View Vacancy - Projects and Political Intern
Main purpose of job
To provide monitoring and administrative support to the Political Team in the British Embassy, particularly on projects delivery and on human rights and internal/domestic policy issues.
This is a challenging position within the Political Team at the British Embassy. The successful candidate will have the chance to develop skills and experiences through providing administrative, communication and reporting support. He/she will be an essential part of the team developing policy areas and network objectives.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide support for projects, events and visits. Responsibilities include arranging meetings, booking venues, setting up events (branding, catering, etc.), organising logistics, coordinating mailing lists, sending and following up on invitations, etc.
- Provide monitoring and reporting support for domestic/internal policy matters and for human rights internal issues. Responsibilities include writing and delivering briefings, monitoring news, conducting stakeholder mapping exercises and carrying out longer research papers.
- Supporting the wider work of the team. Responsibilities include providing input to budget management, supporting on wider events from the team and the Network, translating documents and updating the team’s key documents.
Must be at enrolled on the second or third year of an ungraduate programme. Preferable disciplines include Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Public Policies Management and International Relations. We are very open to students from any other discipline if they can demonstrate in their application an ongoing interest and insight in foreign and domestic politics related issues.
Language requirements: Portuguese / English (professional proficiency)
Learning and development opportunities:
The British Embassy in Brasilia believes in a strong learn and development culture, and works to give staff the opportunity to build expertise and achieve personal goals engaging on the day-to-day job and learning from colleagues and from formal training courses. The selected candidate will undertake some mandatory training and will have an opportunity to enrol in a set of learning activities during the internship, also integrating the UK in Brazil interns’ network.
Working patterns:
30 hours per week, with a flexible working pattern to be agreed in advance.
Applications should be submitted in English. In the application covering letter (max. 1 page) please set out why you want the job and what value you would bring, together with a CV (max. 2 pages) and two references.
This opportunity is closed to applications.