OWN Academy Internships Summer 2022

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About OWN Academy

OWN Academy empowers youth to discover their purpose and design their future through 21st Century Career Exploration and Experiences. We contextualize 21st Century skills with a focus on Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Innovation through our events and programs. We are a company that is built with young people for young people. We engage with a lot of interns, OWN Academy ambassadors, as we see OWN Academy as a training ground for working with students.

With our business growing, we are looking to offer two internship positions: 1) Program Assistant and 2) Content Creator, in the education industry, who understand the challenges of it and the urgency of the need to transform. You are a  team player, an entrepreneur at heart, working with a dynamic team and empowered to build an education movement together. This person needs to be responsible, work independently and be goal-oriented, and a lateral thinker who is not afraid to experiment, iterate and always willing to improve. Not to mention, he or she must be empathetic, sensitive, a kind-hearted soul.

OWN Academy’s offer:

  • Start-up environment, young, dynamic and transparent working culture.
  • Hard work, with fun times.
  • Fully remote team across Asia, highly autonomous.
  • APAC exposure, hyper growth.

1. Intern – Program Assistant

The ideal candidate must be an innovative thinker who loves to design, tinker and create life-changing experiences. They will be working with a diverse range of professionals, and corporates to research, write the curriculum and execute on programs.

Job Function

  • Overall administrative and operational support of program operations and delivery
  • Establish a strategy for measuring and analyzing the impact of outreach
  • Research and develop a network of industry professionals to support programs/events
  • Maintain adequate documentation of the work
  • Note: this is an unpaid internship

Skills Requirements

  • Diligent and organized
  • Attention to details
  • Strong communication skills, written and spoken
  • Quantitative and qualitative research skills
  • Good interpersonal skills, enjoy working with and through people
  • Proficient in Google Suite, MS office and competent with general IT knowledge/skills

Other Requirements

  • Resilient and with positive attitude
  • Willingness to learn
  • Adaptable to the pace of a startup

Internship details

  • Period: May – August 2022
  • Candidate: Local university students
  • This is an unpaid internship program

2. Intern – Content Creator

The ideal candidate will be able to exercise your storytelling skills by ideating and executing digital content for OWN Academy’s platforms to engage its audiences and promote its products. Someone who is positive, creative, and curious. Someone who loves chasing a good story and has a lot of ideas. You will be part of the Marketing team, in a startup environment, and will be guided in the whole process of publishing content for web and social media. Learn from others and contribute to the company’s mission of helping students discover their future careers through this experience!

Job Function

  • Utilize best practices and be familiar with OWN Academy’s mission to generate ideas and create content
  • Develop content for OWN Academy’s digital platforms in the form of articles, social cards, captions, and email
  • Produce well-researched material for online publishing
  • Follow a content calendar and collaborate with a lean Marketing team to ensure timely posting of materials
  • Use SEO (search engine optimization) strategies in writing to maximize the online visibility of content pieces produced

Skills Requirements

  • Writing and editing
  • Research / fact checking
  • Meeting deadlines
  • Graphic design and basic video editing are an advantage, but not required
  • Proficient in Google Suite and MS Office. Proficiency in WordPress and Canva is an advantage, but not required
  • Willing to learn
  • Good interpersonal skills

Internship details

  • Period: May – August 2022
  • Candidate: Local university students
  • This is an unpaid internship program