Advertising Project Management Intern: Launch Your PM Career

The Tombras Group; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 20,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-oriented environment

Dog-friendly offices

Career development

Job summary

The Tombras Group in Knoxville, TN is seeking a Project Management Intern for an 8.5-week, paid program at $18 per hour, running from 9/23/26 to 11/20/26 with a maximum of 25 hours per week. You will assist Project Managers with work orders, resource allocation, and distribution to the creative team, while coordinating meetings and handling data entry across schedules, timelines, and PO records.

This role welcomes students or recent grads in Media/Marketing/Advertising and offers insight into a

Qualifications

• Prior work or life experience in a relevant field.
• Currently enrolled as a Senior in a Bachelor’s program or a recent graduate in Media/Marketing/Advertising.

Responsibilities

• Assist Project Managers with processing work orders, allocating resources, and distributing to creative team members.
• Schedule kick-off meetings, creative check-ins, input meetings, pre-production meetings, and internal reviews.
• Data entry including updating team schedules, estimates, timelines, and purchase orders.
• Work with the video department to secure shoot dates and document details, including shot lists and budgets, in tickets.
• Route and follow up on rough video edits.
• Participate in weekly scrum and status meetings.
• Coordinate with internal workgroups to obtain information and content/production assets as needed.
• Verify sizes, specs, platforms, and due dates with Account Service and Media teams.
• Deliver and/or traffic assets to Account and Media teams.
• Pull time on open projects and flag potential overages to Project Managers.
• Pull closed jobs and summarize estimates versus actuals as needed.

Skills

Relevant field experience

Enrolled senior in bachelor's program

Advertising interest

Education

Senior in Bachelor's program

Recent graduate in Media/Marketing/Advertising

Job description

The Tombras Group in Knoxville, TN is seeking a Project Management Intern for an 8.5-week, paid program at $18 per hour, running from 9/23/26 to 11/20/26 with a maximum of 25 hours per week. You will assist Project Managers with work orders, resource allocation, and distribution to the creative team, while coordinating meetings and handling data entry across schedules, timelines, and PO records.

This role welcomes students or recent grads in Media/Marketing/Advertising and offers insight into a