Charlotte Checkers Graphic Design Internship 2026-2027 Season

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for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have sections if real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Content: Title: Graphic Design Intern. Not to repeat title as heading. We have sections: - About the role: The description: "The Charlotte Checkers are seeking a creative, motivated, and passionate Graphic Design Intern for the 2026-27 season. This hands-on opportunity provides valuable experience within a premier AHL hockey organization and is ideal for students or recent graduates looking to build a portfolio in sports media, graphic design, photo production, and digital content creation. All applications will be kept on file until the start of the internship program for which candidates apply. Timeline: September 2026 – April 2027 (or at the completion of Playoffs) Position OverviewThe Graphic Design Intern will assist in creating digital and print graphics for the Charlotte Checkers. This role is hands-on, fast-paced, and heavily involved in game-day entertainment, social media, marketing campaigns, and fan engagement. This is an in-office position based in Charlotte and includes required game-day availability for nights, weekends, and special events." We can combine into prose. - Responsibilities: list bullet points: "Design graphics for social media, video boards, marketing campaigns, promotions, and sponsorship activations", "Assist with game-day creative needs", "Create player graphics, hype graphics, score updates, promotional materials, and themed-night branding", "Support the marketing and creative teams with content ideation and execution", "Edit and resize graphics for multiple platforms and formats", "Help maintain brand consistency across all creative materials", "Capture and organize creative assets during games and events when needed" - Requirements: bullet points: "Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, Digital Media, or a related field", "Housing and transportation in Charlotte or the surrounding area", "Availability to work home games, select road games, and designated office hours", "Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly After Effects and Premiere Pro", "Ability to meet deadlines while maintaining high-quality creative standards" - Skills: bullet points: "Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop and Illustrator (knowledge of After Effects and Premier are a plus)", "Knowledge of sports design trends and social media content styles", "Strong understanding of typography, layout, and branding", "Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines", "Excellent communication and teamwork skills", "Willingness to work nights, weekends, and game days", "Basic motion graphics or video editing experience is a plus", "Portfolio or samples of previous design work required" - Benefits: Not mentioned except "Compensation: This is a non-paid internship. School credit may be earned if applicable." That's compensation/benefits. We could put under Benefits? The rule: include Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections only if posting actually states them. Compensation is stated: non-paid internship, school credit may be earned. That's compensation/benefits. We could create a Benefits section with that content. Pay section: maybe not needed because it's non-paid; but we could include Pay as "Compensation: This is a non-paid internship. School credit may be earned if applicable." However rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text like "not specified". This is actual content. So we can include Pay section. Schedule: Not explicitly given besides timeline and availability. There's timeline: September 2026 – April 2027 (or at completion of Playoffs). Also required game-day availability for nights, weekends, special events. That could be Schedule. We could include Schedule section with that info. But we need to avoid duplication. The timeline and availability could be in Schedule. However we already have some of that in About the role (timeline). Might be okay to keep timeline in About the role and also schedule? Better to avoid duplication. The rule: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep timeline info somewhere. Could put in About the role (makes sense). Schedule could be about required availability (nights, weekends, game days). But that is also in About the role. Might be okay to have Schedule section with that detail, but then we would duplicate some info. Better to keep timeline in About the role and maybe not create Schedule unless there is distinct schedule info not covered. The posting mentions "Timeline: September 2026 – April 2027 (or at the completion of Playoffs)" and "required game-day availability for nights, weekends, and special events." That's schedule info. Could put both in Schedule section. But then About the role would lose that detail. However we could keep About the role more generic and move timeline to Schedule. But we need to preserve all info; we can split. Let's decide: About the role: general description of role and responsibilities overview (maybe short). Then Schedule: timeline and availability. Responsibilities: list. Requirements: list. Skills: list. Benefits/Pay: compensation. We need to decide headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Pay, Schedule. Benefits maybe not needed if we put compensation under Pay. The rule: Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can use Pay for compensation. Benefits maybe not needed. Qualifications: we have Requirements and Skills overlapping. Could combine Requirements and Qualifications? But we have separate sections for Requirements and Skills. Qualifications maybe not needed. We'll output:

About the role

... (overview)

Schedule

Timeline: September 2026 – April 2027 (or at the completion of Playoffs). Required availability for nights, weekends, and special events, including home games, select road games, and designated office hours.

