Winter Intern - Social Media

This is a Part Time Unpaid Internship

Intern, Social Media

Job Purpose

The Intern, Social Media role supports the coverage and engagement of the D-backs' social media accounts in increasing brand awareness, growing fan engagement, improving marketing efforts, and creating engaging content. The Social Media team collaborates across key organizational functions, including marketing, ticketing, corporate partnerships, community impact and broadcasting, and works closely with communications, photography, video production, and creative design to ideate and generate compelling and informational content.

Intern Requirements
• Must be a college junior or senior, postgraduate student, or within one-year post-graduation with preferred majors of Communications, Journalism, Sports Management, pursuing a degree from an accredited college or university.
• Must be able to work in-person at both Chase Field in Downtown Phoenix and Salt River Fields at Talking Stick in Scottsdale for the entire duration of the internship (February 2025 – October 2025). Remote work is not available for this position.
• Maximum of 30 hours per week.

Essential

Job Responsibilities
and Duties:
• Support the social media team as they look to build the team's brand and generate interest & awareness in both the on-field and off-field products.
• Develop and curate engaging content for social media platforms that tells the story of the Arizona Diamondbacks, both on and off the field, including: news related to the team, highlighting players' personalities, and showcasing the organization's efforts in the community.
• Interact with fans and respond to social media messages, inquiries, and comments resulting in high engagement with followers to build excitement within the fan base.
• Provide entertaining live coverage of games via the team's social media platforms, which include but are not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn and Reddit.
• Collaborate with the social media team to support the team's ancillary accounts and initiatives (e.g. D-backs Give Back, Arizona Diamondbacks Events & Entertainment, etc.).
• Maintain unified brand voice across different social media channels.
• Develop ways to expand the team's Social Media presence ''physically'' within the ballpark.

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 function.

Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:
• Passion for baseball and proficiency with social media platforms and social media management tools.
• Excellent social listening skills.
• Strong attention to detail with outstanding copywriting and copy-editing skills.
• Self-starter with desire to track and implement social media trends and strategies.
• Strong ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and written.
• Experience in photography, videography, and/or graphic design.
• Proficiency working with the Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Cloud suites.
• Exceptional time management skills, with the ability to multitask and think quickly, responding to events developing in real time with mature decision-making.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines and a self-starter that can take initiative on new ideas and projects.
• Fluency in Spanish is a plus.

Experience/Education Requirements:
• Pursuing or recently received a Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Journalism, Sports Management or a closely related discipline.
• Familiarity will all current social media platforms.
• Working Condition and Physical Demands:
• Ability to work the majority of workouts and/or games during Spring Training at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick (48 workout days includes 16 home games) and Regular Season home games at Chase Field (2 exhibition home games, 81 home games), including late nights and/or early mornings.
• Ability to provide remote coverage (based in Phoenix) of approximately 40-45 road games, including late nights and/or early mornings.
• Ability to work flexible hours including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Ability to work at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick in Scottsdale and Chase Field in Downtown Phoenix.

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.