Social Media Marketing Intern (Remote)
About Us:
We empower girls and women to move from hopeless to hopeful!
The Thaddeus Resource Center is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to restore HOPE, inspire GROWTH, and EMPOWER girls and women through education, life skill development, workforce training, and other supportive services. We pride ourselves in having established a family-oriented culture that promotes open communication and collaboration through our values of Empowerment, Commitment, Hope, Compassion, Community, and Grace.
If you are looking for a HANDS-ON experience where you can truly make an IMPACT, join our team and help us achieve our mission and vision of reaching our community of women, girls, and at-risk youth.
About the Role:
A Marketing Intern at Thaddeus will experience hands-on training and apply relevant skills in creating social media and digital media initiatives to promote the organization’s presence within the community. Thaddeus is looking for individuals interested in leveraging their passion for helping girls and women within the world of social media and marketing. The internship will provide the intern with the opportunity to learn and grow their craft in delivering and creating digital deliverables in a collaborative, business professional setting.
This internship is unpaid, but eligible for academic or course credit if approved by your educational institution.
Responsibilities:
- Engage and educate the community about our organization and its goals through community outreach and networking events
- Strategize action plans and initiatives that align with organization goals and target Thaddeus community populations
- Regularly create and publish high-quality, relevant content for Thaddeus on Instagram, Facebook and website, with a focus on social activism
- Stay up-to-date with social media trends and current events
- Implement a content calendar to manage and plan marketing campaigns
- Create, maintain and utilize social media measurement plans to improve outreach methodology through consistent and accurate data analysis
- Manage all social advertising campaigns (ideas, plans, performance), while keeping the Executive Director updated on a regular basis
- Collaborate with all organization staff members to develop and execute promotional activities to enhance and grow organization's brand and programs
- Create and utilize market research surveys
- Assist with day-to-day community engagement/marketing team operations, and other tasks as assigned
- Participate in our Buddy system once assimilated and act as a mentor/point of contact for new interns transitioning into your team during their induction and onboarding process
Qualifications:
Required:
- Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or another related field
- Flexible schedule to work on group projects each week
- Ability to effectively strategize and execute marketing initiatives in alignment with organization mission, vision and goals
- Ability to analyze and draw insightful interpretations from marketing analytics to maintain and improve organization community engagement strategic plans
- Ability to pass the mandated reporter exam
- Have appropriate technology, internet connection and ability to function in a virtual capacity via Microsoft Teams
- Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills in a professional manner
- Ability to work well independently, as well as in a team environment
- Motivated, adaptive and inquisitive individual with strong and effective organizational, problem-solving, decision-making, time management skills, and proofreading skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and with strong research skills
Preferred
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred
- Experience in digital marketing, social media marketing and/ or non-profits
- Familiar with media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Nextdoor, etc.)
- Prior knowledge of photo/video editing software (Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Premiere Pro, etc.) and/or website development experience
- Graphic design experience (flyers and other marketing materials)
- Basic knowledge of HTML tags and Canva
Learning Objectives:
- Intern will learn how to develop the skills necessary to transition ideas into deliverable marketing content for businesses
- Intern will learn how to identify and analyze a target market
- Intern will learn to create viable marketing proposals aimed to grow the organization
- Intern will learn to create and publish social media and digital media content
Time Commitment:
- Must be available to work 15 hours per week (10 of those hours need to be between the hours of 9 AM - 6 PM PST to accommodate for the below MANDATORY meetings and additional co-worker collaboration)
- Must be available for the following VIRTUAL weekly meetings:
- Weekly All Staff Meeting: Tuesdays 9 AM - 10 AM PST
- Weekly Department Meeting:Thursdays 1 PM - 2 PM PST
- The 6 Month Internship Program is our minimum internship program.
- The 1 Year Internship Program is where you will receive the most experience.
Advantage:
- Receive direct supervision from the President and Marketing Mentor
- Participate in professional training offered to all staff.
- Build resume and explore career options (cross-functional training available)
- Apply skills and knowledge to the workplace.
- Publication of written work on Thaddeus official website
- Grow your professional network and build strong working relationships with previous and current Thaddeus staff.
- Flexibility to allow for final exams.
*** We are an equal opportunity employer. ***