Social Media/Marketing Intern

The Cobb County Remembrance Coalition seeks a digitally savvy intern to work alongside the Coalition’s core team. In this role, you will support various digital marketing initiatives, from assisting with campaign creation, events, email, SMS marketing, market research, sustaining and growing followers, overseeing interactions with the public through implementing content strategies on social media platforms and more. This opportunity is ideal for those who want to diversify their skills and see the inner workings of a social action organization from a grassroots perspective.  Interns will support the Coalition with graphic design, marketing strategy, and social media.

Position Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CCRC members to brainstorm ideas for representing the CCRC brand in public.
• Use social media marketing tools to create and maintain CCRC’s brand presence.
• Develop and implement marketing strategies for the Coalition’s social media sites, including blogging, creating social media profiles, managing regular posts, and responding to followers.
• Monitor, execute, filter, and measure the Coalition’s and brand’s social media presence.
• Create and maintain brand promotions, company information, and marketing campaigns across various social media networks. Constantly innovate to push new ideas and formats and measure their performance.
• Work daily to produce blogs, infographics, videos, and press releases for social media and traditional news outlets. Create new content through posts, design banners and memes, edit photos as needed, invite contributors, and repurpose content from previous events, campaigns, and posts to drive interest in the Coalition’s work and social media presence.
• Cover live events, promote the events, take photos, and promote hashtags.
• Identify influencers and potential sponsors who can support KCF through our digital presence on social media.
• Present new ideas to the Coalition by drafting copy for various digital marketing materials, including but not limited to social media, email marketing, SMS marketing, and website copy.
• Pull and report analytics related to digital marketing efforts and campaign performance.
• Assist the Coalition with administrative tasks and recommend additional relevant needs to progress the mission, such as SMS and email marketing campaigns or other social media marketing strategies.

Qualifications

• An individual with a degree in marketing, advertising, communication, public relations, or a similarly relevant field or who will soon acquire such a degree.
• Experience with email marketing campaign tools such as Mailchimp, Canva, Squarespace, and other web design tools, including SEO (search engine optimization).
• Ability to work in a team environment and be a self-starter.
• A fast learner who excels in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with cloud-based storage is preferred.
• If applying, a portfolio of work must be included.

Job Details

This position can be an internship for a college student majoring in Business Administration, marketing, or mass communications. It will be a yearlong internship with the opportunity for possible future employment. The Coalition Core Team will generate documentation for the student to present to the course instructor that requires the internship. This documentation will verify that the internship has met the specific requirements of the job description and the academic requirements of the collegiate course.

About The Cobb County Remembrance Coalition (CCRC)

The Cobb County Remembrance Coalition (CCRC) was established in the spring of 2023 by a small team of Cobb residents interested in truth-telling, righting wrongs, and healing the wounds of our past. Inspired by the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) Community Remembrance Project, that small team has grown to include historians, educators, politicians, faith leaders, lawyers, judges, preservationists, and community activists. Our mission is to collaborate with the Cobb County community to memorialize victims of racial violence and foster meaningful dialogue about race and justice.

Since our inception, CCRC has meticulously followed EJI’s guidelines for establishing a Coalition intent on memorializing the victims of racial injustice in our county, including victims of racial terror lynchings. John Bailey is one such victim, and he has been the focus of our work. Lynched in Cobb County in 1900, he is included in EJI’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.

Guided by EJI and supported by the local community, we plan to place a historic marker commemorating what happened to John Bailey. Like EJI, we believe in the power of advancing justice through public history. That starts with local truth-telling and acknowledging that understanding the era of racial terror is integral to facing today’s challenges, such as mass incarceration, excessive sentences, unjustified police violence, and a presumption of guilt and dangerousness that disproportionately burdens people of color.

The CCRC cannot do this work alone. It must be a community-wide endeavor. We will encourage engagement and dialogue through activities designed to teach, activate, and heal.