Marketing Intern

Are you looking for a Marketing Internship for this summer? 

The Marketing Internship provides the opportunity to support the Marketing and Community Partnership Teams in events, promotions, ongoing projects, and credit union initiatives as assigned.  

The Marketing Internship offers you the opportunity to:

• Explore career opportunities – by working in the field you have chosen; you can receive an inside look at your potential career path.
• Network – meet a variety of people in your chosen profession through your internship, allowing you to form relationships you can build on in the future.
• Find Mentors – certain individuals can help guide you through your internship and expose you to opportunities to which you can aspire to.

The Marketing Internship is seasonal (spring/summer) and is anticipated to last up to 3 months.  The internship may end sooner or be longer depending on the need.

Rate of pay: Starting pay is $15.78/hour.  This is considered a temporary position and it does not offer benefits.  Intern hours are 20-25 weekly with the max of 29 per pay period.

Essential Job Functions

• Focus on Purpose: Focused on credit union purpose of creating financial wellness in our community through everyday banking.
• Event Management Support: Supports and assists the Marketing and Community Partnership teams at credit union events and credit union sponsored events.   
• Support Digital Marketing Initiatives: Assist in planning and executing online campaigns, including social media, email marketing, and website content updates, to enhance member engagement and brand visibility.
• Optimize Online Presence: Contribute to SEO and SEM efforts through keyword research, content optimization, and performance tracking; analyze digital metrics to recommend improvements for campaign effectiveness.
• Collaboration: Assists as needed on a variety of Marketing and Community Partnership teams with projects, and day-to-day operations..
• Community Advocate: Serves as a representative of the credit union within the community and is actively visible at credit union events and credit union sponsored events.
• Core Process, Policy, and Procedure Review: Responsible for following all processes, policies, and procedures, including policies and procedures for customer identification and all BSA requirements.

Competencies Required 

• People Focused and Strong Communication: Empathetically seek understanding of what members and employees require and expect and use available resources, policies, and opportunities in their best interest without compromising institutional core values and core focus.
• Achiever, Initiative and Goal Driven:  The employee drives for results and success, is committed to their job, sets high standards of performance, pursues aggressive goals, and works hard to achieve them, displays a high level of effort and commitment to work, and takes ownership. Apply new ways of thinking; create new ideas.  Plans work and carries out tasks without detailed instructions; makes constructive suggestions; prepares for problems or opportunities in advance; undertakes additional responsibilities; responds to situations as they arise with minimal supervision; creates novel solutions to problems. Pays special attention to close detail and is committed to accuracy. 
• Focused, Decision Making and Problem Solving : Has a strong sense of urgency about proactively solving problems and getting work done; gain support by collaborating effectively for ideas, proposals, projects and solutions, take initiative; make and/or facilitate decisions considering impact on others and/or the credit union; reach sound decisions and exercises good judgment based on balanced consideration of facts, priorities, and alternatives; make decisions in agreed upon time frame; take initiative to identify and resolve problems; demonstrate ability to examine existing problems/issues in new ways.
• Engaged and Collaborative: Engaging and collaborating with Marketing and Community Partnership teams, to foresee longer-term developments, to envision options (and their probable consequences), to select sound courses of action, to rise above the day-to-day detail, to challenge the status quo.
• Trustworthy, Reliability and Confidentiality: Personally responsible; completes work in a timely, consistent manner; works hours necessary to complete assigned work; is regularly present and punctual; arrives prepared for work; is committed to doing the best job possible; keeps commitments.  Able to keep all information obtained confidential including member, employee, and credit union information. Ensures core process, policies and procedures are followed.

Key Accountability Items 

• Support Digital Marketing Initiatives
• Optimize Online Presence
• Event Management Support
• Collaborative
• Community Advocate

Requirements

• A minimum education of high school diploma or GED 
• Enrollment as a Junior or Senior in an accredited academic program with coursework in Marketing, Digital Marketing, or Advertising preferred.

The Ideal Candidate

• Basic understanding of digital marketing principles, including social media, email marketing, and website content strategies.
• Familiarity with SEO and SEM concepts (keyword research, on-page optimization, Google Ads basics).
• Experience or coursework in marketing analytics or ability to interpret data from tools like Google Analytics and social media insights.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Specially experience in marketing content creation. 
• Experience in Adobe Creative Suite, Canva or other creative content platforms and Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to work independently or as a collaborative member of a team.
• Attention to detail and organizational skills. 
• Time management and multitasking skills with the ability to prioritize tasks. 

NOTE:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.