Foundation Communications Social Media Intern

The Rutgers University Foundation (RUF) seeks an organized, eager, and detail-oriented Rutgers University student to serve as the Foundation Communications Team Social Media Intern. The intern will be responsible for engaging with the Rutgers community directly on social media platforms, administrative responsibilities, and assisting with content creation.

Essential Functions

• Monitor Rutgers Foundation social media channels for important updates, answering questions, collecting user-generated content and interesting stories.


• Assist with both photo and video content creation, both organic content and event coverage content.


• Oversee social listening and content mining.


• Contribute to analyzing reports to identify themes that will drive social media strategy.


• Assist with organizing tags of content in Sprout Social to help with efficient reporting.


• Maintain the tracking spreadsheet of social media influencers.


• Assist with scheduling content and tagging appropriate partners as needed.


• Lead efforts of coding or tracking social media activity.

• Organize and maintain creative assets in Canva, including files, templates, and social media content.


• Compile and analyze social media reporting by pulling performance analytics and managing Affinaquest tracking and coding.


• Maintain YouTube content by updating video thumbnails, end screens, formatting, and links.

• Undertake other duties as assigned.

Education/ Qualifications

This position is for current or former Rutgers University students. Preference will be given to students who are pursuing or have pursued degrees in Communications or Marketing.

Mental Demands

Clarity of focus while juggling complex projects or deadlines.

Workplace Arrangements

The offered position is classified as an office-centric hybrid position. Colleagues working under an office-centric hybrid arrangement have a primary workstation in a university or foundation location and are in the office between one and five days a week. The frequency with which they are present in the office depends on their role and function and the interdependency of other functions. 

Working Conditions

This position requires little physical effort. May work evenings, weekends, or odd hours to meet resource-raising commitments. Typical working conditions with an absence of disagreeable

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is Foundation policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants The Foundation prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, familial status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and/or local laws. Equal employment opportunity applies to hiring, placement, transfer, promotion, demotion, recruitment, advertising or solicitation for employment, treatment during employment, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, selection for training, layoff or termination.