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TheOutHavenPaid Internship

Paid Social Media Marketing Intern

marketing · Remote / NYC

TheOutHaven is seeking a Paid Social Media Marketing Intern to help tell the story of local dining, activities, experiences, and better nights out across New York City and Long Island. This is a hands-on, paid 12-week internship for someone who wants practical experience building social content, supporting campaigns, learning performance analytics, and contributing to the growth of a hospitality and local-discovery technology brand.

Pay

$18–$20 per hour

Schedule

Approximately 10 hours per week for 12 weeks. This is a part-time, remote-first internship focused on the New York City and Long Island market. The specific weekly schedule will be agreed upon with the selected intern based on business needs and availability. Any optional in-person content assignment will be communicated and scheduled in advance.

Job type

Internship

Location

Remote / NYC

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This opportunity is structured as an educational internship and may require school documentation for college-credit participation.

About the role

As a Paid Social Media Marketing Intern, you will work directly with TheOutHaven's marketing efforts to plan, create, organize, publish, and evaluate social media content. The role is designed to provide meaningful, supervised experience across content strategy, short-form video, copywriting, community engagement, campaign execution, local business storytelling, and social analytics.

You will help translate TheOutHaven's product and brand into useful, entertaining, and visually engaging social content for audiences looking for restaurants, activities, events, experiences, date ideas, group outings, nightlife, and other things to do. You may support content for platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and other channels used by TheOutHaven.

This is a remote-first internship with a New York City / Long Island market focus. Some assignments may involve researching local businesses, events, neighborhoods, trends, or outing ideas. Any optional in-person content capture or local assignment will be communicated in advance and scheduled appropriately. The internship is structured for approximately 10 hours per week over 12 weeks.

What you’ll do

  • Help maintain a weekly and monthly social media content calendar aligned with TheOutHaven marketing priorities
  • Research restaurants, activities, events, experiences, neighborhoods, hospitality trends, seasonal moments, and local outing ideas across NYC and Long Island
  • Develop ideas for short-form social content, recurring content series, location spotlights, outing recommendations, educational posts, promotional posts, and community-focused content
  • Draft social captions, hooks, calls to action, video concepts, post copy, and supporting campaign copy in TheOutHaven's brand voice
  • Assist with creating and editing social assets such as short-form videos, reels, stories, carousels, static posts, and simple graphics using approved tools and brand guidelines
  • Organize approved photos, video clips, logos, location information, campaign assets, and other marketing materials for efficient content production
  • Support publishing and scheduling of approved content across designated social channels
  • Monitor comments, messages, mentions, and community engagement and escalate customer-service, business-owner, safety, or sensitive issues to the appropriate team member rather than responding outside approved guidelines
  • Help identify relevant social trends, formats, sounds, content styles, and cultural moments that may be appropriate for the brand
  • Track basic performance metrics such as reach, impressions, views, watch time, engagement, saves, shares, profile visits, link activity, and follower growth
  • Prepare simple weekly performance summaries highlighting what content performed well, what did not, and what could be tested next
  • Assist with A/B-style creative testing of hooks, captions, formats, posting approaches, and calls to action when directed by the marketing team
  • Support organic campaigns promoting TheOutHaven features, local businesses, events, experiences, reservation options, business-claim initiatives, and other approved company programs
  • Help maintain consistent branding, formatting, naming, links, disclosures, and quality standards across published content
  • Participate in brief check-ins, accept feedback, revise work, and document progress on assigned marketing tasks
  • Contribute ideas for improving audience growth, engagement, content quality, and awareness of TheOutHaven
  • Follow company privacy, confidentiality, copyright, brand-safety, and content-approval requirements when working with business information, images, customer information, or unpublished company material

What we’re looking for

  • Strong written communication skills with the ability to write clear, concise, audience-appropriate social copy
  • Familiarity with major social platforms such as Instagram and TikTok and an understanding of how people consume short-form content
  • Genuine interest in social media marketing, digital content, local discovery, hospitality, restaurants, events, experiences, or consumer technology
  • Ability to research information carefully and distinguish verified information from assumptions before using it in public-facing content
  • Strong attention to detail, including spelling, links, dates, location information, formatting, and brand consistency
  • Ability to organize assignments, meet agreed deadlines, communicate blockers, and work independently within a remote workflow
  • Willingness to receive feedback and revise creative work based on brand, legal, quality, or campaign requirements
  • Basic comfort using common digital productivity and content tools; specific platform training can be provided
  • Ability to commit approximately 10 hours per week for the 12-week internship period
  • Ability to follow written content-approval procedures and avoid publishing unapproved or confidential information

Nice to have

  • Experience creating social media content for a personal project, student organization, business, nonprofit, club, publication, or portfolio
  • Familiarity with short-form video editing tools such as CapCut, Adobe Express, Canva, or comparable tools
  • Experience with Canva or other lightweight graphic-design tools
  • Basic understanding of social analytics, engagement metrics, content testing, or digital marketing funnels
  • Interest in NYC and Long Island restaurants, nightlife, activities, entertainment, events, or local culture
  • Photography, videography, editing, copywriting, community-management, or content-planning experience
  • Coursework or practical experience in marketing, communications, media, advertising, business, hospitality, journalism, public relations, or a related area
  • A portfolio, social account, class project, or other example of relevant creative work is welcome but is not required unless specifically requested during the hiring process

What you’ll gain

  • Build a practical social media content calendar from campaign goals and audience needs
  • Learn how to research and turn local-business, hospitality, and outing information into engaging social content
  • Improve short-form copywriting, hooks, calls to action, captions, and content structure
  • Gain hands-on experience with short-form video and lightweight social creative production
  • Learn how to interpret social media metrics and prepare concise performance summaries
  • Understand how organic social content supports brand awareness, product discovery, customer acquisition, and business engagement
  • Practice working within brand standards, content approvals, copyright considerations, confidentiality requirements, and professional feedback cycles
  • Develop stronger project-management habits for a remote marketing environment
  • Complete the internship with a clearer understanding of social media marketing strategy, execution, measurement, and iteration

Benefits

  • Paid internship at $18.00-$20.00 per hour
  • Fixed schedule expectation of approximately 10 hours per week
  • 12 weeks of practical social media and digital marketing experience
  • Direct exposure to content strategy, campaign execution, short-form creative, community engagement, and analytics
  • Structured feedback and coaching on real marketing work
  • Opportunity to develop portfolio-quality work where company confidentiality and content rights permit
  • Experience working with a growing hospitality, local-business, and consumer technology platform
  • Flexible remote-first work structure with clear deliverables and check-ins
  • Opportunity to learn how a brand tests content, measures performance, and turns audience insights into future marketing decisions

Hiring process

  • Submit an online application
  • Structured application review based on the published role requirements
  • Shortlisted candidates complete a structured interview focused on job-related skills, communication, availability, and interest in the work
  • Relevant existing portfolio or work samples may be reviewed when available; selection remains based only on job-related qualifications
  • Final selection and written offer with the approved hourly pay rate, expected weekly hours, and proposed start date
  • Employee onboarding and account setup after acceptance

Equal opportunity & accommodations

TheOutHaven is an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations are available during the application and hiring process.

Paid Social Media Marketing Intern

$18–$20 per hour

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