Community Development Intern

Job Description

Join Achieve as a Community Development Intern and play a key role in launching our private Facebook Group to create a thriving online customer community. You’ll help build a space that fosters trust, engagement and brand advocacy, ensuring it aligns with both customer needs and company goals.

In this hands-on role, you'll design and develop a strategic launch plan for the Facebook Group including engagement strategies, content guidelines, community policies and growth initiatives. By the end of your internship, you’ll deliver a comprehensive, execution-ready strategy that lays the foundation for a thriving and impactful community.

Ready to make a real impact? Join us and help shape the future of customer engagement!

Responsibilities:

• Research & Strategy Development: Conduct a thorough analysis of best practices, competitor communities, and customer needs to establish clear objectives. Identify effective community growth tactics, content formats, and engagement strategies. Evaluate successful approaches, uncover challenges, and pinpoint key opportunities to inform your strategy.
• Facebook Group Setup: Evaluate the best approach for structuring and optimizing the private Facebook Group to align with company goals and customer needs. Assess group settings, membership criteria, engagement features, and moderation tools to create a thriving and well-managed community.
• Content & Engagement Framework: Develop a scalable strategy to build a thriving, loyal community that fosters continuous growth and deep brand connections. Create a roadmap outlining discussion topics, onboarding experiences, and engagement strategies tailored to community interests. Define content approaches that spark meaningful interactions and sustain long-term engagement.
• Community Guidelines & Management: Evaluate and refine community guidelines and moderation policies to ensure comprehensive coverage and effective management of a private Facebook Group. Establish a clear process for reviewing and approving join requests and outlining group rules for positive community engagement. Define the moderator’s role and recommend an optimal moderation model, considering employees, customers, or a hybrid approach.
• KPI & Success Metrics: Identify key performance indicators and tracking methods to measure community success, including engagement rates, member growth, retention, and content interaction. Develop a framework for tracking and assessing impact and optimize community strategies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with marketing, brand, customer experience, and compliance teams to align community initiatives.
• Execution Plan: Develop a comprehensive, execution-ready plan with a clear timeline, key milestones, and measurable KPIs; present recommendations to leadership.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• A junior going into their senior year currently pursuing a degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field.
• Strong research and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Deep understanding of Facebook Groups, including advanced settings, moderation tools, and Facebook Insights. Experience managing or optimizing online communities, with familiarity in other forums and community management tools.
• Basic knowledge of content creation and community moderation is a plus.
• Proficient in Google Workspace or Microsoft Office. Familiarity with data analysis, calculation, and visualization tools such as Excel or Tableau is a plus.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and manage time effectively.
• Creative problem-solving ability and attention to detail.
  
  
  

Additional Information

Join Achieve and take the first step in your capital markets career while making a meaningful impact in personal finance.

• As an Intern for the summer of 2025, we are looking for college students who are juniors going into their Senior year. This role will be working hybrid (a few days a week in the office) out of Tempe, AZ for 12 weeks starting May 27th. You will be working 20-30 hours per week at a rate of 20 dollars an hour.
  
  
  

Company Description

Achieve is a leading digital personal finance company. We help everyday people move from struggling to thriving by providing innovative, personalized financial solutions. By leveraging proprietary data and analytics, our solutions are tailored for each step of our member's financial journey to include personal loans, home equity loans, debt consolidation, financial tools and education. Every day, we get to help our members move their finances forward with care, compassion, and empathetic touch. We put people first and treat them like humans, not account numbers.