Virtual Internship Opportunity: Project Coordination and Management

Number of positions available: 4 students Position Overview: New Step 4 U (NS4U), is looking for highly motivated, dynamic, creative, organized, and passionate students to help support the Flourish with Neighbours Project to support public Mental Health and Wellbeing. Learn about project lifecycle management through the development of core project management capabilities Gain practical experience on how to execute a new project campaign from the creation of PM deliverables (project plans, risk and issues logs, asset management trackers, etc.) Learn how to be a leader by motivating and directing cross-functional teams towards a common goal. It is an excellent opportunity to build experience within an arts organization, gain valuable experience in the project coordination and management field, and build contacts for future employment opportunities.

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Project Coordination and Management

Number of positions available: 4 students Position Overview: New Step 4 U (NS4U), is looking for highly motivated, dynamic, creative, organized, and passionate students to help support the Communities Emergency Response through Art Project (CERTA). Learn about project lifecycle management through the development of core project management capabilities Gain practical experience on how to execute a new project campaign from the creation of PM deliverables (project plans, risk and issues logs, asset management trackers, etc.) Learn how to be a leader by motivating and directing cross-functional teams towards a common goal. Position Details: Working in collaboration with the NS4U Executive Director and the operational team to assist in the research, development, planning and execution of the new project. Creating and implementing communications and marketing plans including but not limited to developing and administering sponsorship proposals, e-mail messages and social media posts. Position Requirements: Motivated, passionate, confident, and able to work both independently and in a team Familiar with technology Excellent written and verbal communication skills Organized, with exceptional time-management skills Experience with social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), G-Suite, and video creation Marketing and project management experience is an asset It is an excellent opportunity to build experience within an arts organization, gain valuable experience in the project coordination and management field, and build contacts for future employment opportunities.

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Strategic Information Technology Plan

Number of positions available: 4 students This project seeks to develop a strategic information technology plan that will provide a roadmap and guidance to the organization in getting our IT assets and capabilities where they need to be to ensure future competitiveness and success in our industry. We believe this project/plan should include: Alignment of IT with our mission and vision statements Completion of a needs assessment Research into industry/competitor trends and capabilities Hardware, software, and human resources recommendations Implementation plan overview Draft budget and costs for an organization of our size

Virtual Internship: Strategic Information Technology Plan

This project seeks to develop a strategic information technology plan that will provide a roadmap and guidance to the organization in getting our IT assets and capabilities where they need to be to ensure future competitiveness and success in our industry. We believe this project/plan should include: Alignment of IT with our mission and vision statements Completion of a needs assessment Research into industry/competitor trends and capabilities Hardware, software, and human resources recommendations Implementation plan overview Draft budget and costs for an organization of our size

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Strategic Information Technology Plan

Number of positions available: 4 students This project seeks to develop a strategic information technology plan that will provide a roadmap and guidance to the organization in getting our IT assets and capabilities where they need to be to ensure future competitiveness and success in our industry. We believe this project/plan should include: Alignment of IT with our mission and vision statements Completion of a needs assessment Research into industry/competitor trends and capabilities Hardware, software, and human resources recommendations Implementation plan overview Draft budget and costs for an organization of our size

Virtual Internship Opportunity: SEO and Social Media Strategy

Number of positions available: 4 students Our team is looking for a social media marketing wizard who can help us drive more traffic and improve our SEO positioning. The primary project requirements include: Keyword analysis to determine relevant search terms to our organization A strategy document to outline: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) requirements to ensure our organization appears on the first page of Google for relevant keywords Social media requirements to increase the number of followers/likes and share Content Calendar Execution: Timely deployment of all our social media content to drive maximum traffic to our site Creating engaging content for prominent media websites and Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, TikTok Working with tools and programs such as CANVA, Photoshop, MailChimp We’re excited to work with a student who can help us not only brainstorm but also execute a strategy to achieve our goals at the end of this experience: To help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share. To effectively communicate our organization's vision and mission to a broad audience. To help us generate more traffic and revenue through search engines. To assist in the promotion of our income-generating activities and strengthen our image and relationships with local people, businesses, organizations, current and potential members. For the students to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling social media content. This is a great project for students to prove their digital marketing expertise to future employers, as the impact of their work on this project can be easily measured and communicated.

