Social Media and Podcast INTERN

The Focus on the Family Internship Program provides valuable experience, professional and spiritual development, and lasting friendships for over 30 college upperclassmen each summer. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Focus on the Family has nearly 700 employees who work to achieve the mission of enriching the lives of families, engaging the culture, advocating for life and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The work is meaningful, the culture is rewarding, and the purpose is eternal.

Social Media and Podcasting Intern - Job Description

How You Contribute

Focus on the Family’s Social Media and Podcasting department helps extend the ministry’s content and mission to digital audiences across social platforms, YouTube, and podcasts. Our team develops, packages, publishes, and evaluates content with the goal of reaching people where they are and helping them engage more deeply with Focus on the Family. As an intern, you would contribute to real social media and podcasting work while learning how content strategy, creative execution, platform algorithms, and audience analytics work together in a professional organization.

Responsibilities - What Does “A Day in the Life” Look Like?

In this internship, the intern may:

• Assist with creating, editing, packaging, and publishing short-form and long-form social video content.
• Review social media and podcast performance data to identify patterns in reach, retention, engagement, audience growth, and content performance.
• Research platform trends, algorithms, best practices, emerging formats, and successful content from other creators and organizations.
• Participate in team meetings, content planning, brainstorming, performance reviews, and strategic discussions about how to reach and grow digital audiences.
• Support podcast and social workflows through tasks such as identifying strong clips, writing or refining copy and metadata, selecting hooks, and adapting content for different platforms.
• Contribute to special growth experiments, which may include helping launch and develop Focus on the Family clip channels using existing short-form content and applying what is learned to grow new audiences.

Goals - How Do We Want You to Learn and Grow?

Through this internship, the intern will have the opportunity to:

• Learn how professional social media strategy differs from personal social media use, including how audience, mission, platform, format, and organizational goals shape content decisions.
• Gain hands-on experience with social video editing, content packaging, publishing workflows, podcast promotion, and multi-platform distribution.
• Develop skills in analytics and strategic thinking - including how to evaluate why content succeeds or fails, identify the elements that can make content highly shareable, and use performance data to improve future content.
• Understand how social media and podcasting work with video production, marketing, creative, digital, and other ministry teams to support larger organizational goals.
• Grow in creative judgment, audience development, workplace communication, professionalism, collaboration, and the ability to make recommendations based on both instinct and data.

Experience - What Are We Looking for in a Candidate?

Ideal candidates should have:

• Pursuing a degree in communications, marketing, digital media, journalism, video production, broadcasting, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• A strong personal understanding of social media platforms and digital culture, with demonstrated interest in how and why content performs.
• Strong creative instincts, communication skills, curiosity, and a willingness to learn both the creative and analytical sides of social media.
• Ability to interact professionally with coworkers, partners, guests, and ministry constituents and to receive feedback well.
• A desire to learn and grow in social media strategy, audience development, video editing, podcasting, analytics, and digital content production.
• Examples of social media, video, podcast, or other digital content work are encouraged but not required; personal projects or channels may be included.

Internship Expectations

As a non-profit ministry, Focus on the Family is committed to hiring staff who are dedicated to sharing the gospel and live by biblical truths. Therefore, all candidates must:

Exemplify Ephesians 5:1-2, “Therefore be imitators of God as dear children and walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us...”

Pursue the Great Commission given by Jesus Christ in Matthew 28:19-20, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ; maintaining a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Focus; adhering to the Standard of Moral Conduct and Statement of Faith; upholding Focus on the Family's ministry in prayer

Demonstrate behaviors aligned with Focus on the Family core values

Additional Notes:

This position is an unpaid intern. There will be no compensation or pay for this position, but a $3,500 honorarium; lunch will be provided during workdays, and housing will be provided for out-of-town students only.

Only upperclassmen college students need apply for a summer internship.

Transportation is the responsibility of the intern and may be a condition of acceptance.

Helping Families Thrive in Christ! Focus on the Family is a 501c3 Christian Non-Profit Ministry.