The Marketing & Event Assistants will work directly with the CEO and Founder Sharon Bonner, as the company pivots to produce a variety of in person, virtual and hybrid events. The interns will work with Sharon to plan the events and be directly supervised by Sharon. All stages of the event planning process will be covered and the work will vary from planning critical paths, to venue search to brand design.

In addition, Sharon is starting her own consulting business and the intern will be working with her to develop content for all sorts of marketing; social media marketing, writing blogs, creating newsletters and reaching out to industry publications to promote her consulting services.

The main goals are to produce events and market the new consulting business.

- Planning events – draw floorplans, research, design promotional

- Writing blog copy

- Writing newsletter copy

- Writing a press release

- Creating social media posts with captions, graphics and hashtags

- Research industry publications to discover where to submit articles

- Assist with the overall marketing and communication strategy

Sharon believes in supporting and coaching her interns, while giving them the space to be independent. At the beginning of the internship, monthly goals are established. Those monthly goals are then broken down into weekly attainable goals.

Sharon likes to offer variety of tasks to the interns and welcomes constant feedback or suggestions on the projects the interns are working on. Once a week, Sharon and the interns will meet via zoom to review progress, talk about improvements, suggestions, feedback, etc.

The interns are very involved in the process and will feel valued and heard. Sharon loves the interns she works with, and puts her heart and soul into mentoring them.