Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) is offering a part time internship opportunity in support of POST’s Community Engagement programs. Responsibilities include helping to staff in person public events, event publishing, guest communications and coordination and similar coordination tasks for POST’s Ambassador volunteer teams.
Activities may include research projects, database work in Salesforce, helping with event planning and execution, and other projects as needed. The internship is intended as an approximately 20-hour per week position for a maximum of 1,000 hours, reporting to the Director of Community Engagement.
This is a terrific opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the nonprofit sector with a nationally-recognized land conservation organization. As our Community Engagement Intern, you will leave POST with well-rounded knowledge of the programs and practices related to marketing generally, demand generation, social marketing, event coordination and volunteer coordination. You will also acquire technical skills and understanding such as how to use Salesforce and Pardot, cloud-based media platforms, and Wordpress – our web content management tool.
In this role you would:
- Staff in-person events including some night and weekend events (2-3 per month) including assembly and return of materials before and after these events.
- Draft and create Eventbrite sign-up pages, event webpages in Wordpress and pre-event and post event emails to attendees for finalization by senior team members
- Promote events through a variety of online calendars and community channels
- Provide post-event support by updatofing event data in the Salesforce database and uploading and tagging event photos and videos.
- Improve and update event templates and descriptions
- Provide support for volunteer scheduling, and other volunteer support including materials assembly, and distribution
- Salesforce Data entry as needed
- Support the development of content for our volunteer community
- Field incoming general questions from the community and event guests
- Act as a POST representative at a variety of public events