Disney Live Entertainment Creative Development & Inclusive Strategy Communication Intern, Fall 2025

Disney Live Entertainment Creative Development & Inclusive Strategy Communication Intern, Fall 2025

Through innovative storytelling and a culture of collaboration, Disney Live Entertainment creates, produces, and delivers remarkable and engaging entertainment experiences. From the intimate to the spectacular, our work can be seen at Disney theme parks, resort hotels, cruise ships, and other locations around the world. This remarkably diverse and widespread team of entertainment professionals brings magical worlds to life through creative expertise, performance excellence, incomparable ingenuityand a dash of pixie dust.

The Role supports the work of the Disney Live Entertainment Global Inclusion Framework Team (DLE-GIFT). DLE-GIFT leverages strategic approaches to engage with DLE creative teams, to inspire collaboration, and to influence relevant content and storytelling for global audiences of Disney Live Entertainment. DLE-GIFT partners with colleagues of Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Consumer Products to support the content relevancy needs of creative teams and partners across Disney Experiences. The approximate dates of this full-time (approximately 40hr/week) internship are August 2025 through January 2026.

What You Will Do

• Provide overall communication and visual support for a variety of DLE-GIFT projects and priorities to meet Disney Live Entertainment's global business needs
• Undertake creative assignments which may include design and production of newsletters, reports, summaries, or presentations, utilizing various print, digital media, or communication platforms
• Assist or take the lead with the development of treatments, presentation boards, and digital presentations. Leveraging visual and design skills for assignments, which may include layout and graphic communications, Photoshop, pitching concepts, and otherwise, fleshing out ideas relevant to GIFT projects and priorities
• Assist DLE-GIFT logistics and daily execution needs, with tasks which may include creating and maintaining schedules, note taking, presentations, research, or documentation
• Contribute to the development or maintenance of systems for organizing, tracking, and managing DLE GIFT work streams, data collection, research, and information sharing
• Support execution of DLE-GIFT relevancy consults, which may entail research, summaries, communication, and collaboration on projects with various internal and external stakeholders
• Gain a deep understanding of the role of live entertainment in Parks and Resorts by various means, which may include benchmarking park experiences and content, or participating in customized learning sessions to become an integral member of the team

What You Will Bring to the Role

• A self-starting attitude, willingness to carry out responsibilities independently, and to explore new ways of working
• Curiosity about live entertainment and an instinct for thinking inclusively and seeing a world of diverse people, perspectives, and ways of expression
• A creative, strategic, solution-oriented mindset
• A diversity of work experiences and skill sets, which reflect a broad range of competencies
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under strict and aggressive deadlines
• An enthusiasm for partnerships and collaborations, which may occur in diverse ways
• Ability to manage multiple projects, assignments, or stakeholders and handle confidential information

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Demonstrated proficiency with Keynote, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
• Strong visual presentation, writing/positioning, and editing skills
• Well-versed in AP Style, grammar, and punctuation
• Ability to be flexible with work schedule, including days, nights, and holidays
• Flexibility to travel for work, which may include ground travel as a team member
• Competent communicator, as may be required for presentations and reporting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using social media and video editing software
• Experience in theater, themed entertainment, communications, public relations, marketing, or event coordination, preferably outside of an educational program
• Current valid U.S. driver's license: Operating a company vehicle may be part of this role
• Proficiency in Research tools and/or database management tools with the ability to organize multiple layers of documentation

Education

Currently enrolled as a senior or graduate student, earning a degree majoring in Communications, Digital Media, Writing, Public Relations, or a related field

Required Materials

Portfolio (must submit a PDF file of your 10 (total) best examples of presentations, visual design & production, newsletter or media copy layout and editing, as well as a URL link on resume; no other submission formats considered)

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

• Be enrolled in an accredited college/university, taking at least one class at the time of application posting OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship.
• Be at least 18 years of age
• Possess unrestricted work authorization
• Have not completed one year of continual employment on a Disney internship or Disney College Program
• Be compliant with The Disney Look appearance guidelines
• Fully available Sunday through Saturday, for the duration of the internship, 40 hours per week
• Able to provide/have reliable transportation to/from work
• Possess a valid US driver's license and have the ability to operate a company vehicle
• Able to have a consistent, reliable work schedule throughout the internship
• Able to provide own housing for the duration of the internship program in Florida

The pay rate for this role in Orlando, FL is $18.75 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.