View Vacancy - Marketing and Communications Internship
The British Consulate-General in Sao Paulo is seeking for a new intern who is passionate about Marketing and Communications, connected to the latest trends on social media and interested in a multinational experience by working in an environment where they will be able to flourish, learn and further develop their professional skills while assisting the Marketing and Communications team.
The ideal candidate must be an individual with a personal ambition to grow and play a part in the continuing relation between the United Kingdom and Brazil.
This position is part of a team which creatively supports projects across a wide range of initiatives developed and implemented by the UK in Brazil Network. Amongst the main responsibilities of this role are: supporting branding and production activities, supporting promotional activities and events implementation, creating and development of social media content (including texts, videos and images), press and media engagement, news monitoring and reporting and general activities which include the whole network.
Roles and responsibilities:
The Intern will be responsible for:
- Supporting the promotion of GREAT branding – dressing events, organising material, and supporting production/delivery/approval of marketing material, including intermediation between local sector teams and brand/production teams in HQ.
- Support the Marketing Manager to ensure FCO, DIT and GREAT Britain brand adherence to guidelines.
- Giving support on events, official visits and Marketing & Comms initiatives, including branding, photo and digital coverage and the production of marketing materials.
- Support the implementation of Brazil/Brazil-led Latin American DIT marketing strategies.
- Support the implementation of e-mail marketing and social media campaigns locally and regionally.
- Work with Brazilian and Latin American network communications teams to support the development of effective digital/social media marketing campaigns.
- Support the local deployment of eventual campaigns led by the Head Quarters.
- Offer guidance to sector teams based on marketing best-practices.
- Work in close liaison with partners as well as internal stakeholders (e.g.: Latam Marketing Hub, commercial sector leads, communications team, Head Quarters, Visit Britain, British Council and others).
- Produce creative texts to be used on digital and print platforms.
- Help to identify photo opportunities and the best exposure of the GREAT Britain campaign brand.
- Produce presentations.
- Help on administrative tasks, including contact with suppliers, documents management and data base update.
- Contribute in special projects, accompanying the development and implementation of strategic Marketing and Comms plans.
- Monitoring discussions on global issues in the media and elaborate daily clippings for the organisation´s network.
- Support the work of digital communication, by creating specific digital communications plans, implementing them and monitoring impacts. Collaborate in engagement with the media, by writing press releases and reports, preparing mailing lists and contacting journalists.
- 2nd or 3rd year student in Communication or Media Studies, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, Advertisement or correlated areas. Candidates from different courses could be considered pending their application and motivation for the job.
- Excellent communication skills both in Portuguese (native) and English (fluent).
- Familiarity with social media networks.
- Knowledge of Office package.
- Familiarity with social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
- Good interpersonal communication skills, proactive and a strong team-player.
- Flexibility and a willingness and ability to deal with multiple tasks and priorities.
- Interest and knowledge of the UK culture and politics.
- Familiarity with e-mail marketing, design and visual communication tools.
- Knowledge in image and video edition.
- Organization skills and good attention to detail.
This opportunity is closed to applications.