Marketing & Insights Intern

Position Location: San Francisco
Term: Fall 2012, 3-5 months, 2-3 days per week

VolunteerMatch's Department of Communications and Marketing seeks an intern to support the organizations corporate social responsibility (CSR), marketing and thought leadership efforts. The Marketing & Insights intern will manage secondary research projects and translate it into marketing materials to support the VolunteerMatch Solutions sub-brand, which creates branded experiences to engage employees, consumers and students in volunteer activity. Research projects include benchmarking client impacts, tracking CSR industry trends and identifying best practices to share with our corporate audience. You will work closely with the members of the Communications and Marketing team to draft and distribute findings to our corporate clients, industry thought leaders and media, in line with the teams marketing strategy.

Who are we looking for?

• You are an independent, self-motivated worker that also works well in team environments.
• You are able to analyze complex information and boil down into digestible insights for various audiences (experience in qualitative or quantitative research encouraged).
• You are interested in learning more about corporate social responsibility, and how volunteerism plays a part in industry trends.
• You are an experienced writer who can write for multiple audiences, including the media, blog readers and academic.
• You possess a can-do attitude and willingness to learn have an affinity for data-driven decisions.
• Background in marketing, communications, research or business preferred.
• Interest in and comfort with social media a plus!

Time Commitment:

• 2-3 days per week in our SF office (roughly 16-24 hours per week)
• Ability to take part in a mandatory weekly team meeting
• College credit available if applicable; we are committed to supporting your training through regular review of work progress, portfolio development and career development strategy

How To Apply:

• Click here to complete our internship application form.
• You will need a copy of your resume and cover letter in plain text format.
• Unfortunately, we can only respond to applicants we'd like to interview.

Communications & Social Media Intern

Position Location: San Francisco
Term: Fall 2012, 3-5 months, 2-3 days per week

VolunteerMatch's Department of Communications and Marketing seeks a Communications & Social Media Intern to manage and coordinate communications and social media activities with a dynamic team of professionals. As intern you will create and distribute digital media and content through a variety of channels to engage consumer, nonprofit and volunteer audiences. Along the you will also gain critical insight into the nonprofit sector, cause marketing, Web software as a service (SaaS), social entrepreneurism and social media.

Responsibilities include creating ideas, researching and drafting articles for our blogs, newsletters and websites; owning elements of our web presence at LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Youtube, and Flickr among other sites; and identifying like-minded blogs and bloggers and ensure they are aware of the content we produce and of VolunteerMatch as a resource.

Who are we looking for?

• You have excellent writing and editing skills and fabulous research skills.
• You have a high level of curiosity and willingness to ask questions.
• You have some knowledge of social media networks and the "rules" of usage
• You have the ability to quickly understand and adopt tools for Web communications
• You have a desire to know or experience nonprofit organizations.
• You have the ability to work semi-independently, learn quickly and operate in a fast-paced environment under ambiguous circumstances
• Communications, marketing, public policy, English or business background preferred

How To Apply:

• Click here to complete our internship application form.
• You will need a copy of your resume and cover letter in plain text format.
• Unfortunately, we can only respond to applicants we'd like to interview.