Communications Intern
Franklin, TN
Internship
Hybrid
$18/hr - $28/hr
Intern/New Grad
AARP is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older. The Communications Intern will assist the AARP Tennessee Team in promoting policy issues, enhancing event marketing, and engaging in strategic communications outreach.
Responsibilities
- Apply strategic, analytical, and creative thinking to help promote policy issues on family caregiving, health and welfare, and retirement security
- Participate in team meetings and strategy discussions, collaborate on communications tactics, and engage in a support role for various remote and in-person events
- Enhance event participation by assisting with event marketing and promotion through social media and other platforms to tell the story about AARP Tennessee's work
- Assist with drafting press releases, event advisories, editorials, and other material for internal and external channels
- Enhance AARP TN's social media presence, including daily monitoring and posting
- Assist in planning, scripting, production, and editing social media videos and content
- Engage in strategic communications outreach to internal and external audiences, including media relations.
- Design event/program fliers, graphics, and other material
Qualification
Required
- Must be enrolled in a degree program at an accredited college/university rising undergraduate juniors or seniors, graduate students, or post-doctoral students and remain academically enrolled throughout the internship or must have previously graduated from college and enrolled in a continuing education program
- Pursuing a degree in communications, marketing, journalism, gerontology, political science, policy, or related fields
- Must be a self-starter and adaptable, with the ability to work under tight deadlines
- Ability to manage multiple projects, anticipate project needs, and discern work priorities
- Ability to work well with diverse populations, including age, race, and sexual orientation
- Technical proficiency in Microsoft Office programs
- Regular and reliable job attendance
- Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships
- Independent judgement in evaluation options to make sound decisions
- In office/open office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate noise
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 25 pounds
Preferred
- Familiarity with creating and editing videos and knowledge of multiple social media platforms is a plus