SEO​/GEO Editing and Publishing Intern

To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

Join a fun, tightknit, and highly functional team focused on creating, reviewing, and publishing excellent written content that inspires people around the world to engage in family history. As the SEO/GEO Editing and Publishing Intern, you will support editorial workflows, strengthen online content performance, and help others make meaningful family connections. This full-time, year‑long internship offers hands‑on experience in content editing, SEO, online publishing, project management, and analytics within the Family Search and Family History Department.

• Provide editorial support by editing article drafts and researching assigned topics for blog and newsroom content. May write new content as assigned.
• Learn and apply SEO/GEO best practices, including keyword research, identifying high-use search terms, and helping develop content strategies for blog articles and landing pages.
• Manage article projects from ideation through editing, fact checking, review, and publication.
• Prioritize deadlines and ensure timely progress.
• Support online publishing tasks, including finding images that follow the Family Search style guide, uploading content into Bright Spot, maintaining copyright documentation, and coordinating approvals or corrections.
• Assist with tracking and reporting, including maintaining documentation, organizing filing systems, monitoring page analytics, and making optimizations to improve organic content performance.
• Maintain and create reference materials such as training guides, support documents, and SharePoint content using WYSIWYG editors.
• Provide general blog and newsroom support—writing, editing, preparing content for publication, answering comments, and assisting volunteers and service missionaries in understanding the purpose and impact of their work.

• Some experience with editing and/or writing
• Strong interest in or knack for keyword research pursuant to online content creation
• Experience with a WYSIWYG editor or CMS system a plus (Wordpress, Brightspot, etc.)
• Experience with SEO analytic tools a plus (Adobe Analytics, Searchlight, SEMRush, Google Adwords, etc)
• Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and previous image editing experience a plus
• Bachelor’s (or near completion) in Marketing, Editing, PR, Journalism, English or related field. Must be a current or recent (within a year) student.
• Eligible for a full-time internship with benefits for a one‑year duration, beginning in late March or April 2025.

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world.

They are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.

• Job Identification 372859
• Job Category AO - Administration/Operations
• Job Schedule Full time
• Regular or Temporary Temporary
• Worker Type Employee
• Number of Openings 2
• Worthiness Qualification Must be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently temple worthy.
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