Creative Copywriter

Summary

Join Taylor's Copywriter HBCU Fellowship, a paid, six-month remote program offering hands-on agency experience to recent HBCU graduates and master's students. As a Fellow, you'll gain in-depth training, work with a dedicated manager, and enjoy professional development and networking opportunities. You will shape contemporary copywriting, collaborate with various teams, and refine ideas into integrated visual systems. Responsibilities include assisting with creative platforms, demonstrating accountability for copywriting work, and partnering with art direction to design and create concepted ideas. The fellowship requires prior experience or coursework in relevant fields, strong communication skills, attention to detail, and teamwork abilities. The program offers a monthly salary of $4,166.68, paid time off, holidays, 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
• This is a full-time position (40hrs/week), Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET
• 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

• Shape contemporary copywriting that meets client business needs using strong understanding of evolving copywriting principles and a client’s business, brand, and industry
• 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