Design Intern (Student Placement)

Design Intern (Student Placement) – Remote

About Young Bosses in Business Foundation (YBIB)

YBIB is a youth-focused Canadian charity supporting entrepreneurship, leadership, and real-world skill-building for young people. We deliver programs and opportunities that help youth build confidence, practical experience, and future-ready skills through mentorship, community partnerships, and hands-on learning.

Placement Overview (Remote)

The Design Intern supports YBIB’s visuals by creating clean, on-brand graphics and reusable templates for social media, recruitment, events, and program materials. This placement is ideal for a student who enjoys design systems, brand consistency, and creating content that’s easy for a team to reuse. Reports to: Communications Chair and Design Lead

What You’ll Work On

1) Social Media & Digital Graphics (Canva)

• Create Canva graphics for posts, stories, flyers, and digital promo assets
• Support design needs for program recruitment, events, and community

announcements

2) Brand Consistency & Template Building

• Maintain brand consistency across all visual content (fonts, colors, layout style)
• Organize templates for reuse and help improve our Canva template library

3) Revisions & Collaboration

• Support revisions and updates based on feedback from the team
• Collaborate with Communications to match visuals to campaign messages and

timelines

4) Campaign Packages

• Prepare simple design packages for campaign weeks or program cycles (a set of coordinated graphics delivered in one folder with clear labels)

Deliverables (what success looks like)

• A set of clean, on-brand Canva templates that the team can reuse easily
• Weekly/bi-weekly graphic support for current promotions (recruitment, events,

program updates)
• Organized Drive/Canva folders with clear naming and version control

Ideal Candidate

• College/university student in Graphic Design, Digital Media, Marketing, Communications, Visual Arts, UX/UI, or a related program

• Strong attention to detail and openness to feedback
• Comfortable using (or learning) Canva and working with shared templates

Tools You’ll Use

• Canva (primary)
• Trello (task tracking)
• WhatsApp (quick coordination)
• Buffer (if needed for scheduling)

Why This Placement is Valuable

You’ll gain real-world experience creating visual content for nonprofit campaigns, with mentorship and feedback from YBIB communications leadership. You’ll also leave with resume-building work you can clearly showcase (template systems, campaign assets, and branded design packages). Reference support may be available based on performance and consistency.

• Design Intern (Student Placement) – Remote
• About Young Bosses in Business Foundation (YBIB)
• Placement Overview (Remote)
• What You’ll Work On
• Deliverables (what success looks like)
• Ideal Candidate
• Tools You’ll Use
• Why This Placement is Valuable