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May 13, 2026
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Intern - Corporate Communications (Summer 2026)

United States-IL-WHQ - Chicago - Corporate Support Center - Willis Tower
Internship
Onsite
Intern
United Airlines is offering an internship opportunity in their Corporate Communications department for early career professionals. The role involves developing social media content, drafting media materials, and engaging with media while providing skill development and valuable work experience.

Responsibilities

  • Develop social media content that appeals to our key demographics of young adults
  • Draft media materials including press releases, media alerts, messaging documents, etc
  • Lead and update media databases including media lists and editorial calendars
  • Engage media with proactive outreach to pitch United stories
  • Reactively respond to select media inquiries on behalf of United
  • Develop a mechanism to receive feedback on our internal comms channels from front-line employees including digital surveys, focus groups
  • Audit the employee spaces at the airport, bases, etc., what are employees seeing in their everyday related to United messaging, collect and consolidate findings, make recommendations on next steps
  • Assist with sorting, inventorying, assessing condition of artifacts
  • Take daily analysis of content performance and provide stats – page views, open rates, click rates, video views, comment sentiment, etc
  • Spend time looking through all of the submissions coming into our Share Your Stories portal and help us identify them
  • Pick up some fun, easy experiences to write about
  • Scan our social media platforms, specifically #beingunited, to search for potential employee stories for internal team to tell
  • Log and archive video footage
  • Assist at video shoots

Qualification

Required

  • Applicant must be a current undergraduate student
  • Must be pursuing a degree in PR/Advertising, Communications, or a related field
  • Highly organized and self-motivated, with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Ability to balance multiple, competing priorities and ensure attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; must be comfortable talking to and collaborating with a variety of collaborators
  • Confident performing data analysis to arrive at insights and develop recommendations
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Position is based in Chicago, IL – must be able to relocate for the duration of the internship
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship now and in the future
  • Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualifications
  • Reliable, punctual attendance is a crucial function of the position

Preferred

Benefits

  • Unlimited standby travel anywhere we fly
  • Build community through our employee-run Business Resource Groups
  • Participate in industry conferences
United Airlines is an aviation company that provides information on reservations, bookings, and travel services online.
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