Marketing and Communications Internship (Part-time)
Position Summary:
Assists with the implementation of the overall marketing strategy for VUMI® and its affiliated companies. Drives results by cooperating and supporting the marketing team to deliver projects on a timely manner ensuring high quality. Assists on the development, translation and proofreading of marketing sales collateral materials.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work along with the marketing team to incorporate themes, campaigns, and strategic messaging across daily marketing and communications activities.
- Help on the development and update of sales presentations and other marketing collateral materials for internal events and seminars such as invitations and agendas.
- Support the visual and written aspects involved in the creation of mass email marketing, print, web, social media, and video scripts as needed.
- Assist marketing team by proofreading and editing copy of collateral materials with high attention to details, including translation of texts in English/Spanish to Portuguese.
- Assist in the quoting and purchasing process of marketing promotional materials, including printing of brochures, banners, folders and others.
- Help maintain and update social media according to strategy. Supervise social media interactions and activity when needed.
- Research advertising opportunities and perform competitive analysis.
- Support other marketing managers and sales department managers and heads when needed.
Qualifications:
- Currently enrolled on or recent graduate from a marketing, advertising, communications, public relations, or related field.
- English and Portuguese proficiency required, Spanish preferred.
- Excellent writing and proofreading skills. Ability to effectively translate insights and communicate concepts in writing.
- Proficient computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Basic Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop experience preferred, but not required.
- Strong team orientation with focus on team success. Willing and able to support other team members when needed.
- Understanding of basic graphic design concepts preferred.
- Highly organized and flexible. Good at prioritizing tasks, managing time and meeting deadlines. Self-starter, ability to work on multiple projects and perform follow up.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. with no future need of sponsorship.
If you are a Junior/Senior or a recent graduate looking for a real-life experience in marketing or advertising, this is a great opportunity to have an overall sense the industry segments altogether and explore the different areas.