Digital Marketing Internship

About Salzburg Global

Salzburg Global is where open-minded leaders from around the world gather for breakthrough conversations on pressing global issues.

Since 1947, our programs have worked to overcome barriers and open up a world of better possibilities – creating spaces where divergent voices can address the big challenges of our time.

We have gathered over 40,000 Fellows from 173 countries for more than 1,100 sessions that change the conversation on the pressing issues of our time.

That very first session brought together over 100 young Europeans and Americans – including veterans of the French resistance, survivors of Nazi concentration camps, prisoners of war, and former enemies.

They met at Schloss Leopoldskron, an Austrian palace that had been occupied by the Nazis in a country that was still under Allied military occupation. They wrestled with how diverse and fractured groups of people could come together and start creating the conditions for peace in the aftermath of World War II.

More than seventy-five years later, the challenges may be different, but our mission still carries that same founding spirit: to overcome barriers and open up a world of better possibilities.

Our Impact

Salzburg Global has been at the forefront of major global movements for change since 1947.

Sometimes called a “Marshall Plan for the Mind” in its early years, Salzburg Global began as a world-renowned center for post-war reconciliation through intellectual and cultural exchange.

In the 1950s, Salzburg Global internationalized the emerging interdisciplinary field of American Studies and promoted educational and scientific exchange across the Iron Curtain.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Salzburg Global helped to catalyze and professionalize the civil society sector in Eastern Europe, develop and internationalize the emerging field of sustainable urban design and was among the first organizations to support the concept of “climate migration”.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Salzburg Global convened one of the first global collaborations on HIV/AIDS research, laid the groundwork for the Good Friday Agreement that ended hostilities in Northern Ireland, supported the redesign of higher education systems in post-Apartheid South Africa, and partnered with reform-minded universities in Eastern European and the former Soviet Union to transform post-communist higher education institutions.

In the 2000s, Salzburg Global launched the first global movements for patient-centered healthcare and patient safety, inspired the creation of the “One Health” movement on human and animal health, and engaged educators in more than 50 countries in the first globally diverse Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention program.

More recently, Salzburg Global has helped to catalyze the development of global pandemic response metrics, supported the launch of Karanga – The Global Alliance for Social and Emotional Learning, the National Parks Cities movement, and Sciana: The Health Leaders Network.

We are supported by a combination of institutional partnerships, generous individual donations and revenue generated from our social enterprise, Schloss Leopoldskron.

We seek to be an exemplary international institution in terms of equity and environmental sustainability. We strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and join us in our work.  

What we offer

The internships are full-time, for a maximum period of three months.  Although the position is not paid, we will provide the successful candidate with:

• board and lodging at Schloss Leopoldskron,

• a return ticket for their country of origin,

• excellent networking opportunities with the international participants of our programs.

This Internship’s dates are fixed: September 1, 2025 to November 29, 2025.

What you will be doing

As an integral part of the Public Affairs team, you will produce marketing and public relations content for Salzburg Global and Schloss Leopoldskron. Your work will span our website, print publications, social media platforms, and external media partners.

The Public Affairs team strengthens the identity of both Salzburg Global and Schloss Leopoldskron as separate but connected brands. As a result, you will gain exposure to all stages of digital marketing and content production, from strategic planning to coordination and implementation, which will help expand your knowledge and networks. You will also assist in other internal and external communications, providing you with experience beyond digital marketing and across all the typical communications outputs of a non-profit organization.

Typical duties include:

• Producing multimedia content for Salzburg Global and Schloss Leopoldskron’s social media and digital platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, YouTube);

• Researching guests, partners, and Salzburg Global Fellows who can be brand ambassadors for our twin brands;

• Maintaining the digital assets and publications libraries and assisting with worldwide marketing-oriented mailing distribution;

• Providing administrative assistance to the Public Affairs team.

Who We Are Looking For

• You have recently completed or are in the process of completing a bachelor’s degree in public relations or digital marketing, or a related field like communications. Significant content production work experience outside of degree studies (e.g., with a college newspaper or agency internship) will be considered for those with non-marketing academic backgrounds

• You have experience with producing professional written and multimedia content

• You are creative and digitally fluent, with a keen eye for visual storytelling and trends in digital media

• You are enthusiastic about Salzburg Global's mission and Schloss Leopoldskron's USP

• You have a can-do attitude, are able to multi-task, are proactive, and are willing to work flexible hours according to the needs of ongoing events and sessions

• You have excellent (native or equivalent) writing and communication skills in English, including editing skills; German is not needed but desirable

• You thrive in culturally and professionally diverse environments

• You have experience with Premiere Pro or other video editing tools, and familiarity with the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator); significant experience with other editing tools such as Canva will be considered

• You have interest in social media data analysis, related social listening tools, and dashboards/CMS like Hootsuite, Mailchimp and TYPO3

• You are proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

Only complete applications via the online form will be considered, meaning it should include:

• a CV,

• a cover letter

• three social media and multimedia editing work samples

We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. 

Selected applicants will be asked to complete an interview call. 

All candidates, successful or otherwise, will be informed of the outcome of their application. No phone calls please.

If you are under 18, sign up to our newsletter for upcoming internship opportunities and please wait for a couple of years before sending us your application.

If you are over 30 years old, please share the opportunity with your younger peers and consider applying for one of our programs instead.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants or employees. 

Sustainable business practices are our highest priority in all areas. We encourage creative, equitable, and sustainable change and develop environmentally conscious and socially responsible practices at all levels. We believe that every team member plays a critical role in our journey toward sustainability.