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Civic Media Intern — Social Media Marketing

Civic Media Intern — Social Media Marketing
(communications background preferred)

Reports To 
Jessica Reece, M.Div.

Job Overview 
Would you like to learn more on how to create interesting and engaging social media content while enhancing your video and graphic design skills? As the marketing intern, you will help to create our 2022 social media calendar and strategy. You will also help with video and image editing and design, which will be posted to our social media platforms, YouTube channel, and website. You will curate and schedule social media posts through Zoho Social for all of our platforms. You will focus primarily on strategies for building our social media presence and work on creating content that suits our brand.

Responsibilities and Duties
  • Assist with the design and implementation of marketing campaigns and other initiatives constructed to inform, educate, and engage the public.
  • Help build and execute the 2022 social media strategy through research, creativity, collaboration, and audience identification.
  • Translate technical jargon into compelling, everyday language.
  • Create and edit videos using Descript and/or other video editing software.
  • Create and edit photos used for social media content.
  • Design graphic images to market important events, lectures, and projects.
  • Create, edit, publish, and share assigned content on all available social social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter, that builds meaningful connections and engages our audience.
  • Help to manage Zoho Social to schedule and plan social media posts. 
  • Meet with your supervisor regularly (bi-weekly/weekly) to understand projects and effective communication strategies.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.
  • Maintain regular weekly hours.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Video production and editing experience.
  • 3.6 GPA in major field of study
  • Influential communicator. 
  • Knowledge of social media marketing.
  • Interest and skill in social media management and understanding of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.
  • Basic graphic design skills.
  • Working knowledge of public relations tools.
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Effective teamwork skills.
  • Highly organized.
  • Ability to work on big strategy plans.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Capacity to think creatively and strategically.
  • Inquisitive and able to meet deadlines, with great follow-up and reporting skills.
  • Quick and enthusiastic learner.

Work Conditions
  • Ability to meet in-person near Hope’s campus for meetings bi-weekly/weekly or online. 
  • 4 hours of work a week per internship credit. 

Job Posting
Interfaith Photovoice offers a unique and valuable internship experience, in part because of how closely you will work with the organization’s leaders. You will get to work directly with the founder, Roman Williams, Ph.D. and under the supervision of Jessica Reece, M.Div., a Hope alum. We will work together on creative projects to develop and build audiences for an innovative approach to addressing the world’s deepest divides. You will gain invaluable experience with a start-up company. All interns will get to participate in some of our very own projects and meet participants and staff from all around the world while exploring interfaith dialogue and the challenges various communities face, all while advancing your own expertise.

Interfaith Photovoice provides a fair recruiting process and working environment free from discrimination. People with minority backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply, as we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Interested? If so, please submit your resume and cover letter to Jessica Reece directly at: jess@interfaithphotovoice.org. Please specify if you are interested in a 1, 2, 3, or 4-credit internship or if your specific major requires a certain number of credit hours, as we can be flexible in the number of credits we offer.