DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIST

We are looking for a DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIST Intern for our office in Malta.

Imagine building upon the skills you’ve learned in the classroom through real-world hands-on work experience. Imagine to help in building courses and educational programmes in different fields. Imagine to use your creativity to propose new ideas and projects. Imagine to work in a young and dynamic international working environment in a beautiful island at the centre of the Mediterranean Sea. All that can happen if you apply for our internship!

Responsibilities

• Support the Communication Manager in designing and implementing social media strategies

• Manage tactical execution of digital and social media programming including content development, community management and influencer engagement through competitive research, messaging and audience identification

• Generate, edit and publish content to appropriate social media channels in order  to create brand awareness and to grow audience engagement

• Develop, write, edit, and proof communications materials such as press releases, web stories, and blog posts

• Support the Communication Manager in writing the new communication plan

• Learn the branding and rebranding processes

• Assist in communications support of organizational events

• Learn some basic graphic design (Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop)

• Generates and converts leads through marketing, advertising and search engine optimization

• Monitor activity across social networking sites and blogs, and cultivate online relationships with target audiences

• Offer creative insight to projects

• Submit reports of marketing efforts

The UCM offers one 3-month to 12-month traineeship in the new office in Malta, that:

• fully involves the trainee in a young and dynamic international working environment (full-time work, 36 hours per week);

• gives the chance to the trainee to develop academic programmes and courses, and international projects related to higher education, international mobility, talents attraction and employability;

• allow them to use part of their working time to learn more about a relevant field (such as project management, project development…)

• develops the ability to work cross functionally across teams: project management, communication with relevant stakeholders, event organization, marketing, communications, promotion

• using financial support through Erasmus+ Traineeships is encouraged

Qualifications and Requirements

• High motivation, willingness to learn and to work with constructive criticism, responsible, proactive attitude

• Organizational and communication skills and ability to work both in a team and independently

• Written and spoken English (additional languages, particularly Italian and/or Maltese, are a plus)​