Opportunities
Marketing and Development Intern
Reports to: Development and Communications Manager
Status: Part-time, $16.04/hr, 20 hours/week
Job Duration: November 2022 - March 2023
LA Commons engages communities in the creation of art for public spaces that tells their unique stories and serves as the basis for dialogue, interaction and a better understanding of Los Angeles. Through collaboration with local partners who have built deep wells of trust, we leverage art and cultural approaches to create positive change.
Since 2002, we have worked with over 1,000 artists, trained and mentored over 3,000 youth artists, and engaged over 35,000 community members in collaboration with scores of partners in neighborhoods across Los Angeles County. Headquartered in Leimert Park, we are committed to investing in resilient networks of youth, artists and community partners in Central and South Los Angeles.
Overview
The Marketing and Development intern will play an important role in disseminating information about our programs, ensuring timely, locally generated content for all of our online platforms based on work with community members in target neighborhoods as well as contributing to the development of campaign materials, proposals and the engagement of donors. This position will work approximately 20 hours a week from November to March.
Specific Responsibilities
The Marketing and Development intern will execute marketing strategies for Neighborhood Story Connection programming, and Creating Our Next LA campaigns as well as support ongoing fundraising and development initiatives.
Our Neighborhood Story Connection program creates a space where stories and voices are heard and then transformed into public art that educates, empowers and enriches Los Angeles. LA Commons’ core audiences are youth, artists and community residents of all ages in some of the most disadvantaged areas of Los Angeles.
For our 20th Anniversary Campaign, we are implementing an initiative called Creating Our Next LA, a multi-platform campaign through which we are partnering with past, present and future artists, participants, partners, funders and allies of LA Commons to use storytelling as a way to create a vision for the post COVID-19 city, a city that is more hospitable to artists and creatives, just, equitable, sustainable and humane.
A critical part of our success lies in our social network and web platforms, and interns play an essential role in the successful implementation of the outreach program. With the participation of the Marketing and Development Intern, we will build out an expanded digital platform to allow us to reach new audiences, share LA’s unique stories with the world, and leverage technology to connect people in a meaningful way. The intern’s role will also include the development of campaign materials, proposals and donor engagement.
In addition to their primary marketing activities, the intern will provide general office and programmatic support, as needed.
At the end of the internship, the intern will:
- Gain an understanding of creative place keeping and learn strategies for marketing the cultural assets of Los Angeles neighborhoods with an equity-based lens
- Learn how to use online marketing tools - pertaining to social media, websites, newsletters, and blogs - for increasing LA Commons’ visibility
- Learn the role of fundraising in a nonprofit arts organization and the various approaches for developing needed resources from writing grants to cultivating individual donors.
- Learn how to plan and implement projects, including setting goals, timelines, and overcoming obstacles
- Develop skills for working with cultural organizations and community members of diverse backgrounds
- Gain an understanding and first-hand knowledge of the assets and challenges of Los Angeles’ culturally rich neighborhoods
Skills and qualifications
- Experience creating Instagram posts, including graphics and reels, as well as Facebook social media posts
-Strong written and verbal communication skills
- A proficiency and/or experience with Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite and other design and organizational applications
- A strong sense of professionalism and willingness to work with others
- The ability to take initiative
- Strong organizational skills
- An interest in community arts and culture as a strategy for community development
- An interest in marketing and communications and familiarity with the various social media platforms
- Graphic design ability is a plus, but not required.
LA Commons is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Partners, an Equal Opportunity Employer: minority/female/disability/veteran.
4343 Leimert Park Blvd. Los Angeles 90008
To apply, please follow the link to complete an online application: https://forms.gle/bM6gynXJrrcztNdj9
Deadline: Thursday, November 10, 2022.