Summer 2027 Social Media Internship

Huntington National Bank

About the Role

Huntington's internship programs offer emerging talent meaningful, hands-on experience aligned with their area of study. Interns gain exposure to key business functions, professional growth, skill development, and practical application of academic learning. The program includes structured development opportunities, interactions with senior leadership, and immersion in Huntington’s culture through community involvement and team-based activities.

Social Media Internship Overview

Huntington Bank is seeking creative, curious, and collaborative college students for its Social Media Internship Program. This internship provides hands-on experience across the full social media content lifecycle within a regulated industry. Interns will join Huntington’s editorial content team, working with social media, brand, creative, video, and production partners to understand content creation, approval, publication, and performance evaluation. Interns will contribute ideas, insights, and content recommendations to help Huntington connect with customers, communities, and university audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with fellow interns and mentors to develop social media concepts grounded in audience needs, business goals, cultural moments, and emerging platform opportunities.
• Participate in brainstorming, creative reviews, and content planning discussions by presenting concepts, explaining recommendations, and contributing constructive feedback.
• Work with the editorial content team to identify relevant articles for Huntington’s advice and guidance newsletter and incorporate them into social plans.
• Create, edit, optimize, and adapt content for various social platforms and formats, including original photo/video content and repurposed assets.
• Develop a localized social content toolkit, guide, or plan for their Huntington partner university, presenting recommendations to the brand team and stakeholders.
• Support content planning, workflow management, project execution, and performance analysis to improve future social media content.

What You'll Learn

• Content Strategy, Concept Development & Audience Insight: How leading brands identify audience needs, generate ideas, and build content strategies.
• Content Creation, Storytelling & Editorial-to-Social Integration: Skills in social-first storytelling, content production, copywriting, editing, platform adaptation, and content optimization.
• Creative Pitching, Collaboration & Feedback: Presenting ideas, explaining creative rationale, communicating recommendations, and refining work through feedback.
• Project Management: Understanding project progression from concept to completion, including planning, timelines, approvals, and stakeholder coordination.
• Brand Standards, Compliance & Reputational Risk: Content creation and review within a regulated financial services environment, balancing creativity with brand standards, business objectives, and risk management.
• Measurement & Assessment: How social media content is evaluated and how performance insights inform future strategies.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Required Skills:
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly.
• Enthusiasm for social media and a thoughtful understanding of its value and influence.
• Creativity, curiosity, and willingness to contribute new ideas.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Comfort working independently in a remote environment and collaborating effectively.
• Openness to giving, receiving, and incorporating constructive feedback.
• Preferred Skills:
• Experience creating content for personal, academic, volunteer, student organization, freelance, or professional channels (social media posts, video, photography, graphics, copywriting, or other digital storytelling formats).
• Comfort using creative tools such as CapCut, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, in-app editing tools within social platforms, or similar platforms for editing, designing, or adapting content.
• Interest in how social platforms work, including audience engagement, trends, platform best practices, and building connection, trust, and action.
• Experience contributing to group projects, events, campaigns, or creative initiatives.

Qualifications

• Rising college junior enrolled during Summer 2027 at one of the Huntington partner schools: University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, West Virginia University, University of Texas, The Ohio State University, University of Mississippi, University of Alabama, or Mississippi State University.
• Pursuing a degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Media, Advertising, Public Relations, Film, Digital Media, or a related field.

Workplace Type

• Flexible work arrangement combining in-office and work from home. Specific arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Compensation

• $21.00 - $25.00 Hourly

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• Huntington’s retirement savings plan