Internships

 

The PhillyCAM internship program is designated for undergraduates, graduates, and recent graduates. PhillyCAM interns are expected to work a set weekly schedule of 10-15 hours per week. For TV/Video interns particularly, we will expect you to be in person for half of those hours each week.

With the exception of recent graduates, we do prefer interns to get course credit for their time at PhillyCAM. Our internships are unpaid but come with a small stipend of $250. This stipend is given upon the completion of the internship.

Our internship program is ideal for individuals who have an interest in doing community work and are looking to build upon existing TV and radio broadcasting, audio editing, basic video production, communications, and marketing skills. 

Candidates must complete our online application. Highly qualified candidates will be invited to meet with PhillyCAM staff in person or via phone to discuss qualifications and job responsibilities.

PhillyCAM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Internships Offered:

We do our best to match student skills, interests, and goals with existing PhillyCAM programs and project needs. We are generally seeking interns across departments across departments (TV/Video, Radio, Youth, Web, Social media) or to focus their support on existing community news programs. We encourage you to express your specific interest area in your cover letter. Summer interns will be expected to split their time between in person and remote work, with a preference toward 1 full day (minimum) at PhillyCAM each week between M-F. General hours of the internship are 10-6pm, with opportunities for evening and weekend productions. Interns should have approximately 10-15 hours in their schedule each week to commit to the internship.

TV/Video Production

PhillyCAM seeks a highly motivated and technically proficient candidate who will be responsible for all aspects of video production assignments as designated by the Education Director and Associate Producer. This position will provide an opportunity to gain hands-on experience shooting, directing, and editing video and TV studio production projects. This position will also give the student an opportunity to gain experience making editorial decisions with senior staff oversight while working on a variety of PhillyCAM projects such as short informational videos, public service announcements, and community-focused talk show series programs. In the Summer of 2022, we launched a new intern produced program title, From Every Angle. This magazine style variety show explores a theme each month with field, live and collaborative components directed by the internship cohort each cycle.

Additional job responsibilities may include: 

  • Participating in production meetings with staff and community organizations
  • Developing and managing lists of program subjects and contacts
  • Offering creative approaches and ideas to production projects
  • Confirming production logistics for studio and field shoots
  • Troubleshooting equipment as needed
  • Creating short promotional videos for social media and program bumpers.
  • Operating a variety of field and studio cameras
  • Editing project assignments in Adobe Premiere
  • Preparing video files to air on PhillyCAM 

Radio Production

PhillyCAM seeks a highly motivated and technically proficient candidate who is interested in gaining more experience in radio and willing to assist the WPPM Station Manager. This position will provide the opportunity to gain hands-on experience operating live radio broadcasts, compiling content for PhillyCAM's local music archive, attending community events to promote PhillyCAM Radio, creating on-air PhillyCAM promo spots, and editing audio content and preparing files to air. Additional job responsibilities may include:

  • Participating in production meetings with staff and community organizations
  • Coordinating production meetings with community partners
  • Compiling production materials
  • Offering creative approaches and ideas to production projects
  • Coordinating logistics for special radio projects such as our fund drives
  • Troubleshooting equipment as needed
  • Operating the broadcasting board
  • Preparing audio files to air on WPPM, as well as PhillyCAM guests

Community News Production (Voices OR AtrĂ©vete) 

PhillyCAM seeks a motivated multimedia journalist to join our Community News team as an intern. Our Community News intern will work with the Education Director and Community News Producer to create monthly content as part of our news programs. For bilingual candidates, we would support a Community News intern for Atrévete, our Spanish language community news program. Interns should have foundational reporting skills and experience producing video stories.

Responsibilities may include:

  • Participating in production meetings with staff and PhillyCAM members
  • Supporting members with production support as needed for stories
  • Producing video packages for our monthly shows
  • Creating social media graphics and teasers for upcoming programs
  • Recording events with field equipment
  • Pitching original stories to cover
  • Identifying guests for studio interviews

Students applying for these positions are expected to already have basic proficiency in technical production, editing, making independent decisions, multi-tasking, and communicating with the public. Students should be self-motivated and comfortable working independently. Interns with a strong interest in community driven work will benefit most from working with PhillyCAM. PhillyCAM creates schedules, 10-15 hours per week, with interns based on each intern's availability between 10 am and 7 pm with some nighttime and weekend production opportunities.

Social Media Marketing 

PhillyCAM seeks a highly motivated and technically proficient candidate to support our social media engagement including design, production, and distribution of multimedia content. This position will work primarily with our Communications Manager to plan, create, and publish social media content that compliments PhillyCAM’s goals. This position will also give the opportunity to gain experience making editorial decisions with senior staff oversight while working on a variety of PhillyCAM projects such as marketing and fundraising campaigns, informational videos, public service announcements, and our company blog. Additional job responsibilities may include: 

  • Cut short 10-30 second clips of timely video content to promote on social media
  • Encourage engagement across platforms (subscribe, comment, like, share)
  • Create copy and schedule posts for social media promotions
  • Create or edit simple graphics to accompany social media posts
  • Identify influencers and businesses to follow relating to our work
  • Take photographs at events and for general promotion 
  • Help write up blog posts about events/happenings for the website

Web Development

PhillyCAM seeks a detail oriented Web Development intern to support our Web Manager with backend programming, development and testing. You’ll have an opportunity to work with Webflow, the popular low/no-code website builder, and Drupal the CMS used by thousands of websites. Responsibilities will include:

  • Help ensure PhillyCAM meets  WCAG 2.1 Accessibility standards
  • Assist in posting content on the PhillyCAM website
  • Write/edit meta descriptions for all new pages created for PhillyCAM sites
  • Ensure all images include alt text
  • Familiarity with CSS is helpful but not required.

Candidates applying for this position are expected to have basic proficiency in editing, conducting interviews, making independent decisions, social media engagement, managing multiple project deadlines, and communicating with the public. The ideal candidate will have experience managing professional social media accounts across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

The Summer cycle will begin the week of June 3, 2024.

Deadline to apply: April 15, 2024

Please complete this form to apply.

For further information, contact Education Director Laura Deutch at laura@phillycam.org