Events Intern

Full-time annual salary: £13.15 per hour (£23,933 full time yearly equivalent)     

Contract Length: 24 weeks (23 Sept – 7 March)  

Hours: 7 hours per day, 4-5 days per week   

Application Deadline: Wednesday 26 June 11:59pm (the vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applicants, so please apply early to avoid disappointment)     

Interview dates: Approximately 7 – 21 August    

Location: Home based (any home working needs to be in the UK)   

Positions: 1    

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

We are now recruiting for our Autumn 2024 Internship programme!     

We are now accepting applications for our September internship intake. We’re really excited to be recruiting interns and we have some great internships available across the charity.   

Are you looking for an exciting internship opportunity at one of the UK’s largest health charities?      

Why we need you     

Cancer Research UK is the world’s largest charity dedicated to beating all types of cancer. We now have an opportunity for you to join us as an Events Intern.   

What will I be doing?      

The Events Team delivers mass participation events like Race for Life and Shine Night Walk, and we are looking for somebody that can develop a new partnership with an external charity or organisation to help us deliver key aspects of these events in a cost efficient and mutually beneficial way. 

Role and Purpose    

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as an Events Team Intern and become part of an ambitious, bold, and fun team working together to bring forward the day that cancer is cured.  

Within the role we are also wanting to improve the supporter experience at Race for Life and there will be an opportunity to work on a new or bespoke project to either improve an existing area on event day or explore a new activation on site for 2025. 

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who shares our vision, someone like you. 

Key Responsibilities:   

• To research external charities and organisations that might be a good fit to deliver key aspects of our mass participation events. 
• Write a compelling positioning statement of what we need delivering, why it’s important and how we could work together.  Highlighting mutual benefits. 
• Presenting and pitching  
• Pulling together a business case including financial elements of the proposition and any risks and issues. 
• Work with internal teams to support the business case.   
• Position and story-tell the work within the wider Events Team  
• Set up the contracts ready for implementation. 
• Creative thinking  

What skills are you looking for?      

You’ll be able to bring to the role:      

• Passionate about events 
• Drive to help beat cancer sooner. 
• Enjoys working with people and can build relationships. 
• Happy to pick up the phone and talk to people. 
• Able to write in a compelling and eye-catching manner. 
• A great problem solver  
• Willing to learn. 
• You are diligent and careful with attention to detail. 
• Motivated and able to work on your own. 
• You get stuck in and happy to work hard to make things happen. 
• Ability to work at a desk on a computer using Microsoft. 

What will I gain?     

This role will add real value to Cancer Research UK so we want to ensure you’re getting a lot out of it too. As an intern you’ll go through a structured development programme with skills training in project management, CV writing and interview skills and you’ll have a buddy to help you settle in. You’ll be eligible for many of our benefits, including paid holiday, and you’ll gain key experience to help you launch your career.      

How do I apply?     

Please apply online by uploading your details and answering an application question. Please complete an application form for only one Internship role.    

One of our values at CRUK is Being Human. Whilst we understand that AI has it's benefits, we want to hear about why you’re personally interested in CRUK and what is motivating you to apply. We have noticed some applicants being less successful in their applications when using AI due to lack of real life examples. To level the playing field and ensure fairness for all candidates, we strongly encourage responses to be written in your own words, drawing from personal experiences and knowledge. We discourage the use of AI when completing your application form and throughout the process.  

Application Process:     

Stage 1: Online application with SJT 

Complete an online application form – you’ll be asked to answer a motivational competency question and upload your CV.        

Once the roles are closed, you will then be invited to complete our situational judgment test. The test poses real life scenarios that a CRUK intern might be met with in their day to day role and asks how you would tackle that scenario. This is un-timed and multiple choice. Please let us know if you think you might require adjustments for this assessment.     

In our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, we operate an anonymised shortlisting process. Please therefore ensure that you have completed the work history section of the application form in full and that you have answered all application questions, as this is the information we will be using to shortlist. CVs are required to be uploaded for all applications, as they will be collected for use later in the process.  If you experience any problems submitting an application, please email earlycareers@cancer.org.uk        

Stage 2: Audio Submission    

If you are successful in the previous stage, you will be asked to complete an audio submission, answering competency-based questions. The questions will be emailed to you and you will have a few days to submit a response via an audio recording (no video required).       

Stage 3: Interviews     

If you are successful in the previous stage, you will then be invited to a face-to-face interview at our head office with representatives from the team you are applying to.       

The Internship will start on Monday 23 September 2024.   

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.