Graphic Design Intern (PAID)

About the Role

Southern Pickleball Association is seeking a Graphic Design & Creative Marketing Intern to assist with the creation of digital and print assets. This internship is ideal for a student or recent graduate interested in graphic design, marketing, sports creative, visual communications, or brand development. The intern will primarily work in Canva within Southern Pickleball's existing brand standards, with opportunities to contribute new creative ideas.

Key Responsibilities

• Tournament Graphics
• Create promotional graphics for upcoming tournaments.
• Develop registration deadline graphics, countdown graphics, event reminders, player information graphics, and other tournament assets.
• Resize and adapt graphics for Instagram, Facebook, email, websites, and other platforms.
• Update tournament templates with new information (locations, dates, sponsors, venues).
• Marketing Assets
• Assist with graphics for social media campaigns.
• Design assets for special promotions, discount campaigns, tournament announcements, and registration pushes.
• Create graphics supporting Southern Pickleball TV, the Southern Pickleball Podcast, leagues, memberships, and other company initiatives.
• Assist with email marketing graphics, digital advertisements, and website assets.
• Develop sponsor recognition graphics.
• Brand Development
• Work within established branding while identifying opportunities to improve visual consistency.
• Organize Canva templates and creative assets for reuse.
• Help develop new templates for recurring marketing needs.
• Research trends in sports graphics, tournament marketing, and social media design.
• Bring creative concepts to the team for future campaigns.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience using Canva.
• Comfortable working from templates.
• Understanding of basic design principles including typography, hierarchy, spacing, composition, and branding.
• Ability to follow existing brand guidelines while bringing creativity.
• Highly organized and pays close attention to detail (names, dates, locations, sponsor logos, tournament information).
• Comfortable working on multiple projects with different deadlines.
• Ability to manage assignments according to a weekly content and promotional calendar.
• Most projects expected to be completed within 3-5 calendar days upon assignment.

Qualifications

• Interest in pickleball and prior experience playing in pickleball tournaments.
• Pursuing or interested in graphic design, visual communications, marketing, advertising, sports media, or a related field.

This is a paid, remote internship.

Estimating 5-10 hours of work per week, with flexible scheduling.

Initially a six-month internship with potential for extension or growth.