Communications, Marketing Intern

Responsibilities

• Supporting enterprise-wide communications by coordinating project intake, assisting with communications planning, and ensuring messaging aligns with Director's Office priorities.
• Developing content for digital, print, web, email, social media, presentations, and other communications platforms to support departmental initiatives.
• Designing visual communications materials, templates, and marketing assets using Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, and other design tools.
• Supporting the development and continuous improvement of communications systems, workflows, templates, and resource libraries to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
• Drafting, editing, and coordinating executive communications, reports, presentations, announcements, and other internal and external communications materials.
• Conducting research, gathering and analyzing communications data, and tracking performance metrics to support communications planning and continuous improvement.
• Assisting with planning, promoting, and supporting community outreach events, public engagement activities, and departmental initiatives.
• Collaborating with staff across DHS divisions to support coordinated messaging, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional communications projects.
• Maintaining communications assets, project documentation, and shared resources to support department-wide communications efforts.
• Performing other job-related duties as assigned.

• Recent, 2025 and/or 2026 college graduates earning either a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree in the area of consideration prior to the start date of the Cohort Program (Sept. 2026) must have:
• No professional-level work experience (less than one year) in the internship field; and
• You may be a currently enrolled student in a Master’s degree program related to the internship, but you must not have significant professional-level work experience in the internship area and must be available to work during designated hours.
• Degree Requirements:
  Communications, Marketing, Journalism, Public Health, Business/Public Administration, or related discipline.
• Desirable
  
  Qualifications:
  
  Preference may be given to applicants with one or more of the following:
• G.P.A. of 3.0 or above is preferred and applicants may be asked to provide certified official transcripts.
• Advanced degree in Communications, Marketing, Journalism, Public Health, Business/Public Administration or a related field.
• Experience and proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience researching, understanding, and interpreting technical and policy-related documentation.
• Experience interacting with multiple levels of staff and to express ideas clearly, verbally and in writing, to a variety of audiences.
• Experience working in a public health agency or another human services environment; and/or
• Bilingual, fluent and literate, in English and Spanish.

• Content Development
• Visual Communications Design
• Research and Data Analysis
• Communications Planning
• Performance Metrics Tracking

• Clear Verbal Communication
• Written Communication
• Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement