Website Communications Team Intern (Financial and Administrative Services)
The Division of Student Affairs Internship Program
The Division of Student Affairs Internship Program empowers students to spend a summer handling a special project for the university designed to prepare them for life after graduation. Interns will work 19 hours per week for 10-weeks. These part-time internship positions offer a competitive compensation package that includes an hourly wage and housing assistance. Undergraduate students only are eligible to apply. The internship runs from May 30, 2023 to August 4, 2023. The application is due by February 12, 2023 at 11:59pm.
Although internships range in subject matter and skill set, each position is designed to prepare all students for life after graduation. An additional component to the internship experience will be a ten-week workshop series to develop students’ career readiness. The weekly workshop will require in-person attendance on campus.
Please contact TexasLEAD@austin.utexas.edu with questions.
*Undergraduate students must be enrolled in the Spring 2023 semester to be eligible.
The Office
Financial and Administrative Services (FAS) Communications oversees all communications from the Office of the Senior Vice President and CFO and works with the portfolio’s affiliated units to develop communication strategies for product launches and provides content strategy, marketing, and design support for campus campaigns, website development, and related announcements for distribution to general and specialized audiences. We also work with affiliated units to produce high-visibility print and online products used to communicate with the campus community, the news media and other audiences.
The Position
The intern will assist in migrating university website content from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, but this is NOT a programming (coding) internship. Interns will work with our staff and clients to evaluate and improve their website content, including the potential to manage user experience (UX) testing with the Optimal Workshop tool. Students will learn web best practices in usability, readability, searchability, and accessibility helping clients audit their website content. Students may prepare reports using available website analytics to help inform clients' decisions. Students will use industry-standard tools - Asana, Teams, Slack, Zoom, Drupal, Monsido, Google Analytics, Microsoft Suite, Box, etc.
The Supervisor
James Buratti, Senior Digital Strategy Manager
Who You Are (Qualifications)
This is a communications position, despite being housed in a web team. Familiarity with website tools such as Wordpress, Drupal, or HTML is helpful.
Familiarity with website best practices is helpful but not required. We can teach this.
Writing/editing skills
Understanding of UX best practices.
Understanding of research methods.
Interest in the nerdy/analytical side of UX/Web Best Practices