Role Purpose: To support planning and delivery of British Council South Africa’s work in line with our strategic objectives. The role will provide a highly motivated beginner/recent entrant to the workforce a learning experience that will help them build essential work skills in a dynamic organisational environment and cultivate a strong foundation for their professional life.
The internship is a professional development opportunity aimed at enabling a talented new entrant/recent joiner to the world of work to build a strong start to their career and contribute to our work in a mutually beneficial way.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to social media strategies to enhance the British Council’s online presence.
- Actively assist in improving and embedding digital communication and their use in the Directorate.
- Learn to track and report on the performance of content across different channels.
- Learn to create visually appealing and engaging high-level video content and digital assets for internal and external use.
- Collaborate with the communications team to conceptualise and produce multimedia assets for campaigns and events.
- With the support of the Country Director (CD) and Marketing and Communication (MarComs) colleagues, contribute to the development and implementation of a 2-pronged country level communications plan that will build the Country Director’s (CD), Country Leadership Team’s (CLT) and Directorate’s national social media and digital profile, highlighting our impact and areas of expertise.
- This will include contributing to and coordinating communication activities and documents, writing impact stories, awareness raising, assist in report writing etc.
- Support Business Development manager and programme teams with research that will enable stakeholder mapping and the identification of potential new partnerships.
- Develop stakeholder databases.
- Provide monitoring and evaluation administrative support as required.
- Assist in the delivery and promotion of internal and external events and activities, collaborating closely with internal teams, partners, and stakeholders.
Requirements:
Certificate/Diploma/Degree in:
- Marketing,
- Communications,
- Social Sciences
- or be a new/recent entrant to the workforce.
Skills and Competencies
- Report writing, research and analytical skills.
- Able to conduct a presentation and understands the key marcoms basic principles.
- Strong interest in education, skills, youth empowerment and/or the creative economies and arts.
- Commitment to learning
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Computer literacy and basic digital skills- using social media platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.,) and Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and TEAMS.
- Basic understanding of desk-based research and reporting.
- High degree of professionalism and integrity.