Marketing Intern

JOB SUMMARY:

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; and 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.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Brand & Creative Design: Create branded social graphics, flyers, presentations, email graphics, and other marketing assets; maintain consistency with Forest Home's visual identity and brand standards.

Organic Social Media: Assist with planning the organic content calendar and create platform-specific content for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn for leadership approval.

Content & Copywriting: Write and edit social captions, email copy, promotional messaging, and other marketing communications while maintaining Forest Home's brand voice.

Photo & Video Collaboration: Work with Forest Home's photo/video team to develop shot lists and creative priorities, communicate upcoming content needs, organize delivered assets, and identify opportunities to repurpose existing photo/video content.

Email Marketing: Design and build emails in HubSpot, develop supporting graphics, and draft/edit email copy.

Brand Stewardship: Review and create materials with attention to consistent use of logos, typography, colors, imagery, voice, and overall brand presentation.

Marketing Asset Management: Help organize photography, video, graphics, templates, and other creative assets so the marketing team can easily locate and reuse them.

Marketing Performance: Develop a basic understanding of organic social and email performance and use engagement/performance insights to inform future creative work.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

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

QUALIFICATIONS:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Faith & Character

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

Professional Skills

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

Work Style

Self-motivated, dependable, and able to work independently in a remote environment

Creative, flexible, and willing to contribute across a variety of marketing projects

Strong attention to detail and commitment to producing high-quality work

Able to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines

Receptive to feedback and willing to revise creative work as needed

Collaborative team player with a positive and professional attitude

Availability

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

Interpersonal

Communicates clearly, professionally, and graciously with team members and ministry partners

Collaborates effectively with marketing, photo/video, and other Forest Home teams

Able to receive creative direction and feedback with humility and professionalism

Demonstrates integrity, discretion, and good judgment when representing the Forest Home brand

Proactively communicates questions, project updates, and potential challenges

Preferred experience with one or more of the following:

Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Marketing, Communications, Graphic Design, Public Relations, or a related field

Experience with Canva

Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and/or Premiere Pro

Experience with HubSpot Marketing Hub and/or Mailchimp

Familiarity with Meta Business Suite

Familiarity with creating content for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn

Experience with graphic design for social media, flyers, presentations, and digital communications

Basic photography, videography, and/or video editing experience

Portfolio or examples of design, social media, writing, or other creative work preferred

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.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is 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.

Reasonable efforts are made to accommodate disabilities. This job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity.

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

FOREST HOME EMPLOYMENT STATEMENT: Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. All terms and conditions of employment, duties, and responsibilities are subject to the Forest Home Employee Handbook.

FOREST HOME CORE VALUES

Surrender to Christ (Romans 12:1-2)

Abide with the Lord daily through st