2023 Content Creators Camp-Application Now Open to Columbus Teens
Youth, Are You Ready for Season 3 of The Content Creators Camp? Level Up Your Creative and Content Skills This Summer!
Only 16 Positions Are Available; APPLY HERE!
WHAT: 2023 Content Creators Camp
WHEN: June 12th to August 13th, 2023
WHERE: Columbus, OH
EARN: $15/ hour this summer working 20 hours each week.
APPLY: Email contentcreators@warholandwallst.com or complete the application here.
Youth, Are You Ready for Season 3 of The Content Creators Camp? Level Up Your Creative and Content Skills This Summer!
Youth are innovative content creators, and a recent study shows that in 2021, 7.1 million Americans earned money through the creator economy. Content marketing is expected to be worth $600 billion by 2024, and 72% of companies increasing their content marketing budget in 2022 have goals of increasing brand awareness, generating leads, improving customer loyalty and engagement, and increasing sales and revenue. We’re preparing the next generation of expert content creators through our third year of Content Creators Camp, providing strategy, experience, and knowledge to help them make a living from their marketing and content creation skills. Join us for bigger and better experiences, with more youth and better experts to guide them towards a future in marketing and content creation.
The Content Creator Camp Summer Internship is being offered in partnership with Renui, the City of Columbus Department of Neighborhoods My Brother’s Keeper Village program and many amazing community partners!
This is a 9-week program, offering fifteen young men and women of color a paid $15/hour internship experience.
Features:
- Gain long-term experience from creative experts and professionals
- Gain access to apprenticeship and mentoring with professionals in the industry as well as additional networking opportunities with relevant professionals via the ContentCON Opportunity Fair.
- Build an enhanced LinkedIn portfolio featuring badges, professional headshots and more.
- Gain the skills that can be utilized for self-employment or employment, and are provided with opportunities for additional income. They further gain access to extended learning opportunities that advance their skills and earning potential.
- Join our Brand Ambassador Team and receive support through a community of alumni students and professionals which will include information regarding continuing education opportunities.
- Get a content creator kit and build your workbook with notes, tips and tricks to gain an advantage in the world of marketing and content creation.
Creative & Marketing Agencies:
There will be 2 agencies specializing in specific areas of content, creative/content services and marketing/experience services. The Creative/Content Agency is led by the Creative/Design and Video/Photo experts and reports to the Creative Manager. The Marketing/Experience Agency is led by the Social/Digital and Marketing/Experience experts and reports to the Content Program Manager. Youth Creative Leads support their respective Expert and help guide the interns through their summer learning, deliverables and experience as well as help them to navigate the summer and access available resources and networking opportunities. Ideally this candidate has experience with the program, has taken collegiate level courses and has a track record of leadership.
Summer Youth Interns: Youth will be interviewed to fill one of sixteen available summer positions. All CCC interns will be divided into two brand agencies for the summer and will help us plan a for-youth-by-youth event at summer’s end named ContentCON!
This opportunity is focused on high school age, young boys/girls and men/women of color.
Any files or information submitted and uploaded will be shared with the City of Columbus Department of Neighborhoods MBK Village program for programmatic purposes.
Are you ready to join a League of Youth Content Disruptors? Apply NOW!
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Available Youth Positions
Summer Youth Interns: Youth will be interviewed to fill one of sixteen available summer positions. All CCC interns will be divided into two brand agencies for the summer and will help us plan a for-youth-by-youth event at summer’s end named ContentCON:
- Pay: $15.00/hour for 20 hours per week (stipend)
- Available: 16 positions
- Duration: 9 weeks
Duties:
- Youth will demonstrate interest or ability in one of our four key areas (creative/design, social/digital, marketing/experience or video/photography.
- Gain long-term experience from creative experts and professionals
- Gain access to apprenticeship and mentoring with professionals in the industry as well as additional networking opportunities with relevant professionals via the ContentCON Opportunity Fair.
