Be warned: You will not hone your coffee-making skills at AARP Studios (but maybe coffee drinking ones.) You’ll be part of a video production team that is innovative, creative, and willing to test and learn and mentor. Oh, and we’re a friendly, inclusive group of people.
Applicants must have the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively, exercise initiative, maintain a positive attitude, and be available to work as a part-time, year-round intern with our talented AARP Studios team at our office in Chinatown/Penn Quarter.
Our AARP Studios Undergraduate Intern will be responsible for:
- Directly assisting our producers, production manager and post-production supervisor on various productions;
- Combing blogs, news outlets, think tanks and research groups for story ideas;
- Researching trends in the social and video space;
- Researching trends in varying, diverse audiences;
- Monitoring social media platforms for content;
- Assisting multimedia producers on pre-production research and scripting, video shoots and/or editing;
- Aiding in analytics reporting;
- Aiding in formulating video distribution strategy;
- Aiding in the social, paid and earned promotion of AARP content;
AARP also considers non-traditional interns who are looking to re-enter the workforce or change careers. This may include those who have previously graduated college and are now enrolled in a continuing education program.
To be successful in this intern role, it is important that you meet the following requirements;
- Maintain active and responsible social media profiles;
- You are comfortable with public speaking;
- Possess a basic understanding of the needs of video production;
- Demonstrate strong editing and writing skills;
- Able to manage multiple, varying tasks;
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of social media analytics and metrics;
- Demonstrate a strong work ethic that is deadline driven and highly organized;
- Is Detail-oriented;
- Know online audiences and the importance of various media used to communicate with them;
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of social media platforms and their strategic use;
- Intern experience at a news/media org on the digital video or social team is highly desirable;
- Skills in Adobe Creative Cloud and captioning software are a big plus.
http://careers.aarp.org/ShowJob/Id/1406096/AARP-Studios-Intern-(Undergraduate)/