Communications Internship

American Angus Association • Saint Joseph, MO

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The American Angus Association's communications team is offering a summer internship designed to enhance a student's market value through real-life, hands-on experience. This immersive internship will allow participants to fine-tune their graphic design, writing, and photography skills, providing an impactful and exhilarating summer of learning new skills with customized internship goals. The intern will gain multi-faceted agricultural communications experience, from print stories to graphic design, photography, video, and more, to enhance their marketability as a young professional. The successful candidate will be a college junior or senior studying agricultural communications, journalism, or related fields, and should display leadership skills through academic and extra-curricular activities while demonstrating an excitement and passion for Association work and the cattle industry. The internship spans from approximately late-May to mid-August at the American Angus Association headquarters in St. Joseph, Mo. Some travel and weekend work will be necessary. A specific start date will be determined based on the applicant's availability.

Requirements

• Strong writing and design skills.
• Completed coursework in news and feature writing, editing and design.
• College junior or senior studying agricultural communications, journalism, or related fields.
• Display leadership skills through academic and extra-curricular activities.
• Demonstrate an excitement and passion for Association work and the cattle industry.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in photography, video and social media.

Responsibilities

• Communicate initiatives to Association audience in the form of stories, photos, design, videos, and social media.
• Design promotional material, aligning with the brand guidelines.
• Write informative news releases, announcements and other promotional materials.
• Collaborate with the Communications Team to curate social media strategy for the National Junior Angus Show (NJAS).
• Write articles for publications and other content sources.
• Assist with marketing and promotional projects for all American Angus Association entities and departments.
• Work in an ever-changing, fast-paced environment while paying close attention to details.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed