Event Marketing & Graphic Design

Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to support our team wit marketing and graphic design needs for our upcoming events. This engagement will give the intern an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for Indigenous, Black and racialized women we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us meet our event goals. We are looking for a student who has creative vision, tenacity, drive, and sees possibilities in all things and who thrives at working independently and within a team environment. This project involves: Creating speaker photos and social media kits for our upcoming events. Creating signage and promotional videos. Meeting with the Operations & UX Lead to evaluate the choices made for graphics design to ensure it is aligned with company branding goals, and making any necessary revisions. Designing and presenting thumbnails for design assets based on the branding guide to be included in a proposal and presented to the project manager. Executing the full designs for each branding asset using Canva and Figma, based on the approved thumbnails. Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Business Development Process

Number of individual students required: 2 Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to help us improve our business development process. This engagement will give the intern an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for Indigenous, Black and racialized women we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our visual identity. We are looking for a student who has creative vision, tenacity, drive, and sees possibilities in all things and who thrives at working independently and within a team environment. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Evaluating our current business development process and help us create a clear workflow. Researching industry business development processes and lead generation strategies. Create recommendations that will improve our leads and conversion rate. Generate prospect list based on criteria provided. Creating a business development process, workflow, and list of required resources and marketing collateral/email scripts. Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Website Design

Number of individual students required: 1 Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to assist with phase 2 of our website design. This engagement will give the intern an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for Indigenous, Black and racialized women we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our visual identity. We are looking for a student who has creative vision, tenacity, drive, and sees possibilities in all things and who thrives at working independently and within a team environment. This project involves: Graphically design 2 toolkit downloadables for website Assist in finalizing Branding Guidelines Assist with Mailchimp tagging strategy and website form enhancement Set up automated welcome emails for newsletter an waitlist sign ups Assist with drip campaign strategy Assist with Shopify ecommerce SEO optimization and launch Assist with website SEO optimization Bonus deliverable Recommending enhancements for our website and shopify page set up Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Blogging for a Career Accelerator

Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to develop interview guides for individuals who we wish to profile on our blog. They will also have an opportunity to write highlighting recent research focused on gender and racial equity as well as state of women in the workplace. This engagement will give interns an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. The student will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of digital marketing, communication, and content creation. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for Indigenous, Black and racialized women and we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our digital footprint. We are looking for students who have creative vision, tenacity, drive, and see possibilities in all things and who thrive at working independently and in a team setting. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Familiarizing themselves with our mission, goals, target market, programs and services. Recommending topics for our blog posts. Set up interview guides for member profiles. Drafting blog posts relevant to our organization Revising blog posts based on feedback. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending ways to market our blogs. Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Video Creation for a Career Accelerator

Number of individual students required: 2 Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to create a private video repository of all our recorded events, as well as edit, cut, and add transitions to videos and add our company branding. This engagement will give the intern an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. The student will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of digital marketing and video editing. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for students and recent graduates we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our digital footprint. We are looking for students who have creative vision, tenacity, drive, and see possibilities in all things and who thrive working independently and in a team setting. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our mission and goals. Creating a private video repository. Editing and cutting videos from our past events. Applying suitable background music. Adding text, transitions, and overlays to the video. Presenting the video and making edits based on feedback. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Experience using Adobe Premier Pro. Recommending ideas and editing tools for future awareness videos. Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Creating Graphic Design Assets for a Career Accelerator

Number of individual students required: 1 Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to graphically design career development resource guides aligned with our branding guidelines. This engagement will give the intern an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for Indigenous, Black and racialized women we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our visual identity. We are looking for a student who has creative vision, tenacity, drive, and sees possibilities in all things and who thrives at working independently and within a team environment. This project involves: Graphically designing a number of career development resources in line with our branding guidelines. Meeting with the Operations & UX Lead to evaluate the choices made for graphics design to ensure it is aligned with company branding goals, and making any necessary revisions. Designing and presenting thumbnails for design assets based on the branding guide to be included in a proposal and presented to the project manager. Executing the full designs for each branding asset using Canva and Figma, based on the approved thumbnails. Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Newsletter Development for a Career Accelerator

Number of individual students required: 1 The individual at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to develop a newsletter editorial calendar, and set up newsletters using Mailchimp. This engagement will give the intern an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. The intern will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of communication, creative writing, content creation and project management. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for Indigenous, Black and racialized women, we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our intern succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our digital footprint. We are looking for an individual who has creative vision, tenacity, driven, and sees possibilities in all things and who thrives at working independently and within a team setting. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Conducting background research on specific topics. Brainstorming topics for each issue. Setting, coordinating, and enforcing deadlines. Creating materials to be published and making revisions based on feedback. Proofreading drafts of newsletters and recommending areas for improvement. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending other ways to increase awareness about our organization and mission. Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Digital Marketing for a Career Accelerator

Number of individual students required: 4 Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to assist with digital marketing and social media strategy and support, use of design applications, newsletters and blogs, graphics design, website support, video production, and blogs. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset. The student will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of digital marketing, communication, and content creation. Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships.

