Marketing & Strategic Comms Intern

Sharing Hope Africa is growing! And we're looking for a few people to join our Strategic Communications & Marketing workstream.  If you want to hone your brand management skills while giving back and making an impact, this could be a great fit. This position can be remote or in-person.

What You'll Do

• Manage marketing and comms strategy and coordinate across workstreams to increase communications and information sharing with current and prospective donors
• Develop strategies to drive engagement and build community, engaging and interacting with donors
• Track performance, discovering and implementing actionable insights 
• Track associate stories via email and LinkedIn to highlight on staple social platforms
• Collect upcoming creative executions to showcase strategy and upcoming priorities
• Provide inputs into creative briefs and planning

Who Are You

• A high school or college student/graduate who has a passion for social media and an interest in pursuing a career in marketing (creative and analytics)
• Real life experience or degree surrounding social media, marketing, business, analytics, creative design
• Ambitious, adaptable, disciplined and detail-oriented
• Strong desire to learn along with professional drive
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Creative and passionate about art as a storytelling mechanism
• Highly collaborative team player who is ready to roll-up their sleeves and get the job done
• Ideally familiar with nonprofit sector and its latest trends
• Creative and critical thinking skills
• Familiar with Google Suite, Canva, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok

Unfortunately, we cannot offer monetary compensation (our entire operational team is powered by volunteers!), but as a part of the Sharing Hope Africa Family, we will:

• Assist you in creating a resume that will help you land your next job (our Director of Outreach & Media worked as a resume writer)
• Provide you with the support and resources necessary to manage and execute on a career-focused project based on your interests (i.e. building a brand book, increasing social media engagement by X%, designing and orchestrating a community event, etc.), which can be showcased on your resume or supplemental for a class project
• Offer coaching sessions to help you identify and land your dream role 
• Cover your accommodation should you decide to join a volunteer trip to our project sites in Eswatini and Mozambique