Role Purpose and Overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and creative communicator to join our vibrant Youth STEM 2030 team as a Digital Content Creation Intern. We’re a global youth-led social enterprise on a mission to empower youth globally to use science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to tackle the world’s biggest challenges, such as climate change, poverty and inequalities. We’re looking for someone who is proactive and keen to expand their skillset to join the team and enable us to create impactful digital content.

As a Digital Content Creation Intern, you’ll use digital media to tell stories about young people making change through STEM, raise awareness of global challenges (and how young people can help) and showcase STEM solutions to global challenges. We want to use social media for good, and you’ll have a lot of creative freedom in this role to use social media to advance our mission. By collaborating with our global community of youth, you’ll support them to tell their own stories, giving them a platform to share their STEM innovations, and the issues impacting their communities. Ultimately, you’ll enable us to reach more young people from around the world, and ultimately enable more young people to be empowered to tackle the world’s biggest challenges through STEM. Whether through social media, our website or newsletters, our digital content will be: designed for youth, by youth; accessible to and inclusive of diverse youth; fun and engaging; put a focus on STEM solutions to global challenges; and create impact, by connecting young people with the information, inspiration and tools they need to make change through STEM. If this sounds like something you’d like to be part of making happen, this role could be for you!

Working at Youth STEM 2030

We’re a global youth-led social enterprise on a mission to empower youth globally to use science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to tackle the world’s biggest challenges, such as climate change, poverty and inequalities.

By joining Youth STEM 2030 as a Digital Content Creation Intern, you’ll get to…

• Work with an incredible group of young researchers, innovators and changemakers, from over 80 countries and across 6 continents!

• Make a real impact - we’re a small social enterprise, so you’ll really see the difference you’re making.

• Develop your skills in a supportive and welcoming environment, where it’s okay to experiment, fail and learn by doing.

• Take advantage of a range of training opportunities, tailored to your individual skillset and development needs, to enhance and expand your skillset.

• Support on creating an effective CV and cover letter writing, with the additional opportunity to be involved in interviewing prospective volunteers - though it might sound daunting at first, other young people have told us this is hugely beneficial to their own interview performance!

• Gain experience in creating impactful and engaging digital content, through the entire process, from content brainstorming and planning, to content creation, through to evaluation.

• Build your network through collaborating with a range of stakeholders, including businesses, other non-profit organisations and young people around the world!

Youth STEM 2030 is committed to building and developing a workforce that reflects the diversity of the young people we support, and we work proactively to ensure all job applications are treated fairly, with respect and without bias.  We actively encourage applications from candidates who identify as being part of one or more marginalised groups, and seek to create an environment where each individual is supported to thrive and bring their whole selves to our team.

Key Responsibilities

This is a varied role, where you’ll create digital content for our social media, newsletter and website to increase Youth STEM 2030’s reach and impact.  As a Digital Content Creation Intern, you will:

Elevate Young People’s Voices:

• All of our work is designed for youth, by the young people we work with.  Across your role, you’ll ensure their views and voices have shaped the work you do, whether the style of content, global challenges highlighted, or the contents of our newsletter

• Support groups of young people to create their own content to be featured on our website and social media channels, including reviewing drafts of content, providing constructive feedback, ensuring quality and our ethos are maintained, and working collaboratively to create accompanying graphics

• Work proactively to ensure global representation, and that all Youth STEM Matters activities and outputs are inclusive and accessible to our diverse community of youth

Content Planning & Social Media Management: 

• Critically review and evaluate our current communication methods to identify opportunities for development

• Work as part of a team to develop an effective content strategy, with clearly defined objectives, measures of success, and principles for the content we create

• Create and maintain a content plan, outlining the content which will be created and posted, including collaborating with colleagues to align key dates in their programme schedules with when our programme-focussed content is released

• Provide timely responses to enquiries, deciding the most effective response and providing excellent customer service to individuals or prospective partners who contact us via social media

Content Creation: 

• Generate unique and creative ideas for digital content, with a focus on young people making change through STEM, different global challenges (and how young people can help) and STEM solutions to global challenges

• Research individuals, global challenges and STEM solutions to find sources to base our content on, and fact check these accordingly to ensure our content is reliable and accurate.

