Marketing Communications Intern

POSITION TITLE:

Marketing & Communications Intern

REPORTS TO:

Marketing & Communications Specialist

DURATION:

Fall Internship - Ten Weeks

The Marketing & Communications Fall Intern supports the Pottstown Regional Community Foundation’s efforts to share clear information, strengthen digital engagement, promote community-facing work, and communicate the Foundation’s impact across public channels.

This ten-week internship is designed for a student or early-career professional interested in gaining hands‑on experience in nonprofit marketing and communications. The role will focus primarily on writing, social media and digital engagement, basic graphic creation, and email communications, with additional opportunities to support event marketing, photography, analytics, market research, brand voice development, and broader Marketing & Communications strategy projects.

This internship is structured to provide meaningful project experience within a flexible part‑time fall schedule of approximately 15 hours per week.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Draft, edit, and proofread short and long‑form written content, including blog posts, program highlights, community stories, grantee features, event recaps, newsletter copy, social media content, campaign materials, and other public‑facing communications.
• Translate program updates, grantmaking activity, event information, donor communications, and community impact into clear, accessible language for residents, donors, grantees, partners, and other audiences.
• Gather and organize information through background research, internal collaboration, review of existing materials, and light interviews when appropriate.
• Support PRCF’s social media presence by drafting, scheduling, and organizing content across platforms using Hootsuite or other approved tools.
• Maintain content calendars and help ensure that social media, email, and campaign communications are timely, coordinated, and aligned with PRCF’s voice and priorities.
• Create captions, post copy, hashtags, campaign language, and basic graphics for social media and digital communications using Canva, Adobe tools, or other approved platforms.
• Assist with email communications by building and formatting newsletters, announcements, campaign messages, and event‑related emails in Mailchimp.
• Gather, adapt, and organize content from internal departments, programs, partners, and existing materials to support coordinated email, social media, and website communications.
• Help maintain consistent voice, tone, formatting, accessibility, and visual presentation across PRCF’s communications channels.
• Organize communications assets, including templates, graphics, captions, photo files, reusable copy, campaign materials, email archives, and content libraries.
• Support event marketing when schedule and availability allow, including event promotion, communications materials, photography, content capture, follow‑up messaging, and basic participation tracking.
• Assist with basic analytics and reporting across social media, email, website, and event communications, including gathering data for staff updates, committee reports, campaign summaries, and future planning.
• Conduct light market research, peer foundation research, audience research, or content audits alongside PRCF staff or vendors.
• Support vendor‑related and strategy projects by gathering materials, organizing notes, preparing background information, reviewing draft deliverables, and assisting with content planning or workflow documentation.
• Contribute to projects that strengthen PRCF’s brand voice, public‑facing language, storytelling, digital…