[Hiring] Marketing Intern @Forest Home

Role Description

The Marketing Intern serves the Lord by advancing Forest Home’s mission through creative, engaging, and brand-consistent marketing and communications across Forest Home’s Programs and Guest Retreats. This role supports the Marketing department through content creation, graphic design, organic social media, email marketing, and overall brand support.

The Seasonal Marketing Intern assists with:

• Planning and creating organic social media content for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
• Designing marketing materials and email communications.
• Writing and editing marketing copy.
• Collaborating with Forest Home’s photo and video team to ensure content needs across Programs and Guest Retreats are effectively captured and utilized.

This role requires a creative, organized, and self-motivated individual with a strong eye for design, excellent written communication skills, and an ability to work independently in a remote environment. The ideal candidate is eager to grow professionally while using their creative gifts to help tell the story of Forest Home and invite more people to experience transformational encounters with Jesus.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Marketing, Communications, Graphic Design, Public Relations, or a related field preferred.
• Previous internship, coursework, volunteer experience, or hands-on experience in marketing, communications, social media, or graphic design preferred.
• Portfolio or examples of creative work preferred.

Requirements

• Support Forest Home's mission and values.
• Signed statement of faith.
• Ability to pray for others both in-person and on the phone.
• Participate in staff spiritual activities.
• Christ-like attitude and servant heart.
• Strong visual design sense and creative eye.
• Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
• Ability to create clear, engaging, and on-brand marketing communications.
• Understanding of organic social media best practices and platform-specific content.
• Ability to maintain brand consistency across social media, email, presentations, and other marketing materials.
• Strong organization and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines.
• Self-starter who takes initiative and works effectively in a remote environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to receive creative direction and incorporate feedback.
• Basic understanding of email marketing best practices.
• Basic understanding of social media and email marketing performance metrics.
• Ability to learn new marketing platforms and tools quickly.

Benefits

• Available to work approximately 20 hours per week during the seasonal term of October through December.
• Regular and timely attendance at scheduled virtual meetings.
• Ability to manage agreed-upon work hours and meet project deadlines consistently.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with a disability to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to stand, walk, and sit.
• Requires mild physical work; some lifting, pushing, or pulling of objects over 20 pounds.
• Requires visual acuity to read words and numbers and speaking and hearing ability sufficient to communicate in person.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Moderate exposure to unusual elements such as extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, fumes, smoke, unpleasant odors.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud at times.