Marketing Communications Summer 2025 Intern

Clark Dietz, Inc. is an employee owned, multi-discipline consulting engineering firm with offices in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Wisconsin. We are a recognized leader in transportation, civil, environmental, water/wastewater, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering fields. Our depth of talent across disciplines allows our staff the opportunity to collaborate and serve our clients with innovative and sustainable solutions.

We have a Marketing Communications Internship available for the Summer 2025. The ideal candidate must possess a strong sense of collaboration and ownership in addition to communication, concept development, research, problem-solving and presentation skills. This position will provide support in communicating the company's brand and the department's vision through multiple channels.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist initiation and execution of thought leadership (editorial calendar); brainstorm topics, interview staff of all levels, generate outlines, and help shape content consistent with Clark Dietz brand and voice
• Serve as a connection from marketing to the engineering intern class
• Using thought leadership/blog content, assist with creating pitch-ready briefs for press distribution; explore audience growth methods
• Assist with maintaining social media presence & calendar, actively seek timely topics from staff to promote; create a backlog of serial content
• Explore ways to share Clark Dietz's culture as an employee benefit as well as commitment to community
• Maintain internal communication with SharePoint updates and staff highlights
• Aid updates to the conference, speaking opportunity, and award submittal calendar
• Miscellaneous light graphic design and video projects for advertisements, social, presentation materials, or general office documents
• Enforcement of brand standards as it relates to content driven marketing materials
• Work collaboratively with staff across multiple offices
• Review content for errors (QA/QC) and approach assignments with precision and passion
• Assist with updating company website in WordPress
• Manage multiple projects and meet deadlines with efficiency

Position Requirements

• Sophomore, Jr. or Sr. standing with declared major in marketing, communications, public relations, or creative writing is desired
• Previous experience developing content for blogs, proposals, thought leadership articles, email marketing, and press releases is desired
• Experience creating differentiated content across marketing channels is desired
• Some graphic experience with print, web, and social media
• Strong ability to prioritize and multitask in collaborative environment
• Ability to liaise with graphics contractors/resources
• Experience with CRMs (Deltek a plus), WordPress, and SEO is a plus
• Experience with Adobe InDesign and Photoshop is desired
• Light video content creation/editing a plus
• Willingness to improve skills within other Adobe products (Premier)
• Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud (PC based) and Microsoft Office Suite is required
• Applications should include a link to current portfolio, if available.

As an employee-owned firm, Clark Dietz offers an excellent compensation and benefits package including staff bonus program, comprehensive insurance benefits, annual education budget, generous retirement and paid time off plans and ownership opportunity. To learn more about our firm please visit www.clarkdietz.com EOE M/F/D/V