- Build an enhanced LinkedIn portfolio featuring badges, professional headshots and more.
- Gain the skills that can be utilized for self-employment or employment, and are provided with opportunities for additional income. They further gain access to extended learning opportunities that advance their skills and earning potential.
- Join our Brand Ambassador Team and receive support through a community of alumni students and professionals which will include information regarding continuing education opportunities.
- Get a content creator kit and build your workbook with notes, tips and tricks to gain an advantage in the world of marketing and content creation.
- Report to: Youth lead and ‘Agency’ experts
Four (4) Youth will be interviewed for Content Camp leadership roles serving as youth leads for their selected area:
- Pay: $16.00/hour for 20 hours per week (stipend)
- Available: 4 positions
- Duration: 10 weeks
Overall Duties:
- Youth leads will demonstrate advanced skill in one of our four key areas (creative/design, social/digital, marketing/experience or video/photography.
- Each lead will support their assigned program expert and creative agency (creative or experience).
- Youth leads work 10 weeks instead of 9 to assist in program preparation and close out.
- Assist with planning, outreach, scheduling and aligning weekly tasks that align with the weekly CCC schedule.
- Motivated planning, communication with adults and youth, timeliness, and leadership on content activities and brand outreach required!
Creative & Design Youth Lead:
- Helping to curate and assist interns with the execution of deliverables for the weekly challenges, ContentCon and African American Male Wellness Walk Booth. Assist with deliverables via a creative & design lens. Leads additional branding, marketing and creative opportunities during the 9-week summer experience.
Video & Photo Youth Lead:
- Helping to curate and assist interns with the execution of deliverables for the weekly challenges, ContentCon and African American Male Wellness Walk booth. Assist with deliverables via a video & photo lens. Leads additional branding, marketing and creative opportunities during the 9-week summer experience.
Marketing & Youth Lead:
- Helping to curate and assist interns with the execution of deliverables for the weekly challenges, ContentCon and African American Male Wellness Walk booth. Assist with deliverables via an engagement, branding & marketing lens. Leads additional branding, marketing and creative opportunities during the 9-week summer experience.
Social & Digital Youth Lead:
- Helping to curate and assist interns with the execution of deliverables for the weekly challenges, ContentCon and African American Male Wellness Walk booth. Assist with deliverables via a social & digital lens. Leads additional branding, marketing and creative opportunities during the 9-week summer experience.
Available Adult Positions
Compensation:
- Pay: $950 – 980.00/week (28 hours per week)
- Available: 1 position
- Duration: 11 weeks
Job Duties:
- Oversee aspects of daily programming as it relates to content creation including but not limited to, managing creative leads (marketing/engagement expert & social/digital expert), setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of projects
- Strategize, organize and own all content and marketing elements for end of year ContentCon Festival – event critical deliverables, timelines, partnerships, communications and execution
- Work with contracted teams and interns to plan, align, and ensure that all event timelines are met and work with relevant stakeholders and youth to execute each event aspect as the camp progresses…through event day and recap.
- Align with content and marketing teams to ensure all marketing timelines are met for event promotion and influencer activation.
- Work with contracted teams and interns to plan, align and deliver all content, creative and engagement-related marketing assets, guidelines, tutorials and final deliverables for each challenge and overall programming needs.
- Align with Program Director and youth on necessary spaces, equipment and tools needed to execute summer content deliverables.
- Align with video and creative teams to ensure all marketing timelines are met for event promotion and influencer activation.
- Attending and coordinating communication amongst youth for all field trips and out of classroom activities
- Attending all virtual and in-person meetings with internal staff regarding programming for summer
- Should daily programming become off track, ensure the project is being managed and back on track in collaboration with the team leads
- On-going communication of project status Program Director, via status report and weekly project management status meeting in order to manage expectations and drive project forward
- Marketing/Engagement and Social/Digital experts will assist with all of the above and other relevant duties as assigned.
