Social Media & Marketing Intern
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Creative Director to brainstorm social-first content ideas, recurring series, campaign concepts, and timely cultural opportunities.
- Help plan, capture, edit, write, schedule, and publish content across platforms including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube Shorts.
- Assist with photo and video capture in the office, behind the scenes, at live events, and during occasional off-site shoots.
- Turn event footage, project stories, production details, and team expertise into Reels, short-form videos, carousels, Stories, and other engaging social content.
- Write and refine captions, hooks, social copy, and short-form scripts in Contemporary’s brand voice.
- Research emerging social formats, platform trends, industry conversations, and relevant cultural moments.
- Help maintain the content calendar, organize creative assets, prepare posts for review, and keep projects moving through the approval process.
- Review social performance and help identify which topics, formats, and creative approaches are connecting with the audience.
- Support additional marketing initiatives—including email, website content, campaigns, and promotional materials—when opportunities arise.
- Assist with paid social campaigns, Google Ads, Google Analytics, or performance reporting when relevant and based on experience.
Qualifications
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, Media, Design, Business, or a related field—or able to demonstrate relevant experience through personal, academic, freelance, or professional work.
- A genuine interest in social media, content creation, storytelling, branding, entertainment, or live experiences.
- Strong creative instincts and an understanding of what makes content feel current, engaging, and natural to each platform.
- Comfortable capturing photo and video content with a smartphone; experience with professional cameras is helpful but not required.
- Familiarity with editing or creative tools such as CapCut, Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, or similar platforms.
- Strong writing and communication skills, with the ability to adjust messaging for different audiences and platforms.
- Organized, reliable, receptive to feedback, and able to manage multiple assignments without losing attention to detail.
- Willing to contribute ideas, ask thoughtful questions, experiment, and take initiative.
- Available to work in person and occasionally assist with content capture at off-site locations or live events.
Experience with Meta Ads Manager, Google Ads, Google Analytics, WordPress, SEO, marketing automation, or CRM platforms is a plus—but these are not the primary focus of the internship.
What You’ll Gain
- Direct mentorship and collaboration with Contemporary’s Creative Director.
- Real published work for a growing company—not hypothetical classroom assignments.
- Hands-on experience across social strategy, content development, production, editing, publishing, and performance analysis.
- Opportunities to capture content at live events and see how creative, entertainment, and production teams work together.
- Portfolio-ready projects and a clearer understanding of where your strengths fit within the marketing and creative industries.
- The opportunity to help shape a developing social presence rather than simply maintain an established formula.
You do not need to arrive knowing everything. We are looking for someone with strong instincts, genuine curiosity, a willingness to learn, and the energy to help us create something worth paying attention to.
Pay: $15.00 per hour
Work Location: In person, with occasional off-site shoots and event coverage