NBC Connecticut Sales Marketing Internship - Academic Year 2024-2025

Job Description

Here, you can unlock your potential by contributing to projects in meaningful ways that matter. To thrive as an NBCU intern, you are ready to bring your passion for media, entertainment, and technology along with your desire to learn each day.

Here, you can develop your skills at a company that cares about its employees, its communities, and its culture.

NBC & Telemundo Connecticut Internships provide students with real world experience and exposure to working in the television industry.

Internships at NBC & Telemundo Connecticut are paid and do not require course credit.

Pay rate is minimum wage.

NBC Connecticut & Telemundo Connecticut are looking for a team player to join our Sales team. As a Sales Marketing intern on this team, you will support the development multiplatform campaigns and strategies that drive advertising revenue for the stations.

Responsibilities :

Assist with the creation and development of sales marketing materials including custom sales presentations, campaign recaps, performance highlights, one sheets.

Light graphics work may include building display ads, flyers and contest graphics in Photoshop

• Participate in brainstorming sessions with sales team to develop creative solutions for advertisers
• Generate ideas for advertisers that could lead to new sources of revenue stay on top of current events, market trends, emerging business categories and competitive efforts to identify innovative revenue streams
• Work with a cross-functional team to track and execute marketing initiatives. Work with the various departments responsible for deliverables : finance to purchase contesting prizes, web to launch online campaigns, creative services to produce, etc.
• Assist in coordinating commercial production and lifestyle show workflows that include gathering elements from sales reps, scheduling projects, overseeing edits and attending shoots to get products on-air in a timely fashion
• Help with the execution and build of social media contesting and promotion : writing and confirming rules & regulations with legal, crafting copy and imagery for use on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, submitting production requests for creative, reconciling winners, and recapping campaign success
• Ensure customer satisfaction in pre- and post-sales service. Monitor the delivery of cross-platform campaigns to ensure communication between sales production and client is easy and effective to solidify renewal
• Help coordinate marketing, event and community activities by tracking event dates, identifying resources necessary for events (marketing collateral, promotional giveaways, news coverage, volunteers), distributing tickets, ordering supplies and assisting in on-site execution as needed
• Provide various administrative support on daily tasks.
• Program Dates : Fall 2024 and Spring 2025
• Time commitment is 200 hours per semester

To Apply :

• Submit a one-page resume that outlines your work experience, accomplishments, and your graduation month and year.
• Submit a cover letter that highlights your passion for NBCUniversal, the locations (listed below) you are open to for internships, and your top areas of interest (opportunities listed below).

Upload a transcript (unofficial transcripts are fine) that confirms your status as an actively enrolled student in a degree-granting program.

Qualifications

Eligibility Requirements :

• Must be actively enrolled in a degree-granting program at an accredited institution during the length of the program and be able to provide documentation to confirm your degree progress
• Current class standing of sophomore or above (30 credits)
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship by NBCUniversal
• Must be willing to work at the station in West Hartford, CT

Desired Characteristics :

• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above
• Pursuing a major in Marketing, Advertising, or Communications
• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and creative skills
• Exceptional project management, organizational and presentation skills
• Familiarity with and experience using multiple social platforms
• Interest in the television, streaming or digital entertainment industries
• Proficient in PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams
• Graphic design experience with understanding of Photoshop

Bilingual skills Spanish / English preferred, but not necessary

Additional Information

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants

and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity

or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual

orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed

services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your

ability to use or access nbcunicareers.com as a result of your disability. You can

request reasonable accommodations by emailing [email protected] .