View Vacancy - Corporate Services Team Intern (BGR18.134)

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Operations and Corporate Services)
Corporate Services Support

The British Embassy in Sofia is part of the United Kingdom’s diplomatic service, a worldwide network representing British political, economic and consular interests in Bulgaria. The British Embassy in Sofia is looking for a Corporate Services Team Intern.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Review and update Embassy’s contacts held in SharePoint; 
  • Media monitoring / collecting public information on the latest defence developments in country;
  • Provide assistance to Corporate Services Section in organising public events or visits to Bulgaria- e.g Cyber Security event in mid May;
  • Provide support to delivering large events- e.g. Queen`s Birthday Party in June;
  • Support the Corporate services team (and occasionally other teams) with ad hoc tasks.
  • Gather information from a range of relevant sources inside and outside;
  • Proactively contribute to the work of the whole team and be open to taking on different tasks;
  • Work with Microsoft Office- Excel, Word, and PowerPoint;
  • Handle numbers confidently, collate information ensuring accuracy of data.

  • Driver`s licence.

 

6 April 2018
Internship
Full-time
36
Europe, Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Bulgaria
Sofia
British Embassy
1
BGN
510 (plus BGN 50 for transport)
2 May 2018

This is an internship position (36 hours per week) for 6 months.

The successful candidate will be subject to confirmation of a background and security clearance. Anyone with right of residence and employment in Bulgaria may apply, including all EU / EEA citizens and the family members of EU / EEA nationals exercising a treaty right in Bulgaria.

Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy is subject to terms and conditions service according to Bulgarian employment law.

All applicants should have the right to live and work in Bulgaria. The British Embassy does not sponsor work permits.

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.

FCO does not pay for travel related expense incurred in interviews (including Security Check) or accept any financial risk, including cancelation or reschedule costs. The FCO will not meet the costs connected with relocation if offered a position.

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.