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing and Communications

Number of individual positions available: 4 students ABOUT COMPANY We Connect, We Inspire, We Create – Step By Step We promote Canadians' mental health through the arts by carrying out customized, creative, interactive art programs, workshops, and projects for the benefit of individuals who are facing difficult life situations. New Step 4 U gives people-in-need opportunities to find their voices through creative arts. OUR VALUES: COLLABORATION: We believe the best work is done together EMPATHY: We believe in putting people first POSITIVE IMPACT: We know that our work makes a difference in peoples lives ACTION: Feel More, Care More, Do More PROJECT SCOPE New Step 4 U (NS4U) is looking for a highly motivated, dynamic, creative, organized, and passionate student to help support the ARTbulance project and the first subscription-based product - the My Hug Bag. To assist in promoting our flagship project and activities, strengthen our image and relationships with local people, businesses, organizations, current and potential members. New Step 4 U offers a virtual internship opportunity for 4 students. The primary focus for the 4 students will be: 1) Marketing Communications - Recommend changes to advertising and PR materials; create an integrated marketing campaign; create a rebranding campaign. 2) Public Relations - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories. 3) Strategic Social Media Marketing - develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; create useable social media and blog posts. Our goal at the end of this experience is: To help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share. To effectively communicate our organization's vision and mission to a broad audience. To help us generate more traffic and revenue through digital marketing and search engines. To assist in promoting our income-generating activities and strengthening our image and relationships with local people, potential sponsors, businesses, organizations, current and potential members. For the students to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling social media content. Other duties the student may complete could include : Assist with outbound email marketing campaigns as needed; measure and report on these campaigns' performance using tools such as Hubspot, Google Sheets, Excel. Content development, including social posts, blog posts, LinkedIn articles, and website copy. We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Riipen messaging, G-Suite, Zoom meeting, email Student's primary contact : Marina Mais, Executive Director

Virtual Internship Opportunity: SEO and Social Media Strategy

Number of positions available: 1 team of 3 persons Our team is looking for a social media marketing wizard who can help us drive more traffic and improve our SEO positioning. The primary project requirements include: Keyword analysis to determine relevant search terms to our organization A strategy document to outline: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) requirements to ensure our organization appears on the first page of Google for relevant keywords Social media requirements to increase the number of followers/likes and share Content Calendar Execution: Timely deployment of all our social media content to drive maximum traffic to our site Creating engaging content for prominent media websites and Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, TikTok Working with tools and programs such as CANVA, Photoshop, MailChimp We’re excited to work with a student who can help us not only brainstorm but also execute a strategy to achieve our goals at the end of this experience: To help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share. To effectively communicate our organization's vision and mission to a broad audience. To help us generate more traffic and revenue through search engines. To assist in the promotion of our income-generating activities and strengthen our image and relationships with local people, businesses, organizations, current and potential members. For the students to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling social media content. This is a great project for students to prove their digital marketing expertise to future employers, as the impact of their work on this project can be easily measured and communicated.

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing and Social Media

New Step 4 U offers a virtual internship opportunity for marketing students. The primary focus for the students will be: Marketing Communications - Recommend changes to advertising and PR materials; create an integrated marketing campaign; create a rebranding campaign. Public Relations - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories. Strategic Social Media Marketing - develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts.

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing and Communications

Number of individual positions available: 1 team of 3 persons ABOUT COMPANY We Connect, We Inspire, We Create – Step By Step We promote Canadians' mental health through the arts by carrying out customized, creative, interactive art programs, workshops, and projects for the benefit of individuals who are facing difficult life situations. New Step 4 U gives people-in-need opportunities to find their voices through creative arts. OUR VALUES: COLLABORATION: We believe the best work is done together EMPATHY: We believe in putting people first POSITIVE IMPACT: We know that our work makes a difference in peoples lives ACTION: Feel More, Care More, Do More PROJECT SCOPE New Step 4 U (NS4U) is looking for a highly motivated, dynamic, creative, organized, and passionate student to help support the ARTbulance project and the first subscription-based product, the Kind Box for Unkind Days. To assist in promoting our flagship project and activities, strengthen our image and relationships with local people, businesses, organizations, current and potential members. New Step 4 U offers a virtual internship opportunity for 3 marketing students. The primary focus for the 3 students will be: 1) Marketing Communications - Recommend changes to advertising and PR materials; create an integrated marketing campaign; create a rebranding campaign. 2) Public Relations - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories. 3) Strategic Social Media Marketing - develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts. Our goal at the end of this experience is: To help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share. To effectively communicate our organization's vision and mission to a broad audience. To help us generate more traffic and revenue through digital marketing and search engines. To assist in promoting our income-generating activities and strengthening our image and relationships with local people, potential sponsors, businesses, organizations, current and potential members. For the students to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling social media content. Other duties the student may complete could include : Assist with outbound email marketing campaigns as needed; measure and report on these campaigns' performance using tools such as Hubspot, Google Sheets, Excel. Content development, including social posts, blog posts, LinkedIn articles, and website copy. We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Riipen messaging, G-Suite, Zoom meeting, email Student's primary contact : Marina Mais, Executive Director

Project Management Internship

Position Overview: New Step 4 U (NS4U), is looking for a highly motivated, dynamic, creative, organized, and passionate summer student to help support the Communities Emergency Response through Art Project (CERTA). Learn about project lifecycle management through the development of core project management capabilities Gain practical experience on how to execute a new project campaign from the creation of PM deliverables (project plans, risk and issues logs, asset management trackers, etc.) Learn how to be a leader by motivating and directing cross-functional teams towards a common goal. Position Details: Working in collaboration with the NS4U Executive Director and the operational team to assist in the research, development, planning and execution of the new project. Creating and implementing communications and marketing plans including but not limited to developing and administering sponsorship proposals, e-mail messages and social media posts. Position Requirements: Motivated, passionate, confident, and able to work both independently and in a team Familiar with technology Excellent written and verbal communication skills Organized, with exceptional time-management skills Experience with social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), G-Suite, and video creation Marketing and project management experience is an asset Ability to work remotely It is an excellent opportunity to build experience within an arts organization, gain valuable experience in the project management field, and build contacts for future employment opportunities.

