Social Media and Copywriter Intern

Employer:  UTOPIA Organization

Deadline for applications: Sunday, August 8, 2018

Contract: Internship

Location: Tripoli, Lebanon

Working area: Market Researches & Feasibility Studies

UTOPIA’s purpose is to inspire a culture of civic awareness and equal citizenship in the Lebanese society through specialized projects and programs that rely on voluntary work to make the change we aim at achieving.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Social Media intern to join our marketing department and provide creative ideas to help achieve our goals. You will have administrative duties in developing and implementing marketing strategies.

As a Social Media and Copywriter intern, you will collaborate with our Communication & Media Officer in all stages of marketing campaigns. Your insightful contribution will help develop, expand and maintain our marketing channels.

Job Title:

Social Media and Copywriter Intern

Division:

Marketing Department

I-Function:

• Develops and delivers media work that has a significant impact on UTOPIA’s public image and makes sensible judgments, working within UTOPIA policy and procedures.
• Makes decisions and solves problems on complex issues, requiring creative thinking to find best solutions and drawing on information from a variety of sources to inform decision making.
• Capacity to independently produce quality media and communication materials (press releases, video, photos, audio, infographics.) that can be used by a variety of media nationally, regionally and globally. 

II-Reporting:

• To the Marketing Specialist.

III-Supervising:

      Coordinates:

• With Communication & Media Officer.
• With Interns & Volunteers
• With concerned parties as assigned by the Marketing Specialist.

IV- Duties and Responsibilities:

• To produce digital contents (stories, photos, blogs, videos) to be used on UTOPIA and other websites and to liaise with relevant staff at regional and international level to maximize the use of the contents generated.
• Monitor and post on blogs, forums, and social networks
• Online outreach and promotion using Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, and more
• Website and social media optimization
• Help with the reseller partner recruiting efforts. Build database, send and respond to e-mails, manage direct response, phone follow-up.
• Follow up with existing resellers with agreements, schedule partner training and question follow-up, help prepare needed materials.
• Setup regional promotions and help drive success.
• Provide verbal and written feedback to supervisor on progress, lesson learnt, achievements and gaps, issues and problems.
• Provide support to social media efforts
• Participate in identification and referrals of special hardship cases during the life cycle of the project.
• Accomplish   any other tasks assigned by supervisor.
• Contribute to data entry, as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

V- Cooperation and Contact:

• Develop and maintain an effective working relationship with service providers for prompt referral, follow up and information sharing.
• Share formalized information and progress with the team involved on the project on a regular basis.
• Provide regular support and feedback to post-holders coordinating with this role.

VI- Qualification:

Education and Experience:

• Communications, Business, Marketing, Journalism, Economics, or other research-related majors preferred 
• Previous internship or office experience preferred
• Capacity and experience in working in unsafe environments
• Great mobility and willingness to work  at field level

Language Ability: (Arabic, English)

Arabic: Read, Spoken and Written English: Read, Spoken and Written

French is a plus.

Skills:

• Excellent writing skills
• Creates content that promotes audience interaction, increases audience presence, and encourages audience participation
• Assists the media team with large projects, events, and community management
• Works as part of a team to develop large social media campaigns
• Analyses and reports audience information and demographics, and success of existing social media projects
• Proposes new ideas and concepts for social media content
• Works with marketing and media team members to coordinate ad campaigns with social media strategy
• Writes and distributes e-newsletters to subscribers
• Manages social media communications
• Uses timelines and scheduled content to create a consistent stream of new content for audience interaction while analyzing, managing, and altering schedules where necessary to optimize visits
• Accomplish   any other tasks assigned by supervisor.
• Contribute to data entry, as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Computer Skills:

              Strong Microsoft Office skills a must, specifically MS Word, Excel and Power Point. Email and database.

VII- Work Environment:

While performing his/her duties the Social Media and Copywriter Intern might be exposed to environmental and physical hazards such as: long sitting periods, long computer interaction periods, wet and/or humid conditions, precarious equipment and working areas, fumes, miscellaneous weather conditions, lifting heavy items, loud noise and airborne particles.

Please apply at [email protected].  Also include a cover letter and one work sample such as writing projects, audio files, videos (these can be graded class assignments or published work) by including their respective links.

Arabic: Excellent  

English: Excellent   

Period: 2 months (with possibility of employment)

Salary:

Submission guidelines: Please email your CV to [email protected]

Cover letter required? Yes