Digital Marketing Intern

Role Description

The Digital Marketing Intern supports the Communications and Marketing team in executing day-to-day digital marketing activities across social media publishing, paid digital advertising support, and performance reporting. Reporting to the Director of Digital Content, this role is task-oriented and execution-focused, contributing to the social media presence of both IHS and Liberalism.org.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Social Media Content Publishing: Schedules and publishes approved organic content across all IHS and Liberalism.org social media channels, ensuring accurate formatting and timely delivery.
• Analytics & Reporting Support:
  • Collects and compiles performance metrics for organic and paid social content, including engagement, click-through rate, and conversion data across platforms.
  • Pulls and organizes platform data to prepare regular performance reports for the Digital Content Director's review and analysis.
• Emerging Media & Trend Research: Monitors trends in digital marketing, social media platforms, and content formats, and surfaces relevant tools, creative approaches, and platform features to the team to inform content planning.

Qualifications

• Foundational knowledge of social media platforms and digital marketing concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to execute detail-oriented, task-based work accurately and on schedule.

Requirements

• Exposure to paid digital advertising or ads manager tools.
• Familiarity with social media scheduling or analytics platforms.

Reporting Timeline

• This internship will start on September 21, 2026, and end on December 11, 2026 (start and end dates are flexible with respect to semester schedules).
• This internship will be up to 25 hours weekly.

EEO Statement

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Company Description

The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) is a think network advancing the principles and practices of freedom in the academy, public policy, and civil society.

• Founded in 1961, IHS believes that the liberal tradition has yielded unprecedented freedom and human flourishing.
• Our vision is to spark a new spirit of liberal freedom in response to the forces of illiberalism on both the left and right.

• Cultivating a pool of intellectual talent for partners in policy, civil society, philanthropy, and the academy through $1.5 million in fellowship and career development programs.
• Catalyzing scholarship and academic networks to strengthen the fields of foundational and applied research that matter most to a free society.
• Equipping freedom-focused research centers, think tanks, foundations, and civil society organizations with the research and experts they need to maximize their impact in policy and in communities across the country.