Description: Sayre Christian Village is a nonprofit senior living community dedicated to providing quality housing, rehabilitation services and long-term nursing care reflecting Christian compassion for everyone. Our campus includes assisted living, independent living, specialized Alzheimer’s care, and short-term rehabilitation services.

Core Tasks: Our internship program offers a unique, flexible experience tailored to each student’s strengths and areas for growth. During the interview process, we’ll discuss your skills and goals to ensure this internship is both impactful and supportive of your professional development. You’ll not only gain essential hard skills but also acquire the confidence, balance, and soft skills crucial to an Integrated Strategic Marketing role. When you leave, you’ll be well-prepared to lead your own marketing projects and campaigns.

Current Projects and Learning Opportunities:

• Website Enhancements: Our new website will be updated soon, and you’ll contribute to ongoing upgrades, new plugins, blogging, and general site maintenance on the WordPress platform.
• Campus Expansion Project: Support communications and events for our 40 acre expansion, providing an opportunity to engage in high-level project management and community engagement.
• Social Media Management: Develop, plan, and post social media content across various platforms. We continue to hold the highest Facebook engagement rate among retirement communities in Kentucky.
• Event Preparation: Gain hands-on experience in organizing and running campaigns for our 1500+ event in the spring and 3 other seasonal events throughout the summer, fall, and winter.
• Email Marketing & Donor Relations: Assist in crafting communications and testing a new donor platform to support enhanced donor engagement.
• Video Production: Help with video editing and publishing content to YouTube, social media, and local media channels.
• Search Engine Marketing (SEM): This fall, you’ll learn how to launch and optimize a new SEM campaign.
• Team Collaboration: Be part of an award-winning marketing and communications team, where you’ll contribute ideas and insights for our evolving strategies.

Necessary Skills: A foundation in video editing is helpful, but not required. The main prerequisite is a willingness to learn—our team will teach you all other skills needed!

Supervisor Name: Elise Hinchman
Supervisor Role: Vice President of Marketing & Development
Supervisor Email: EHinchman@Sayre.us