Marketing and Communications Intern

The University of St. Thomas is an educational institution seeking a Marketing and Communications Intern for the Morrison Family College of Health. The intern will support social media strategy, editorial assignments, graphic design, multimedia production, and website updates while developing strategic communication and content production skills.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to overall MFCOH social media strategy and regularly create social media content for MFCOH channels: Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn
• Grow channel reach and engagement
• Monitor MFCOH social media channels on a regular basis
• Schedule posts in our content management platform, Hootsuite
• Execute a variety of editorial assignments, as needed
• Research and write short feature stories, interviews, event recaps and more
• Provide graphic design support utilizing Canva
• Social media graphics
• Ads and flyers promoting events and academic programs
• Produce short video and photography assignments, as needed
• Provide basic website support for MFCOH, making brief updates to college, department and program pages as needed

What they're looking for:

• Full or part-time St. Thomas undergrad or grad student pursuing a degree in Communication Studies, Digital Media Arts, Journalism, Strategic Communication, Business Communication, Marketing Management, or another related field
• Strong writing and editing skills
• Robust understanding of social media platforms and ability to create and publish content that conforms to MFCOH schedule and strategy
• Self-motivated and curious
• Detail-oriented and dependable
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Basic understanding of photo and video editing tools
• Provide links to either your personal social media accounts or accounts you have managed
• To be eligible for student employment, St. Thomas students must be degree seeking at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels
• Students must be actively enrolled at least part-time in courses for credit

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule (approximately 10 hours per week)
• Training, guidance and support