Copywriter

Summary

Join Taylor's Copywriter HBCU Fellowship, a paid, six-month remote program offering hands-on experience in the PR, social, and digital marketing industry. This post-undergraduate fellowship provides real-world professional experience, development, and career readiness. As a Taylor Fellow, you'll collaborate with teams, develop contemporary copywriting, and contribute to various campaign elements. The program includes a dedicated manager, professional development, and networking opportunities. Fellows must be recent graduates or students from accredited HBCUs with relevant experience or coursework. The fellowship offers a monthly stipend, paid time off, and additional perks.

Requirements

• This is a post-undergraduate opportunity open to recent graduates who hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited HBCU and those who are currently completing a master’s program or hold a master’s degree from an accredited HBCU
• Prior experience/internships at PR, Advertising, Digital/Social Marketing, Creative agencies or relevant coursework
• Write, present, and communicate in a persuasive manner, across a variety of platforms, including social media
• Strong attention to detail, organization, multitasking, and time-management
• Team player who enjoys working with and helping others in a collaborative environment
• Curious and open to others' ideas and viewpoints with a willingness to learn and take constructive feedback
• A good problem solver who seeks to make improvements and learns from mistakes
• Must be a recent college graduate, a graduate school student, and/or a student who has recently completed a master’s program at an accredited HBCU

Responsibilities

• Use strong understanding of evolving copywriting principles and a client’s business, brand, and industry to offer and develop contemporary copywriting that meets client business needs
• Remain current on marketing, design, technology, user experience, and cultural trends, and infuse this knowledge into all work
• Collaborate effectively with Strategy, Account, and Creative teams to provide ongoing counsel to mid-level clients, and to bring ideas to life through unconventional thinking and design innovation
• Actively participate in creative ideation and planning for digital & social content, motion graphics, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
• Effectively refine ideas into integrated visual systems that deliver against defined objectives
• Assists senior team members with writing of creative platforms, manifestos, digital/social copy, and other copy for presentations and final execution
• Demonstrate accountability and ownership for all copywriting work on assigned projects, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams of account/PR, strategy, and production to execute ideas that drive business impact
• Self-edit work in progress, incorporate feedback and direction from senior team members, and collaborate with them to evolve and elevate your work
• Work on multiple workstreams/assignments simultaneously, ensure that all work fits together as part of the broader strategy and/or brand identity system
• Partner with Art Direction to design and create concepted ideas
• Pitch creative ideas
• Write, present, and communicate in a polished and persuasive manner across all mediums, internally and externally
• Communicate well with internal colleagues to explain creative ideas and respond to questions or concerns
• Learn how to write ideas and idea statements and articulate them as headlines
• Actively participate in creative ideation for digital & social content, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
• Ensure that ideas/concepts fit together as part of the broader strategy and brand identity
• Assist in quick-turn ideas that tap into a culture or a specific moment in time

Benefits

• This is a paid fellowship: $4,166.68 per month worked, less applicable deductions and withholdings (based on an annual equivalent salary of $50k)
• Includes Paid Time Off, Holidays, and additional perks