View Vacancy - JKT - Intern to Her Majesty’s Ambassador

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

Main purpose of job:

To engage directly with the Ambassador and learn the workings of a high level diplomat and the foreign mission. The intern will gain experience by attending meetings, writing public materials, drafting tweets, researching on a range of topics and preparing notes.

Roles and responsibilities / what will the jobholder be expected to achieve?:

1.     Do research work on range of exciting topics as assigned and prepare briefing notes.

2.     Gain experience in attending various meetings with the Ambassador, maintain notes of meetings.

3.     Learn and implement blog writing skills by assisting the Ambassador with his blog.

4.     Learn how to manage the Ambassador’s twitter account and sharing appropriate information via twitter.

5.     Learn how the different section of Embassy work by way of regular meetings with various team and prepare updates for Ambassador.

6.     Gain experience managing diaries of the Ambassador and Senior Managers.

7.     Help manage external and internal events including the GREAT campaign, the Queen’s Birthday Party, and the #IndonesiaMatters discussion series.


  • A Post-Graduate degree majoring in subjects such as Economics, International Relations, or Politics (fresh post-graduates are also welcome to apply).
  • Fluency in English both verbal and written.
  • Proactive and a fast learner.
  • Good understanding in current issues and proven experience of working in multi-cultural organisation.
  • Strong organisational skills and good judgement.
  • A sound understanding of writing in social media to interact with audience on a regular basis
25 April 2018
Internship
Fixed Term
39.5
12 months
Asia Pacific
Indonesia
Jakarta
British Embassy
1
IDR
300,000 / day
11 June 2018
10 June 2019
Learning and development opportunities (and any specific training courses to be completed): Relevant job related training will be provided as required.  The Embassy has a strong L&D offer (including L&D Weeks, language training and the possibility of securing funds for personal L&D).  Additionally the Prosperity Fund is likely to provide central training for programme managers.

As the interview will be based on the required competencies listed above, a guide can be found on the following links:

All applications must be received before 25 April 2018 23:55 Jakarta Time.

Incomplete application forms will not be taken into consideration, so please ensure you provide the information requested. We regret to advise that we will only be contacting short-listed candidates. Applicants called for an interview will be assessed on the core competencies listed above.

The successful candidate should be able to start as soon as possible.

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.