Our Company: North Carolina FC Youth (NCFC Youth) is a non-profit youth soccer organization home to more than 16,000 players (ages 2.5-19) and their families each year. Through full-service programming, NCFC Youth offers youth soccer for all levels of play – from Recreation and outreach programs up to the highest levels of elite competition. In addition, NCFC Youth hosts tournaments, camps, and other events to ensure the best player development opportunities.

NCFC Youth’s on and off field operations are supported by more than 1,700 personnel including full-time staff, seasonal coaches, and volunteer coaches. In collaboration with the professional North Carolina Football Club, home to NC Courage (NWSL) and North Carolina FC (USL Championship), NCFC Youth is the largest youth-to-professional club in the country and offers a pipeline of player development including U-23s, amateur & academy contracts, and professional contracts in addition to coaching development opportunities.

Since 1974, we have been living our mission of providing positive, high quality soccer opportunities at all levels of play for youth and their families and serving as a valuable community partner. NCFC Youth takes strides to accomplish this through living out our core values of fun, excellence, community, innovation, and passion.

The Position: Reporting to the Social Media & Marketing Coordinator, the Marketing Intern is expected to assist in the planning and execution of daily, weekly, and semester-long marketing and development projects. Areas of focus may include: social media, public relations (writing blogs/feature news stories), journalism (seeking out news stories; interviewing, etc.), community engagement, graphic design, videography, photography, sponsorships, database management, donor engagement, and/or other mutually agreed upon passion areas.

Essential Functions:

• Support campaign execution across digital platforms including social media, Google ads, and Facebook ads
• Track social media and email engagement across various platforms
• Support sponsorship fulfillment campaigns / execution and provide tracking reports / examples for sponsor reporting
• Create and execute stories featuring players, teams, coaches, etc. that highlight NCFC Youth’s core values to publish on social media channels, website, etc.
• Serve as a contributing writer to club newsletter
• Design promotional graphics used for social media, website, marketing materials, LED digital board, and more.
• Assist with promotional efforts including print, digital, social and grassroots marketing campaigns
• Assist with coverage (on-site photography, live social media engagement, story collecting, etc.) of club programming (Recreation through Academy, events, tournaments, etc) to be used on social media and future marketing efforts
• Attend community events as an ambassador / representative of NCFC Youth
• Collaborate with marketing team to support larger campaigns including our 50th Anniversary, and more across various marketing channel and prep work.
• Support NCFC Youth’s crossover promotions / campaigns with the North Carolina Football Club
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications:

• Adobe Creative Suite experience
• Social media experience
• Basic web-editing knowledge

Qualifications/Competencies:

• This position is designed for current college students looking for an internship type environment to progress their studies.
• Experience working in soccer, coaching soccer, and/or playing soccer a plus.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Excellent communication, organization and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently

Job Type Requirements:

• This internship is an hourly nonexempt paid position.
• The traditional work hours for this job are combined office hours during the day along with some evening and weekend hours on the field.

Work Environment/Travel/Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• Some of this person’s job is conducted in the office, but regularly, work will require this employee to attend outdoor youth sporting events during the summer, including extreme temperatures and inclement weather, to fulfill job responsibilities and event support
• Physical demands: bending, sitting, lifting, and event set-up

Background Requirements

• Requires a background check upon offer

Affirmative Action Plan/Equal Employer Opportunity:

• NCFC Youth provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
• This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.