Social Media Intern
Sharing Hope Africa is looking for a Social Media Volunteer Intern to work with our social channels, to drive engagement and grow our audience. If you want to hone your brand management skills while giving back and making an impact, this could be a great fit. This position can be remote or in-person.
What You'll Do
- Manage content creation, social copy, and publishing, on Sharing Hope Africa’s social pages (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn)
- Develop strategies to drive engagement and build community, engaging and interacting with followers
- Transcribe, caption, and caption check video content as required
- Track content performance, discovering and implementing actionable insights through Meta's analytics platform
- Track associate stories via LinkedIn to highlight on staple social platforms
- Collect upcoming creative executions to showcase strategy and upcoming priorities
- Provide inputs into creative briefs and planning
Who Are You
- A high school or college student/graduate who has a passion for social media and an interest in pursuing a career in marketing (creative and analytics)
- Real life experience or degree surrounding social media, marketing, business, analytics, creative design
- Ambitious, adaptable, disciplined and detail-oriented
- Strong desire to learn along with professional drive
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Creative and passionate about art as a storytelling mechanism
- Highly collaborative team player who is ready to roll-up their sleeves and get the job done
- Ideally familiar with nonprofit sector and its latest trends
- Creative and critical thinking skills
- Familiar with Google Suite, Canva, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok
Unfortunately, we cannot offer monetary compensation (our entire operational team is powered by volunteers!), but as a part of the Sharing Hope Africa Family, we will:
- Assist you in creating a resume that will help you land your next job (our Director of Outreach & Media worked as a resume writer)
- Provide you with the support and resources necessary to manage and execute on a career-focused project based on your interests (i.e. building a brand book, increasing social media engagement by X%, designing and orchestrating a community event, etc.), which can be showcased on your resume or supplemental for a class project
- Offer coaching sessions to help you identify and land your dream role
- Cover your accommodation should you decide to join a volunteer trip to our project sites in Eswatini and Mozambique