Copywriter Fellowship

Copywriter HBCU Fellowship

Remote

We are seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious Copywriter Fellow to gain hands-on experience across all aspects of the agency business while providing invaluable support to our creative team. Taylor’s Copywriter HBCU Fellowship is a paid post-undergraduate, six-month, remote fellowship program.

Taylor provides real-world professional experience, development, and career-readiness fellowships to post-undergraduates and master’s students from accredited historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

As a Taylor Fellow, you are open minded, ready to learn, and motivated to start your career in the PR, social, and digital marketing industry. You’re excited to join a multifaceted group of colleagues that embrace diversity of thought as a means to enhance innovation and collaboration in all we do.

Responsibilities and Learning Opportunities:

As a Taylor Fellow, you will gain hands-on agency experience through an in-depth training program, a dedicated manager, professional development and networking opportunities, and the day-to-day responsibilities and learning opportunities outlined below.

Shape

• Use strong understanding of evolving copywriting principles and a client’s business, brand, and industry to offer and develop contemporary copywriting that meets client business needs
• Remain current on marketing, design, technology, user experience, and cultural trends, and infuse this knowledge into all work
• Collaborate effectively with Strategy, Account, and Creative teams to provide ongoing counsel to mid-level clients, and to bring ideas to life through unconventional thinking and design innovation
• Actively participate in creative ideation and planning for digital & social content, motion graphics, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
• Effectively refine ideas into integrated visual systems that deliver against defined objectives

Make

• Assists senior team members with writing of creative platforms, manifestos, digital/social copy, and other copy for presentations and final execution
• Demonstrate accountability and ownership for all copywriting work on assigned projects, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams of account/PR, strategy, and production to execute ideas that drive business impact
• Self-edit work in progress, incorporate feedback and direction from senior team members, and collaborate with them to evolve and elevate your work
• Work on multiple workstreams/assignments simultaneously, ensure that all work fits together as part of the broader strategy and/or brand identity system

Communication and Storytelling

• Partner with Art Direction to design and create concepted ideas
• Pitch creative ideas
• Write, present, and communicate in a polished and persuasive manner across all mediums, internally and externally
• Communicate well with internal colleagues to explain creative ideas and respond to questions or concerns
• Learn how to write ideas and idea statements and articulate them as headlines.

Concepting

• Actively participate in creative ideation for digital & social content, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
• Ensure that ideas/concepts fit together as part of the broader strategy and brand identity
• Assist in quick-turn ideas that tap into a culture or a specific moment in time

Fellowship Requirements

• This is a post-undergraduate opportunity open to recent graduates who hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited HBCU and those who are currently completing a master’s program or hold a master’s degree from an accredited HBCU
• Prior experience/internships at PR, Advertising, Digital/Social Marketing, Creative agencies or relevant coursework
• Write, present, and communicate in a persuasive manner, across a variety of platforms, including social media
• Strong attention to detail, organization, multitasking, and time-management
• Team player who enjoys working with and helping others in a collaborative environment
• Curious and open to others' ideas and viewpoints with a willingness to learn and take constructive feedback
• A good problem solver who seeks to make improvements and learns from mistakes

Additional Details:

• This is a full-time position (35-40hrs/week), Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET
• Must be a recent college graduate, a graduate school student, and/or a student who has recently completed a master’s program at an accredited HBCU
• This is a paid fellowship: $4,166.68 per month worked, less applicable deductions and withholdings (based on an annual equivalent salary of $50k)
• Includes Paid Time Off, Holidays, and additional perks
• Fellowship begins 1/8/2025, and will go through 6/27/2025

About Taylor

Taylor is a purpose-led marketing communications agency that has shaped possibilities for the world's leading brands for four decades. Our heritage in public relations and deep sports & entertainment expertise fuels breakthrough creativity across the entire media ecosystem.