Copywriter HBCU Fellowship
Remote
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
- Assists 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, ensure 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
Additional Details:
- This is a full-time position (35-40hrs/week), Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 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 1/8/2025, and will go through 6/27/2025
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.
