Internship Program

Gain Hands-on Experience

The Center for Accounting Transformation Internship Program gives students the opportunity to obtain "hands-on" experience working in a business environment on "real life" programs and projects. It provides interns with exposure to a variety of digital projects and practice areas that make a direct impact on business engagement results.

Internship Benefits

The Center for Accounting Transformation encourages knowledge sharing and diversity, which makes for a positive work environment. Our program allows interns to work flexible hours around their school schedule ranging from 15-20 hours per week. During breaks and summer sessions, interns have the option of increasing their hours to full-time status if their assigned project budget allows for the increased hours.

The  internship is a part-time, paid opportunity that may also qualify for class credit*. This is a 100% remote internship, working with our firm’s marketing team members and other leadership.

Interns are introduced to projects for companies that may provide networking and reference opportunities in their career, and have the opportunity to:

  • Learn about marketing, design, graphics and communications, content curation
  • Gain practical insight into key career paths in digital marketing
  • Develop time management, organization, writing, and communication skills
  • Receive real-time mentorship from industry professionals with potential for project collaboration opportunities.
  • Gain familiarity with virtual work structure and trends across industries, including tools and techniques to manage responsibilities and share information
  • Have the opportunity to gain academic credit with an eligible internship
  • Strengthen remote/virtual work skills and show ability to perform not just classwork virtually, but be committed to professional responsibilities
  • Hone skills for future work experience, and apply the experience to résumés for discussion during future interviews

Digital Marketing Internship Key Focus Areas

The Digital Marketing Internship experience will focus on Marketing Support and Social Media efforts such as the maintenance and enhancement of our web properties, the growth of its social influence, and the execution of digital advertising and marketing campaigns that generate leads.
Marketing Support
  • Stay up to date with current digital marketing trends
  • Assist with execution of website content edits and updates using WordPress CMS
  • Collaborate with internal departments to create & deliver different marketing requests
  • Research topics and compose compelling communications, posts, and content pieces for diverse audiences
  • Help collect, analyze and present data to inform and drive campaigns, content, and overall marketing strategy
Social Media
  • Serve as social media operations support
  • Help create engagement in online communities
  • Strategically grow social media accounts like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn
  • Monitor and report on social media activity and audience engagement
  • Provide scheduling support of managed accounts
  • Utilize social scheduling tools such as Social Pilot, TweetDeck, Facebook, Buffer, Canva or similar to manage accounts and content
Other opportunities throughout the experience may offer interns a chance to focus and build skills and competencies in one or more of the following areas:
Marketing Campaigns
  • Assist in planning and executing marketing campaigns via email and web channels in support of events, webinars, surveys, demand generation, product updates and customer/affiliate engagement
  • Create lists to identify the target audiences of campaigns
  • Assist in managing digital advertising channels including Facebook and Google Ads and social media advertising on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
  • Assist in creation and deployment of a weekly LinkedIn newsletters
  • Create marketing campaigns and send e-communications to potential customers
Market Research
  • Research topics and compose compelling communications, posts, and content pieces for diverse audiences
  • Help collect, analyze and present data to inform and drive campaigns, content, and overall marketing strategy

Video Editing and Production

  • Assist with regular uploading of video to publishing platforms, including Vimeo, YouTube, Wordpress, Dropbox and Microsoft Teams.
  • Write consumer-facing video descriptions for appropriate platforms.
  • Organize and tag video content in online library and media asset management system.
    • Knowledge and usage of SEO is a plus
  • Edit provided raw webinars and screen-recordings to include audio and video trimming, potentially slight sound manipulation and color/light enhancement to ensure a highly quality asset
  • Familiarity with the features and functions provided by Vimeo, iMovie, Adobe Premier, and/or Camtasia
  • Customize and add lower thirds templates, music, bumpers and simple brand-approved transition and motion sequences to video content
  • Understanding or appreciation of various video content formats as well as how to treat them differently such as producing for social content or for long-form educational content
Key Competencies of the Digital Marketing Intern
  • A passion for digital marketing and technology
  • The ability to manage multiple projects at a time
  • A keen eye for details
  • Solid research and analytical skills
  • Knowledgeable and experienced with social media channels
Desired Candidates

To get value out of the program, students should have had at least the core curriculum identified for the designated major. It is preferred that the candidates have basic knowledge of marketing, market research, and multimedia platforms. Candidates should have strong verbal and written communications skills. Candidates should have 1+ years of college pursuing a degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Multimedia, or similar media related field. They should also have and maintain high academic standards with their education institution.

Work Environment

It is imperative that a successful candidate have the ability to properly budget time and meet deadlines in such an environment. Individuals may be an intern, but they will be depended upon as a key team member and rely on individuals to fulfill assigned responsibilities. This is a remote/office-based position which may be performed anywhere in the United States. As a fully remote internship, it will require high-speed internet access and a dedicated workspace for company equipment.

Interested in joining our team?

To be considered for a Digital Marketing internship position, please submit a cover letter, resume, and letter of recommendation from an advisor to the Center for Accounting Transformation through the link provided below.
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