View Vacancy - Internship – Department for International Trade (DNK22.461)

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Department for International Trade roles (DIT)
Department for International Trade (DIT)

The Department for International Trade (DIT) is looking for a student to join the dynamic DIT team at the British Embassy in Copenhagen.  The DIT Team helps UK businesses export to the Danish market and assists overseas companies to locate and grow in the UK.

Roles and responsibilities:

During the internship, you will gain insight into and become actively involved in a variety of interesting areas related to trade and investment such as:

  • Market research and business development.

  • Sector & opportunity mapping.

  • Responding to Business enquiries - Supporting UK companies to grow internationally.

  • Accelerating UK & DK involvement in priority campaigns for Clean Growth & Technology

  • Event management

  • Stakeholder management

Future projects earmarked for 2022-2023 will enable the successful candidate to work across a number of exciting projects connected to our Growing Green Together Campaign.

  • The DIT team is looking to recruit a determined, self-sufficient, enterprising and result-oriented individual who is driven by an interest for business, economics and trade policy.

  • The candidate must be fluent at C level in English, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages*).

  • We are looking for commercial flair, strong interpersonal skills, excellent English communication skills and the ability to deliver on set objectives.

Seeing the Big Picture, Managing a Quality Service, Delivering at Pace, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together
30 October 2022
Internship
Full-time, Temporary
35
Europe, Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Denmark
Copenhagen
British Embassy
1
3 January 2023

This is a full-time unpaid internship for a period of 6 months (3 January - 30 June 2023).

Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy in Copenhagen are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local Danish employment law.

Visa/work permit requirements: Candidates must currently hold the independent right to live and work in Denmark and be prepared to ensure that right remains throughout the scope of the contract.

Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure you meet the legal requirements to live and work in this country.

Please note that the deadline for applications is 23:55 on the day mentioned in the above field “Application deadline”.

We advise you to allow enough time to complete and submit your full application, since only applications completed and submitted before the deadline will be considered.

Please be aware that the deadline for submitting applications is considered to be the time zone for the country where the vacancy has arisen.

The British Diplomatic Missions will not be able to meet the travel costs incurred when travelling to the interview, nor the costs connected with relocation if offered a job.

*Please note for more information regarding the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, please click on the following link CEFR. Please bear in mind in case you are invited for an interview your language skill is going to be assessed.

Please be aware that you will only be able to apply to vacancies for Country Based Staff roles with the British Government through this official tal.net site (operated by Oleeo). Jobs may be advertised on third party websites, however our adverts will always link back to the official tal.net site. If you complete and send an application through any other site, we will not receive it.

This opportunity is closed to applications.