Job Description

Marketing Intern - Content & Communications

Department: Human Resources

Employment Type: Internship

Location: Washington, DC

Reporting To: Chief Marketing Officer

Compensation: $20.00 / hour

Invictus Capital Partners and Verus Mortgage Capital are looking for highly motivated, creative, and fast-moving Marketing Interns to help us build and scale our marketing and communications function. This is a hands-on opportunity for someone who wants real-world experience creating high-volume, high-impact content across social media, sales enablement, internal communications, recruiting materials, and brand marketing. You won’t be sitting on the sidelines — you’ll be creating content that is actively used by our leadership team, sales organization, and corporate functions. You will report directly to the Chief Marketing Officer and work closely with leaders across the business.

This is an onsite internship role expected to work at least 30 hours per week, with flexibility to work additional hours as needed.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Create large volumes of professional marketing content for:
  • LinkedIn company pages
  • External communications
  • Sales representatives and recruiting teams
  • Templates, presentations, and branded collateral
    
    
• Design graphics, social posts, carousels, short-form copy, presentations, and visual assets using tools such as Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, and other digital asset platforms
• Maintain and apply brand standards across multiple business lines, ensuring a cohesive look and voice
• Turn ideas and requests into polished deliverables quickly and professionally
• Support content planning, organization, and production workflows
• Collaborate with leadership and business teams to translate concepts into compelling communications
• Contribute ideas for improving how we communicate internally and externally

Education and Experience:

We are looking for interns who are:

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Marketing, Communications, Graphic Design, or a related field
• Creative and highly organized
• Fast, responsive, and execution-oriented
• Professional in communication and presentation
• Comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Detail-oriented with a strong eye for design and branding
• Interested in marketing, communications, branding, media, or content creation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar design tools
• Strong writing and editing skills
• Familiarity with LinkedIn and social media content creation
• Experience creating presentations, graphics, or short-form content
• Ability to work independently while also collaborating with teams

Why This Role Is Different
We are actively building out our marketing and communications capabilities, which means interns will have the opportunity to:

• Work directly with executive leadership
• Build a portfolio of real business content
• Gain exposure to branding, communications, recruiting, and sales enablement
• Have meaningful ownership and visibility from day one

This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys creating, moving quickly, and helping shape how a growing business presents itself internally and externally.


Key Competencies:

• Content Creation & Branding: Develops polished, engaging content aligned with company brand standards and messaging
• Creative Design Skills: Produces professional graphics, presentations, and digital assets using modern design tools
• Communication Excellence: Demonstrates strong written and visual communication skills across multiple audiences
• Organizational & Project Management: Manages multiple projects, deadlines, and content requests efficiently
• Collaboration & Responsiveness: Works effectively with leadership and cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment
• Initiative & Adaptability: Takes ownership of projects, learns quickly, and thrives in a growing organization

How This Role Demonstrates Our Values:

• Integrity: Represents the company brand professionally and communicates with accuracy and consistency
• Collaboration: Partners with leadership, recruiting, sales, and business teams to support company initiatives
• Excellence: Delivers high-quality creative content with attention to detail and strong execution
• Critical Curiosity: Brings fresh ideas, explores creative approaches, and continuously improves communication strategies

Why This Role Is Different

We are actively building out our marketing and communications capabilities, which means interns will have the opportunity to:

• Work directly with executive leadership
• Build a portfolio of real business content
• Gain exposure to branding, communications, recruiting, and sales enablement
• Have meaningful ownership and visibility from day one

This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys creating, moving quickly, and helping shape how a growing business presents itself internally and externally.
Successful applicants will exemplify strong ethics, integrity, respect for others, accountability for decisions and actions, and good citizenship.

Maintaining a reliable, uninterrupted high speed internet connection is a requirement of hybrid or remote positions.

All job duties and responsibilities must be performed within the guidelines of the Verus Residential Mortgage Employee Handbook and established company policies and procedures. It is the responsibility of each employee to maintain confidentiality of the company, its clients and to follow applicable laws and regulations in the performance of duties.

Verus Mortgage Capital is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are welcomed to apply and will receive consideration for employment without unlawful discrimination because of a person’s race, religious creed, color, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation, or because of a person’s disability or medical condition.