Student Community & Activation Specialist

Virtual Internships; Remote; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic remote internship provider is looking for a Content & Activation Specialist to enhance student awareness and engagement with their platform. The role involves creating high-quality content and scalable systems for partnerships, driving registrations, and designing multi-channel marketing campaigns. Ideal candidates are growth-minded individuals experienced in content marketing and community activation. This position offers flexibility with the remote-first approach and various perks including generous annual leave and budget for professional development.

Benefits

Remote-first work environment

Flexible working hours

25 days of paid annual leave

5 days of life event leave

Flexible budget for wellness and development

Tech budget for equipment

Qualifications

• Growth-minded operator focused on enabling the partnerships team.
• Ability to build scalable systems for content development.
• Experience in fast-moving environments and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Enabling partnership managers with high-quality content.
• Creating compelling content for multi-channel campaigns.
• Developing content partnerships with career centers and institutions.

Skills

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

Job description

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.

• $14.3million Series A fundraise announced in September 2022, 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 in 2023” Featured as a Top 100 EdTech Startup by HolonIQ in 2021, 2022, and 2023
• Rated as a Top 50 Rising Startup by Tech in Asia in 2022
• 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. Therefore 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 our 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

Partnership Enablement & Support

• 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-focussed messaging throughout the customer lifecycle

Manage Partnership Content & Distribution

• 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

• Create content and assets that engage students and build awareness of VI across our partner network
• Leverage social proof to position VI as a high-value, career-impacting experience
• Share your expertise in student-focussed marketing with other teams to co-develop punchy copy for emails, landing pages, in-product nudges
• 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 get to 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

Your Attributes

• You’re a growth-minded operator who enables the partnerships team to succeed.
• You can build scalable systems to fuel the content engine, build relationships internally and externally, and create content people actually want to engage with.
• You thrive in fast-moving environments and you get energy from seeing your work convert into real student registrations, engagement, and outcomes.
• You’re both strategic and hands-on: you ideate, you execute, you optimize. You’ll operate 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

If you read this and feel energised, rather than overwhelmed - you’re likely a great fit.

Consider this our wish-list. We know there will be great candidates that don't meet every one of these criteria—if you're passionate about the role and have early-stage startup experience, we'd still love to hear from you.

Virtual Internships Perks and Benefits

• Remote-First: All roles at VI are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere
• Flexible Working Hours: Start earlier, leave earlier, take a shorter lunch, or leave later, it's totally up to you.
• Annual Leave: Wherever you are in the world, you’ll get 25 days of paid annual leave per year, plus bank holidays and 5 sick days.
• Life Event Leave: There are moments in life where your life responsibility is a higher priority than work (e.g. moving house, your best friend getting married, your sister having a baby) therefore, you’ll get 5 days of paid life-event leave to support these occasions. You also get a day off on your birthday. This is in addition to your Annual Leave.
• Flexible VIer Budget: You’ll receive a flexible budget of $1,000 per year that you can use on but not limited to your work setup, personal wellness, or professional development.
• Tech: New joiners receive a budget for your company laptop depending on the role and location.

Equality & Diversity

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