Marketing & Social Media Internship

About the Role

• Position Type: Internship (Eligible for College/University Credit)
• Reports To: Marketing Supervisor / Internship Coordinator
• Hours: Approximately 20 hours per week
• Compensation: Unpaid (for academic credit)
• Internship Period: January 4 – May 21, 2027

Paint for a Purpose is seeking a creative and motivated intern to join our marketing team. This internship combines social media marketing and content creation, offering hands-on experience in digital promotion, audience engagement, and visual storytelling. Ideal for students passionate about art, marketing, and community impact.

This internship focuses primarily on social media marketing and content creation, while also providing exposure to other areas of marketing, including email marketing, community outreach, promotional campaigns, and other forms of brand promotion. It offers hands-on, supervised experience in digital marketing, audience engagement, visual storytelling, and multi-brand marketing. The internship provides experience across three separate but interconnected brands:

• Paint for a Purpose (Art experiences, corporate team-building events, private events, and community-focused creative activities)
• Live Wedding Painter USA (Live wedding painting and fine-art services for weddings, celebrations, and special events)
• Experience Italia (An Italian lifestyle, language, culture, and travel brand)

Learning Activities & Training Focus

• Assist in developing and drafting social media content for Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.
• Participate in content brainstorming sessions for posts, reels, and visual storytelling.
• Learn how to analyze social media trends and engagement metrics.
• Practice designing graphics, capturing photos, and creating video content.
• Observe and contribute to audience engagement strategies.
• Learn how to maintain brand consistency across visual content.
• Gain experience adapting marketing approaches across three distinct but interconnected brands.
• Understand how social media can be integrated with email marketing, outreach, events, partnerships, and other marketing strategies.
• Gain exposure to marketing beyond social media, including email marketing, community outreach, cold calling, event promotion, partnership outreach, and other promotional strategies.
• Learn how social media works alongside other marketing channels to build brand awareness, develop community relationships, promote events and services, and reach potential clients.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience with Canva, Wordpress, Photoshop, Illustrator, or video editing tools.
• Familiarity with social media platforms.

Qualifications

• Creativity and visual design skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage time and complete assigned learning tasks.
• Strong writing and communication skills.
• Creative mindset.

This internship is a supervised educational experience. All activities are designed for training purposes, and work is reviewed and guided by a supervisor. Intern contributions are part of a learning process.