Role Title: Marketing + Communication Intern (Thriving in Motion)
Organisation: UWA School of Human Sciences
Internship Period: Semester 2 (July – October)
Location: Osborne Park
The Marketing & Communications Intern supports Thriving in Motion to share its programs, research impact, and community initiatives through clear, engaging digital and print communications. The intern helps translate evidence-based exercise and mental health work into accessible content that grows awareness, strengthens partnerships, and supports participant engagement. This role suits someone interested in purpose-driven marketing, health promotion, and social impact storytelling.
Key Responsibilities
Draft and schedule social media posts, newsletters, blogs, and website updates.
Develop visual and written content that communicates program outcomes and community impact.
Assist with campaign planning, brand consistency, and audience engagement strategies.
Support event promotion, stakeholder communications, and basic analytics reporting.
Maintain content calendars and ensure messaging aligns with organisational values and evidence-based practice.
Primary Interactions
Thriving in Motion leadership and program coordinators.
Research and delivery teams across youth, adult, and community programs.
Community participants, partner organisations, and occasional academic collaborators.
What You’ll Gain
Hands-on experience in ethical marketing, health communication, and not-for-profit brand development, with portfolio-ready content and exposure to research-to-practice translation.
Discovering what it is to be human.
The School of Human Sciences is a large multi-disciplinary School with research and teaching focused on better understanding what it is to be human, from our structure, function, development and genetics, to adaptation, performance and evolution.
Our students are provided with a fundamental interdisciplinary understanding of human function and the manner in which it adapts to challenging and disruptive change. Our graduates become innovative and integrative scientific thinkers, whose careers can be found in fields relating to human structure, development and performance.