What are the responsibilities and job description for the Social Media & Marketing Game Day Intern position at Chicago Sky?
The WNBA Chicago Sky is seeking social media and marketing interns with excellent writing, editing, and strategy skills for the 2025 season. The intern should be able to attend all home games at Wintrust Arena and opportunities for non-game days and away games virtually if schedule allows. This is a part-time, game day, unpaid position, college credit accepted.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Attend ALL Sky home games, including WNBA 2025 playoff home games if applicable.
- Assist in capturing game day content, including behind-the-scenes footage, player moments, and fan engagement.
- Support the ideation and brainstorming of creative social media content and marketing campaigns.
- Help with content organization, including tagging and sorting media assets for easy access.
- Assist with social media trend research and competitor analysis to enhance engagement strategies.
- Support event activations, community initiatives, and promotional campaigns as needed.
- Work closely with the marketing team on partnership activations and branding opportunities.
- Provide additional support to the social media and marketing teams as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Working to achieve or recent graduate with a Bachelors degree in marketing, sports management, or related fields.
- Experience in sports marketing and/or social media.
- High attention to detail with ability to work proactively and problem solve.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong working knowledge on professional basketball, specifically women’s basketball.
- Able to work non-traditional hours, in non-traditional settings. This includes working all home games and being available to work remotely on select road games if the opportunity allows .
- Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced, high pressure environment and demonstrate the ability to juggle multiple projects.
- Quick learner who is able to adapt and excel in various environments.
- Reliable transportation to and from games and ability to work weekends, nights and holidays
The ideal candidate should be able to work most, if not all, home games at Wintrust Arena. There may also be opportunities for other non-game day help. Interns are required to be available in-person from May to approximately October. This is an unpaid internship. Students should be able to earn academic credit for their participation, but are not required to.
Please submit a cover letter and resume OR answer the application questions.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.
