Are you passionate about creating greener, healthier, and more connected cities? Join Southampton National Park City as a Digital Engagement Intern and play a key role in promoting and publicising Urban Wild, our city-wide festival celebrating Southampton’s green and blue spaces. You’ll help capture and share stories from across the city, bringing the festival to life online and amplifying the impact of community-led action.
Beyond the festival, you’ll also support the development of our website, helping to collate and showcase local groups in an engaging way. Working closely with our partners and volunteers, you’ll help grow our digital presence, ensuring our platforms inspire, inform, and connect people across Southampton. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a growing movement for a greener, healthier, and more connected city.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2025. Full details below.
Job title: Digital Engagement Intern
Job description: As Southampton National Park City’s (SNPC) Digital Engagement Intern you will help amplify our vision for a greener, healthier, and more connected city. Specifically, you’ll play a key role in launching and promoting “Urban Wild,” a city-wide festival celebrating Southampton’s blue and green spaces, engaging diverse audiences across digital platforms to inspire local action.
Location: Home-based with travel in and around Southampton
Contract type: 3 months (12 weeks) fixed term.
Commencing w/c 7th April and concluding 6th July 2025.
Hours: 14 hours per week
Salary: £14 p/h
Reports to: SNPC Coordinator
Direct reports: n/a
Key duties and responsibilities:
Digital Content Creation and Management
Develop and deliver engagement and communication strategies to engage diverse audiences.
Create and disseminate creative and shareable digital content, including copy, images, videos and graphics.
Identify and recommend new opportunities for digital growth and engagement.
Manage SNPC’s digital scheduling calendar across a variety of social media channels and e-newsletter.
Collaborate with internal teams, volunteers and other partners to gather information, develop ideas and coordinate content publishing.
Support the development of our website (using Wix), specifically amplying SEO and cultivating the city-wide “Explore” page.
Community Engagement, Partnership Development and Stewardship
Engage with our followers, respond to comments, messages and enquiries in a timely and professional manner.
Cultivate positive relationships with the online community, scope and grow our influencer relationships, and ensure key stakeholders are actively engaged and aligned with our values and objectives.
Engage and facilitate strong and collaborative partnerships with community groups, non-profit organisations, schools, businesses, and local government, involving them in SNPC’s aims.
Support the recruitment and stewardship of volunteers and supporters.
Act as an ambassador for SNPC, raising awareness of the movement and its values.
Analytics and Monitoring
Track, analyse, and report on digital performance using appropriate tools.
Generate insights and recommendations based on data to optimise future campaigns and reach new audiences.
Monitor key digital metrics, such as reach, engagement, and conversions.
Use insights to support the development of a portfolio towards SNPC’s application for National Park City status.
Person specification:
Essential Skills and Behaviours
Passionate about grassroots-led change, climate and biodiversity, and urban green/blue initiatives.
Experience in creating compelling and shareable content for social media, including text, images, videos, and infographics.
Excellent storytelling and communication skills, with the ability to create content that resonates with diverse audiences.
Proficiency in digital tools, including website maintenance, e-newsletters and social media management tools for scheduling, publishing, and monitoring content.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team, coordinating with multiple stakeholders.
Appreciation for diversity and inclusion, with a commitment to engaging and amplifying the voices of underrepresented groups.
Enthusiastic, approachable, and eager to learn.
Desirable Skills and Behaviours
Knowledge of Southampton’s communities, local groups, and environmental initiatives.
Understanding of the significance of maintaining a consistent visual identity.
Experience in digital engagement for events, particularly those involving multiple partners.
Strong understanding of social media trends, best practices, and emerging platforms.
Familiarity with social media analytics tools, with the ability to generate insights to optimise engagement.
Experience in working with partners and stakeholders to capture and craft impactful stories.
EDIE is a core function of SNPC’s work with the aim to create a greener and more connected city, recognising that the impacts of socio-environmental isolation are felt most profoundly by the most marginalised communities. These groups include, but are not limited to, those living in socio-economic and environmental deprivation, people of colour and disabled individuals. We therefore welcome applicants from such communities.
Please note that what we want most of all is to find the right person for this job, so if your preference is to work on a self-employed basis in this role and invoice for your time then this can be discussed as an alternative arrangement.
You must have the right to work in the UK already in place. Unfortunately we cannot sponsor or support any visa applications.
How to apply
Submit a CV and cover letter detailing your interest and suitability for the role to the SNPC Coordinator, Rae, at rae.turpin@nationalparkcity.org.
Deadline: 23:59 on Friday 28th February 2025
Interviews: Thursday 6th March 2025
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