Community Engagement & Marketing Intern

Peninsula Open Space Trust•Palo Alto, CA

About The Position

Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) is offering an internship opportunity in support of POST’s Community Engagement programs. Responsibilities include helping to staff in person public events, event publishing, guest communications and coordination and similar coordination tasks for POST’s Ambassador volunteer teams. Activities may include research projects, database work in Salesforce, helping with event planning and execution, and other projects as needed. The internship is a flexible, 20- 40 hour a week position for a maximum of 1,000 hours , reporting to the Community Engagement Operations Manager. This is a terrific opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the nonprofit sector with a nationally-recognized land conservation organization. As our Community Engagement & Marketing Intern, you will leave POST with well-rounded knowledge of the programs and practices related to marketing generally, demand generation, social marketing, event coordination and volunteer coordination. You will also acquire technical skills and understanding such as how to use Salesforce and Pardot, cloud-based media platforms , and Wordpress – our web content management tool.

Requirements

An interest in and love of the outdoors and nature
Good computer skills and a willingness to learn other cloud-based systems like database, project management, digital asset management, web content and others.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible
Ability to take initiative and produce desired results
Ability to prioritize and reprioritize as necessary and as things change
Great interpersonal skills and a love of team work and working with people
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Regular and accurate communication with others, and the ability to complete tasks using a phone, email, web and video technology
The ability to interact effectively with digital and printed materials and operate required job-related equipment.
The ability to drive to remote locations, a valid California driver’s license , access to a vehicle and an insurable driving record
Availability on nights and weekends to staff events
Ability to hike uneven terrain, and to tolerate exposure to varying weather conditions.
Ability to lift and carry up to 20 lbs. of equipment and supplies in the office or the field.

Responsibilities

Staff in-person events including some night and weekend events (3-4 per month) including assembly and return of materials before and after these events.
Draft and create Eventbrite sign-up pages, event webpages in Wordpress and pre-event and post event emails to attendees for finalization by senior team members
Promote events through a variety of online calendars and community channels
Provide post-event support by updating event data in the Salesforce database and uploading and tagging event photos and videos.
Improv e and updat e event templates and descriptions
Provide support for volunteer scheduling, and other volunteer support including materials assembly, and distribution
Salesforce Data entry as needed
Support the development of content for our volunteer community
Field incoming general questions from the community and event guests
Act as a POST representative at a variety of public events