- Report to CCC Director/Project Manager: Ashley Randle
Compensation:
- Pay: $950 – 980.00/week (28 hours per week)
- Available: 1 position
- Duration: 11 weeks
Job Duties:
- Oversee aspects of daily programming as it relates to creative direction including but not limited to, managing creative leads (photo/video expert & creative/design expert), setting deadlines. assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of projects.
- Plan, communicate, organize and own all creative direction for end of year ContentCon Festival – event critical deliverables, timelines, partnerships, communications and execution
- Work with contracted teams and interns to plan, align, and ensure that all event timelines are met and work with relevant stakeholders and youth to execute each event aspect as the camp progresses…through event day and recap.
- Align with content and marketing teams to ensure all marketing timelines are met for event promotion and influencer activation.
- Plan, communicate, organize and own all brand, creative and engagement guidelines, tutorials, instructions and final deliverables as youth complete challenges and as overall summer youth content is produced and finalized.
- Strategize, direct, and plan the branding and creative elements for MBK CCC 2023 youth teams, weekly summer challenges
- Attending and coordinating communication amongst youth for all field trips and out of classroom activities
- Attending all virtual and in-person meetings with internal staff regarding programming for summer
- Should daily programming become off track, ensure the project is being managed and back on track in collaboration with the team leads
- Proactively raise key issues when a project runs the risk of going off track with time or budget
- On-going communication of project status to Program Director, via status report and weekly project management status meeting in order to manage expectations and drive project forward
- Align with Creative Director and interns necessary spaces, equipment and tools needed to execute summer content deliverables.
- Creative/Design and Video/Photo experts will assist with all of the above and other relevant duties as assigned.
- Report to CCC Creative Director: Chris Jones
Compensation:
- Pay: $800 – $840.00/week (28 hours per week)
- Available: 1 position
- Duration: 10-11 weeks
Job Duties:
Creative and content experts will anchor the summer experience with key knowledge in creative and visual design, video and photography creation, social and digital engagement and marketing and event management. These experts will be responsible for teaching relevant content skills to our 20 youth as well as for the final output of the ContentCON and the African American Male Wellness Walk (AAMWW) Art experiences.
- Video/Photo Expert: expert in videography, photography and content capture techniques.
- Plan, communicate, organize and own all video and content creation and collection guidelines, tutorials, instructions and final deliverables as youth complete challenges and as overall summer youth content is produced and finalized.
- Strategize, direct, and plan a content series with MBK CCC 2023 youth teams that aims to allow MBK to capture short recap videos of youth journaling their summer employment experiences – for content that can be utilized throughout the summer and throughout the school year to promote the summer youth programs and experiences
- Work with contracted teams and interns to plan, align and deliver all video and content-related assets and deliverables for each challenge and content capture needed for the 2023 ContentCON and AAMWW
- Align with video and content intern necessary spaces, equipment and tools needed to execute summer content deliverables.
- Youth Creative Leads support the above scope and serve as daily youth points of contact.
- Report to: CCC Creative Manager
Compensation:
- Pay: $800 – $840.00/week (28 hours per week)
- Available: 1 position
- Duration: 10-11 weeks
Job Duties:
Creative and content experts will anchor the summer experience with key knowledge in creative and visual design, video and photography creation, social and digital engagement and marketing and event management. These experts will be responsible for teaching relevant content skills to our 20 youth as well as for the final output of the ContentCON and the African American Male Wellness Walk (AAMWW) Art experiences.
- Creative/Design Expert: expert in creative design and visual forms of presentation.
- Plan, communicate, organize and own all video and content creation and collection guidelines, tutorials, instructions and final deliverables as youth complete challenges and as overall summer youth content is produced and finalized.
