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 30 hours per week from August 2024 through the end of the NBA season. This position will support the marketing coordinator and manager in executing advertising and promotional campaigns to support 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.

This is a part-time position based in Salt Lake City, UT. 

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist in the planning and execution of marketing initiatives that drive revenue, engage fans, and develop new fans
• Provide marketing support for internal departments and help them achieve their overarching business goals
• Support the marketing and automation specialist in writing, editing, and building email marketing communications
• Work with the brand creative team to create persuasive collateral for marketing, ticketing, corporate partnerships, team store, game presentation, community relations, and public relations
• Maintain consistency of marketing communications across multiple media channels and traffic deliverables on time and on strategy
• Manage and fulfill internal and external print projects
• 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:

• Collaborative – able to build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Customer-focused – able to build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Quality decision-making – able to make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Action-oriented – able to take on new opportunities and rough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Manages complexity – able to make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Interpersonal savvy – can relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Creative thinking – able to think out of the box to develop creative and innovative solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Currently studying or recently graduated in marketing or a related field
• Available to work 30 hours a week including some nights and weekends
• Previous marketing experience (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.

The 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 SEG 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.