwriting & Dialogue Intern

• Write engaging and poetic episode flows in Hindi/English
• Focus on themes like 

  AI ethics, digital society, public policy, and cultural identity

🎙️ 3. Visual Planning Intern

• Help shape the 

  visual structure

   of our YouTube podcast
• Plan layouts that resonate with both 

  rural and global audiences

🎨 4. Visual Design & Social Media Intern

• Create branding assets, thumbnails, and motion posts
• Strategize Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube storytelling
• Promote episodes on themes of 

  tech, culture, and grassroots policy

🎬 5. Video Editing Intern

• Edit full episodes and short reels
• Add subtitles, transitions, and maintain an aesthetic tone
• Integrate 

  technology, activism, and public interest storytelling

✅ What We’re Looking For

• Passion for 

  technology, communication, social impact, and storytelling

• Interest in 

  philosophy, public/rural policy, and digital culture

• Basic skills in 

  Notion, Canva, CapCut, Descript, or Figma

• Fluent in 

  English and/or Hindi

   (regional languages welcome)
• Students, creatives, or self-learners welcome
• No prior experience required — only 

  clarity, consistency, and curiosity

🤖 AI + Multilingual Content Support

AI tools

Hindi and multilingual formats

• Script and brief generation
• Subtitling and translation
• Design and automation

🎁 What You’ll Gain

• Internship Certificate + Letter of Recommendation

• Your name credited on YouTube, reels, and all materials
• Creative growth and close collaboration with founding team
• Priority for 

  future paid roles or fellowship opportunities

🌱 Co-Founder Opportunity

vision, consistency, and deep alignment

📬 How to Apply

CV + a 200–300 word note

“Why I want to intern on the Deserta YouTube Podcast Project”

desertathinkinglab@gmail.com

📅 Applications now open – Internship starts 1st August 2025

✅ Legal registration as a Section 8 non-profit will be completed by July 2025.

🎙️ Let’s create a podcast that bridges silence and systems, poetry and policy, technology and tradition — from the desert outward.