- Strategize, direct, and plan a content series with MBK CCC 2023 youth teams that aims to allow MBK to capture short recap videos of youth journaling their summer employment experiences – for content that can be utilized throughout the summer and throughout the school year to promote the summer youth programs and experiences
- Work with contracted teams and interns to plan, align and deliver all video and content-related assets and deliverables for each challenge and content capture needed for the 2023 ContentCON and AAMWW
- Align with video and content intern necessary spaces, equipment and tools needed to execute summer content deliverables.
- Youth Creative Leads support the above scope and serve as daily youth points of contact.
- Report to: CCC Creative Manager
Compensation:
- Pay: $800 – $840.00/week (28 hours per week)
- Available: 1 position
- Duration: 10-11 weeks
Job Duties:
Creative and content experts will anchor the summer experience with key knowledge in creative and visual design, video and photography creation, social and digital engagement and marketing and event management. These experts will be responsible for teaching relevant content skills to our 20 youth as well as for the final output of the ContentCON and the African American Male Wellness Walk (AAMWW) Art experiences.
- Social/Digital Expert: expert in social media and digital platforms and tactics.
- Plan, communicate, organize and own all the summer youth guidelines, tutorials, instructions and final deliverables as youth complete challenges and as overall summer youth content is produced and finalized.
- Strategize, direct, and plan the branding and creative elements for MBK CCC 2023 youth teams, weekly summer challenges, as well as the 2023 end of summer ContentCon festival and African American Male Wellness Walk art experiences
- Work with contracted teams and interns to plan, align and deliver all brand, creative and engagement-related assets and deliverables for each challenge and overall programming needs.
- Align with Content Manager and interns necessary spaces, equipment and tools needed to execute summer content deliverables.
- Plan, outreach, schedule and align weekly content experts and guests that align with the weekly CCC challenge schedule.
- Youth Creative Leads support the above scope and serve as daily youth points of contact.
- Report to: CCC Content Program Manager
Compensation:
- Pay: $800 – $840.00/week (28 hours per week)
- Available: 1 position
- Duration: 10-11 weeks
Job Duties:
Creative and content experts will anchor the summer experience with key knowledge in creative and visual design, video and photography creation, social and digital engagement and marketing and event management. These experts will be responsible for teaching relevant content skills to our 20 youth as well as for the final output of the ContentCON and the African American Male Wellness Walk (AAMWW) Art experiences.
- Marketing/Engagement Expert: expert in marketing strategy and engagement funnels.
- Plan, communicate, organize and own all the summer youth guidelines, tutorials, instructions and final deliverables as youth complete challenges and as overall summer youth content is produced and finalized.
- Strategize, direct, and plan the branding and creative elements for MBK CCC 2023 youth teams, weekly summer challenges, as well as the 2023 end of summer ContentCon festival and African American Male Wellness Walk art experiences
- Work with contracted teams and interns to plan, align and deliver all brand, creative and engagement-related assets and deliverables for each challenge and overall programming needs.
- Align with Content Manager and interns necessary spaces, equipment and tools needed to execute summer content deliverables.
- Plan, outreach, schedule and align weekly content experts and guests that align with the weekly CCC challenge schedule.
- Youth Creative Leads support the above scope and serve as daily youth points of contact.
- Report to: CCC Content Program Manager
Compensation:
- Pay: $700 – 750.00/week (30 hours per week)
- Available: 1 position
- Duration: 10 weeks
Job Duties:
- Owning program communication with Youth and Parents on daily activities and expectations
- Sending out Daily recap report/newsletter to parents and youth
- Align with W&W Operations team, summer staff and interns any necessary spaces, equipment, logistics or tools needed to execute summer content deliverables.
- Plan, outreach, schedule and align weekly content experts and guests that align with the weekly CCC challenge schedule.
- Align with W&W Operations team on daily attendance and payroll expectations for summer youth
- Oversee operations and ordering of all meals and meal planning for youth
- Oversee operations and logistics for all space bookings, equipment rentals
- Oversee operations and logistics of all youth required transportation
- Report to: CCC Director/Project Manager: Ashley Randle