Kerus Media Art & Design Intern Position Description
This is for an 8-10 hours per week position
General Information
Kerus Global Education is a faith-based non-profit that inspires, equips, and mobilizes communities around the world to actively address important public health and education issues adversely affecting youth and their families.
Kerus is looking for a media art and design intern to help us to tell our story visually. This internship is an unpaid position that allows an undergraduate or graduate student to conceive and create an original and cohesive body of work that can be used as a professional portfolio. This is an opportunity to contribute directly to the mission of the organization by ensuring that its story has the same global reach as its mission.
Please submit a resume, cover letter and portfolio work. In your cover letter, please suggest a strategy or tools that Kerus should employ to tell its story through video, images and/or voice recordings. Explain your reasoning in a short paragraph. Applications without that portion will not be considered. If you have any questions about this position, please contact Stacy Newman-Cilento at stacy@kerusglobal.org
NOTE: ALL APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BEFORE September 10, 2024
Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop cohesive, on-brand photo- and video-centered resources and campaigns
- Review existing video and image content to determine usability
- Take lead in story strategy and development meetings
- Adhere to current and propose future archiving methodology
- Determine, communicate and plan current and future needs for video and image content
- Perform editing of photos and videos
- Draft, propose and refine scripting for videos
- Create Kerus related graphics and facilitate resharing opportunities
- Help Directors with photo and video skills acquisition
- Design and prepare video content and slides for Kerus events
- Assist supervisor in implementing social strategies across all internet-based platforms to increase engagement.
- Schedule content on Kerus social media
- Generate GiFs from videos and develop animated vertical slides
Qualifications
- Must be a School of Art, Design and Art History/Communications major from James Madison University.
- Must be well-versed in Adobe Photoshop or other editing software.
- Proficient use of Apple products
- Experience with Lightroom is beneficial
- Must be familiar with Facebook and Instagram platforms
- Successful candidates will possess initiative, self-discipline, excellent interpersonal skills, and excellent oral and written communication skills.
Media, Art and Design Interns will:
- a) propose a work schedule that fits the work week (M-Th, 9-5)
- b) be prompt and reliable in working this schedule
- c) inform supervisor in advance of academic exam and project deadlines that may/will alter work schedule
- d) earn expertly crafted references from Directors to be used when applying for future positions
- e) have fun working with and as part of a small, dynamic and international team