Nonprofit Marketing Intern

Job Title: Nonprofit Marketing Intern                 Classification: Non-Exempt

Reports To:  Founder of Carolina Literacy Project             Location: Greenville, SC

Employment Type:  Part-Time Hybrid Position              Pay:  $400 total    ______________________________________________________________________________

The mission of the Carolina Literacy Project is to help immigrant and refugee children in South Carolina increase their English literacy and reduce summer learning loss through a summer camp program. This internship is an opportunity to gain valuable experience in marketing for a nonprofit organization. There will also be opportunities to learn about the challenges and rewards of working in a nonprofit environment to enhance and reinforce the public school system. The ideal candidate will be someone who is majoring or minoring in marketing or communications. Candidates must also successfully pass a pre-employment criminal background check. 

Internship Details: 

The marketing internship will be a hybrid position. The majority of the time the intern will work remotely and meet virtually during the spring semester. However, when the CLP summer camp begins in June, the intern will need to come to camp to take pictures and do videos of camp visitors and campers on Fridays and possibly one other day a week. This is an unpaid internship but will give valuable experience in marketing for a nonprofit that works with multilingual learners and their families. The intern will be supervised by the founder of the Carolina Literacy Project. They will receive weekly feedback from the founder on things that they are doing well and where improvement may be needed. Mentoring by people currently working in the marketing industry will be provided for the intern as well as mentoring experience in grant writing and research. Virtual training in marketing campaigns and social media will be provided. 

The marketing intern position will include: 

• Working on promoting the Carolina Literacy Project through social media and will create weekly stories. 
• Keeping track of weekly social media likes and shares and analytics so that we can track our impact.
• The intern will help plan and implement a marketing campaign to help promote the nonprofit throughout the year but especially during the summer.
• Intern will begin working ASAP
• Social media postings of camp pictures and videos for the six weeks of camp – June 1 – July 24 with the weeks of June 22nd & June 29th off 
• Attend virtual orientation and training that will occur at the beginning February
• Recap and preparation for future camps will occur the week of July 27th 
• Total of 15-20 hours per week (this is the average number of hours)

Requirements:

• Currently pursuing a degree in marketing, communications, or a related field
• People Skills – excellent communication skills, friendly, active listener 
• Work Ethic – enthusiastic, adaptable, self-starter, creative, team player
• Enjoys social media and creating stories for a marketing campaign
• Has strong writing skills