AARP’s membership is aged 50+, but we work on issues that matter to all families.

Be warned: You will not hone your coffee-making skills at AARP (maybe coffee drinking ones.) You’ll be part of a social media team that is entrepreneurial, creative and quirky. We appreciate nerdiness, memes and we inhale media like we’re drinking it out of a fire hose.

Applicants must have the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively, exercise initiative, maintain a positive attitude, and be available to work a minimum of 20 hours a week with our awesome social media team at our office in Chinatown/Penn Quarter. Intern candidates must also meet the following requirements:

• Actively attending an accredited college/university. 
• Have a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
• Provide a recommendation letter from a professor.

Below are the two specialized roles we are offering for fall:

POSITION #1: SOCIAL MEDIA & BLOG INTERN

Skills You’ll Need:

• Proficiency in WordPress
• Comfortable with public speaking
• Strong editing and writing skills
• Managing multiple, varying tasks
• Basic understanding of SEO
• Deadline driven
• Organized
• Monitoring blogs, news outlets, etc.
• Active and responsible social media profiles

Because you’ll be:

• Helping build the next generation of blog.aarp.org
• Combing blogs, news outlets, think tanks and research groups for story ideas
• Monitoring social media platforms for potential bloggers, guest bloggers
• Contributing to the blog on a weekly basis
• Occasionally editing blog posts
• Coordinating with the AARP Content Creation team to coordinate blog post assignments
• Answering questions about and troubleshooting WordPress functionality
• Aiding in the SEO optimization of blog posts
• Training individuals and groups of people how to post content of all sorts to WordPress
• Aiding in the social, paid and earned promotion of blog content
• Writing posts and engaging with Facebook fans and Twitter followers

POSITION #2: SOCIAL MEDIA & YOUTUBE CHANNEL INTERN

Skills You’ll Need:

• Proficiency in YouTube
• Comfortable with public speaking
• Strong editing and writing skills
• Managing multiple, varying tasks
• Basic understanding of SEO
• Deadline driven
• Organized
• Monitoring YouTube for hot memes, 50+ channel stars and other fun things
• Active and responsible social media profiles

Because you’ll be:

• Helping launch a new YouTube brand channel and promote online video.
• Pruning, sorting, and uploading content to the AARP YouTube page
• Monitoring YouTube for channels containing AARP-appropriate content
• Training content producers on best practices and using the customized CMS
• Answering questions about and troubleshooting YouTube functionality
• Revising, monitoring, and adjusting tags and headlines along best practice SEO guidelines
• Aiding in the social, paid and earned promotion of YouTube content
• Helping push the envelope in how we think of uses for YouTube, the Brand channel and content funnels used in specific campaigns
• Monitoring YouTube metrics for areas of improvement and blogger outreach opportunities
• Writing posts and engaging with Facebook fans and Twitter followers

This fall internship will run from August 28 to December 31st 2012 (flexibility if your school’s academic calendar is different.)

This is a paid internship open to undergrad and graduate students. If you are interested and meet the qualifications, please email a resume Tammy Gordon, Director of Social Communications & Strategy at tgordon@aarp.org or otherwise get the attention of our team on social media.