Part-Time
Posted 4 days ago (2025-07-23)
About The Company
Treat Public Relations is the premier, award-winning public relations firm specializing in endurance sports events. Operating where endurance meets excellence, Treat PR delivers tried and proven strategies that help its clients stride into the spotlight and outpace the competition. Their team focuses on elevating every mile of an event’s journey by sharing stories that inspire, connect, and leave a lasting impact.
Our team prioritizes providing an efficient, cost-effective, and elevated experience. We do this by harnessing tried and proven strategies and customizing them with an event’s extraordinary stories. Of course, they feature the public relations tactics many may know: press releases, media pitches, event advisories, talking points, etc. That said, we always aim to transcend these deliverables by becoming the event’s close advisors and consultants.
OUR MISSION to elevate endurance sports stories that showcase the fact that anything is possible. OUR VISION is a world where all people feel excited and welcome to move their bodies and where every race is an integral part of its community.
OUR PROMISE is this:
that our clients’ existing relationships that are working will stay that way
that the relationships that aren’t serving our clients will hit the high road
and that the new or renewed relationships that they want will come to them
We keep this promise by harnessing the highest-quality PR tools, delivered in a smooth, timely, and professional manner. With our help, the relationships that events need to ensure their success will be stronger and longer-lasting.
For more information on Treat Public Relations, visit www.treatpublicrelations.com and follow the agency on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
About The Role
Treat PR is running the game when it comes to running events, but we can’t do it alone! We need a new team member to help us tell the stories of some of the largest, most well-known, and most innovative endurance races in the country.
Our part-time Intern will act as a communications technician, working directly with our firm’s leaders to bring our strategic public relations plans to life and gain critical experience to launch your PR path. You’ll be supporting real client work, and even have the opportunity to work on-site at some of the most exciting endurance events in the country. Our Intern will be a total go-getter, a lifelong learner, and feel passionate about our mission and vision.
This role is part-time and temporary. We expect the person who takes on this role to begin in July 2025 and complete their internship in December 2025. This intern role may require up to 20 hours per week. These hours will generally be completed during the weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Sometimes, these hours will be completed on weekends at potentially very early hours. (We are regularly arriving at events at 4 or 5 a.m., meaning we were up and en route there even earlier.)
We will work with you to develop a general schedule of hours for weeks without weekend events. For weekend events, you will be provided with a schedule of hours in advance.
Duties + Responsibilities
In public relations and in the running event industry, no day is the same! We wear many hats and always adapt to best serve our clients. That said, the primary responsibilities of this role will include:
Media Relations – about 60% of your time per week
- Drafting press releases, media pitches, advisories and more
- Assist with media credential collection and tracking
- Creating media resources like press kits, fact sheets, backgrounders, and more
- Researching, building, and updating media lists
- Monitoring media trends and client mentions
- Collecting race weekend photos and videos for media use
- Compiling coverage reports
Community Relations – about 10% of your time per week
- Researching running clubs, nonprofits, and local businesses
- Compiling and publishing postings to community calendars
Copywriting and editing – about 20% of your time per week
- Writing copy for social media posts, email marketing, websites, and more
Account Support – about 10% of your time per week
- Providing status reports during internal Treat PR team meetings
- Taking notes during team and client meetings
Race Weekends – Keyword: Weekend.
Most of our clients hold their endurance sports events on the weekends. This means we’re often traveling or on-call on Saturdays and Sundays. When this happens, we shift our schedule slightly to ensure that we maintain work-life balance and that we’re ready to tackle the weekend. Although we don’t have client events occurring every single weekend, our schedule is consistently updating and no limits on weekend availability is key.
Remote Work + Travel
Yep, you can work from home in your sweatpants! While this position will be remote, we are looking for a team member based in Orange County, California. Our team meets in person, attends local PR industry events, and travels to our client events together from the OC.
Speaking of travel, this role will include travel, sometimes local to Southern California and sometimes cross-country. We can share more about the specific events that you would be supporting during the interview process, ensuring that you have availability during those critical times. Applicants should hold a RealID to ensure smooth travel via plane when required.
During our travel to client events, please be advised that we are outdoors and on our feet for most of the day. We occasionally need to carry and load equipment during those on-site visits.
Must-Haves
- Currently pursuing or recently earned a Bachelor’s degree in public relations, communications, journalism, or another related liberal arts discipline
- Holds the skills and focus needed to successfully work remotely
- Top-notch writing skills and mastery of AP Style
- Jet-setter who’s up for traveling with the team (including via plane – applicants should hold a RealID!)
- Tech-savvy and quick to learn new software tools
- Enthusiastic about news and trending topics
- Access to a reliable smartphone, laptop and internet connectivity at your residence (we provide a monthly stipend for work-from-home expenses like equipment, cell phone, internet, etc.)
- Access to reliable transportation
Great-To-Haves
- Passionate about healthy movement, fitness, or wellness
- Are you a runner, cyclist or triathlete? That’s a major plus, but not required!
- Experience with other internships, especially with an agency or with a sports or fitness related brand
- Familiarity with Muck Rack, Loomly, Coverage Book, Google Teams, Monday, or similar software tools
Ready to run with us? Please submit your resume to Dani via email at hello at treatpublicrelations.com.