Internship Program
https://www.waltwhitman.org/join-donate/interns/
Intern – Marketing & Advertising / Social Media
Job Description
Intern will work at the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site in Huntington Station, Long Island, NY. Intern will confer with Event Director and Administrator together they will create a project which will support our marketing and advertising programs for our literary events and educational programs. This project may take the form of creating a marketing plan, designing ads (print and web based), and event promotion through print ads, the website, and social media. Intern should be familiar with social media as a form of promotion. Intern will learn to write print and web ads, and promotional copy. In some cases, Intern will attend events to gather feedback from visitors in order to assess the effectiveness of the marketing and advertising strategies.
Position Responsibilities
Intern will be responsible for assisting Event Director in marketing & advertising events and programs. Intern should have strong writing skills and an instinct for promotion to targeted audiences. Intern should be well organized and attentive to details, such as meeting publication deadlines. He/she will interface with literary agents and poets. Intern should enjoy attending events to observe the results of the marketing strategy. After a training session about our social media, the intern will contribute text to our Facebook, blog, and twitter accounts.
Method of Supervision
Intern should be available Monday, Wednesday, or Thursday 9 AM – 5 PM. The Event Director will supervise the Intern and will work side by side with the Intern in a small friendly office (4 people). Preferably, Intern should have a portable computer or Ipad / tablet to bring to work, but he/she may also use an office computer if they cannot supply their own.
Desired Organizational Outcomes
Intern will help promote our organization’s programs and events. There are three desired organizational outcomes: 1) Awareness and recognition of organization; 2) An increase in event attendance; 3) An increase of organizational “presence” in the social media, i.e., Facebook, blogs, and twitter.
Desired Student Outcomes
Intern will develop an understanding of how to market & advertise a small non-profit cultural organization. He / she will become familiar with local Long Island publications. He / she will create an advertising campaign and create marketing strategies to promote our events and programs. He/ she will learn how to obtain product placement (for our events and programs) for free, and how to evaluate the cost of buying advertisement/product placement space. Intern will assist in designing promotional material, Press Releases, flyers, ads, etc. Intern will have the title of “WWBA Media Assistant” and will have created promotional materials for their portfolio.
Contact: Cynthia Shor, WWBA Executive Director
Intern – Museum Studies
Job Description
Intern will work at the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site in Huntington Station, Long Island, NY. Intern will confer with curator & historian, Richard Ryan, and together they will create a project which will support our Museum Collections department. This project may take the form of annotating the files, artifact restoration, research about historic items for our records, transcribing (typing) documents for computer database and/or digitizing documents & records.
Position Responsibilities
Intern will read and learn about “best museum practices” at the beginning sessions with Curator.
Intern will follow “best museum practices” throughout their project. He /she must have be willing to wear white cotton gloves when handling artifacts, and must have a gentle touch when handling artifacts or historic papers.
Intern should be able to maintain the project on an individual, self-directed level.
Method of Supervision
Intern will report to the Executive Director on Monday, Wednesday, or Thursday, 9AM – 5 PM.
Intern will confer with curator one and be in touch with curator by email as the project requires.
Desired Organizational Outcomes
Museums Collections will be improved through the project, whether it be in organization, restoration, or digitization. Such improvement will contribute the collection’s stature which will assist the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in obtaining museum accreditation. Museum accreditation not only signifies the standard of the museum and its collections, but accreditation also enhances the opportunity to receive state and federal grants.
Desired Student Outcomes
Intern will learn best Museum Practice in general, and in particular, he / she will enact these practices in their project.
Intern will learn about preservation techniques, historic research, and they will become proficient with using the computer database of Past Perfect Programs for Museums.
Through this project and its research, the intern will learn about the history of this NY State Historic Site listed which is the only Long Island site also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Intern will learn about Long Island history and in particular, learn about the formation of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association which was formed in 1947 and which operates the site for New York State.
Contact: Cynthia Shor, WWBA Executive Director
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