• Design beautiful and impactful graphics and/or create videos which align with Youth STEM 2030’s brand and ethos

• Write engaging and mission-aligned digital content for our social media, website and e-newsletters, which is tailored to our audience and reflects our organisation’s brand and ethos

• Proactively ensure that our content reflects the diverse and global youth we work with, and follows our accessibility guidance to be inclusive of all

• Curate our e-newsletter, which is received by a range of stakeholders, including young people, parents, teachers, individual supporters, and organisations

• Work collaboratively to produce programme- and/or event-specific media packs, which highlights our shared mission and can be shared with partners and sponsors to enable them to promote our programmes and events

• Coordinate digital marketing campaigns for our programmes, including our events and opportunities for young people to get involved in

Digital Content Evaluation:

• Use analytics data from across our digital platforms to identify the most effective forms of digital content, and future opportunities to increase our reach, engagement and impact

• Regularly review how effectively our content meets our community’s needs, through seeing feedback, suggestions and ideas

• Contribute to our organisation-wide impact reporting, through highlighting and reporting on key digital content creation outputs, performance and impact metrics

Other Duties:

• Research and write news articles for our website, announcing Youth STEM 2030’s new programmes, partnerships, achievements or milestones

• Build webpage(s) on Youth STEM 2030 website (no coding experience required)

• Other duties, as required, to increase the impact and reach of our digital content.

Person Specification

You’ll excel in this role if you are passionate about creating content with impact, and have a flair for content creation, writing and graphic design! You will enjoy working as part of a diverse team of youth, and be passionate about raising awareness of global issues, giving young people a platform, and equipping youth as STEM changemakers through the content you create. We are looking for someone who is eager to get stuck in and is able to bring their own ideas to the team. Above all, you should be a proactive team player, who is ready to learn and extremely self-motivated.

Essential Skills, Attributes and Experience:

Our ideal candidate is/can…

• Able to take a proactive approach, with an ability to work on your own initiative, manage your time and workload effectively and put your creative new ideas into action.

• Keen to learn and continuously improve.  A lot of the work we do as an organisation involves ‘learning by doing’, so the successful applicant will have a positive attitude towards working on a range of projects and tasks, and receiving constructive feedback.

• Are good at working and communicating (both written and verbally) with a wide range of people, and able to adapt your communication style depending on the platform you are using or group you are communicating with.

• An effective storyteller, who is able to communicate with clarity and creativity, to build connection with an audience and deliver a key message.

• Able to use your creativity and high attention to detail to create engaging social media posts which maintain a consistent brand voice, and use your graphic design skills to create impactful and unique graphics, which align with Youth STEM 2030’s brand.

• Effectively do background research using reputable sources, and summarise long-form content (e.g. articles, recordings from our events), to create scientifically accurate, concise and engaging digital content.

• Able to take an impact-driven approach towards achieving our mission, and can think critically to identify areas for improvement, including based on analyses of data from social media analytics and qualitative feedback from our community.

• Show commitment to Youth STEM 2030’s mission and values, with a passion for empowering young people to drive change.

Desirable Skills, Attributes and Experience:

Any experience in the following areas would be of added benefit to your application, but this is not essential (and we encourage your application even if you do not have experience in any of these):

• Previous experience in creating high-quality and engaging video content.

• A broad background knowledge in STEM and/or sustainable development (this does not need to have been obtained through formal study).

• Understands the bigger picture of how the digital content we produce can (positively or negatively) impact different stakeholder groups.

• Any past experience in creating digital content for another organisation, including content planning, creation and evaluation.

Other Essential Criteria:

Youth STEM 2030 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all; this is a responsibility that is shared by all members of staff.  Since this role involves working with children and young people, the successful candidate will be appointed on the condition of becoming a member of the PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups) scheme.  Youth STEM 2030 will pay for and administrate this.

Applicants must be a member of the GCAS Talent Pool to apply for this role.