Content Development Intern

VGM Group, Inc • Waterloo, IA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

VGM Forbin provides website development, digital marketing, and managed IT solutions for the healthcare, banking, retail automotive, and many other industries. We are seeking a detail-oriented individual majoring in English, Journalism, Marketing, or Communications with demonstrated writing experience to fill our open Content Development Intern position for the summer. This role currently offers part-time hours, but there is an opportunity for the role to offer full-time hours for the right candidate.

As an intern with the VGM Forbin you will gain valuable work experience in a professional environment, leveraging your prior experience, education, and involvement. Our interns play an essential role in the departments they are part of, working on important responsibilities, special projects, and networking with our teams. The Content Intern position is responsible for writing content including articles, blogs, social media posts and varied marketing pieces, as well as planning out blog calendars, and researching topics. In this position, you will gain the skills to create customized content for social media accounts & blogs, as well as for helping a business market themselves online through paid and organic means.

At VGM Group, we are 100% employee owned. Click to view more about VGM! [https://www.vgmgroup.com/stories-of-opportunity]

Requirements

• Field of focus for the internship, particularly marketing, English, journalism, and content writing preferred but not required
• Effective interpersonal skills to communicate with organization staff and department managers to accomplish goals for productivity and organization wide quality of service.
• Can work independently with little supervision
• Ability to manage multiple writing assignments and deadlines with a strong attention to detail
• Strong writing and editing skills

Responsibilities

• Provide support to create and/or edit website, blog, social media, email
• Write content including articles, blogs, varied marketing pieces
• Review and edit content as needed
• Research topics and keywords for blogs
• Plan out blog calendars and ideas
• Assist the marketing team as needed (social media, email marketing, SEO, SEM)
• Utilize content management system (CMS) to upload content to websites
• Collaborate with functional teammates on all aspects of projects and technical needs
• Maintain and track projects with mindfulness to priorities
• Maintain a positive, results oriented work environment, building partnerships and modelling teamwork, communicating to others in an open, balanced and objective manner
• Undertake other projects and duties as assigned

What This Job Offers

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