View Vacancy - Corporate Services Intern

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Corporate Services Support

Main purpose of job:

The British Embassy Quito’s Corporate Services Department is recruiting an intern to assist the department supporting various projects in estates compliance, inventories, vehicles, import processes, fire safety and administration issues among others.

Roles and responsibilities: 

The intern will support the corporate services team across a wide range of areas including accounting, auctions, administration, and estates. The intern will work with other colleagues, as well as performing other ad hoc tasks required to assist with the functioning of the Embassy.

In addition, all members of the BEQ staff play an important role in responding to crises, should they arise. The intern will receive crisis training to enable him/her to fulfil this part of the role.

Essential on arrival:

  • You must be eligible under the relevant Ecuadorean legal requirements, namely that you must be currently enrolled in a Higher Education institution at an undergraduate level.
  • Interest in administration and accounting.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to respond flexibly to changing priorities.
  • Manage various pieces of work at the same time.
  • You must have the legal status to live and work in Ecuador.
  • Good writing skills in Spanish and English.

Desirable:

  • Interest in organizing files.
  • Knowledge of inventories systems.
Delivering at Pace, Developing Self and Others, Managing a Quality Service, Working Together
17 July 2025
Internship
Intern
30
Latin America and Spanish speaking Caribbean
Ecuador
Quito
British Embassy
1
USD
monthly
$470 USD + employers IESS contributions
1 September 2025
28 February 2026
Applicants must have the legal status to live and work in Ecuador at the time of application. 
    
Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary, e.g. some non-local national staff and some spouses or partners of UK diplomatic staff, will have their salaries abated by an equivalent amount.   
    
Appointable candidates who were unsuccessful may be placed on a ‘reserve list. If during the reserve period of 6 months the same or largely similar role becomes available, that role may be offered to the second of subsequent candidate.   

Closing date of receiving applications is before 23:55 (Local Time) on 17 July 2025. 

All applicants must fully complete the online application form, including the sections for employment and educational details, experience, and behaviour-based questions. Only those applications that contain all required information will be considered. To ensure the sift process remains anonymous, please do not include any personally identifiable information in your application form.

Please ensure that your application is authentically written based on your own experiences. If AI tools are used, their usage must only be limited to specific tasks such as ensuring formatting consistency and keyword relevance. The core content, personal narratives, and responses to behaviour and skill-based questions must genuinely reflect your professional journey, experiences, and achievements. We place great importance on originality and individual effort throughout the application process. Any form of plagiarism will result in immediate disqualification.

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.