Marketing Intern
Are you someone who is
💻 Interested in digital marketing, social media, and food sustainability/community building?
🤝 A self-starter who can thrive in a small and fast-paced team
🌟 A believer in the power of storytelling and the impact it can have on the world
The Marketing Internship at HomeCook would be a good fit for you!
About HomeCook
HomeCook is a platform for food entrepreneurs to access commercial kitchens, while also empowering kitchen owners to diversify their revenue streams. We hope to improve food sustainability & equity by empowering food entrepreneurs as they launch, build community & expand beyond their home kitchens.
Whether it be an independent chef simply in need of a prep kitchen or a future restaurant owner looking to host a pop-up dining experience, HomeCook seeks to play a pivotal role in every chef's journey by linking them to kitchens that meet their need.
About the role
HomeCook is seeking a creative thinker and executor Marketing Intern to join our team and help us innovate the food industry with community building. This internship is a rare chance to gain hands-on experience in marketing while working alongside an agile team.
Join us if you are a highly-motivated student who wants to gain valuable experience in the food tech industry, work with a talented team, and develop their storytelling skills
What you will do
- Cultivate engaging social media content via Canva and a content calendar to ensure timely, consistent posting schedules and resonate with the target audience.
- Track metrics and analytics for active social media accounts across Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok to provide insights and recommendations for optimization.
- Stay updated with the latest trends in social media and the food industry, incorporating them into content strategies.
- Assist in ideating and developing impactful email marketing campaigns, including newsletter creation, design, and scheduling.
- Leverage AI tools’ prompt engineering to boost productivity and efficiency without replacing the creative human touch.
Who you are
- Creative thinker: has a passion for storytelling, content creation, and aesthetics.
- Food marketing enthusiast: has a strong interest in marketing strategies to promote the food industry's innovative practices.
- Organizer: highly organized in executing daily tasks, delivering quality work on time, and managing your time without needing daily supervision. Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently or as part of a team.
- Problem-solver: possess logical thinking, reasoning, and understanding to identify problems, address issues, and discover solutions. Unafraid to take initiative, think out of the box, and make mistakes to learn from them.
- Scholar: intellectually curious. Working towards a Bachelor's degree in marketing, arts, food nutrition, culinary, or a related degree.
- Social media experience: has prior experience with managing or contributing to social media content in any setting.
- Strong writer: thrive when writing to people of all backgrounds, and look to continuously grow your communication skills.
- Tech savvy: utilize digital tools like Canva and AI to efficiently produce work.
Internship logistics
U.S. college students only with U.S. citizenship or green card.
Hours: 5-10 hours per week during the spring, 20 hours per week during the summer
Time period: 3 months starting as soon as possible.
Benefits
- College credit: We are happy to work with the student to make this eligible for college credit(s)
- Unpaid internship that offers reimbursements for training/learning programs to help you continuously upskill, and a $150 stipend upon your internship completion
- Pre-internship training for the industry, role, and company-specific knowledge and skills
- Ongoing 1:1 support & mentorship to answer questions and give guidance within a day
- Offboarding guidance, which includes resume updates and thank you notes
Gateway is a recruiting partner of HomeCook, where we screen, interview, and match internship candidates. Once you apply, we will reach out for the next steps which include a 15-minute interview with Gateway, then we will recommend you as a qualified candidate for your final interview. There is no cost to apply and intern.
View Gateway's internship posting here.