Content & Activation Specialist - Student Engagement / Higher Ed (Fully Remote)

Virtual Internships; A distancia; MXN 200,000 - 400,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global educational platform is seeking a Content & Activation Specialist to enhance student engagement and drive registrations. In this fully remote role, you'll create compelling content and support partners to boost engagement across various channels. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced settings and has experience in content marketing targeting youth. This position offers autonomy and the chance to run creative marketing campaigns that have measurable impacts.

Servicios

25 days paid annual leave

Flexible working hours

Remote-first work environment

Tech budget for new joiners

Formación

• Experience in content or growth marketing targeting students.
• Ability to create engaging content that drives student activation.
• Experience in partnership management or project facilitation.

Responsabilidades

• Drive student awareness and engagement for the Virtual Internships platform.
• Build scalable content systems to support partner activation.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance student-focused messaging.

Conocimientos

Content creation

Growth marketing

Partnership activation

Campaign building

Community activation

Descripción del empleo

Content & Activation Specialist – Student Engagement / Higher Ed (Fully Remote)

Join we need a Content & Activation Specialist to drive student awareness, activation, and registrations to our Virtual Internships platform.

About Virtual Internships

We’re on an ambitious and challenging mission to provide guaranteed internships to anyone, anytime, anywhere—no one else is doing this at our scale! Regardless of background, major, location, or career field, every student can gain invaluable experience at innovative companies worldwide, significantly enhancing their employability and career readiness. Trusted by universities, governments, foundations, and online education institutions, we’re transforming learners' lives globally.

$14.3 million Series A fundraise announced in September

• With investors including Hambro Perks, Sequoia India & Surge, Arsenal Growth, Kaplan, and Ascend Vietnam Ventures
• Ranked 20th out of 13,000 organizations to "Escape To"
• Featured as a Top 100 EdTech Startup by HolonIQ
• Rated as a Top 50 Rising Startup by Tech in Asia
• Remote‑first with 100+ employees across 20+ countries globally
• B2B EdTech product, trusted by 100+ universities, 10,000+ interns, and 14,000+ companies
• One of the core values at VI is transparency

Feel free to "try before you apply" by visiting our VI‑P Guide, which includes our values, how we operate, how we build our packages, and a few other snippets of who we are!

Your Role

As a Content & Activation Specialist, you will drive student awareness, activation, and registrations to the Virtual Internships platform by:

• Enabling partnership managers with high‑quality content, collateral, and activation assets.
• Building scalable content engines to increase activation within our partner network and across the student ecosystem.
• Creating compelling content that can be distributed across multi‑channel campaigns to engage students.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supply partnership account managers with materials and assets to ensure successful activation campaigns.
• Constantly review partner communication channels to suggest iterations.
• Build reusable toolkits and playbooks to ensure partners have flexible, ready‑to‑use materials that match their needs and accelerate student activation.
• Collaborate with product and the student experience teams to improve student‑focused messaging throughout the customer lifecycle.
• Build assets partners want to distribute—not just need to.
• Keep partners stocked with plug‑and‑play templates, scripts, communication plans.
• Design modular, self‑service partner toolkits that make it easy for partners to share VI benefits.
• Develop content partnerships with career centers, faculty, influencers, societies, and job/career sites.
• Identify both digital and offline campus activation opportunities.
• Create content that students actually engage with.
• Leverage social proof to position VI as a high‑value, career‑impacting experience.
• Co‑develop punchy copy for e‑mails, landing pages, in‑product nudges with other teams.
• Track performance, double down on what works, kill what doesn’t, test again.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• You’ll have high ownership and autonomy from day one—your ideas won’t sit in a backlog.
• You’ll design and run creative, multi‑channel student marketing campaigns that reach learners globally.
• You’ll have the freedom to experiment, iterate, and move fast, with a team that values action over perfection.
• Your work will tie directly to real, measurable outcomes: student engagement, registrations, and partner success.
• You’ll build scalable growth engines, from content systems to rep programs to new activation channels.

Who We’re Looking For

• Growth‑mindset operator who enables the partnerships team to succeed.
• Can build scalable systems to fuel the content engine, build relationships internally and externally, and create content people actually want to engage with.
• Thrives in fast‑moving environments and gets energy from seeing work convert into real student registrations, engagement, and outcomes.
• Both strategic and hands‑on: ideates, executes, and optimizes.
• Operates across content, partner activation, and partnership ops.

Your Experience

• Content / growth marketing targeting students or youth audiences.
• Community activation, ambassador or referral programs.
• Content creation and campaign building.
• Partnerships, student operations, or campus‑led engagement.
• Sales enablement and project management.
• Running creative experiments to drive measurable outcomes.
• Early‑stage startup experience is a plus.

Virtual Internships Perks and Benefits

• Remote‑First: All roles at VI are currently and will remain remote.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Annual Leave: 25 days of paid annual leave per year, plus bank holidays and 5 sick days.
• Life Event Leave: 5 days of paid leave for events such as moving house, wedding, or birth.
• Birthday Day Off.
• Flexible VIer Budget: $1,000 per year for work‑related expenses.
• Tech: New joiners receive a laptop budget.

Equality & Diversity

Virtual Internships is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity among both our employees and prospective applicants. We ensure all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process.