MarketingCommunications and Business Development Summer Intern

Marketing/Communications and Business Development Summer Intern

Location:

Dallas TX

Overview:

Huitt-Zollars is seeking a dynamic self-starter to assist with marketing communications and business development efforts at our corporate headquarters in Dallas Texas. This internship is an excellent opportunity to experience and gain insight into a broad range of marketing and business development functions for an award-winning national design firm.

Job Description:

Marketing & Communications

• Assist in management and development of consistent and on-going communications that support employee awareness and engagement with firm and practice initiatives.
• Assist with planning and producing content in support of firm and market-based initiatives to include advertisements award submittals in-house/external brochures and collateral presentations promotional materials infographics flyers electronic newsletters etc.
• Maintain update and enhance existing marketing and communication collateral ensuring compliance with brand identity.
• Draft engaging branded content specific for firms various social media accounts.
• Create and edit video using existing project images and drone footage.

Business Development

• Learn the comprehensive proposal/statement of qualification (SOQ)-driven business development process.
• Work with the Marketing team to develop business development materials for submittal or presentation to potential clients.
• Assist with producing physical deliverables (e.g. hard copies of proposals and statements of qualifications).

Knowledge Management

• Assist with implementation of new Marketing/BD software programs (OpenAsset and ) through uploading data into systems.
• Assist with maintaining corporate and marketing systems/databases for supporting business development efforts (including project data resumes and photographs of key personnel graphics boilerplate narrative etc.).

Administrative

• Participate in weekly business development meetings when available.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Working toward a college degree preferably in a related field (e.g. Communications Journalism English or Marketing.)
• PC literacy including experience using Adobe CC (Illustrator Photoshop After Effects InDesign and Premiere Pro) and the Microsoft Office suite (primarily Word Excel and PowerPoint).
• Attributes to include being enthusiastic collegial flexible self-motivated curious organized detail-oriented and cheerful.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• Ability to prioritize multi-task and meet deadlines.

Added Plus:

• Interest in architecture design and engineering.
• Experience with digital photography and videography.
• Graphic design skills including the initiative and ability to create and implement concepts.

About Huitt-Zollars:

Huitt-Zollars is a multi-discipline full-service architectural and engineering firm established in 1975. We have since expanded to twenty offices nationwide with over 550 employees. We encourage you to visit to explore our many practices disciplines project types and clients.

What to Expect as a Huitt-Zollars Intern:

As an integral part of the Marketing department you will be working with a variety of professionals in our corporate headquarters at Lincoln Centre in Dallas TX. Ideally you would work with us 24 - 32 hours per week during our regular office hours of 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Monday - Friday although your schedule can be flexible as long as it is communicated in advance. You will need to provide your own transportation; the office is in North Dallas off of the Dallas North Tollway and I-635. Internship dates and pay will be discussed during the interview process.

The Application Process:

Interested students should email a statement of interest to Libby Rode (). In your statement please introduce yourself and tell us why you want to work with us as an intern. Additionally please include any relevant samples of work youve completed that demonstrates your current skill level (i.e. class paper or project graphics website design video clip blog portfolio etc.). You will also need to complete the online application.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for Huitt-Zollars in the U.S. without employer sponsorship. Currently Huitt-Zollars does not sponsor H1-B or any other work visa petitions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color sex sexual orientation gender identity religion national origin disability veteran status or any other legally protected status. Huitt-Zollars is a federal contractor and subcontractor and abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) which prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on protected veteran status or disability and require affirmative action to employ and advance qualified protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.