View Vacancy - Trade and Economic Team, Administration Intern

Main purpose of job

To provide support to the trade policy and economic team in the British Embassy in Brasilia on team projects, administration, meetings, briefings and visits.

Roles and responsibilities 

• Support the team with admin project management work, specifically the PF Trade Facilitation Programme (implementation of activities, documents filing, and information keeping).
• Help with record keeping, maintain team’s filing system and up-to-date documents and briefings.
• Support the organisation of visits from government representatives as well as meetings, events and webinars, including high-level Ministerial visits to and from the UK and programme implementation related events.
• Support the team to arrange meetings and maintain events’ calendars.
• Translate documents and letters from English to Portuguese and from Portuguese to English.
• Assist the Trade Analyst with programme implementation, contracts and documents filing, stakeholder mapping, events and engagement plans.
• Support with trade and economic information for reports and briefings
• Assist in overall administrative activities, including tracking the team budget.

You will be expected to work flexibly across the network’s priorities.

• Working towards a degree on International Relations, Economics, Business Administration or related field (minimum 4th semester)
• Excellent organisational, interpersonal, communication and written skills in both English and Portuguese;
• Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft package (word, excel, outlook and teams)

Language: English and Portuguese

Level of language required: Fluent, Extensive