Website Redesign for Non-Profit

We are considering switching from our existing website builder platform to another CMS system and want to have a design idea that we can present to developers for a platform recommendation and pricing. We would like to have a design mock-up made that optimizes our existing content, based on our service offering and target customer. We believe this project will include: Reviewing our current website content and design. Interviewing our beneficiaries for insights on their needs. We want to encourage the community to use our website as the Art Hub for all their Mental Health protection, response and recovery needs. Designing a new website based on your insights and UX best practices. We hope to have a workable prototype that is ideal for our target customer, which we can present to our web developer for platform recommendations and pricing. 

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing and Social Media

New Step 4 U offers a virtual internship opportunity for marketing students. The primary focus for the students will be:  Marketing Communications  - Recommend changes to advertising and PR materials; create an integrated marketing campaign; create a rebranding campaign. Public Relations  - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories. Strategic Social Media Marketing  - develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts. Our goal at the end of this experience is: To help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share. To effectively communicate our organization's vision and mission to a broad audience. To help us generate more traffic and revenue through search engines. To assist in the promotion of our income-generating activities and strengthen our image and relationships with local people, businesses, organizations, current and potential members. For the students to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling social media content. Other duties the student may complete could include : Assist with outbound email marketing campaigns as needed; measure and report on the performance of these campaigns using tools such as Hubspot, Google Sheets, Excel Content development, including social posts, blog posts, LinkedIn articles, and website copy. We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools:  Riipen messaging, G-Suite, Zoom meeting, email Student's primary contact : Marina Mais, Executive Director

Creative writing and Communications

OUR MISSION We Connect, We Inspire, We Create – Step By Step New Step 4 U gives people-in-need opportunities to find their voices through creative arts. Our mission is to help, guide and connect people who are facing a difficult time in their lives through healing art workshops and projects. We promote the mental health of Canadians through the arts by carrying out customized creative, interactive art programs, workshops and projects for the benefit of individuals who are facing difficult life situations. New Step for You is looking for an unpaid Creative Writer and Public Communication Coordinator who will take ownership of the New Step for You blog posts, white papers, product descriptions, social media content and web copy. Coordinate activities among various stakeholders, and ensure we are investing in creating content that grows and inspires our community. The role will also involve having strategic oversight over the content calendar and editorial process as well as potentially writing articles and leading our SEO strategy. How students can help our organization: - Writing creative and accurate marketing or catalogue copy, product description - Developing a content strategy and prioritizing blog topics · Managing a content calendar and ensuring posts go out on schedule · Guiding the coordination between the research, writing, and social media teams · Optimizing content for SEO and lead generation It is a great opportunity to build experience within an arts organization and gain valuable experience in the marketing field, and the ability to build networks of contacts for future employment opportunities.

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing and Social Media

New Step 4 U offers a virtual internship opportunity for marketing students. The primary focus for the students will be:  Marketing Communications  - Recommend changes to advertising and PR materials; create an integrated marketing campaign; create a rebranding campaign. Public Relations  - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories. Strategic Social Media Marketing  - develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts. Our goal at the end of this experience is: To help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share. To effectively communicate our organization's vision and mission to a broad audience. To help us generate more traffic and revenue through search engines. To assist in the promotion of our income-generating activities and strengthen our image and relationships with local people, businesses, organizations, current and potential members. For the students to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling social media content. Other duties the student may complete could include : Assist with outbound email marketing campaigns as needed; measure and report on the performance of these campaigns using tools such as Hubspot, Google Sheets, Excel Content development, including social posts, blog posts, LinkedIn articles, and website copy. We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools:  Riipen messaging, G-Suite, Zoom meeting, email Student's primary contact : Marina Mais, Executive Director

Logo & Brand System Design

Our new logo and the brand system should be a visual representation of our mission, vision, values, voice, and services. We also want to ensure that we have specific rules and tools to apply this new brand component in a professional and design-friendly manner.  We believe this project will require: Defining our brand voice and values to translate into logo designs. Developing several logo variations for us to choose from. Researching our competitors to determine a unique, but correlated design. Researching our brand history and vision to develop a consistent visual representation.  We want to have a new logo and other promotional materials that are a positive portrayal of our organization, which can be used consistently across a variety of media. 

Website Redesign for Non-Profit

We are considering switching from our existing website builder platform to another CMS system and want to have a design idea that we can present to developers for a platform recommendation and pricing. We would like to have a design mock-up made that optimizes our existing content, based on our service offering and target customer. We believe this project will include: Reviewing our current website content and design. Interviewing our beneficiaries for insights on their needs. We want to encourage the community to use our website as the Art Hub for all their Mental Health protection, response and recovery needs. Designing a new website based on your insights and UX best practices. We hope to have a workable prototype that is ideal for our target customer, which we can present to our web developer for platform recommendations and pricing.