Education Events Marketing Intern

KQED’s Education Department provides services to K-12 educators and students.  

We elevate diverse youth voices by providing educators with classroom resources and professional development that help them bring media making, media literacy, and civic engagement into their classrooms. The Education Marketing Team drives awareness, registration, and engagement for our programs, including Youth Media Challenge, Youth Takeover, KQED Teach, and live professional development events. All of KQED’s educational products and services are available for free. 

We are looking for an Events Marketing Intern to work with the Education marketing team and others in the Education Department to support online workshop marketing and production and our presence at industry conferences. There will also be opportunities based on interests and experience to work collaboratively on marketing campaigns, including Youth Takeover, summer Professional Development, and the Youth Media Challenge.

This position reports to the Events Manager, Education. 

KQED envisions a public media organization with a culture that centers on human dignity, equity, and belonging. This will enable us to better serve and reflect the Bay Area through diverse and inclusive storytelling. 

We value the contributions of marginalized people in society — including Black, Indigenous, and all people of color,  people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people — and we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, and we strongly encourage members of these communities to apply.

The mission that drives us:

KQED provide citizens of Northern California with a community-supported alternative to commercial media.   We provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; bring the arts to everyone and engage audiences to share their stories. We help students and teachers thrive in 21st-century classrooms, and take people of all ages on journeys of exploration- exposing them to new people, places and ideas.

This role requires working in KQED's newly renovated headquarters and working in the field. KQED requires employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Essential Functions:

• Online workshop marketing & production support
  • Manage online calendar of events, e.g. publishing new events, removing past events and other updates as needed
  • Assist in the creation of the internal marketing kit for the summer event season
  • Set up workshops in Zoom Sessions
  • Write workshop follow-up communications
  • Report event data 
• Conference support
  • Create tabletop signage
  • Write follow-up communications
  • Assist with packing exhibiting materials
• General support of Education marketing campaigns based on interests and experience

Internship Qualifications:

• Interest and/or experience in events, marketing, education, media literacy and/or youth voice
• Strong writing and editing skills
• Ability to take direction and to work independently
• Self starter who is not afraid to ask questions
• Ability to organize and prioritize work and complete tasks on time 
• Strong skills with Google suite (documents, spreadsheets, presentations)
• Comfortable working in spreadsheets and organizing data
• Preferred: Experience setting up webinars/events on Zoom
• Preferred: Familiar with Canva and proficient with basic image editing and sizing
• Able to follow KQED journalistic standards and maintain a public presence that is nonpartisan and unbiased.