PR Graduate Summer Internship (June-September)

Graduate Internship, Catalyst

Golin Los Angeles is hiring an graduate intern to join our team. With a focus to monitor and analyze earned and social media news for top brands. You’ll collaborate with internal and external teams to provide insightful reports that showcase the value of our award-winning work. This person will assist in coordinating and executing the day-to-day PR responsibilities.

Who We Are:

Golin is a progressive public relations agency with expertise ranging from brand-building and cutting edge digital content, to corporate reputation, healthcare advocacy and measurement. Our roster includes many of the largest consumer brands in the world. Golin aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey, to deliver maximum impact for clients and reach a profoundly diverse global market. We Go All In, in everything we do. We're especially committed to Go All In for our people.

With best-in-class work that has earned worldwide attention and awards, including the 2024 SABRE Best Large Agency of the Year, 2024 PRovoke Media Best Large Agency to Work For, and 2024 PRWeek U.S. Agency of the Year, there is no better time to join an agency redefining the role of PR and helping companies create change that matters.

Sound like you want to Go All In with us? Here are the details:

What You'll Do:

• Daily and campaign monitoring of earned media news and social dashboards and compile daily morning monitoring reports and morning and afternoon campaign monitoring
• Insert all coverage into excel grids or other team formats with active links
• Flag company or product issues immediately to supervisor
• Track competitor news and flag immediately to supervisor
• Learn and exhibit solid understanding of client information including general business, issues of relevance to the industry, individual brand/product campaigns
• Ensure team members are kept updated on client developments
• Participate in client and account team interaction, assist in creating client meeting and call reports, activity reports, status documents, and results reports for agency team
• Interact with team members to provide status updates and project completion
• Participate in and attend appropriate meetings
• Have a strong eye for detail and quality control of ideas for team correspondence and plans
• Understand traditional media and digital and social media solutions and position them for the team to share in collaboration with subject-matter experts
• Proactively, reactively and opportunistically engage with online audiences following guidelines agreed upon by the client
• Analyze community insights, spot trends and make recommendations based on those insights
• Marry culture and the interests of the client’s community through always-ready content development
• Integrate planned content that addresses client events, launches and announcements and help boost with paid media as necessary
• Attend events, if needed, and create compelling content on the spot
• Exhibit solid understanding of client information including general business strategy, issues of relevance to the industry and company values
• Interact with team members to promote integration between content and community
• Work closely with the creative team for visual content needs, and the analytics team for content trend analysis, content optimization and community growth

Who You Are:

• You must have obtained at least a bachelor's degree
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to multi-task
• Meet deadlines under pressure and work independently
• Strong writing skills
• A collaborative style
• Solutions-oriented
• Accountable and responsible

**To be considered, your application process must be:

• Apply to this posting
• Upload as ONE PDF DOCUMENT - Your resume and responses to the essay questions below.
• Saved the PDF as: Last Name, First Name

Please answer ALL of the following in no more than 200 words per question:

1. Tell us about a time you've gone all in. Outside of showing up on time and giving us your best effort, how would you do that at Golin?
2. What’s something brave you'd like to see a brand do? Why? Is there a topic or issue you feel a specific brand could/should address?
3. How do you keep up with the latest trends and cultural news?
4. How do you decide what trends are best for each brand (not everything is a fit for everyone)

**Please note, failure to complete the full application process may result in disqualification.

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.

Hourly range:

$22 per hour

Any request to schedule an interview and any legitimate offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of Golin. We will never require an applicant to provide sensitive personally identifiable information in order to conduct an interview.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.