Company : British Council
Location: South Africa
Closing date: Not Specified
Position Title: Communications and Partnerships Interns
Duration: 12 months contract
Role Purpose: To support planning and delivery of British Council South Africa’s work in line with our strategic objectives. The role will provide a highly motivated beginner/recent entrant to the workforce a learning experience that will help them build essential work skills in a dynamic organisational environment and cultivate a strong foundation for their professional life.
The internship is a professional development opportunity aimed at enabling a talented new entrant/recent joiner to the world of work to build a strong start to their career and contribute to our work in a mutually beneficial way.
The accountabilities focus on equipping the intern to grow knowledge, skills and confidence and deliver tangible results performing the following specific functions working with and learning from more experienced colleagues.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to social media strategies to enhance the British Council’s online presence.
- Actively assist in improving and embedding digital communication and their use in the Directorate.
- Learn to track and report on the performance of content across different channels.
- Learn to create visually appealing and engaging high-level video content and digital assets for internal and external use.
- Collaborate with the communications team to conceptualise and produce multimedia assets for campaigns and events.
- With the support of the Country Director (CD) and Marketing and Communication (MarComs) colleagues, contribute to the development and implementation of a 2-pronged country level communications plan that will build the Country Director’s (CD), Country Leadership Team’s (CLT) and Directorate’s national social media and digital profile, highlighting our impact and areas of expertise.
- This will include contributing to and coordinating communication activities and documents, writing impact stories, awareness raising, assist in report writing etc.
- Support Business Development manager and programme teams with research that will enable stakeholder mapping and the identification of potential new partnerships.
- Develop stakeholder databases
- Present progress and findings alongside the BD manager to Country Leadership Team Assist in the identification and building of productive partnerships with internal stakeholder’s, including across the UK in South Africa platform (British High Commission, Department for Business and Trade etc.,) to produce and help deliver creative ideas for one-off and enduring events and engagements that build relationships and showcase the impactful work of the British Council.
- Provide monitoring and evaluation administrative support as required
- Assist in the delivery and promotion of internal and external events and activities, collaborating closely with internal teams, partners, and stakeholders.
Requirements:
Certificate/Diploma/Degree in:
- Marketing,
- Communications,
- Social Sciences
Skills and Competencies:
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Computer literacy and basic digital skills- using social media platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.,) and Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and TEAMS.
- Basic understanding of desk-based research and reporting.
- High degree of professionalism and integrity.
- Report writing, research and analytical skills.
- Able to conduct a presentation and has basic understanding of the key marcoms basic principles.
- Strong interest in education, skills, youth empowerment and/or the creative economies and arts.
- Commitment to learning
- Active participation on social media platforms or able to demonstrate
To apply for this job please visit careers.britishcouncil.org.