Social Media Internship
To Apply: (1) Email your resume and portfolio to recruitment@yourtango.com. Subject line should be "Social Media Internship". (2) Fill out this short questionnaire: https://forms.gle/vPeV3DeFm2pCei8p8
YourTango is the premier media company dedicated exclusively to love and relationships. We present compelling, brave, and thoughtful editorial content that inspires, nurtures, informs, and entertains.
We are looking for a passionate, positive, self-starting, and hardworking Social Media Intern to join our team and help us grow our brand presence on key channels. Reporting to our Managing Editor/Senior Social Media Director, you will support a growing group of directors and editors with day-to-day scheduling tasks while also learning key insights about what it takes to be successful on each social media platform.
This internship is fully remote.
Typical Intern Tasks:
- Scheduling posts for various social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, Twitter, TikTok, and Pinterest.
- Assisting the team with writing strong and optimized captions to maximize reach and engagement on each post.
- Experimenting with different strategies to grow readership and promote our newly launched podcast “Getting Open".
- Attending brainstorming meetings to develop new content ideas.
- Regularly reviewing social media analytics to tweak our strategy as needed.
- Interacting with our audience on social media platforms to increase engagement and followers.
Requirements:
- Access to your own computer and reliable internet connection.
- Ability to communicate consistently throughout your scheduled shifts with our team in real-time via Slack and email for chatting, voice calls, video calls, conference calls, and screen-sharing.
- Ability to work a SET weekly schedule between Monday and Friday. (The schedule is to be approved at the beginning of the internship.)
- Available to work 20-25 hrs per week between 7:00 AM - 9:00 PM ET for 4 months. The last day of the internship will be calculated 4 months after the start date. NOTE: Like in a regular in-office setting, when you're online during your shift, you'll be interacting via Slack and available at a moment's notice during your scheduled times, actively working throughout the day - so please make sure that you can be fully available during the 20-25 hour schedule you decide on before accepting the internship.
What You'll Learn:
- A behind-the-curtain look at how social media strategy for a major publisher is created and must evolve given the ever-shifting media landscape.
- The differences between each platform affect our business objectives, internal workflows, and overall strategy shifts.
- To craft thoughtful, impactful, strategic captions, headlines, and tweets that lead to audience interaction and purposeful action.
- Collaboration skills with a talented team of video editors, social media experts, and graphic designers to see all the different social elements come together.
- Strong communication skills to build professional relationships in a remote setting.
Supervision & Feeback:
- Feedback will be provided to interns via monthly check-ins with appropriate team members and their supervisor(s) (professionals with expertise and educational background in the social media field).
- If the school requires, supervisors can complete mid-semester or end-of-semester evaluations of the intern. (The school must request them at the beginning of the internship period.)
- Interns will be working one-on-one with a seasoned social media director to pitch and post content for publication that can be included in their portfolio.
- Interns will be able to network with the rest of the team (and various departments) throughout their time with YourTango.
Eligibility, Pay & Stipend:
- Intern must be located within the continental U.S. throughout the internship.
- A $1500 stipend will be paid upon completion of the 4-month internship via invoice, paper check, or EBT. Hourly pay is not available for this internship.
- This internship adheres to the Fair Labor Standards Act and the standards set by the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division.
- Interns may receive college credit for their internship.
Learn more about what it's like to work at YourTango here.