View Vacancy - Consular Intern

Main purpose of job:

Support the Consular team in delivering excellent frontline consular services and assistance to customers in person, via telephone and e-mail, and on visits across Mexico.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Accompany consular officers to meetings with Mexican Government officials, British ex-pat community and other important stakeholders, in Mexico City and possibly beyond – an opportunity to improve your information gathering and negotiation skills.
• Help identify and facilitate contact with consular stakeholders across the country – an opportunity to increase your networking skills.
• Help maintain clear, accurate, transparent and auditable files and records of all financial transactions for consular services, raising concerns with line management chain where appropriate – an opportunity to learn about financial management and budget holding.
• Create and maintain lists of Mexican and international contacts for the Section, and join consular officers on meetings with them – an opportunity to broaden your horizons and professional network.
• Create and maintain a database of contacts such as NGOs, charities, shelters – an opportunity to improve your writing and presentation skills.
• Work closely with other sections of the Embassy on Crisis Response Plan and Consular Contingency Planning – an opportunity to learn about strategic thinking and planning.
• Raise the Consular Section's and the Embassy's profiles by proactively engaging with the wider FCO audience in corporate affairs – an opportunity to start building your professional reputation.
• All employees in the Embassy network are expected, as part of their job to contribute towards the corporate activity organisation.

• Good communication skills in English and Spanish.
• Good drafting skills in English and Spanish.
• Student or recent graduate of university studies in International Relations, Law, Communications, Social Work or related subject.