Event Marketing Intern

Job Description

This is a hybrid role working partially in-office and partially from home.

At Ameritas, our mission is Fulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy, and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services.

Ameritas is looking for anEvent Marketing Internto drive the business by supporting learning and networking events for the financial professionals who represent us across the country and their administrative assistants. You'll be part of the team that helps formulate promotion and communication plans -- then you'll be on the intensive front lines of implementing those plans. No travel is involved.

We will work with your educational institution to provide needed documentation for school credit.

This internship will begin Oct/Nov 2022.

What you do

Event Promotions Support:

• Promotion planning:Work with marketing and business partners to create a tactical schedule of promotions for field events such as training academies, business forums, conferences and more.
• Tactical execution of promotion plan:Work with business partners and marketing team members to write and develop ads, articles, and other promotions, taking promotion and communication pieces from concept to completion.

Event Communications Support:

• Workfront Project Management:


• Learn how to efficiently navigate, set up and track marketing projects to completion using the enterprise-wide work management system, WorkFront
• Monitor the system for incoming requests from the events team, then facilitate those requests through the process


• Copywriting Proofing:
  
  • Emails and communications for all events
  • Ads and articles for internal publications:
    
    • @Ameritas For You weekly e-newsletter
    • Bi-Weekly Bulletin
  • Sponsorship communications, agendas, rosters, note cards, flyers and more
• Online Content Management:
  
  • Promotional electronic billboards and notices
  • Event overview landing pages
  • Presentation follow-up pages
  • Collaborate with the events team to populate and proof registration sites


• Work with web team to post content for event communications

What you bring

• Must be enrolled in a college level degree program -- associate, bachelor, or masters level.
• Able to commit to a full year of work - part-time during the academic school year and full-time during the summer
  
  • PT includes 20 hours a week
  • FT includes 40 hours a week
• Strong writing and excellent proofreading skills
• Working proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Working proficiency with Adobe PDF
• Strong work ethic and high work speed and capacity
• High levels of resilience, positive attitude, and adaptability to unplanned requests and changes
• High-level ability to multi-task
• Eagerness and quickness to learn new systems and processes
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills

What we offer

• Our company motto is "Fulfilling Life" and we take that job seriously, with a heavy commitment to volunteering and community support, employee well-being, and providing quality products and services that help our customers create a brighter future.
• Being a mutual-based organization, the return on our investment goes back into the company, to benefit our members/customers.
• We're committed to professional development, opportunity, inclusion, and diversity. Team building and collaboration are also priorities.
• A total rewards package with all the comprehensive health and welfare benefits you'd expect, including competitive pay and incentives, 401(k), flexible work schedules and time off to care for yourself and others.
• Additional popular benefits, including tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment, an incentivized well-being program, adoption assistance, paid time off for volunteering, training, and career development opportunities.

An Equal Opportunity Employer:

Ameritas has a reputation as a company that cares, and because everyone should feel safe bringing their authentic, whole self to work, we're committed to an inclusive culture and diverse workplace, enriched by our individual differences.We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that hires based on qualifications, positive attitude, and exemplary work ethic, regardless of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

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