HBCU Fellowship - Creative Copywriter

Taylor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative agency is looking for an enthusiastic Copywriter Fellow to join their dynamic team. This paid fellowship offers recent graduates a chance to gain real-world experience in PR, social media, and digital marketing. As a fellow, you will engage in creative ideation, collaborate with diverse teams, and refine your copywriting skills while contributing to impactful projects. This program not only enhances your professional development but also fosters a collaborative environment where diverse ideas thrive. If you're ready to kickstart your career in a fast-paced industry, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Paid Time Off

Holidays

Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Post-undergraduate opportunity for recent graduates from accredited HBCUs.
• Prior experience in PR, Advertising, or Digital Marketing is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Gain hands-on agency experience and support creative teams.
• Collaborate on digital and social content, brand identity, and campaign elements.

Skills

Copywriting

Communication Skills

Creative Thinking

Collaboration

Attention to Detail

Problem Solving

Education

Undergraduate Degree from HBCU

Master's Degree from HBCU

Job description

We are seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious Copywriter Fellow to gain hands-on experience across all aspects of the agency business while providing invaluable support to our creative team. Taylor’s Copywriter HBCU Fellowship is a paid post-undergraduate, six-month, remote fellowship program.

Taylor provides real-world professional experience, development, and career-readiness fellowships to post-undergraduates and master’s students from accredited historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

As a Taylor Fellow, you are open minded, ready to learn, and motivated to start your career in the PR, social, and digital marketing industry. You’re excited to join a multifaceted group of colleagues that embrace diversity of thought as a means to enhance innovation and collaboration in all we do.

Responsibilities and Learning Opportunities:

As a Taylor Fellow, you will gain hands-on agency experience through an in-depth training program, a dedicated manager, professional development and networking opportunities, and the day-to-day responsibilities and learning opportunities outlined below.

Shape

• Use strong understanding of evolving copywriting principles and a client’s business, brand, and industry to offer and develop contemporary copywriting that meets client business needs.
• Remain current on marketing, design, technology, user experience, and cultural trends, and infuse this knowledge into all work.
• Collaborate effectively with Strategy, Account, and Creative teams to provide ongoing counsel to mid-level clients, and to bring ideas to life through unconventional thinking and design innovation.
• Actively participate in creative ideation and planning for digital & social content, motion graphics, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements.
• Effectively refine ideas into integrated visual systems that deliver against defined objectives.

Make

• Assist senior team members with writing of creative platforms, manifestos, digital/social copy, and other copy for presentations and final execution.
• Demonstrate accountability and ownership for all copywriting work on assigned projects, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams of account/PR, strategy, and production to execute ideas that drive business impact.
• Self-edit work in progress, incorporate feedback and direction from senior team members, and collaborate with them to evolve and elevate your work.
• Work on multiple workstreams/assignments simultaneously, ensuring that all work fits together as part of the broader strategy and/or brand identity system.

Communication and Storytelling

• Partner with Art Direction to design and create concepted ideas.
• Pitch creative ideas.
• Write, present, and communicate in a polished and persuasive manner across all mediums, internally and externally.
• Communicate well with internal colleagues to explain creative ideas and respond to questions or concerns.
• Learn how to write ideas and idea statements and articulate them as headlines.

Concepting

• Actively participate in creative ideation for digital & social content, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements.
• Ensure that ideas/concepts fit together as part of the broader strategy and brand identity.
• Assist in quick-turn ideas that tap into a culture or a specific moment in time.

Fellowship Requirements

• This is a post-undergraduate opportunity open to recent graduates who hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited HBCU and those who are currently completing a master’s program or hold a master’s degree from an accredited HBCU.
• Prior experience/internships at PR, Advertising, Digital/Social Marketing, Creative agencies or relevant coursework.
• Write, present, and communicate in a persuasive manner, across a variety of platforms, including social media.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, multitasking, and time-management.
• Team player who enjoys working with and helping others in a collaborative environment.
• Curious and open to others' ideas and viewpoints with a willingness to learn and take constructive feedback.
• A good problem solver who seeks to make improvements and learns from mistakes.
• This is a full-time position (40hrs/week), Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET.
• Must be a recent college graduate, a graduate school student, and/or a student who has recently completed a master’s program at an accredited HBCU.
• This is a paid fellowship: $4,166.68 per month worked, less applicable deductions and withholdings (based on an annual equivalent salary of $50k).
• Includes Paid Time Off, Holidays, and additional perks.
• Fellowship begins 7/7/2025, and will go through 12/19/2025.

About Taylor

Taylor is a purpose-led marketing communications agency that has shaped possibilities for the world's leading brands for four decades. Our heritage in public relations and deep sports & entertainment expertise fuels breakthrough creativity across the entire media ecosystem.