Forum for the Future is looking for a Digital Communications Intern to join our small but perfectly formed Communications Team.
Specifically, we're looking for a digital native.* You'll be all about the 'can-do' and getting properly stuck in. We need someone that can help improve our practices and make our already socially-engaged organisation the best in the digital world of sustainability.
You'll know your RTs from your MTs, you'll have your preferred scheduling platform, and you'll be able to hashtag beautifully. You gobble up Mashable's daily newsletter for breakfast, and you can honestly say that Lifehacker's recommendations and ideas are why your bedroom and kitchen arrangements are as they are. Your smart phone's got more apps than that Baby Monkey YouTube video has hits (alright, this might be an exaggeration), but you've got an app for pretty much every situation life finds you in. You get your news from your news feed, and you've - at least once - had an all-too-brief chat with a celebrity on Twitter.
In an interview, you'll be able to talk us through the latest campaign you assisted on, or the day-to-day management of a Twitter feed and/or Facebook Page, and how you came up with different ideas for your content schedule. (Or, you'll know exactly what you'd do differently, if you were able to do it again.)
If your application is successful, you'll be joining our crack comms team during one of our busiest times of year, so you certainly won't be making the tea (but it'd be nice if you chipped in). We'll need you at our events, helping us to make them digitally-integrated and helping us catching 'quotable quotes' to share across our social platforms. We’ll need you in the office helping us to craft Storifys to share our stories - and you’ll edit and upload our blogposts (you’ll quickly make your way around our CMS). You’ll be brimming with ideas to put into the melting pot for how we talk about ourselves and our projects.
Working with us you'll learn new skills and, by the time you leave, you’ll have plenty to add to your portfolio (and we'll help you word it best). You'll be mentored by our resident digital communications advisor (a digital native herself), and you'll get to work on the broad range of projects.
Since you know exactly how to navigate a website, and get all the information you need, we'll leave it to you to find out who we are and what we're up to (but here's a starting point).
* How our comms team might define a digital native: someone that's considered at least once or twice whether it'd be a good idea to get a nyan cat tattoo (and you definitely did - or wanted to - high-five the person you met at that meet-up in east London that got it done on their forearm).
The length of this internship is three months. Full or part-time applications will be considered, although a minimum commitment of three days a week is desirable. Lunch expenses up to £5 a day and travel costs from within London (zones 1-6) can be claimed back.
To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter detailing how you meet the requirements, and why you’d like to join the Communications team. CVs should be two pages in length, covering letters one. We’d also a like to see examples of your work. You can include links to social media posts, extracts from your portfolio, newsletters - it’s your opportunity to send us any content you’ve developed, inputted on or delivered. It’s great if it’s live on the client’s website or social platform, but okay if it’s not. Please send this, along with your equal opportunities form to Sophie Kennedy, HR Assistant, Forum for the Future, London EC1V 3QN or by email to recruitment@forumforthefuture.org.
The equal opportunities form will be detached from your application and will not form part of the shortlisting or selection process.
Closing date for applications: 9am, Monday 8 June 2015
Interviews: Thursday 11 June 2015
Internship start date: Approx. 22 June
Due to the number of applications we receive, if you have not heard from us by close of business on Thursday 11 June, we will not be taking your application further.