Responsibilities

• Design graphics for social media, video boards, marketing campaigns, promotions, and sponsorship activations
• Assist with game-day creative needs
• Create player graphics, hype graphics, score updates, promotional materials, and themed-night branding
• Support the marketing and creative teams with content ideation and execution
• Edit and resize graphics for multiple platforms and formats
• Help maintain brand consistency across all creative materials
• Capture and organize creative assets during games and events when needed

Requirements

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, Digital Media, or a related field
• Housing and transportation in Charlotte or the surrounding area
• Availability to work home games, select road games, and designated office hours
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly After Effects and Premiere Pro
• Ability to meet deadlines while maintaining high-quality creative standards

Skills

• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop and Illustrator (knowledge of After Effects and Premier are a plus)
• Knowledge of sports design trends and social media content styles
• Strong understanding of typography, layout, and branding
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Willingness to work nights, weekends, and game days
• Basic motion graphics or video editing experience is a plus
• Portfolio or samples of previous design work required

Pay

This is a non-paid internship. School credit may be earned if applicable.

We must not include any boilerplate like EEO etc. We removed that. Check for duplicate info: Schedule includes availability to work home games, select road games, designated office hours which also appears in Requirements. That's duplication. We need to avoid duplication? The rule: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. It didn't forbid duplication, but we should avoid unnecessary duplication. However the availability appears both in Schedule and Requirements. Could we keep it only in one place? The Schedule section is about timeline and availability; Requirements includes availability to work home games, select road games, and designated office hours. That's essentially same as Schedule's availability. To avoid duplication, we could move that availability to Schedule and remove from Requirements. But Requirements also includes other items like degree, housing, Adobe knowledge, ability to meet deadlines. So we can keep Requirements without the availability line. Thus adjust Requirements list to exclude that line. Similarly, Schedule includes timeline and availability (nights, weekends, special events, home games, select road games, designated office hours). That covers. Now check if any other duplication: Responsibilities list includes "Assist with game-day creative needs" etc. That's fine. Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The posting also mentions "All applications will be kept on file until the start of the internship program for which candidates apply." That's about application process; we are told to remove application instructions. This line is about application handling; maybe considered application instructions? It's not exactly instruction to apply but about retention. The rule: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This line could be considered application instructions (keeping applications on file). Safer to remove it. Also "Position Overview" heading is not needed as we have our own headings. Now ensure we didn't lose any info: The timeline and availability captured in Schedule. The responsibilities captured. Requirements captured (degree, housing/transport, Adobe knowledge, ability to meet deadlines). Skills captured. Pay captured. Check if any info about "in-office position based in Charlotte" is missing. That's location; maybe could be in About the role or Schedule? Not captured. We should include location somewhere. Could add to About the role: "This is an in-office position based in Charlotte." Let's incorporate. Thus About the role paragraph: "The Charlotte Checkers are seeking a creative, motivated, and passionate Graphic Design Intern for the 2026-27 season. This hands-on opportunity provides valuable experience within a premier AHL hockey organization and is ideal for students or recent graduates looking to build a portfolio in sports media, graphic design, photo production, and digital content creation. The Graphic Design Intern will assist in creating digital and print graphics for the Charlotte Checkers. This role is hands-on, fast-paced, and heavily involved in game-day entertainment, social media, marketing campaigns, and fan engagement. This is an in-office position based in Charlotte and includes required game-day availability for nights, weekends, and special events." But we moved availability to Schedule; but we can keep a generic statement about involvement. Might be okay to keep "required game-day availability for nights, weekends, and special events" in About the role? That would duplicate with Schedule. Maybe we keep a brief statement: "This is an in-office position based in Charlotte." And keep availability in Schedule. Let's craft About the role: "The Charlotte Checkers are seeking a creative, motivated, and passionate Graphic Design Intern for the 2026-27 season. This hands-on opportunity provides valuable experience within a premier AHL hockey organization and is ideal for students or recent graduates looking to build a portfolio in sports media, graphic design, photo production, and digital content creation. The Graphic Design Intern will assist in creating digital and print graphics for the Charlotte Checkers. This role is hands-on, fast-paced, and heavily involved in game-day entertainment, social media, marketing campaigns, and fan engagement. This is an in-office position based in Charlotte." Now Schedule: "Timeline: September 2026 – April 2027 (or at the completion of Playoffs). Required availability for nights, weekends, and special events, including home games, select road