Copywriter HBCU Fellowship
Remote
We are seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious Copywriter Fellow to gain hands-on experience across all aspects of the agency business while providing invaluable support to our creative team. Taylor’s Copywriter HBCU Fellowship is a paid post-undergraduate, six-month, remote fellowship program.
Taylor provides real-world professional experience, development, and career-readiness fellowships to post-undergraduates and master’s students from accredited historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
As a Taylor Fellow, you are open minded, ready to learn, and motivated to start your career in the PR, social, and digital marketing industry. You’re excited to join a multifaceted group of colleagues that embrace diversity of thought as a means to enhance innovation and collaboration in all we do.
Responsibilities and Learning Opportunities:
As a Taylor Fellow, you will gain hands-on agency experience through an in-depth training program, a dedicated manager, professional development and networking opportunities, and the day-to-day responsibilities and learning opportunities outlined below.
Shape
Use strong understanding of evolving copywriting principles and a client’s business, brand, and industry to offer and develop contemporary copywriting that meets client business needs
Remain current on marketing, design, technology, user experience, and cultural trends, and infuse this knowledge into all work
Collaborate effectively with Strategy, Account, and Creative teams to provide ongoing counsel to mid-level clients, and to bring ideas to life through unconventional thinking and design innovation
Actively participate in creative ideation and planning for digital & social content, motion graphics, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
Effectively refine ideas into integrated visual systems that deliver against defined objectives
Make
Assists senior team members with writing of creative platforms, manifestos, digital/social copy, and other copy for presentations and final execution
Demonstrate accountability and ownership for all copywriting work on assigned projects, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams of account/PR, strategy, and production to execute ideas that drive business impact
Self-edit work in progress, incorporate feedback and direction from senior team members, and collaborate with them to evolve and elevate your work
Work on multiple workstreams/assignments simultaneously, ensure that all work fits together as part of the broader strategy and/or brand identity system
Communication and Storytelling
Partner with Art Direction to design and create concepted ideas
Pitch creative ideas
Write, present, and communicate in a polished and persuasive manner across all mediums, internally and externally
Communicate well with internal colleagues to explain creative ideas and respond to questions or concerns
Learn how to write ideas and idea statements and articulate them as headlines.
Concepting
Actively participate in creative ideation for digital & social content, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
Ensure that ideas/concepts fit together as part of the broader strategy and brand identity
Assist in quick-turn ideas that tap into a culture or a specific moment in time
Fellowship Requirements
This is a post-undergraduate opportunity open to recent graduates who hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited HBCU and those who are currently completing a master’s program or hold a master’s degree from an accredited HBCU
Prior experience/internships at PR, Advertising, Digital/Social Marketing, Creative agencies or relevant coursework
Write, present, and communicate in a persuasive manner, across a variety of platforms, including social media
Strong attention to detail, organization, multitasking, and time-management
Team player who enjoys working with and helping others in a collaborative environment
Curious and open to others’ ideas and viewpoints with a willingness to learn and take constructive feedback
A good problem solver who seeks to make improvements and learns from mistakes
Additional Details:
This is a full-time position (35-40hrs/week), Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET
Must be a recent college graduate, a graduate school student, and/or a student who has recently completed a master’s program at an accredited HBCU
This is a paid fellowship: $4,166.68 per month worked, less applicable deductions and withholdings (based on an annual equivalent salary of $50k)
Includes Paid Time Off, Holidays, and additional perks
Fellowship begins 1/8/2025, and will go through 6/27/2025
About Taylor
Taylor is a purpose-led marketing communications agency that has shaped possibilities for the world’s leading brands for four decades. Our heritage in public relations and deep sports & entertainment expertise fuels breakthrough creativity across the entire media ecosystem.
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