Position Title: Intern, Media Management & Content Librarian
Location: SOI HQ, Washington DC (hybrid)
Department: Marketing & Communications
Reports to (supervisor): Manager, Storytelling Activation & Sport Communication
Date and Length of Internship: 5 months/Approx. 20 hours per week
Pay range: For college credit only
Organization Overview:
Founded in 1968, Special Olympics is a global movement to end discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities. We foster acceptance of all people through the power of sport and programming in education, health, and leadership. With nearly four million athletes and Unified Sports® partners and one million coaches and volunteers in more than 170 countries, Special Olympics delivers more than 30 Olympic-type sports and nearly 50,000 games and competitions every year. Learn more at SpecialOlympics.org.
Position Summary:
Special Olympics, Inc. seeks an Intern, Media Management & Content Librarian to assist with archiving digital assets, captioning, and adding metadata to content during the Spring 2025 semester. The intern will contribute to the development, management, and distribution of dynamic digital materials that create positive attitudes, inspire and contribute toward audience growth. During the month of March, the intern will work specifically on moving photos and videos captured in Turin at the Special Olympics World Winter Games to the proper Photoshelter folders, researching additional information to add to the captions of these assets, and working with senior team members to make sure assets and folders are ready for publish dissemination. The majority of the senior members of the Media & Communications team will be on location in another time zone so it will be imperative that the intern is organized and has the ability to work without supervision.
Responsibilities:
- Use Photoshelter to caption, tag, and make available photos and videos captured by the remote content team at the Special Olympics World Winter Games.
- Migrate photo/video assets from multiple locations into Photoshelter
- Find and select digital assets to be included in videos produced by internal team, outside vendors, media, and partners
- Digitize assets
- Track work progress in shared workflow tracker
Requirements:
- Must be at least a college junior by January 2025 to be considered for role.
- Strong attention to detail
- Majoring in related field
- Can work independently and with a team
- Strong interpersonal communication skills
- Proficient in MS Word
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with people with intellectual disabilities a plus
- Knowledge of sports is a plus
- Experience managing digital libraries, like PhotoShelter, Dropbox, or Google Drive
Special Olympics 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.
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