The British Council would like to offer highly motivated individuals the experiential learning opportunity to transition into the workforce through its inclusive internship programme.

The British Council has a Disability Confident Employer status and we look to attract, recruit and retain persons with disabilities within our workforce, to ensure we benefit from their skillset and talent.

Candidates will be given reasonable accommodation during recruitment and throughout the internship tailored to the candidate’s needs.

Role context

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. Our vision is a more peaceful and prosperous world built on trust. We make a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with – changing lives via work in Arts and culture, English language, education. We share the best of the UK, learn from the best around the world, working with young people, influencers, future leaders, institutions across the world.

We work in over 100 countries on positive change, particularly for young people. Our work includes providing technical leadership and management of complex, multi-stakeholder programmes, forming trusted partnerships that shape new approaches to tackling profound challenges, led by local communities and informed by international best practice.

The internship is positioned to support interns from marginalised backgrounds to gain essential skills and experiences to aid them in securing gainful employment and support their upward social mobility. The initiative is aimed at British Council’s contribution to social value.

Main accountabilities

We are seeking a marketing and communications intern to support with the British Council Sudan and British Council Uganda teams in promoting their profile, events, products and services to internal and external audiences and stakeholders. Each country and context will have their own unique challenges and the internship will give the postholder a unique insight across all operational and programme areas, as well as insight into working with different audience and stakeholder groups in a local, regional and international context. Role will include:

Asset development and planning:

• Joining programme team meetings in Uganda and Sudan to understand priorities, identify upcoming events and products/services promotional opportunities, audit existing library of assets and build a calendarof events to keep track of activity..
• Develop compelling copy and visual assets such associal media content (posts), impact stories from programme activities  and summary documents for stakeholder engagement.

Social media and website:

• Maintain social media activity, including creating, uploading and sharing proposed contentwith the designated Marketing Managers and liaising with the hub team for posting via the content tool (Airtable)./.
• Track social media campaigns (where relevant) and compile engagement analytics.
• Support relevant digital campaigns in both countries, including identifying opportunities to highlight impact stories, case studies and spotlight existing and new materials.

Event Support:

• Help plan and promote online and in-person events, such as webinars.
• Prepare event materials where required (such as flyers and name badges).
• Assist with logistics and support event delivery as needed.