Research Assistant for a Career Accelerator

Number of individual students required: 4 Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to work with us on conducting and analyzing research the experiences of Black, Indigenous and racialized women, developing infographics, social media assets and contributing to our impact reporting process. The student will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of primary and secondary critical thinking and analysis, research methodology, survey design, design thinking, and written communication. Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Accelerate Her Future - Digital Marketing

ABOUT Accelerate Her Future™ is a career accelerator providing tailored programs for self-identifying Black, Indigenous and women of colour to launch their careers in business and tech while building networks of solidarity and action. PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET: Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to support digital marketing need for the organization, our upcoming summit and fellowship program including creating captions, creating interview guides for blogs, editing blogs, and write content highlighting recent research focused on gender and racial equity as well as state of women in the workplace. This engagement will give interns an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a very collaborative environment. The students will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of digital marketing, communication, and content creation. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for students and recent graduates we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our digital footprint. We are looking for students who have creative vision, tenacity, drive, and see possibilities in all things and who thrive at developing creating digital copy and content for social and web. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Write set up blog interview guides, edit/write blog articles, and other content pieces on assigned topics Write captions and help execute social media strategy Evaluate recent successful user-generated campaigns, preferably in our sector Identify media outlets that are most beneficial to share our story Attend weekly marketing and team meetings FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES: Interview guides created for blog profiles and blogs published Execution of social media strategy Creation of captions for future planned postings Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

UX Research and Online Community Strategy for a Career Accelerator

Number of individual students required: 2 Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to develop strategies to enhance online community engagement. The students will also assist with conducing user research and competitive research on online community best practices and web-based platforms. This engagement will give interns an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. The student will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of online communities, needs assessment, competitive research, and user research interviews. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for students and recent graduates we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our community engagement and social impact. We are looking for students who have creative vision, tenacity, drive, and see possibilities in all things and who thrive at developing strategies and making recommendations. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Develop and execute strategies to enhance online community engagement Assist with developing a community onboarding guide Assist with digital marketing strategies to attract new members to the community Conduct research on best practices for community engagement and share findings internally Conduct User Research interviews to validate online community model Assist with competitive research and provide recommendations for a web-based platform encompassing online courses and community Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.We are looking to invest in new software to meet our inter-departmental needs and assist our growth. We aren’t certain of the options that are available to us, or the features and benefits of each. We would like for students to help us research and choose the most ideal software to invest in.

Program Launch Strategy for a Career Accelerator

Number of students required to work in team: (1 team of 3-4 students) Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to develop a high level virtual summit strategy for our community. They will also have an opportunity to design the summit experience tailored to the needs of our community. This engagement will give interns an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. Students will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of program development, event strategy and planning, marketing and communication. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for students and recent graduates we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our social impact. We are looking for students who have creative vision, tenacity, drive, and see possibilities in all things and who thrive at developing impactful programming with our audience in mind. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Work in a collaborative team setting to develop program strategy Apply creative problem solving and design thinking tools to host 2 design jams Develop program recommendation and outline program design Conduct other tasks related to this project Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Student Volunteer Onboarding Plan for a Career Accelerator

Number of individual students required: 1 The student at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to develop an onboarding and learning and development for AHF's Amplifier student volunteers (our campus ambassador program). They will also have an opportunity to develop EDI, anti-racism and anti-oppression content and learning modules. This engagement will give interns an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. The student will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of community engagement, gender and racial equity, anti-racism, learning and development, instructional design and communication. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for students and recent graduates we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our student succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our volunteer onboarding experience. We are looking for a student who has creative vision, tenacity, drive, and sees possibilities in all things and who thrives at developing meaningful and impactful experiences for our student volunteer community. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Work with AHF's Community Engagement Lead to create an onboarding plan for AHF's Ambassador program Develop onboarding communication, content and learning and development material Create training modules and resource list Carry out other tasks related to this project Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Research Assistant for a Career Accelerator

Number of individual students required: 4 Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to work with us on conducting and analyzing research related to our mission, developing infographics, social media assets and contributing to our impact reporting process. This engagement will give interns an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. The student will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of primary and secondary critical thinking and analysis, research methodology, survey design, design thinking, and written communication. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for students and recent graduates we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our social impact. We are looking for students who have critical thinking skills, a passion for research, tenacity, drive, and see possibilities in all things and who thrive a relentless pursuit to find research reports, articles and papers, particularly those authored by BIPOC communities. The research assistants will support the research initiatives of AHF under the guidance of our Founder and Fellowship Circle Coordinator. Areas of inquiry including: BIWOC youth, BIWOC youth and employment, BIWOC experiences in business and STEM programs, BIWOC experiences in the workplace. The position requires skills in data retrieval and manipulation, empirical methods, and data display. Phase 1 The project may include, but is not limited to: Conducting secondary research and literature reviews. Working with the AHF team to contribute to the development of research project ideas. Phase 2 The project may include, but is not limited to: Research project development including methodology, quantitative and qualitative research Writing reports and thought leadership in terms of conceptualization and articulation. Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.

Digital Content Creation for a Career Accelerator

Number of individual students required: 2 Students at Accelerate Her Future will be provided with an opportunity to develop interview guides for leaders, managers and fellows we wish to profile on our blog. They will also have an opportunity to write highlighting recent research focused on gender and racial equity as well as state of women in the workplace. This engagement will give interns an opportunity to work with a dynamic team within a collaborative environment. The student will be exposed to a variety of skills and experiences to enhance their knowledge of digital marketing, communication, and content creation. We are a young startup and as a career accelerator for students and recent graduates we care deeply about mentorship. We will help our students succeed as much as we want them to help us enhance our digital footprint. We are looking for students who have creative vision, tenacity, driven, and see possibilities in all things and who thrive at developing creating digital copy and content for social and web. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Write set up blog interview guides, blog articles, and other content pieces on assigned topics Assist with a social media video launch to promote our organization Evaluate recent successful user-generated campaigns, preferably in our sector Identify media outlets that are most beneficial to share our story Who are we looking for? Ideally you have lived experience and ‘insider knowledge’ of the communities we serve at the core of our mission. You are inspired by our mission and like working within a collaborative environment. You value patience, respect, generosity, and good humour in your working relationships. Having an emerging understanding of intersectionality and gender and racial equity principles will be an asset.