About the role
Internship Program History
The internship program has been offered for over 30 years. Students have come from the following ALL 50 USA States including Puerto Rico and the countries of Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, China, Columbia, England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Scotland, South Africa and South Korea for Georgia Games internships.
These internship positions will provide someone with substantial experience in nonprofit development and management, events and sports management in addition to gaining valuable office experience working in a non-profit.
Internship Benefits
- Gain Great Real Life Experience, not just fetching coffee like other internships.
- Georgia Games apparel
- Lunches provided at most on-site events.
- Social Media Marketing on each Intern Spotlight marketing your career aspirations.
- Intern Schedule: Most of semester schedule is tentatively predetermined for intern planning
- Networking opportunities among other interns, event organizers, board members, etc.
- Dependent on completion of the internship, an invitation into our LinkedIn Internship group to connect with current sport professionals.
- Paid Consulting opportunities with outside events if desired where applicable.
- SafeSport training opportunity.
- Access to job search resources
- Work from home and save money for virtual intern positions.
- Earn academic credit
- Fulfill community service hours
Internship Options
Virtual
These 100% remote positions will be conducted from wherever the student resides
*(offered all semesters)*
Hybrid
These positions will be mainly Virtual Positions being conducted from where the intern resides.
During a Pre-Determined mutially agreed upon timeframe the intern (at one’s own expense) will travel and stay in Georgia to help operate our events.
*(offered mainly during the summer term)*
On-site
These are the typical on-site positions located in a NW suburb of the Atlanta, GA area. specifically, at our Kennesaw, GA Headquarters location.
*(offered ALL Semesters but heavy during the summer terms where we operate 95% of our sporting events)*
Internship Positions Offered
Below are the positions we typically offer in our internship program. Please note that some of these positions may only be offered during a specific term (e.g., summer term only). For the most up-to-date listing of positions for a specific term, check the application form below.
- Marketing
- Sports Development
- Graphic Design
- Event Management
- Public Relations and Media
- Social Media and Digital Marketing
- Sponsorship Sales, Development and Fund Raising
- Volunteer Management
- Events Operations
- Videography & Editing
- Photography
- Technology (Website and APP Development)
We offer the following position types: 1) Fulltime (35+ hours per week) 2) Part time (less than 35 hours per week) 3) Weekend only positions (mainly for on-site event operation & photo/video positions)