Marketing Project Management Intern

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The Utah Jazz are looking for a motivated student or recent graduate to join our marketing team for the 2024-25 season. This is a part-time position working 20 hours per week from September 2024 to April 2025. This position will support the marketing Sr Project Manager and Jr Project Manager in coordinating daily and large-scale projects that support all areas of Smith Entertainment Group, including corporate partnerships, ticket sales, youth programs, community relations initiatives, brand campaigns and more. This internship will provide you with hands-on experience in sports marketing and help you develop marketable job skills as you pursue a career in sports marketing and project management.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Daily project management
• Meet or communicate regularly with key stakeholders regarding upcoming projects
• Perform daily check-ins with members of creative production team
• Create season-long timelines in support of institutional tentpole moments and annual campaigns
• Outline daily or weekly tasks involved in each project and delegate to designers, editors, etc. according to skill sets
• Respond to all production-related communications in a professional manner
• Gather and distribute production materials on-time
• Learn the necessary project management computer software and network directory systems
• Seek to improve company-wide processes by assisting several different departments regularly
• Assist with the creation of recaps for projects from the 2023-24 season.
• Protect the reputation of the company.
• Exemplify the Utah Jazz mission and values: transparency, all in, community obsessed, one team, and scrappy.
• Accept other duties, as assigned.

COMPETENCIES:

• Collaborates - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Customer focus - building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Decision quality - making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Action oriented - taking on new opportunities and rough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Manages complexity - Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Interpersonal savvy - Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Creative thinker - Thinks out of the box to develop creative and innovative solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Currently studying or recently graduated in marketing, project management or related field
• Available to work 20-25 hours a week including some nights and weekends
• Previous marketing or project management experience (preferred)
• Previous experience with project management software (preferred)
• Positive attitude and team oriented
• Willingness to learn
• Excellent follow-through skills
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects at once
• Outgoing, friendly personality

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• This person must be able to communicate and express themselves both written and verbally.
• This person must be able to observe, inspect, estimate and assess.
• This person must be able to sit, stand, bend, walk, and climb stairs for long periods of time.
• This person must be able to lift 20 lbs.

Smith Entertainment Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Note: The need may arise to revise, supplement, or rescind portions of this job description, and Smith Entertainment Group reserves the right to do so at any time. Employees shall be required to meet the qualifications and perform the duties of any revised job description.

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