Proposals Internship London 2024

Christie’s is looking for an enthusiastic intern to join our dynamic Proposals team in London.

The Role

Proposals is a small but high-performing team that produces bespoke proposals to convince clients to sell their works of art with Christie’s. You will play a pivotal role within the team, supporting the department’s three writers and two graphic designers to produce persuasive, beautifully designed, high-quality proposal documents/presentations – to tight deadlines – in order to win crucial business for Christie’s. You will undergo basic training on using a Mac, using InDesign and using Adobe Photoshop.

The successful candidate will be required to work in the office at Christie’s King Street five days a week.

Duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• As necessary, assisting with producing proposal documents for Christie’s departments, such as collating images, writing image captions and helping on proposals content
• Assist in formatting and filing all view/event/auction shots commissioned from external photographer, and ensure that the department image database and photography tracker are constantly updated
• Scanning images for the team as needed, and learning to use Adobe Photoshop to manipulate images when necessary
• Requesting/obtaining images from our in-house systems; ensuring they arrive quickly and are formatted as necessary on arrival
• Maintaining departmental information files such as those containing press quotations, staff biographies, staff signatures and specialist team pages
• Maintaining the Proposals Department Library, including combing the America/Asia/Paris libraries
• Assisting the team in updating the Filemaker database, distributing weekly reports and sending team reminders as required
• Being the point of contact for other Christie’s departments and Christie’s regional Proposal teams in Paris, New York and Hong Kong; supplying pdfs, images or other info as necessary
• Using the Proposals Archiving server to answer any queries about historic proposals
• Organising the monthly writers’ meeting, including preparing the agenda and circulating minutes
• General housekeeping of the departmental printer/meeting room, including
  co-ordinating printer maintenance, maintenance of proposals archive and ordering office supplies
• Printing and binding documents in-house.
• Photocopying
• Post and courier duties
• Other administrative duties and general research to assist the writing team

The Candidate

• Fluency in English (written and spoken)
• An interest in art / the art market / Christie’s
• Have good writing skills including excellent grammar (for proofing)
• Have a strong sense of personal accountability
• Be able to work well as part of a team
• Be computer literate (although InDesign and Photoshop training can be given) – however, preference will be given to applicants familiar with Macs
• Be highly organised
• Have exceptional attention to detail
• Be quick to learn and implement
• Be able to work well under pressure
• To use initiative
• Be confident, with excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage a diverse workload
• Have the energy and commitment to work the hours necessary to meet tight deadlines
• Have a “can-do” attitude