What we do
Passion for Life is a non-profit organization that operates with the power of dedicated volunteers like you. We help under-resourced youth transform their passions into rewarding careers.
Our mission is to provide forward-thinking career coaching and immersion opportunities driven by the students’ passions and talents in a fun, structured, and high-energy environment. Passion for Life was created to be a high-energy and engaging process that helps students identify their passions and gain clarity on how to utilize their core strengths and talents to select a career.
Who you are
Passion for Life, Inc, is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization; we are seeking marketing professionals to assist marketing team with various projects and assignments including web management. As the website and content designer, you will use your creative and software engineering/programing skills to design, build, and improve websites to generate brand awareness for Passion for Life, Inc.
While this is an unpaid internship position, there are many exciting internal and external rewards to consider.
What you gain
- Complete your professional certification requirements and school credits
- Gain valuable hands on experience in nonprofit educational sector
- Make a meaningful impact on the lives of underserved communities
- Increase your networking opportunities and collaborate with knowledgeable teams
- Boost your untapped potential and master new skills
- Flexible scheduling and potential for recommendation letters
Estimated time commitment and meeting format
- Attend monthly meetings
- Participation in a weekly conference call
- Participation in Passion for Life, Inc. events, taking part in at least one event of program activity per quarter
- Estimated time commitment: 5-10 hours/ week depending on needs
- Busiest time period: work is consistent throughout the school year
Term limit: 4 months, with the possibility of extension. Flexible start/end date.
You will be expected to participate in the following:
- Create and manage digital-related projects for their organization
- Testing and improving the design of the website
- Maintaining appreciate of websites by enforcing content standards
- Designing visual imagery for websites
- Working with different content management systems
- Communicating design ideas
- Incorporating functionalities and features into websites
- Establish our organization’s web presence
- Stay up-to-date with digital media technologies and latest trends
- Manage end-to-end digital projects
- Suggest and implement different direct marketing methods
- Suggest Social Media strategies to increase interaction across multiple platforms
- Create marketing materials including but not limited to social media messages, email
- newsletters, press releases, news articles and other content marketing pieces.
- Effectively promote programs and services through marketing and outreach campaigns.
- Test and analyze to identify that the strategies are working by preparing marketing reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data.
Position Requirements
- Ensure fulfillment of the mission of the organization
- Proficiency in graphic design software including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and other visual design tools.
- Proficiency in front-end development web programming languages such as HTML and JavaScript.
- Good understanding of content management systems.
- 2 years experience in one or more of the following areas; Marketing management,
- Graphic design, Digital Marketing, content development, public relations
- Excellent visual design skills.
- Creative and open to new ideas.
- Prior experience in nonprofit environments is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with content management
- Knowledge of web design
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Digital media or relevant field
- Comfortable working with a team. Self-starter and comfortable taking initiative.
- Demonstrated effectiveness in meetings and task forces; seen as a leader.
- Ability to interface with all levels of the organization (both internal and external).
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