RISE Internship: Marketing Specialist at Startup Wildcats
Position Title: Startup Wildcats Marketing Specialist
Reports to: Paul Tumarkin
Hours/Week: Up to 20 hours per week
Internship Date Range: January 15 – May 9, 2025
Location: Hybrid – Tech Launch Arizona, 1600 Idea Lane, Tucson, AZ 85713
About the Resilience Internships and Student Experiences (RISE) Program
The RISE Program is hosted by the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR) and provides undergraduate and graduate students with paid internships related to resilient environments and societies. RISE internships give students experience in workplace settings with an opportunity to grow their interpersonal skills and prepare them for careers after graduation.
About the Startup Wildcats:
Startup Wildcats is a hub of innovative and entrepreneurial thinking engaging students, seasoned entrepreneurs, mentors, change makers and leaders. Innovators from all disciplines come to Startup Wildcats to explore new opportunities, make connections, and turn their ideas into reality.
Startup Wildcats is an initiative of Tech Launch Arizona. Along with cultivating student entrepreneurship, TLA's parallel mission is to bring together the U of A community and local and regional ecosystems to move inventions stemming from university research and technological innovation into the marketplace where they can create lasting social and economic impact.
Internship summary: Startup Wildcats is seeking a student with social media experience to help manage Startup Wildcats Instagram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, design and publish our monthly newsletter, and build out the storytelling of Startup Wildcats.
Internship tasks include:
- Create, curate and edit content for a monthly newsletter including copy and imagery.
- Create and edit original posts for social media accounts and schedule posts in Trellis Social Sprout.
- Monitor Social Sprout lists and notifications to find posts to amplify or take other actions on. Monitor incoming comments, mentions, and inquiries and reply.
- Write captions for original posts and watch other UArizona users for posts to re-post or otherwise amplify.
- Create and edit graphics and/or videos (with tools like Adobe Express and Adobe Rush) for posting across networks with different image size requirements.
- Identify and interview students to create social media and newsletter content.
- Assist with Startup Wildcats website and event page creation and updates.
- Other digital marketing duties as needed
20 hours/week depending on scheduling and student’s availability. Some daily (M-F) availability is preferred to best keep up with social media.
Skills Required:
- Self-motivated
- Detail-oriented, ability to solve problems
- Professional with good organizational and time management skills
- Good ‘people skills’, for working with a range of student and staff colleagues
- Experience with posting on multiple social media networks: specifically including LinkedIn and Instagram.
- Experience creating or editing graphics and video preferred.
Compensation:
The intern will be compensated by the University of Arizona. The pay rate is $18/hour.
How to Apply:
Applicants must be active U of A students enrolled in at least 6 credits. The intern will be hired as a U of A student employee. Student employees are limited to 25 hours/week (20 hours/week for international students) across ALL U of A positions.
International students should consult with International Student Services (ISS) if work authorization is needed before securing an internship. ISS advising information can be found here.
Please apply via Handshake
Applications must be submitted no later than end of business day December 5, 2024.