View Vacancy - Public Diplomacy Intern

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Operations and Corporate Services)
Communications, Press and Media

Roles and responsibilities:

Administrative and project support 

  • Regular update of databases of journalists, UK alumni and other Embassy’s stakeholders
  • Organising meetings, booking venues and writing summaries of team meetings. 
  • Map and collate the Embassy activities calendar and soft-power initiatives with British participation, raising relevant communication opportunities 
  • Provide administrative and logistic support during the Chevening interview process, which consist of over 400 applications.
     

Research and reporting 

  • Contributing to the media and social media reports and clippings when needed 
  • Assist in the research for one pagers and briefings for our state visits, events, activities, projects and campaigns
  • Support in compiling information for the Embassy weekly newsletter on LinkedIn, monthly internal Chevening newsletter and the new Chevening Network website 


Media, social media and branding support   

  • Support on the inventory and team requests of branding assets  
  • Proposing, creating and/or editing basic audio-visual material for our social media and internal/external campaigns (videos, photos, and infographics)
  • Source photos and visuals for our events and projects 


 Event support  

  • Assist in events (press conferences, interviews, receptions, other) with: 
    a. Logistics  
    b. Branding set up   
    c. Confirmations and follow ups 
    d. Calendar appointments 
  •  Photo coverage of events when needed
  • Follow-up on preparations for scholars’ pre-departure and welcome back events 
     

 Engagement support 

  •  Providing information to Chevening Alumni Mexico executive committee (mainly requests from Post to be published/uploaded on their channels – eg newsletter and Instagram account)
  • Prepare kits, briefing materials, giveaway boxes and other materials for meetings, events and media campaigns
  • Networking with other interns for support the Public Diplomacy initiatives 

  • Studying or just graduated from an undergraduate degree in International Relations, Communications, Journalism, Media, Education or International Development.
  • Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and communications skills in both English and Spanish, able to facilitate relationship with a wide range of stakeholders.
  • We are looking for an enthusiastic, pro-active and self-motivated intern.
  • Excellent computer skills, particularly MS Outlook and MS Office packages, as well as video editing packages.
  • Experience and interest in communication strategies to highlight the UK’s soft power.
  • Excellent attention to detail and ability to summarize information. 
  • Capacity for flexibility and willingness to work to meet deadlines. 
  • Organization skills
  • Social media-savvy (X, LinkedIn, Instagram).  

  • Video and graphics edition skills. 
  • Adobe Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop or similar, and online resources like Canva. 
  • Interest of Mexican domestic and international politics and education sector.
  • Interest in British culture.  
  • Data analysis skills (for social media, digital marketing tools, and traditional media).  
Communicating and Influencing, Delivering at Pace, Managing a Quality Service, Working Together
12 November 2025
Internship
Intern, Fixed Term
25
12 months
Latin America and Spanish speaking Caribbean
Mexico
Mexico City
British Embassy
1
MXN
monthly
8,882.00
29 December 2025

Candidates must be able to live and work in Mexico in their own right at time of application.

The successful candidate will be subject to a security clearance and professional reference checks.

Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary, eg 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 a largely similar role becomes available, that role may be offered to the second or subsequent candidate.

Closing date of receiving applications is before 23:55 (Local Time) on 4 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.

All staff at the British Embassy and its Consulates in Mexico are expected to work towards the UK mission statement of Building a UK/Mexico partnership, which makes the world and us more prosperous and secure, and to embody the Embassy’s agreed values of Honesty, Respect, Inclusion and Professionalism. 

Guaranteed Monetary Benefits

  • 15 days Christmas Bonus for each full year worked.
  • 25% Holiday Bonus.

Other non-Monetary Benefits

  • Social Security coverage under Mexican Law.
  • Entitlement of 12 days annual leave for each full year worked.
  • 14 Public Holidays including a combination of Mexican and British festivities.

Working Patterns

25 hour working week from Monday to Friday.

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.