Marketing & Content Creation Internship (Summer 2025)

The Tri-City Chili Peppers are looking for qualified Marketing & Content Creation Interns for their 2025 Summer Baseball Season.

The Chili Peppers are the HOTTEST team in the Coastal Plain League, a summer wood-bat baseball league with teams in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. As the innovators of Cosmic Baseball, our team plays from mid-May through early August with over 35+ home games at Shepherd Stadium in Colonial Heights, VA. We employ a small full-time staff so part-time seasonal employees and interns will perform integral duties and gain valuable professional experience and knowledge.

As a Sports Marketing & Content Creation Intern, you'll work closely with our Sales team in order to promote upcoming games in order to expand the knowledge of the Chili Peppers brand, grow ticket sales, and merchandise purchases. This department will be responsible for: all social media posts, email newsletters, website updates, storage and organization of photo, video, and graphic design files, creating audience specific content, all photos and videos taken during games and community events, and staff photos.

Qualified individuals should be a competent professional able to independently perform all game day media and public relations activities, develop quality written communications, and have experience using photography and video equipment and editing software.

All candidates should include a portfolio link in their cover letter or resume that highlights their previous work.


The position starts the week of May 12th and will end by August 12th. These dates include pre-season games, travel to a game as a part of our Cosmic Takeover Tour, the regular season and playoffs.

Responsibilities:

• Shoot videos and/or photos of the team during training sessions, game days, and other events needed to utilize in marketing projects.
• Execution of pre-production schedule including video and audio as well as graphic design.
• Provide leadership for the creation of content for, editing of, and promotion of the game day magazine.
• Aiding in the post-production process of exporting photos and videos to Dropbox or other storage locations.
• Work in collaboration with the Sales team and to create marketing promotion campaigns.
• Perform in-the-field marketing tactics and be comfortable communicating with potential sponsors and patrons.
• Work a certain number of office hours during the week in order to communicate with departments regarding needed posts, work on posts, schedule and shoot videos for posts, editing photos and videos, organizing files and completing projects.
• Take turns traveling to away games
• Assist with stadium preparation and clean up for each game.

Requirements:
• Experience writing for newspapers, newsletters, blogs, magazines and other journalism mediums.
• Preferred basic knowledge of and experience with: Graphic Design, Photography, Videography, Editing (Photo and Video), Adobe Platforms such as InDesign, Photoshop, or Premiere Pro, Newsletters, and E-blasts (MailChimp).
• If all skills do not apply, applicants should be willing to learn and develop them.
• Possess strong written and oral communication skills.
• Self-motivated individual with the ability to multi-task.
• Must be self-driven and highly motivated.

This is an unpaid/college credit internship eligible position. The goal for those who accept this position is to give them real-world learning experiences and allow them an educational environment where they will learn and hone their skills within a workforce.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.

Job Questions:

1. Are you seeking this position for general experience or college credit? Please specific which one in your response.
2. If applying for college credit, how many hours will you need to fulfill your credit? Put NA if not completing for credit.
3. If you need housing, the Chili Peppers have rented a large multi-bedroom and bathroom house in which 15 interns can live in exchange for paying $2500 in rent for the summer. Utilities are included. The house, including the bedrooms, comes furnished. The full rent amount is due before move-in. Would you be interested in living in our intern house? Put NA if you do not need housing.