Social Media Intern

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Overview
Greg Tanaka for Congress is looking for bright and motivated interns to assist the campaign. Your responsibilities will include building our campaign’s social media presence and promoting the campaign via creative engagement with our supporters. This is an exciting opportunity to have a significant impact on the campaign. You should have excellent written communication, be highly organized and be able to multitask.
Desired qualifications
The ideal candidate must be enrolled in an educational program upon the start of your internship and have an interest in public policy, community organizing, political science, economics, English, communications, public relations or a similar area of study or career path. Candidates must also be able to dedicate 10-15 hours per week toward the campaign.

Essential duties include:
The social media intern will be responsible for a variety of social media marketing activities for the campaign.

• Monitor social media platforms for trending topics, ideas, feedback and content.
• Experiment and adjust social media posting schedules to maximize reach.
• Implement outreach strategies and promotional campaigns to spread brand awareness of the campaign
• Participate in the campaign’s marketing all hands meetings.
• Monitor audience responses, messages and engagement.
• Stay up to date with developments in social media platforms for maximum effectiveness

Requirements:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Tech savvy with presence on at least one social media platform (eg, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.)
• Basic understanding of marketing techniques and strategies
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work with minimal supervision
• Critical thinking and creative problem solving
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and competing deadlines simultaneously
• Assist with responding to a variety of online constituent inquiries and issues

Benefits

Although unpaid, interns may qualify for internship credit from their university or school, as well as earn a letter of recommendation from the campaign. Depending on the college, sponsorships are possible: https://sig.stanford.edu/fellowships/